Cave News (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
The 66-year-old leader of North Korea Kim Jong-il (pictured) has not been seen since mid-August according to US and South Korean officials. Now the North Korea leader is reported to have made his first public appearance since rumors surfaced that...
Washington Wire (Free subscription) | yesterday
Jay Solomon reports on international affairs. U.S. diplomats visiting Pyongyang last week learned little about the health and mental capacity of North Korean leader Kim Jong Il . South Koreans watch TV reporting on North Korean leader Kim Jong Il at a railway station in Seoul on Sundayl. (AP) U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Christopher Hill made a two-day journey to the communist country last week...
Judeopundit (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008
He may not be long for this world, but his immortal Songun potato treatise will live on: A national meeting took place in Taehongdan County, Ryanggang Province on Tuesday to mark the 10th anniversary of the publication of General Secretary Kim Jong Il's famous work "On Bringing about a Signal Turn in Potato Farming". Kim Jong Il in the work published in October Juche 87 (1998) comprehensively clarified...
Fark.com (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008
For some laughs, go to the North Korean mouthpiece at http://www.kcna.co.jp/index-e.htm (ironically hosted in Japan)."He also underlined the need for the Koreans of all strata in the north and the south and overseas to strongly reject the servile sycophantic and treacherous acts of the south Korean conservative ruling forces and their confrontational moves against the nation and reunification and decisively...
ROK Drop (Free subscription) | yesterday
I have a lot of respect for Nicholas Eberstadt and John Bolton who have co-written an op-ed recently in the Wall Street Journal. Their article is in regards to the potential opportunity to reunite the Korean peninsula if regime collapse was to happen if Kim Jong-il died. I don’t think the regime would collapse if [...]
Time (Free subscription) | yesterday
While the world speculates on Kim Jong Il's health and whether Washington can get nuclear talks back on track, millions of North Koreans are running out of food
ROK Drop (Free subscription) | yesterday
Here is another sign that times are changing in South Korea because the former President Roh Moo-hyun in his own words would never have agreed to such a change in Korean defense strategy: The South Korean Army plans to deploy about 2,000 advanced wheeled armored vehicles beginning around 2013 to build rapid-response brigades modeled after [...]
Pundita (Free subscription) | yesterday
Ah. I see they've moved the goal posts:"The North's hard-line military has insisted upon simultaneous nuclear inspections in North and South Korea to ensure what it calls a "nuclear-free Korean peninsula" before it agrees to abandon its nuclear arsenal. It also demands a military dialogue with the United States to negotiate a peace treaty to formally end the Korean War."And here I thought they
Cape Times (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008
North Korean leader Kim Jong Il made his first public appearance in nearly two months, state media reported ...
kansascity.com (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008
SEOUL, South Korea | The rumors and speculation surrounding the health of North Korean leader Kim Jong Il continue to swirl.
Gruntled Center (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008
A friend imagined a conversation between the Governor of Alaska and the Dear Leader of North Korea. Well gosh darn it Mr. Kim Jong, you betcha we're still all riled up about them POW's we left back there and the veterans and American people are just gonna say we've had it with all the evil regimes and nucular weapons bein' the end all and the be all and now you're dealin' with a couple of mavericks....
Fark.com (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008
North Korea is so yesterday's news. Now that we're in economic trouble, and we're leeching about as much money as we can out of the system for the Iraq war, suddenly we don't have so many enemies. Not ones that are in dire need of liberating, anyway.Hm. Strange.
The Telegraph India (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008
Seoul, Oct. 4 (Reuters): North Korean leader Kim Jong-il made his first public appearance since reports last month that he may have suffered a stroke, a state news report said today.
Globe and Mail (Free subscription) | 04/10/2008
North Korea's leader attends soccer match in Pyongyang — his first public appearance since reports he suffered a stroke
CBC.ca (Free subscription) | 04/10/2008
North Korean leader Kim Jong Il has made his first public appearance in more than a month, a state-run news agency reported on Saturday.
