All posts tagged "North Korea"

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    North Korea releases 2 US detainees

    WASHINGTON (AP) – Two Americans held by North Korea were on their way home Saturday after their release was secured through a secret mission by the top U.S. intelligence official to the reclusive Communist country. Matthew Miller...

    • Posted November 9, 2014
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    North Korean leader seen limping on state TV

    SEOUL (Yonhap) — In his first video footage since returning to public view following a conspicuous absence, North Korean leader Kim Jong-un on Thursday was seen slightly limping on the communist country’s state television. The Korean Central...

    • Posted November 6, 2014
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  • A growing number of North Koreans use South Korean smart phones to use free mobile messenger, KakaoTalk.
    North Koreans pay only 12 cents for monthly phone bills

    By Lee Min-hyung Mobile phone subscribers in North Korea pay about 12 cents (1,000 North Korea won) for their monthly service fee, Radio Free Asia (RFA) reported Monday. They can get up to 200 minutes in free...

    • Posted November 4, 2014
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  • North Korean workers in Malaysia claim that most of their wages get sent to the North Korean government. (Yonhap)
    N. Korea bans Facebook and Twitter for foreigners

    By Lee Min-hyung North Korea has banned all foreigners there from using social networking services such as Facebook and Twitter, a Russian news agency reported Thursday. Diplomats and workers from humanitarian organizations have also been denied access...

    • Posted October 31, 2014
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    [New York Post] North Korea executes officials for watching soap operas

    Ten officials of North Korea’s ruling Workers’ Party have been executed for charges including watching foreign soap operas, South Korea’s intelligence agency revealed Wednesday, bringing the total of senior members killed this year to...

    • Posted October 30, 2014
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    Defector Park Yeon-mi describes plight of N. Korean people in moving speech

    Park Yeon-mi, a 21-year-old North Korean defector, has called on the world to pay more attention to the plight of those suffering under the communist dictatorship, in a moving video that is circulating on the Internet. In...

    • Posted October 27, 2014
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  • In this Sept. 1, 2014 photo, a North Korean woman waits for a train in an underground subway station in Pyongyang, North Korea. In Pyongyang, where the standard of living is relatively high, clothes and styles have been changing in recent years - slowly and in a limited way, but more than many outsiders might think. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E)
    [NPR] Among The Young And Privileged In North Korea

      In the summer of 2011, American journalist Suki Kim got a job teaching English at the elite, all-male Pyongyang University of Science and Technology in the North Korean capital. Kim, who was born in South...

    • Posted October 25, 2014
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