The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | yesterday
Washington - North Korea has agreed to allow rigorous inspections of all its nuclear activities, with the United States responding by removing the Stalinist state from a terrorism blacklist, the US State Department said Saturday. The agreement was br...
Raw Story (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
... about the Bush administration's move late Friday, saying it was not yet possible to verify the Stalinist state was being sincere.In the latest twist to its long-running showdown with North Korea over its nuclear program, the US State Department said Saturday it had "rescinded the designation of North Korea as a state terror sponsor" after North Korea agreed to disarmament...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | yesterday
Washington - North Korea has agreed to allow rigorous inspections of all its nuclear activities in exchange for being removed from the US terrorism blacklist, the US State Department announced on Saturday. The agreement was brokered after the US envo...
Houston Chronicle (Free subscription) | 1 hour ago
... Airport, Won was enlisted to tour military bases to lecture troops on the evils of the Stalinist state.All the while, prosecutors say, she pursued her real agenda: collecting photos of military installations and weapons systems, keeping lists of North Korean defectors and personal data about South Korean military officers.While awaiting sentencing for espionage, Won's life and motives...
Seattle Times (Free subscription) | yesterday
SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea's reportedly ailing Kim Jong Il skipped a celebration of the 63rd anniversary of the ruling Workers' Party on Friday, but hours later state-run media described an energetic visit to a military unit.The North's official Korean Central News Agency said early today that Kim visited an all-female military unit but did not specify exactly when the inspection took...
Mail & Guardian (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
"Today, [North Korea] informed agency inspectors in Yongbyon that it has stopped its disablement work agreed within the six-party talks," the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said in a short statement."Agency inspectors were informed that as a result of this decision, access to the facilities would not be permitted as of today [Thursday]," it said. A senior diplomat close to the IAEA...
Reuters (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
... U.N. nuclear watchdog was expected to make a formal announcement later in the day.The reclusive Stalinist state ousted the monitor team from Yongbyon's plutonium-producing plant, kernel of its atom bomb capability, two weeks ago and vowed to start reactivating the Soviet-era plant within days.But at the time Pyongyang allowed the monitors to continue observing other parts of Yongbyon.The...
Mick Hartley (Free subscription) | 08/10/2008
Further to this post on North Korea, here's a Time article on the threat of famine: As the world frets over an apparent collapse of an agreement to end North Korea's nuclear weapons program, another crisis may be unfolding in Asia's secretive Stalinist state: a worsening food shortage. North Koreans are, unfortunately, no strangers to hunger. In the 1990s, a severe famine is thought to...
Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 08/10/2008
... her arrival in 2001, Won was enlisted to tour military bases to lecture troops on the evils of the Stalinist state.All the while, prosecutors say, she pursued her real agenda: collecting photos of military installations and weapons systems, keeping lists of North Korean defectors and personal data about Southern military officers.Won's life and motives remain a mystery.Was she a major...
The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 08/10/2008
... Airport, Won was enlisted to tour military bases to lecture troops on the evils of the Stalinist state.All the while, prosecutors say, she pursued her real agenda: collecting photos of military installations and weapons systems, keeping lists of North Korean defectors and personal data about southern military officers.She awaits sentencing for espionage, but Won's life and motives...
LA Times (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
... as a model defector and assigned to tour military bases to lecture troops on the evils of the Stalinist state.
Time (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008
As the world frets over an apparent collapse of an agreement to end North Korea's nuclear weapons program, another crisis may be unfolding in Asia's secretive Stalinist state: a worsening food shortage.North Koreans are unfortunately no strangers to hunger. In the 1990s, a severe famine is though to have left up to a million North Koreans dead. Though aid workers say the country is not...
