North Korea
Activists send more leaflets to NKorea despite pleas, threats
(AFP)
20 Nov 2008 at 10:18am
AFP - South Korean activists Thursday launched tens of thousands of leaflets attacking North Korea’s regime towards the border, ignoring threats from Pyongyang and pleas from Seoul.
SKoreans float more propaganda leaflets into North
(AP)
20 Nov 2008 at 3:23am
AP - South Korean activists sent propaganda leaflets over the border Thursday into North Korea, ignoring their own government’s pleas to stop the practice and threats from the North to sever relations if it continues.
Japan-U.S. missile defense test fails off Hawaii
(Reuters)
20 Nov 2008 at 4:49am
Reuters - A Japanese warship failed to shoot down a ballistic missile target in a joint test with U.S. forces Wednesday because of a glitch in the final stage of an interceptor made by Raytheon Co, a U.S. military official said.
North and South Koreans find cause for unity: Japan
(Reuters)
19 Nov 2008 at 3:11am
Reuters - It took six decades for the divided Koreas to meet to talk about Japan’s colonial past, but it took them just two hours to agree they had common grievances with their Asian neighbor.
Diamond Mountain a symbol of Koreas tension
(AP)
18 Nov 2008 at 10:55am
AP - Majestic and dramatic, with cliffs and waterfalls overlooking the sea, North Korea’s Diamond Mountain has been revered throughout Korean history as the most beautiful of the country’s landscapes.
NKorean camps carry out regular executions: defectors
(AFP)
18 Nov 2008 at 3:43am
AFP - North Korea’s prison camps hold about 300,000 people and authorities hold annual mass executions of inmates seen as defiant, a new group formed by defectors said Wednesday.
SKorea marks anniversary of Kumgang tour amid icy ties with North
(AFP)
18 Nov 2008 at 2:42am
AFP - South Korea Tuesday marked the 10th anniversary of the launch of a historic tour programme designed to promote reconciliation with North Korea, which has been halted for months amid icy cross-border ties.
SKorea’s Lee says he welcomes US-NKorea summit
(AP)
17 Nov 2008 at 12:11am
AP - South Korea’s president would welcome a meeting between U.S. President-elect Barack Obama and North Korean leader Kim Jong Il if it could reduce tension on the peninsula over Pyongyang’s nuclear ambitions, a news report said.
NKorea: Kim attends 2 military performances
(AP)
16 Nov 2008 at 10:35pm
AP - North Korea’s absolute leader Kim Jong Il attended two performances staged by the military, waving to performers at the end of one concert, state-run media reported over the weekend amid continued speculation about his health.
Blackouts mark North Korea’s real power struggle
(Reuters)
16 Nov 2008 at 1:58am
Reuters - While the world wonders if North Korea is in the throes of a leadership crisis over Kim Jong-il’s suspected stroke, the real power struggle for ordinary people in the hermit state is coping with electricity shortages.
Late NKorean leader backed nuke-free world: report
(AFP)
16 Nov 2008 at 1:32am
AFP - Declassified Chinese papers reveal North Korea’s late founding leader Kim Il-Sung expressed his desire for denuclearisation just months before backing China’s atomic ambitions, a report said Sunday.
NKorea reports another public appearance for Kim
(AFP)
15 Nov 2008 at 10:15pm
AFP - North Korea reported Sunday that its leader Kim Jong-Il has made another public appearance in an apparent attempt to quell continuing rumours over his health.
North Korea reports Kim attending army art festival
(Reuters)
15 Nov 2008 at 6:08pm
Reuters - North Korean leader Kim Jong-il, who has been the subject of reports of poor health outside his reclusive country, attended an art festival given by soldiers, the state-controlled news agency KCNA said on Saturday.
North Korea lashes out at South
(Reuters)
14 Nov 2008 at 10:05am
Reuters - North Korea accused Seoul on Friday of intentionally dragging ties on the unstable peninsula to a new low, with a former South Korean leader saying relations may now stand on the brink of reconciliation or catastrophe.
North Korea blames South for deteriorating ties
(AP)
14 Nov 2008 at 8:13am
AP - North Korea blamed Seoul for a sharp deterioration in relations after years of detente, accusing South Korea’s conservative president Friday of wanting neither reunification nor dialogue.
SKorea to press for sampling at NKorea nuke plants
(AFP)
13 Nov 2008 at 3:15am
AFP - South Korea said Thursday that inspectors probing North Korea’s nuclear history must be allowed to collect sample material, despite Pyongyang’s rejection of the process.
North Korea hits back at balloon activism from South
(The Christian Scie…
13 Nov 2008 at 3:00am
The Christian Science Monitor - Relations between North and South Korea appear to have suffered their worst reversal in more than a decade with the North’s decision Wednesday to close its borders to South Korean commerce and tourism by Dec. 1.
North Korea rejects request for nuclear sampling
(AP)
12 Nov 2008 at 11:04pm
AP - North Korea said Wednesday it will not allow outside inspectors to take samples from its main nuclear complex to verify the communist regime’s accounting of past nuclear activities.
North Korea will not let nuclear samples out of country
(Reuters)
12 Nov 2008 at 4:26pm
Reuters - North Korea indicated on Wednesday it would not let international nuclear inspectors remove nuclear samples from its plant that makes arms-grade plutonium, a move which could hamper international disarmament efforts.
US to ship 50,000 tons of fuel to NKorea
(AFP)
12 Nov 2008 at 1:54pm
AFP - The United States said Wednesday it has arranged to ship another 50,000 metric tons of heavy fuel oil to North Korea by next month under an international nuclear disarmament deal with the Stalinist nation.
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