All posts tagged "North Korea"

  • US envoy calls for pressure on N. Korea to tackle human rights abuses

    SEOUL (Yonhap) — A top U.S. official on the North’s human rights on Wednesday called for continued pressure on North Korea to improve its dismal human rights situation, calling the process to resolve it a “long, tough...

    • Posted November 12, 2015
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  • Donald Trump speaks during Republican presidential debate at Milwaukee Theatre, Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2015, in Milwaukee. (AP Photo/Morry Gash)
    Trump calls Kim Jong-un ‘madman’ armed with nuclear weapons

    WASHINGTON (Yonhap) — U.S. Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump has called North Korean leader Kim Jong-un a “madman” armed with nuclear weapons, accusing the administration of President Barack Obama of ignoring the problem. Trump made the accusation...

    • Posted November 12, 2015
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  • Chinese President Xi Jinping, left, and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un. (AP Photos)
    N. Korea-China trade on decline amid icy ties

    SEOUL (Yonhap) — Trade between North Korea and China has gone down in the first half, data showed Wednesday, due mainly to the weakening diplomatic ties between the two allies. North Korea’s exports to China reached $1.17...

    • Posted November 11, 2015
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  • North Korean Han Son-il, left, hugs with his South Korean mother Lee Kum-seok to bid farewell after the Separated Family Reunion Meeting at Diamond Mountain resort in North Korea, Monday, Oct. 26, 2015. Parents and children, brothers and sisters and other relatives separated by the Korean war wept and hugged each other as they parted after their brief reunions, most for the first time in more than six decades. (Kim Do-hoon/Yonhap)
    Many S. Koreans reluctant to see N. Korean relatives

    By Yi Whan-woo About half of elderly South Koreans who may have relatives living in North Korea do not want to see them again for various reasons, according to data from the Ministry of Unification. Speaking at...

    • Posted November 11, 2015
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  • U.S. Special Representative for North Korea Policy, Ambassador Sung Kim, speaks during a media briefing at a hotel in Beijing Friday. (Yonhap)
    US ‘happy to meet’ with N. Korea ‘anytime, anywhere’

    By Brian Han The dialogue between the U.S. and North Korea is starting to sound a bit like a playground rivalry. The two countries are well aware of what the other wants, but it’s keeping both parties...

    • Posted November 11, 2015
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  • Foreign runners join a ceremony to mark the annual Pyongyang Marathon in this photo taken in August 2014. North Korea plans to invite up to 1,500 marathoners from abroad in April next year. (Courtesy of Koryo Tours)
    Tourism is new cash cow for North Korea

    By Yi Whan-woo Tourism is emerging as a new cash cow for North Korea amid growing U.N. pressure on its economy amid its state-perpetrated human rights violations, according to analysts last week. They speculated that the cash-strapped...

    • Posted November 10, 2015
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  • Kim Jong-un and his administration deny accusations of human rights violations from the United Nations. (Yonhap/KCNA)
    N. Korea calls on Japan to resolve sex slave issue

    SEOUL (Yonhap) — North Korea urged Japan on Friday to recognize its state responsibility for Tokyo’s sexual enslavement of Korean women during World War II, claiming that there are victims in the North as well. Pyongyang’s call...

    • Posted November 6, 2015
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