All posts tagged "North Korea"

  • OKGM chief Kim Ho-jin, right, poses with former prime minister of South Korea Goh Kun. (Korea Times file)
    NJ-based non-profit to deliver 30 tons of tree seedlings to North Korea

    By Lee Jin-soo Thirty tons of tree seedlings will be delivered to North Korea from January to February by One Green Korea Movement. OGKM, a New Jersey-based non-profit which aims to plant 6.5 billion trees in the...

    • Posted December 30, 2014
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  • A military officer uses a computer in an electronic library at the Mangyongdae Revolutionary School, an elite military school for boys ages eleven to eighteen, on the outskirts of Pyongyang, North Korea. (AP Photo/Alexander F. Yuan)
    N. Korean sites go back online after days of disruptions

    SEOUL (Yonhap) — North Korea’s major websites are back online Tuesday, after days of outages that came amid Washington’s threat of a “proportional” action against Pyongyang over its alleged cyber-attack on Sony Pictures Entertainment. North Korea’s main...

    • Posted December 30, 2014
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  • Cars enter Sony Pictures Entertainment headquarters in Culver City, Calif. on Tuesday, Dec. 2, 2014. The FBI has confirmed it is investigating a recent hacking attack at Sony Pictures Entertainment, which caused major internal computer problems at the film studio last week. (AP Photo/Nick Ut)
    US confident NK responsible for Sony hack despite reports suggesting otherwise

    WASHINGTON, Dec. 29 (Yonhap) — The United States stands by an FBI finding that North Korea was responsible for the hacking attack on Sony Pictures despite reports suggesting somebody else could have done it, a State Department...

    • Posted December 30, 2014
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    [Variety] ‘The Interview’ Has Made Over $15 Million Online

      “The Interview” is shaping up to be a groundbreaking VOD success, earning $15 million online through Saturday. The comedy, which has earned nearly $3 million in theaters, was rented or downloaded over 2 million times...

    • Posted December 29, 2014
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    [BI] Demand For ‘The Interview’ Is Shooting Up In N. Korea And Its Government Is Freaking Out

    More and more North Koreans are becoming aware of the North Korea-mocking movie “The Interview,” and the government is doing everything to block it from getting smuggled in to the country. According to Free North...

    • Posted December 29, 2014
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  • Cars enter Sony Pictures Entertainment headquarters in Culver City, Calif. on Tuesday, Dec. 2, 2014. The FBI has confirmed it is investigating a recent hacking attack at Sony Pictures Entertainment, which caused major internal computer problems at the film studio last week. (AP Photo/Nick Ut)
    Who really hacked Sony?

    LOS ANGELES (AP) — Everyone has a theory about who really hacked Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc. Despite President Barack Obama’s conclusion that North Korea was the culprit, the Internet’s newest game of whodunit continues. Top theories include...

    • Posted December 24, 2014
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  • North Korean students work at computer terminals inside a computer lab at Kim Il Sung University in Pyongyang, North Korea during a tour by Executive Chairman of Google, Eric Schmidt. North Korea is literally off the charts regarding Internet freedoms. There essentially aren’t any. But the country is increasingly online. Though it deliberately and meticulously keeps its people isolated and in the dark about the outside world, it knows it must enter the information age to survive in the global economy.(AP Photo/David Guttenfelder, File)
    China media slams ‘spurious’ reports on NK Internet outages

    BEIJING (Yonhap) — Chinese state media on Wednesday slammed “spurious” media reports that Beijing could be involved in Internet outages in North Korea, as questions persist about who was responsible. The comments by the Global Times, a...

    • Posted December 24, 2014
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