U.S. President Barack Obama and South Korean President Lee Myung Bak reaffirmed in Seoul on Thursday that they will seek a "definite and comprehensive resolution" to the North Korean nuclear issue. Mr. Obama urged the North to return to the six-party nuclear talks, adding that he will send special representative for North Korea policy Stephen Bosworth to the country on Dec. 8. In early October,...
North Korea Arms Trade Funds Nuclear-Bomb Work, UN Panel Says -- Bloomberg Nov. 19 (Bloomberg) -- North Korea is running a global arms smuggling enterprise to finance its nuclear weapons program, a United Nations panel said in a report on sanctions imposed on the regime. “The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea has established a highly sophisticated international network for the acquisition,...
This is coolbert: More doctored or fake photography from North Korea? The happy, always-smiling and contented leader [Kim] surrounded by the happy, always-smiling and contented acolytes, everyone just in utter bliss all the time. Never a care or worry in the world, their lot and station in life being one of constant and perpetual enjoyment. Lick-spittle fawning "yes men" falling over one...
Pyongyang, November 20 (KCNA) — A spokesman for the DPRK Foreign Ministry Friday gave the following answer to the question put by KCNA as regards the “resolution on human rights situation” against the DPRK adopted at a meeting of the Third Committee of the 64th UN General...
Pyongyang, November 20 (KCNA) — General Secretary Kim Jong Il provided field guidance to the July 18 Cattle Farm under KPA Unit 580. The farm built on an area of more than 20,000 square meters thanks to the devoted efforts of KPA soldiers is a large stockbreeding center mass-producing...
Pyongyang, November 20 (KCNA) — A fossil of tubular animal has been found out recently in Phyongsan area of North Hwanghae Province to attract attention of geologists of the DPRK. The tubular animal was the first organism with skeletal structure on the earth. It was an elliptic tube-shape...
Pyongyang, November 20 (KCNA) — Koryo medicine production units throughout the DPRK are producing efficacious Koryo medicines to promote the health of the working people. The Phyongchon Koryo Medicine Factory is one of them. The factory, which takes it as its technological development...
Pyongyang, November 20 (KCNA) — Many achievements have been made in scientific researches which substantially help towards the building of a great, prosperous and powerful nation. Technological innovations including a method of concretizing on ground and construction method by concrete...
BY KIM JONG OK Pyongyang — We are greeting the 19th anniversary of the formation of the Pan-National Alliance for Korea’s Reunification (Pomminryon). Pomminryon formed on November 20, Juche 79 (1990) is a pan-national organization for the reunification patriotic movement which regards...
Denuclearisation will only come when bridges have been built with Pyongyang and it feels firmly set on a new economic course Negotiations over the denuclearisation of the Korean peninsula look set to resume . Sadly, they are unlikely to end soon. Talk of a "grand bargain" remains just that – talk. Trust between North Korea and the US, South Korea and Japan is almost non-existent. While...
After troublesome stopovers in Japan and China, United States President Barack Obama ended his swing through Asia on a high in South Korea, with US troops jubilant after a rousing speech. The feel-good factor was boosted by a glowing consensus with Seoul's leader over ending Pyongyang's nuclear program. - Donald Kirk (Nov 20, '09)
When you were at school, did you ever want to be friends with someone who just didn't want to be your friend? However nice you were to them, they simply ignored you? Now, I wouldn't dream of comparing Barack Obama to a friendless school-child - after all, he's probably one of the most popular men in the world, and a former Harvard law professor as well - but he doesn't seem to be having too much luck...
Chinese Defence Minister Liang Guanglie will visit North Korea soon, state-run media said on Friday, amid efforts to draw Pyongyang back to nuclear disarmament talks. Liang's trip, which also will take him to Japan and Thailand, will begin on Sunday and run through December 5, the China News Service reported, without giving a specific itinerary. It gave no reason for the trip but the announcement...
Pyongyang, November 19 (KCNA) — Xu Caihou, member of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and vice-chairman of the CPC Central Military Commission, met the delegation of political officers of the Korean People’s Army led by Kim Jong Gak, first...
Pyongyang, November 19 (KCNA) — Beautiful Mt. Myohyang has been known as one of six celebrated mountains and one of the eight beauty spots in Korea, which covers large areas of North and South Phyongan and Jagang provinces. The grand and curious peaks, rocks of fantastic shape, deep valleys,...
Nuclear Proliferation: An Unflinching North Korea - By Dr. Abdul Ruff Colachal ****** Nuclear proliferation is being caused by literally every nuclear power in the world in one way or the other. Today North Korea and Iran are seen by USA and its allies as posing threat to them and world peace. But nuclear ambitions of these two powers are admitted by the UNSC as normal. USA has repeatedly warned against...
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Nuclear Proliferation: An Unflinching North Korea - By Dr. Abdul Ruff Colachal