All posts tagged "North Korea"

  • Kim Jong-un shows up in a public appearance with what look like white and gray hairs. (Yonhap)
    Kim Jong-un feeling stressed? Leader shows up with white hairs

    North Korean leader Kim Jong-un may have bit off more than he can chew. In his most recent public appearance on June 9 at a historic war site in Pyongyang, Kim showed up with white hairs pointing...

    • Posted June 10, 2015
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    N. Korea demolishes 10,000 homes along border to stop defections

    North Korea’s construction of a 270 kilometer highway along its northern border is nearing completion. Coincidentally, the stretch of land is also a popular route taken by fleeing defectors who wish to leave the country. Approximately 10,000...

    • Posted June 9, 2015
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    North Korea loves triplets!

    North Korea, which reportedly is experiencing a low birth-rate, is paying particular attention to triplets, according to the authoritarian regime’s Rodong Sinmun. In an article on Monday, the paper introduced a Pyongyang family with triplets. The family...

    • Posted June 8, 2015
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  • North Korean workers planting seedlings on a field in Jaeryong, South Hwanghae Province, on Jan. 24, 2015. (KCNA/Yonhap)
    [NYP] The underground Christian network smuggling refugees out of N. Korea

      If such a thing as a normal childhood can be had in North Korea, Joseph Kim had it. He lived with his father, mother and older sister in Hoeryong, a city that benefits...

    • Posted June 8, 2015
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  • A thermal camera monitor shows the body temperature of visitors during the Job Fairs in Seoul, South Korea Friday, June 5, 2015. Sales of surgical masks surge amid fears of the deadly, poorly understood virus. Airlines announce "intensified sanitizing operations." More than 1,100 schools close and 1,600 people - and 17 camels in zoos - are quarantined. The current frenzy in South Korea over MERS brings to mind the other menacing diseases to hit Asia over the last decade - SARS, which killed hundreds, and bird flu. (Yonhap)
    S. Korea installs MERS detection devices in N. Korea

    SEOUL, June 8 (Yonhap) — The Unification Ministry said Monday it plans to install devices to detect the MERS virus at the joint industrial zone in North Korea later in the day to prevent the spread of...

    • Posted June 8, 2015
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  • This satellite image provided by Space Imaging Asia shows the Yongbyon Nuclear Center, located north of Pyongyang, North Korea. (AP Photo/Space Imaging Asia)
    US believes N. Korea has secret nuclear facilities

    WASHINGTON/SEOUL, June 8 (Yonhap) — North Korea is believed to have secret nuclear facilities unknown to the outside world in addition to those at the country’s main Yongbyon nuclear complex, the State Department said in a report....

    • Posted June 8, 2015
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  • S. Korea vows countermeasures against N. Korea’s sub-missiles

    SEOUL, June 5 (Yonhap) — The Ministry of National Defense said Friday it is working to devise effective countermeasures to counter North Korea’s ballistic missiles launched from submarines. Last month, the communist country claimed that it successfully...

    • Posted June 5, 2015
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