Source: NY Times: SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea cut off the last remaining military hotlines with South Korea on Wednesday, accusing President Park Geun-hye of South Korea of pursuing the same hard-line policy of her predecessor that the North blamed for a prolonged chill in inter-Korean relations. More:
RT: North Korea has announced it’s about to carry out a third nuclear test and more long-range rocket launches, which it says are designed to target the United States. “We are not disguising the fact that the various satellites and long-range rockets that we will fire and the high-level nuclear […]
Source: The Local North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is looking to Germany for advice on how to attract international investment to his isolated dictatorship in 2013, a newspaper reported on Saturday. More:
Fiji inks ties with North Korea and Iran SATURDAY, 01 SEPTEMBER 2012 The Daily TelegraphAS the Pacific Islands Forum moves to soften its stance on Fiji’s military regime, the pariah state has inked diplomatic ties with North Korea and Iran.Foreign Affairs Minister Inoke Kubuabola, who signed the agreement with Iran […]
Credit: Nasim Malik of Sweden. Through the hard work of Mr Nasim Malik who is very active in Swedish Politics, a question to restore the voting right of Ahmadies in Pakistan was tabled in Swedish Parliament. What reply Swedish Foreign Minister has given is appeded below. Might be effort can […]
China and the US have agreed to co-ordinate their response to any “potential provocation” if North Korea goes ahead with a planned rocket launch, the White House says. North Korea says the long-range rocket will carry a satellite. The US says any launch would violate UN resolutions and be a […]
On a grey afternoon in Seoul, in the shadow of the mountains that surround the city, North Korean defectors stood behind a police cordon and struggled to raise their voices above the sound of late-afternoon traffic. The defectors and their supporters have been gathering daily in front of the Chinese embassy in the South […]
Credit: NY Times: WASHINGTON — North Korea agreed to suspend nuclear weapons tests and enrichment and allow international inspectors to verify and monitor activities at its main reactor, the State Department announced on Wednesday, as part of a deal that included an American pledge to ship food aid to the […]
Source: Asiatimes Kim Jong-il’s passing in December could be good news for Russia’s “Lenin laboratory” of embalmers, which has preserved dead communist leaders ranging from Joseph Stalin to Ho Chi Minh. Lacking work lately, the team would happily construct a glass coffin for the North Korean Dear Leader in Kumsusan […]
BEIJING – Beijing and Seoul are coordinating strategies on the Korean Peninsula following the death of the top leader of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), as high-level talks are planned for next week. Read More…
Source: Asiatimes on line. By Sunny Lee BEIJING – While South Koreans are elated over the death of dictator Kim Jong-il, for security analysts who have to consider many different factors in assessing the geopolitical risks of the absence of the Dear Leader, his death came “a bit early”. The […]
Source:Asiatimes. North Korean leader Kim Jong-il, whose death at 69 was officially announced on Monday, had been expected to beat the United States to the punch with a “moratorium” on missile and nuclear tests in exchange for US food aid. Now all bets are off as North Korea goes into […]
Source: asia times on line. Elite young North Korean girls selected to work in a network of overseas restaurants are instructed by Dear Leader Kim Jong-il to undergo cosmetic eyelid surgery, even though the operation is so popular the girls would have done it anyway. A change underway in beauty […]
North Korean leader Kim Jong-il is reported to be in Beijing for a summit with Chinese President Hu Jintao. The secretive leader’s armoured train was spotted in the capital and later a heavily guarded motorcade sped through the city. Read More