All posts tagged "North Korea"

  • North Korean workers outside of their home country claim that most of their wages get sent to the North Korean government. (Yonhap)
    [BBC] N. Korean hackers ‘could kill’, warns key defector

        North Korean hackers are capable of attacks that could destroy critical infrastructure and even kill people, a high-profile defector has warned. Speaking exclusively to BBC Click, Prof Kim Heung-Kwang said the country had around...

    • Posted June 1, 2015
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  • S. Korea, U.S. start joint anti-submarine naval drill

    SEOUL, June 1 (Yonhap) — South Korea and the United States have kicked off a joint anti-submarine naval drill to tackle North Korea’s threats, sparked by the North’s test-firing of a submarine-launched ballistic missile, Navy officials said...

    • Posted June 1, 2015
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  • A North Korean soldier smokes a cigarette as he takes a rest with his comrade along the river bank of the North Korean town of Sinuiju, opposite the Chinese border city of Dandong Friday, May 24, 2013. A top North Korean envoy delivered a letter from leader Kim Jong Un to Chinese President Xi Jinping on Friday and told him Pyongyang would take steps to rejoin stalled six-nation nuclear disarmament talks, in an apparent victory for Beijing's efforts to coax its unruly ally into lowering tensions. (AP Photo)
    N. Korea joins smoke-free movement

    By Lee Min-hyung North Korea is making a concerted effort to reduce the regime’s high cigarette-smoking rate by banning the act in public places as well as outlawing the sale of foreign cigarettes. “We have also prohibited...

    • Posted June 1, 2015
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  • North Korean spectators watch from the stands of Kim Il-sung Stadium as runners line up at the start of the Mangyongdae Prize International Marathon in Pyongyang, North Korea. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder)
    [UPI] New York marathoners marvel at clean, friendly North Korea

      PYONGYANG, North Korea (UPI) — For Stephen Forman, North Korea’s Mangyongdae Prize Marathon was the best course he had run in his years as an amateur athlete. “The course itself was flat, the weather was...

    • Posted May 31, 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’s Peaceful Reunification Committee vows to ‘punish’ S. Korea over human rights office

    SEOUL, May 29 (Yonhap) — North Korea threatened on Friday to retaliate against South Korea over the U.N.’s plan to open a Seoul office in order to monitor the North’s dismal human rights records. The North will...

    • Posted May 29, 2015
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  • North Korea's Unha-3 rocket lifts off from the Sohae launch pad in Tongchang-ri, North Korea. (KCNA/Yonhap)
    Satellite imagery shows major construction at N. Korea rocket site

    WASHINGTON (AP) — Satellite imagery shows significant new construction at North Korea’s main rocket launch site in a sign of leader Kim Jong-un’s determination to pursue a space program despite international censure, a U.S. research institute said...

    • Posted May 28, 2015
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  • South Korean President Park Geun-hye descends from the plane upon her arrival to the military airport in Bogota, Colombia, Thursday, April 16, 2015. Park Geun-hye is in Colombia in an official two-days visit and will then tour Peru, Chile and Brazil. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)
    N. Korea criticizes President Park for US visit plan

    SEOUL, May 28 (Yonhap) — North Korea rebuked President Park Geun-hye on Thursday for planning to visit the United States in mid-June, saying that her move will derail a possible joint event to mark the 15th anniversary...

    • Posted May 28, 2015
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