A North Korean lookout point on the edge of the Imjingang river, July 16, 2013. In 1968, an elite team of North Koran commandoes crossed into South Korea in an attempt to assassinate president Park Chung-Hee. It ...
Li Yuanchao to attend Pyongyang war commemoration
(13 mins ago) China's vice president will visit North Korea this week for Korean War commemorations following a period of strained relations between the communist neighbors. Vice President Li Yuanchao will be the highest ranking Chinese official to visit North Korea since Kim Jong Un took over as leader of the impoverished hardline communist state upon his father's death in December ...
Chinese vice president to visit North Korea following period of strained ties
China's vice president will visit North Korea this week for Korean War commemorations following a period of strained relations between the communist neighbors. Vice President Li Yuanchao will be the highest ranking Chinese official to visit North Korea since Kim Jong Un took over as leader of the impoverished hardline communist state upon his father's death in December 2011. The trip ...
Chinese VP to visit DPRK
Li Yuanchao will head a Chinese delegation to visit the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) from July 25 to 28 at the invitation of the DPRK side.Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei made the announcement here Wednesday.According to the spokesman , during the visit, Li, also a member of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, will ...
Diplomacy only way to handle N. Korea
Bruce Cumings, a leading US scholar on Korea's modern history, said diplomacy and reconcilliation was the "only answer" to how to handle North Korea's nuclear adventurism. During an interview ...
N. Korea missile facility idle for 8 months
SEOUL -- North Korea has stopped construction work at a site meant to launch bigger and better long-range rockets, a possible sign that Pyongyang is slowing or even halting development of larger rockets, according to analysis of recent satellite ...
DPRK halt on rocket facility confirmed
This May 26, 2013 satellite image taken by Astrium, and annotated and distributed by 38 North shows a new road to the new launch pad which also remains unfinished at the Tonghae facility in North ...
ROK-DPRK industrial park talks end without agreement
The fifth round of talks between the Republic of Korea and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea on reopening the industrial park in Kaesong ended on Monday without a major agreement. Although no substantial progress was made in the working-level talks on Monday, the two sides agreed to hold the next round on Thursday, Seoul-based Yonhap News Agency ...
S Korea?s new film heroes N Korean spies
For South Korean filmmakers, the North is a 'perfect inspiration' allowing them to mix fantasy with the realities of a neighbour that often threatens to turn Seoul into a 'sea of ...
What N. Korea should reflect on 60th anniversary of Korean War
What N. Korea should reflect on 60th anniversary of Korean War . JULY 24, 2013 04:39. . Saturday marks the 60th anniversary of the armistice agreement between South and North Korea. It is the day to commemorate the victory of South Korea that prevented North Korea`s surprise attack. The South Korean army and 16 UN countries guarded free democracy under the United Nations flag. Once the ...
Beijing confirm?s North Korean defectors at detention center
Beijing confirm?s North Korean defectors at detention center . JULY 19, 2013 07:28. . The Chinese government officially confirmed to the South Korean government that it has arrested and is investigating Kim Gwang-ho and his family who re-defected from North Korea. A South Korean government source said ...
Red Cross visits crew of seized N. Korea ship in Panama
COLON, Panama (AFP) - A delegation from the Panamanian Red Cross Tuesday visited the 35 crew members from a North Korea ship being held for carrying undeclared Cuban weapons.The crew of the North Korea-flagged Chong Chon Gang could face arms trafficking charges after missile and other weapons parts, as well as two Soviet-era supersonic planes, were found earlier this month.The arms were ...
Leveraging ASEANs Role in North Korean Denuclearization
ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF) meeting wrapped up earlier this month in Brunei. The ARF has been heralded by some the leading forum on political-security issues in Asia. Despite this, others regard the ARF as a mere "talk shop" that is unable to tackle complex issues such as the South China Sea dispute. But there are opportunities for ASEAN and the ARF to shed this cloak of criticism and ...
North Korea Said to Stop Construction At Rocket Site
SEOUL, South Korea ...
Pyongyang kicks off mass games with war victory theme
North Korea has launched its annual Arirang festival, featuring tens of thousands of performers in a highly-choreographed display of patriotism and support for the country's leadership.This year's mass games opened in Pyongyang's 150,000-capacity May Day stadium on Monday evening with a theme that focused on the 60th anniversary of the armistice suspending hostilities in the ...
Korea war veterans in Pyongyang for 60th anniversary of the end of the conflict
09/05/2013 12:25 CET Korean war veterans headed to Pyongyang to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the end of the conflict which divided the country into North and South Korea in 1950-53. North Korea considers the armistice as a victory over US-led coalition forces. The main event will be a military parade in the capital on ...
Is North Korea Giving Up On Building New Rockets
Tonghae Satellite Launching Ground was intended to be a major new facility for building, testing, and firing large rockets and ballistic missiles on the northeast coast of the Korean peninsula. ...
AP Exclusive NKorea halts rocket launch-pad work
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- North Korea has stopped construction work at a site meant to launch bigger and better long-range rockets, a possible sign that Pyongyang is slowing or even halting development of larger rockets, according to a new analysis of recent satellite ...
Eight people fall victims of heavy floods in North Korea
PYONGYANG, July 23 (Itar-Tass) - Heavy floods caused by torrential rains have taken away lives of eight people from July 20 to July 22, Korean Central News Agency said Tuesday. The flood waters destroyed or inundated 4,500 residenial houses, leaving some 17,700 people without shelter. The biggest destructions have been registered in the central provinces of Phyonggan-namdo and Phyonggan-Pukdo. ...
S. Korea demands Kaesong prevention system
A South Korean official said the government is adamant in its demand to create solid safeguards to prevent another closing of the factory park in North Korea. The Kaesong Industrial Complex has been shut down since April when the North withdrew its workers from South Korean companies amid tensions. The decision has cost South Korean companies more than $941 million. North and South Korea have ...
Answers needed on Cubas missile shipment to North Korea
Given Cuba's long-running economic crisis, you could imagine that some entrepreneurial lieutenant of the revolutionary government got a gold star for inventing a possible new revenue stream. It certainly sounds like a clever move to clean out the Cold War closet and dump some outmoded radar systems, Russian jets and missile parts on a willing taker. After all, Cuba's Museum of the ...
The threat of nuclear war North Korea or the United States
USA While the Western media portrays North Korea's nuclear weapons program as a threat to Global Security, it fails to acknowledge that the US has being threatening North Korea with a nuclear attack for more than half a century. On July 27, 2013, Armistice Day, Koreans in the North and the South will be commemorating the end of the Korean war (1950-53). Unknown to the broader public, ...
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