All posts tagged "North Korea"

  • This Rodong Sinmun photo released on Jan. 27, 2015, shows North Korean leader Kim Jong-un observing the military's river crossing training. (Yonhap)
    Number of N.Korean defectors halves after Kim Jong-un assumes power

    SEOUL (Yonhap) — The number of North Korean defectors to South Korea has halved since the launch of the Kim Jong-un regime, apparently attributable to the communist nation’s tougher border control, the Unification Ministry said Monday. A...

    • Posted January 3, 2016
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  • Undated picture released from North Korea of leader Kim Jong-un (Yonhap/KCNA)
    North Korea publishes report on South Korean human rights

    By Rachel Lee North Korea has published a report on South Korea’s human rights situation in an apparent bid to counter mounting international pressure on Pyongyang over its human rights violations. The report, published by the North’s...

    • Posted December 28, 2015
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  • A part of Tumen river borders three countries -- North Korea, China and Russia. (Yonhap)
    North Koreans pay over $8,000 to escape

    By Rachel Lee North Koreans pay up to 10 million won ($8,440) to brokers or border guards to escape from their country, according to activists helping defectors. Most North Korean defectors cross the Tumen River to China’s...

    • Posted December 18, 2015
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  • Hyeon Soo Lim, center, who pastors the Light Korean Presbyterian Church in Toronto, is escorted to his sentencing in Pyongyang, North Korea, Wednesday, Dec. 16, 2015. North Korea's Supreme Court sentenced a Canadian pastor to life in prison with hard labor on Wednesday for what it called crimes against the state.
    N. Korea likely to seek ‘pardon diplomacy,’ expert says

    SEOUL (Yonhap) — North Korea is expected to push for “pardon diplomacy” using a Korean-Canadian pastor sentenced to a life of hard labor, an expert here said Friday. Cheong Seong-chang, a senior analyst at the Sejong Institute,...

    • Posted December 18, 2015
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    S. Korea rejects bartering with N. Korea

    SEOUL (Yonhap) — South Korea won’t accept North Korea’s demands simply to achieve its goal of regular reunions for families separated in the 1950-53 Korean War, Seoul’s point man on Pyongyang said Thursday. Unification Minister Hong Yong-pyo...

    • Posted December 16, 2015
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  • Hyeon Soo Lim, center, who pastors the Light Korean Presbyterian Church in Toronto, is escorted to his sentencing in Pyongyang, North Korea, Wednesday, Dec. 16, 2015. North Korea's Supreme Court sentenced a Canadian pastor to life in prison with hard labor on Wednesday for what it called crimes against the state. (AP Photo/Jon Chol Jin)
    N. Korea sentences Korean Canadian pastor to life in prison

    PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) — North Korea’s Supreme Court sentenced a Canadian Korean pastor to life in prison with hard labor on Wednesday for what it called crimes against the state. Hyeon Soo Lim, who pastors the...

    • Posted December 16, 2015
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  • The North's leader made the H-bomb claims last week, saying the country has become a "powerful nuclear weapons state." (Yonhap)
    N. Korea could deploy H-bomb around 2020: 38 North

    By Chang Jae-soon WASHINGTON (Yonhap) — North Korea’s claims of hydrogen bomb development are technically unlikely for now, but the communist nation could deploy a single-stage thermonuclear weapon with a yield of 100 kilotons by around 2020,...

    • Posted December 16, 2015
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