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30. January, 2009
China to Tighten Ties with N.Korea
조선일보(영문판) - South Korea
Last week a senior Chinese official visited North Korea with a letter from Chinese President Hu Jintao inviting North Korean leader Kim Jong-il to Beijing. ..
South Korea Tells North Korea to Stop Raising Tension
Bloomberg - USA
Kim Jong Il’s regime has repeatedly called South Korean President Lee Myung Bak a “traitor” and a “sycophant to the US” It has demanded South Korea stop ...
North Korea cancels political agreements with South
Herald.ie - Dublin,Ireland
Ties between the two sides had thawed significantly over the past decade, with North Korean President Kim Jong Il meeting South Korean President Kim ...
North Korea again changes diplomatic tack 30/01 07:43 CET
euronews - Lyon,France
In a move set to heighten cross border tension, North Korea has said it is cancelling all political and military agreements with the South. ..
Time to Prepare for North Korean Military Provocation?
Daily NK - Seoul,South Korea
By Jeong Jae Sung The background to the North Korean declaration that all inter-Korea political and military agreements are now invalid, as released Friday ...
North threatens to shred accords
중앙데일리 - South Korea
North Korea threatened yesterday to scrap all military accords and nullify a western sea border between the two countries. Pyongyang sharply criticized ...
North Korea says all agreements with South are void
International Herald Tribune - France
By Choe Sang-Hun SEOUL: North Korea sharpened its hostility toward South Korea on Friday by abruptly declaring that it was scrapping a nonaggression pact ...
The North’s provocations
중앙데일리 - South Korea
The North justified its decision by saying there is no reason for only North Korea to be bound by agreements while the South continues politics of ...
29. January, 2009
Change in N.Korea Should Be gradual, Obama Told
조선일보(영문판) - South Korea
The report envisages three scenarios in case North Korean leader Kim Jong-il's health deteriorates: a "well-managed succession" by which one of his sons or ...
Kim Jong-il's Son Denies Chinese Backing for Succession
조선일보(영문판) - South Korea
The eldest son of ailing North Korean leader Kim Jong-il on Tuesday said he does not think China supports him as his father's successor and that nobody ...
N.Korea Criticizes South's Unification Minister Nominee
조선일보(영문판) - South Korea
North Korea has criticized the South Korean government's designation of a hawkish professor as the next unification minister, calling it an "outright ...
Seoul Says No to N.Korean Won in Propaganda Leaflets
조선일보(영문판) - South Korea
The president of Family Assembly Abducted to North Korea, one particularly active group, expressed dismay. "How can the government prevent North Korean ...
Gary Samore Tapped for Weapons of Mass Destruction 'Czar'
FOXNews - USA
In interviews and articles, Samore has been openly skeptical of North Korea's willingness to abandon its nuclear weapons program. ...
460000 Troops Needed to Stabilize N.Korean Collapse: Report
코리아타임즈 - South Korea
The report released by the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) said the United States should put top priority on securing North Korea's nuclear weapons and ...
21. January, 2009
Who Might Be Kim Jong Il's Successor?
OhmyNews International - South Korea
With growing suspicion that Kim Jong Il, the leader of North Korea, may be critically ill, many are beginning to ponder the potential implications of his ...
Struggle for power erupts in Pyongyang
The National - Abu Dhabi,United Arab Emirates
The North Korean leader, Kim Jong Il, with soldiers from a Korean People’s army sub-unit. Korea News Service Animals wept on the death of North Korea’s ...
Almost 15000 unused nuclear fuel rods in N Korea: officials
ABC Online - Australia
By North Asia correspondent Mark Willacy A delegation of South Korean officials which has just returned from North Korea says the communist state has almost ...
N.Korea can work with Obama - pro-Pyongyang paper
Reuters - USA
By Jack Kim SEOUL, Jan 21 (Reuters) - North Korea is ready to work with new US President Barack Obama to rid the Korean peninsula of nuclear weapons, ...
North Korea's Military Action Is Intolerable, Russian Amb. Says
코리아타임즈 - South Korea
by Kim Se-jeong By Kim Se-jeong Russia will not tolerate any kind of military threat from North Korea, the Russian ambassador said Wednesday, ...
North Korea: Invariable Foreign Policy of DPRK
ISRIA (subscription) - Washington,DC,USA
... shipped huge amounts of war hardware into the Korean Peninsula in a systematic way and staged dangerous war exercises against the north in an attempt to ...
20. January, 2009
Unification minister pick signals S. Korea will stick to hard-line ...
한겨레 - South Korea
The meaning of this appointment is simple and plain: the president plans to adhere to the existing hard-line policy toward North Korea and strengthen the ...
North Korea steps up warnings against South
Washington Post - United States
By Jonathan Thatcher SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea, which analysts suspect is trying hard to grab the attention of incoming US president Barack Obama, ...
Winds of war in Korea. Pyongyang announces battle for borders
AsiaNews.it - Italy
News comes from North Korea of a campaign orchestrated by the communist party, reinforcing the idea of "unity between the people and the army," and ...
19. January, 2009
Power succession in North appears to be priority: Hill
Korea Herald - Seoul,South Korea
North Korean leader Kim Jong-il may have begun seriously thinking about picking his successor quite recently after his health apparently failed in August, ...
South Korea replaces top econ, North policy makers
Reuters - USA
SEOUL, Jan 19 (Reuters) - South Korea announced on Monday the replacement of its top two economic and financial officials and top North Korea policy maker ...
South Korea's Lee names hardliner to North post
Reuters - USA
The North Korean threat coming just days before Barack Obama is sworn in as US president was largely dismissed by Lee's government as a repeat of past ...
South Korea raises military alert
Aljazeera.net - Qatar
South Korea has put its armed forces on heightened alert following a series of statements from North Korea threatening military action against what it says ...
'DJ Willing to Visit North Korea If Requested'
코리아타임즈 - South Korea
By Kim Sue-young Former President and Nobel Peace Laureate Kim Dae-jung is willing to visit North Korea if both Seoul and Pyongyang make the request, ...
North’s military may be taking a grip on power
중앙데일리 - South Korea
Though North Korea’s military has long played a crucial role in inter-Korean political tensions, today it is making unusually dramatic moves. ...
Q+A: Why is North Korea firing off more rhetoric?
Reuters - USA
SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea this weekend said it would "wipe out" the uncooperative conservative government in Seoul, accusing it of undermining efforts ...
18. January, 2009
N.Korea says plutonium "weaponised" and off-limits
Reuters - USA
The North's leader Kim Jong-il appears to have given up handling many day-to-day tasks after suffering a stroke and this may explain the North's hardening ...
North Korea claims to have weaponized plutonium
CNN - USA
Asian newspapers reported in September that North Korean leader Kim Jong Il was seriously ill. Selig Harrison, one of the few US scholars granted access to ..
Visit Films Takes Global Rights to Sundance’s “Kimjongilia” and ..
Indie Wire - USA
... first to god-like dictator Kim Il Song and, after his death, to his son, Kim Jong Il. by Brian Brooks (Updated 12 minutes ago) by Eugene Hernandez ...
S. Korean political parties rap N. Korea's military threats
Thai News Agency MCOT - Bangkok,Thailand
Yoon echoed some analysts' view that the North might be trying to distract attention from the reported illness of leader Kim Jong-il ...
17. January, 2009
NKorea warns of retaliation against Seoul's policy
International Herald Tribune - France
AP SEOUL, South Korea: North Korea's military warned Saturday that South Korea's "confrontational" policies may force it to retaliate against Seoul, ...
North Korea military says to "wipe out" the South
Reuters - USA
SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea's army said on Saturday it would assume an "all-out confrontational posture" against the South and wipe out the conservative ...
Malaysia In Fertilizer-CPO Barter Trade With Korea
Bernama - Kuala Lumpur,Malaysia
Its minister Datuk Peter Chin Fah Kui said his ministry had just approved some US$20 million worth of transactions with North Korea last month. ..
NKorea says may retain nukes even if US relations normalised
AFP
SEOUL (AFP) — North Korea said Saturday it may keep its nuclear weapons even after normalising relations with the United States, staking out a tough ..
Who will succeed N Korea's Kim Jong-il?
BBC News - UK
Will a single strongman (it is unlikely to be a woman) emerge, "inheriting" his authority from the Great Leader as did Kim Jong-il? .
N.Korean Farmers' Markets Slip from Control
조선일보(영문판) - South Korea
North Korean leader Kim Jong-il slapped restrictions on farmers' markets last year, but his writ does not appear to run there. The North Korean regime said ...
No Evidence of Jong Woon as Successor to Kim Jong Il
Daily NK - Seoul,South Korea
By Jeong Jae Sung In the last few days, a report has been released by some news agencies which appear to claim that Kim Jong Il¡¯s third son, Jong Woon, ...
Sundance documentary aims to lift veil on North Korea
AFP
PARK CITY, Utah (AFP) — North Korea's prison system and the cult of personality surrounding the Stalinist nation's leader Kim Jong-Il are the subject of a ...
Researcher: North Korea has `weaponized' plutonium
The Associated Press
Harrison said the North Korean stance toward Washington has hardened, possibly due to the rise of hard-liners following supreme leader Kim Jong Il's health ..
16. January, 2009
Reports: Kim Jong Il's youngest son tapped to run North Korea
USA Today - USA
Kim Jong Il has named his youngest son to succeed him as leader of North Korea, a South Korean news organization reports, citing anonymous sources. ...
Reports Differ on Kim Jong-il Succession
조선일보(영문판) - South Korea
North Korean leader Kim Jong-il may have appointed his third son Kim Jong-un as his successor. The Yonhap news agency quoted an inside source Thursday ...
Smart power play in Pyongyang
Asia Times Online - Kowloon,Hong Kong
"Let's give North Korea what they need and take what we need," said DJ, claiming as "indisputable fact" that Kim Jong-il "aspires to improve North Korea's ...
15. January, 2009
North Korea reaps a rich harvest
Asia Times Online - Kowloon,Hong Kong
By Andrei Lankov SEOUL - Just a few months ago, when it came to discussing North Korea's immediate future, newspaper headlines were sounding alarms such as ...
Expect test from N.Korea, Bush aide advises Obama
Reuters - USA
Dennis Wilder, senior adviser for Asia on the National Security Council, also said doubts remained about the health of North Korean leader Kim Jong-il, ...
N.Korea 'to Be Led by Kim Jong-il's Brother-in-Law'
조선일보(영문판) - South Korea
A collective leadership headed by North Korean leader Kim Jong-il's brother-in-law is in the making in Pyongyang, the Yomiuri Shimbun claimed Wednesday. ...
South Korea ex-leader tells North to stop Lee attacks
Reuters - USA
More recently, it has been incensed by leaflets being sent across the border that criticised Pyongyang and questioned the legitimacy of leader Kim Jong-il. .
North Korea leader picks 3rd son as heir - media
Reuters - USA
By Jack Kim SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korean leader Kim Jong-il, thought to be recovering from serious illness, has picked his third and youngest known son to ...
13. January, 2009
The Fruits of Dictatorship
Daily NK - Seoul,South Korea
He also presented an evaluation, "If we analyze the Kim Jong Il regime activities under the slogan of 'Uriminjokkiri (Amongst our People),' then the ...
Abductee Detained in China After Fleeing N. Korea
코리아타임즈 - South Korea
18 that North Korean police arrested two spies, identified as a Ri and Hwang, who were allegedly dispatched to assassinate North Korean leader Kim Jong-il. ...
Nuclear Disarmament Would Follow US Diplomatic Ties, North Korea Says
Global Security Newswire - Washington,DC,USA
Meanwhile, the London Sunday Times reported that North Korean leader Kim Jong Il has temporarily ceded power to his brother-in-law. Kim is believed to have ...
US not inviting N. Korean delegation to Obama`s inauguration ...
Thai News Agency MCOT - Bangkok,Thailand
Reports indicate North Koran leader Kim Jong-il anticipates the inauguration of the new Democratic president, much as he did that of Democratic President ...
12. January, 2009
Reports: NKorea wants to send envoy to Washington
The Associated Press
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea wants to send its chief nuclear envoy to President-elect Barack Obama's inauguration, reports said Monday. ...
2ND LD: Aso, Lee to tie up on economic, N. Korean issues, setting ...
TMCnet - USA
"The leaders of Japan and South Korea have never met so frequently and deepened cooperation on such a wide range of areas," Aso said. On North Korea's ...
Top North official said to be getting re-educated
중앙데일리 - South Korea
... the public in 2007, when he escorted then-President Roh Moo-hyun throughout his visit to Pyongyang for a summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong-il. ...
NKorean arms exports rose to 100 million dlrs last year: report
AFP
It quoted an unidentified Seoul government official as saying progress in six-party nuclear disarmament talks last year helped North Korea sell more weapons ...
"Utopian Daehongdan" Leaves C..
Daily NK - Seoul,South Korea
This special program was produced to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the presentation of Kim Jong Il¡¯s treatise, ¡°Regarding the rise of a revolution ...
Reports: NKorea Wants to Send Envoy to Washington
ABC News - USA
North Korean leader Kim Jong Il listens to Russian President Vladimir Putin during their meeting in... Pyongyang's proposal to send Vice Foreign Minister ...
A nuclear threat is exposed
Asia Times Online - Kowloon,Hong Kong
"Kim Jong-il has crossed all the red lines pretty much with impunity," he remarked in response to a question by this writer at a briefing at Georgetown ...
11. January, 2009
N. Korea Opens Mission in Chinese Border City
코리아타임즈 - South Korea
North Korea has opened a consulate branch office in Dandong, a major Chinese city bordering North Korea, displaying its intention to reinforce bilateral ...
News in brief
Chicago Tribune - United States
TOURISM AND KIM JONG IL: The childhood home of the boy who grew up to become leader of North Korea is now a tourist site in South Korea. ...
Stand-in N Korean leader intensifies brutal state rule
The Australian - Sydney,Australia
THE hardline head of internal security who is running North Korea while Kim Jong-il recovers from a suspected stroke is taking the opportunity to crush any ...
Obama's Options on N. Korea
코리아타임즈 - South Korea
On the other hand, many progressive thinkers wishfully expect Obama to increase direct talks with the North Koreans, leading to an Obama-Kim Jong-il meeting ...
Kim Jong-il’s stand-in outdoes master
Times Online - UK
THE brother-in-law of Kim Jong-il has taken over the running of North Korea, stamping on dissent while the dictator recovers from a stroke. ...
10. January, 2009
KOREA: The Succession Struggle
Strategy Page - USA
South Koreans also avoid dwelling on the death camps up north because North Korea reacts strongly to any criticism. For the last decade, South Koreans have ...
Senior Chinese Diplomat Arrives in N. Korea
코리아타임즈 - South Korea
With the Chinese-hosted multilateral talks aimed at denuclearizing North Korea remaining stalled, a Chinese delegation led by a senior diplomat arrived in ...
Hill Declined to Serve as Special Envoy to North Korea
코리아타임즈 - South Korea
... has declined the new Obama administration’s offer for him to serve as the newly-minted position as a special envoy to North Korea, Yonhap News ...
[Viewpoint]Making sense of the North
중앙데일리 - South Korea
North Korea’s Defense Commission Chairman Kim Jong-il chose to visit a military base on his first public appearance of 2009, something he has not done since ..
09. January, 2009
Growing Audiences for Foreign Programs
Radio Free Asia - Washington,DC,USA
"According to North Korean defectors interviewed who came to South Korea right after living in the North, educated, intelligent people in North Korea do ...
S.Korea to send rice to North
Straits Times - Singapore
The unification ministry, which handles cross-border ties, said it would allow the Korea Peasants League to ship 162 tonnes of rice to North Korea this week ...
North Korea eyes post-Kim era with elections
eTaiwan News - Taiwan
Kim Jong-Il may try to have a shake-up in personnel and institutional systems," he said. Elections for the rubber-stamp parliament did not take place in ...
North Korea: Election Date, and Outcome, Are Set
New York Times - United States
... elect new members to its rubber-stamp legislature on March 8, a move delayed for several months amid speculation about the leader Kim Jong-il’s health. ..
Focus on Jang Sung Taek, Charismatic Jang Sung Taek – Part II.
Daily NK - Seoul,South Korea
63 this year, Jang is four years younger than Kim Jong Il. Belonging to a similar generation, he is known to possess a charismatic personality, ...
08. January, 2009
N. Korea tightens ban on S. Korean mobile phones, GPS receivers
TMC Net - Norwalk,CT,USA
North Korea has tightened monitoring of the use of mobile phones and car GPS receivers by South Koreans in a joint industrial complex in its border town, ...
Farmers call for resuming food aid to NKorea
International Herald Tribune - France
AP SEOUL, South Korea: South Korean farmers urged their government Thursday to resume regular food aid to North Korea as they prepared to send their own ...
A Task Force Team for Policy on North Korea Will Be Set Up
데일리NK - 서울,South Korea
As a source inside the South Korean administration reported on Wednesday, the MoU task force will comprehensively examine policies towards North Korea which ...
Pop culture from Seoul makes inroads in North
중앙데일리 - South Korea
Many political observers here interpreted that as a bitter critique of the Lee Myung-bak administration’s North Korea policy. South Korean culture is even ...
:. South-North Korea Conflict: Recent Trends
Kashmir Watch - Islamabad,Pakistan
The latest escalation in tension between North and South Koreas comes amid speculation that North Korea's leader Kim Jong-il may have suffered from a ...
S Korea Groups To Send Leaflets With N Korean Bills
EasyBourse.com - Paris,France
... especially after they touched on the reported health problems of North Korean leader Kim Jong Il, who is believed to have suffered a stroke last summer. ...
Focus on Jang Sung Taek, Second-in-Command – Part I.
Daily NK - Seoul,South Korea
By Yang Jung A This year, the eyes and ears of international society are expected to be focused on Kim Jong Il's ailing health and North Korea's political ...
07. January, 2009
S. Korean farmers send rice to N. Korea amid frozen relations
Philippines News Agency - Philippines
7 (PNA/Yonhap) -- A group of South Korean farmers will send 175 tons of rice to North Korea on Wednesday, continuing non-governmental humanitarian aid amid ...
N.Korea ups phone control
Straits Times - Singapore
SEOUL - NORTH Korea has tightened controls on mobile phones at a South Korean-funded industrial estate amid worsening cross-border ties, officials said on ...
N Korea announces March election
BBC News - UK
North Korea has announced it will be holding elections to its rubber-stamp parliament in March - the first in six years. Only one candidate, chosen by ...
Senior N.Korean Official Lambastes Pyongyang
조선일보(영문판) - South Korea
He said in New Year's statement the Kim Jong-il regime "calls for building a powerful and prosperous nation by 2012, but there is no single paragraph that ...
North Korea says to elect MPs in government shake-up
Reuters - USA
However, analysts cautioned against reading too much into the leadership changes, saying Kim Jong-il and his inner circle hold the real power while ...
NKorea eyes post-Kim era with elections, cabinet reshuffle
ABS CBN News - Philippines
"The SPA is supposed to endorse a new line-up in the National Defence Commission, headed by Kim Jong-Il, as well." Kim Jong-Il is said to have three sons in ...
06. January, 2009
[Viewpoint]Wising up to Pyongyang’s promises
중앙데일리 - South Korea
Barack Obama will give Kim Jong-il a headache. Pushing human rights will be more effective than Bush’s hard-line military stance. ...
NKorea mobilizes 100000 for new year rally
Town Hall - Washington,DC,USA
The government mobilized 100000 North Koreans for the annual New Year's rally, which honors leader Kim Jong Il and reaffirms full public support for his ...
The Unpopularity of Jang Sung..
Daily NK - Seoul,South Korea
The source remarked that, with Kim Jong Il's support, Jang has risen to the forefront of power, but due to his forceful backing of all kinds of inspections ...
North Koreans Rally in Pyongyang Supporting Army
Bloomberg - USA
It didn’t say whether leader Kim Jong Il attended. Kim Jong Il’s absence from Sept. 9 celebrations marking the 60th anniversary of the nation’s founding ...
North Korea shaking up cabinet, says South
Reuters India - Mumbai,India
Government officials have said leader Kim Jong-il is still firmly in charge even though questions of succession were raised after his suspected stroke in ...
05. January, 2009
North Korea Picks Head of South Korea Office, JoongAng Reports
Bloomberg - USA
5 (Bloomberg) -- North Korea appointed Yu Yong Sun, a Buddhist leader, to head its office on South Korean affairs, Seoul-based JoongAng Ilbo newspaper ...
North Koreans face work-harder campaigns
United Press International, Asia - Hong Kong,USA
By Lee Jong-Heon Seoul, South Korea — North Korea has vowed to focus its national efforts to rebuild its devastated economy, but indicated it would resort ...
Thousands rally in NKorea in support of military
The Associated Press
North Korea denies it, but Kim has not made a live public appearance that would confirm Pyongyang's claims. North Korea's three main state-run publications ...
NKorea sacks top SKorea policy makers: report
AFP
SEOUL (AFP) — North Korea has sacked two top officials, including a once key aide to leader Kim Jong-Il, blaming them for worsening cross-border ties with ..
N.Korea Reshuffles Economic Posts
조선일보(영문판) - South Korea
A researcher at the Korea Institute of National Unification said North Korea "is going to take various steps in a bid to prevent Kim Jong-il's authority ...
04. January, 2009
Kim Jong-il Makes First Public Appearance in 2009
코리아타임즈 - South Korea
Amid continued speculation on the health of North Korean leader Kim Jong-il, the Stalinist country’s state-run media Friday said Kim made an inspection on ..
Kim Jong-il's women banned from planning succession
Telegraph.co.uk - United Kingdom
Kim Jong-il, North Korea's reclusive leader, has declared discussion of his succession off limits for three years, despite reports that the women in his ...
Kim visits, MPs fight in Koreas' new year
Shanghai Daily - Shanghai,China
KIM Jong Il, leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, paid a New Year's visit to soldiers from a leading tank unit in his first reported public ...
03. January, 2009
N.Korea Calls for Uprising in the South
조선일보(영문판) - South Korea
It is unusual for the annual New Year's editorial, which usually sums up the policies of leader Kim Jong-il, to call for an uprising in the South. ...
Report: Kim Jong Il wishes troops happy new year
The Associated Press
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korean leader Kim Jong Il paid a new year's visit to soldiers from a leading tank unit in his first reported public ...
[BOOKS in brief]Forced homecoming to North Korea
중앙데일리 - South Korea
The “it” here refers to the incident when about 93340 Korean residents in Japan moved to North Korea from 1959 to 1984. Though it was a long-term business ...
NKorea resumes anti-US rhetoric
AFP
SEOUL (AFP) — North Korea Friday resumed its criticism of the United States, a day after dropping its customary harsh words from a policy-setting New Year ...
Lee Myung-bak responds to harsh criticism from North in New Year’s ...
한겨레 - South Korea
The New Year has begun with an intensification of the war of nerves between South and North Korea. In a joint editorial summarizing North Korea’s policy ...
S Korea seeks UN help over talks
The Press Association
South Korean President Lee Myung-bak has asked the UN chief to help improve strained relations with North Korea. Mr Lee's spokesman Lee Dong-kwan said that ...
02. January, 2009
Joint New Year Editorial Issued published by the North Korean News Agency
N. Korean Urges Nuke Dialogue With Obama Gov`t
동아일보 - South Korea
2012 will mark the 100th anniversary of the birth of the country’s founder Kim Il Sung and the 70th birthday of Kim Jong Il
[Analysis] The N. Korean-US relation in the new year
한겨레 - South Korea
... “could be high-level dialogue to talk about getting things moving” but that “the possibility is decreasing a lot because of Kim Jong-il’s ill-health. ...
Government seizes rebels’ key junction
Atlanta Journal Constitution - GA, USA
North Korea ushered in 2009 with an appeal to unite around leader Kim Jong Il and bolster the country’s military while reaffirming its commitment to ...
N. Korea to hold elections next year for post-Kim era
Tehran Times - Iran
SEOUL (AFP) – North Korea will use parliamentary elections in 2009 to lay the groundwork for the post Kim Jong-Il era, by promoting younger economic experts ...
Myanmar releases North Korean defectors
CNN International - USA
(CNN) -- Nineteen North Korean defectors have been released from detention in Myanmar and sent to Thailand, Burmese officials told the US-funded Voice of ...
UPI NewsTrack TopNews
United Press International - USA
1 (UPI) -- North Korea said Thursday it will denuclearize in the coming year and rebuild its ailing economy. The statement was seen as a possible bid for a ...
China and North Korea in new diplomatic dance
중앙데일리 - South Korea
North Korea and China are showing growing signs of cementing stronger political ties this year in what many experts here said is an effort to secure a ...
North Korea: Joint New Year 2009 Editorial Issued
ISRIA (subscription) - Washington,DC,USA
Hope-filled New Year Juche 98 (2009) that will mark a turning point in the Korean revolution and the building of a great, prosperous and powerful nation has ...
01. January, 2009
North Korea issues New Year denuclearization pledge
Reuters - USA
By Jon Herskovitz SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea greeted the New Year by repeating its pledge to rid the peninsula of nuclear weapons and hinting it could ...
N. Korea Vows to Rebuild Economy in New Year Message
코리아타임즈 - South Korea
North Korea said Thursday that it will rebuild its ailing economy and aim for denuclearization in the New Year, in an apparent signal of its willingness to ...
North Korea adopts conciliatory attitude toward Obama
Birmingham Star - Birmingham,AL,USA
... may come true,with Obama administrations. President Obama visit to north korea, and vice versa,will do wonders for north korea to become good friends.
Burma frees North Korean refugees
BBC News - UK
Refugee supporters had feared the Burmese government might have sent the refugees back to North Korea. But the group - which includes 15 women and a ...
Why Does Kim Jong-il Promise Great Things for 2012?
조선일보(영문판) - South Korea
North Korean leader Kim Jong-il has been quoted as saying it was "the firm intention of the party and the people to open the gates on a powerful country by ...
North Korea issues New Year denuclearisation pledge
Reuters - USA
The editorials offered their typical glowing praise of leader Kim Jong-il and his "songun" policy of putting the military first. ...
North Korea to strengthen military in 2009
Monsters and Critics.com - USA
The Stalinist state emphasized its 'military first' doctrine issued by North Korean leader Kim Jong Il in 2008. 'We should continue to put utmost efforts ...
DPRK leader hopes for better ties with Cuba
Xinhua - China
... and peoples of the two countries will steadily develop," said Kim Jong Il and Kim Yong Nam, top legislator, in the message, quoted by the official KCNA. ...
NKorea declares new campaign to rebuild moribund economy
AFP
It also highlighted comments by his son and current ruler Kim Jong-Il during an inspection of the Chollima complex on December 24. ..
China, NKorea launch 'year of friendship'
International Herald Tribune - France
In October, the North's leader Kim Jong Il sent a message of greeting to the Beijing leadership on China's national day. On Thursday, leaders of the two ...
31.Dec 2008
Charities send food, fuel to North Korea
United Press International - USA
30 (UPI) -- Two South Korean charities say they've shipped food and fuel to impoverished North Korean families suffering in the cold. ..
Status of Food Aid Deliveries to North Korea (Taken Question)
US Department of State - Washington,DC,USA
Question: Will you please provide an update on the deliveries of food aid to North Korea? Answer: To date, over 143000 metric tons of US food (wheat, corn, ...
Judgment Is Issued in North Korea Suit
New York Times - United States
The judge, Henry H. Kennedy Jr. of Federal District Court, issued the judgment against North Korea on Tuesday. North Korea did not respond to the lawsuit, ...
US Says Food Aid Shipment to North Korea to Arrive This Week
Bloomberg - USA
31 (Bloomberg) -- The US said its latest batch of food aid to North Korea is expected to arrive this week, as State Department officials continue talks with ...
4 North Koreans defect to the South
International Herald Tribune - France
Escapes from North Korea through the heavily guarded land and sea borders between the two Koreas are uncommon. More than 14000 people from the ...
`N. Korea to Prepare for Post-Kim Jong Il System Next Year`
동아일보 - South Korea
... preparing for an era without its supreme leader Kim Jong Il. The forecast was made yesterday by the Institute for National Security Strategy, ..
North Korea Steps Up Reports of Alleged Kim Jong-il Outings
CNSNews.com - Alexandria,VA,USA
(AP Photo) (CNSNews.com) – Amid continuing speculation that Kim Jong-il is gravely ill – or even dead – North Korean state media have stepped up reports ...
2008 Top Ten Issues in North Korean People's Lives
Daily NK - Seoul,South Korea
Kim Jong Il＊s brother-in-law, Jang Sung Taek (62 years old) returned to the position of First Vice Director of the Guidance Department of the Party, ...
30.Dec 2008
Report: NKorea's Kim cheered at concert appearance
The Associated Press
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Kim Jong Il attended a concert by North Korea's state orchestra, state media said Monday, the latest official report to portray ...
Asia preview of the year 2009
Telegraph.co.uk - United Kingdom
By Richard Spencer in Beijing Kim Jong-Il: Will he see in 2010? Photo: REUTERS Books with titles like "The Coming Collapse of China" (2002 - since when ...
Chinese coal miner taps into North Korea
China Knowledge Online - Singapore
Auxiliary facilities, such as power plant and coal-selecting plant, are also expected to be jointly constructed by the two companies. North Korea is rich in ...
SKorean Buddhists send aid to NKorean mothers, children
AFP
SEOUL (AFP) — A South Korean Buddhist group said Tuesday it has shipped a fresh consignment of food aid for mothers and children in impoverished North Korea ...
Cash Offer for N. Korea to Return Abductees, POWs
코리아타임즈 - South Korea
By Kim Sue-young The Ministry of Unification is considering the offer of cash or commodities to North Korea in exchange for the repatriation of South Korean ...
North Korea threatens Japan over aid loss
英文中國郵報 - 台北市,台灣省,Taiwan
TOKYO -- North Korea threatened to stop taking apart its nuclear plant that makes bomb-grade plutonium unless Japan provides it with energy aid as part of ..
29.Dec 2008
N.Korea official warns Japan on fuel aid-Kyodo
Reuters - USA
TOKYO, Dec 29 (Reuters) - North Korea will stop disabling its nuclear facilities unless Japan provides fuel aid, a North Korean official involved in six-way ...
NKorea's Kim in firm control of country: SKorea official
AFP
SEOUL (AFP) — North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il is back in firm control of his country, South Korea's unification minister said Monday, following reports that ...
North Korea's Kim appears at large public event
Reuters South Africa - Johannesburg,South Africa
SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korean leader Kim Jong-il made his first appearance at a mass public event since his suspected stroke in August when he attended a ...
NKorea's Kim attends concert
AFP
SEOUL (AFP) — North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il has attended a concert by the State Symphony Orchestra, state media said early Monday, in the latest reported ...
Kim home is now tourist site
Pittsburgh Post Gazette - Pittsburgh,PA,USA
AP Ahn Young-joon/AP A childhood picture of Kim Jong Il, second from left, along with childhood friends and a Soviet playmate is displayed on a wall outside ...
27.Dec 2008
DPRK official: Relations with China to reach higher level in 2009
Xinhua - China
Top DPRK leader Kim Jong Il attaches great importance to his country's relationship with China, said Yang Hyong Sop, vice-president of the Presidium of the ...
Mr Kim urged Korea to be a powerful nation by self reliance
SteelGuru - Gurgaon,Haryana,India
Xinhua reported that Mr Kim Jong Il leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea has called for building a great prosperous powerful nation by giving ...
The Potemkin Village of Daehongdan
Daily NK - Seoul,South Korea
Publicizing Kim Jong Il¡¯s treatise about potato farming, the North Korean authorities issued a special instruction that one thousand discharged soldiers be ...
26.Dec 2008
Kim Jong-il appears in public for inspections of state institutions
한겨레 - South Korea
North Korean leader Kim Jong-il conducted an inspection of the Chollima Steel Complex in South Pyeongan Province, North Korea’s Korean Central Television ..
Propaganda Fliers to N.Korea to Resume in January
조선일보(영문판) - South Korea
Activists on Thursday vowed to start sending anti-communist leaflets to North Korea again in January. Family Assembly Abducted to North Korea and Fighters ...
N. Korea cautions against foreign investment
Philippines News Agency - Philippines
26 (PNA/Yonhap) -- North Korea believes the global economic crisis has left lessons to be learned, including the danger of foreign investment, according to ..
Significant Changes in North Korean Inner Circles
Daily NK - Seoul,South Korea
A source within the South Korean administration said on Christmas Day that while the possibility of North Korea having to face up to the absence of Kim Jong ...
A Faustian failure
International Herald Tribune - France
Despite America's best efforts, North Korea has proven itself most capable at stalling and swindling. The US State Department calculated that accusations ..
24.Dec.2008
North Korea to Get 21000 Tons of Food Aid From US This Month
Bloomberg - USA
24 (Bloomberg) -- North Korea will receive 21000 metric tons of US food aid this month as part of an assistance agreement, the State Department said. ...
US to Ship 6th Batch of Food Aid to N. Korea
코리아타임즈 - South Korea
By Kim Sue-young North Korea will receive its sixth batch of food aid from the United States at the end of this month, the US Department of State said ..
Memoir: Born and raised inside a North Korean concentration camp
Diplomatic Traffic - Washington,DC,USA
16 [North Korean leader Kim Jong Il's birthday], and April 15 [birthday of North Korea's late founder, Kim Il Sung]. To be allowed to get married, ...
North Korea's Capture of USS 'Pueblo' Still a Wound for Its Crew
Voice of America - USA
"General Kim Jong Il instructed to state, the US government should take responsibility and apologize. Then we will return the prisoners, but we cannot ..
NKorea says South seeking war, threatens "sea of fire"
AFP
He was speaking at a ceremony marking the 17th anniversary of leader Kim Jong-Il's takeover as armed forces' supreme commander. The language was similar to ...
Shadow boxing with North Korea
Asia Times Online - Kowloon,Hong Kong
The standoff appears to have been heightened by the apparent illness of North Korea's leader, Kim Jong-il, picked by his father to formulate policy and lead ...
Building a peace regime on Korean Peninsula
Korea Herald - Seoul,South Korea
At the end of the "Arduous March," North Korea's fresh start under Kim Jong-il came in 1998. In the mid-1980s North Korea's nuclear development was well ...
North Korea's Kim Reportedly Busier Despite Stroke Report
EasyBourse.com - Paris,France
SEOUL (AFP)--North Korean leader Kim Jong Il made more public appearances this year than in 2007 despite apparently suffering a stroke in late summer, ...
23.Dec.2008
North Korea Expects Negative Growth Next Year
Daily NK - Seoul,South Korea
The report anticipated, in economic policy, North Korea will continue to make efforts to increase the productivity of agriculture and light industry in ...
N Korea May Return POWs For Economic Gains
RTT News - Williamsville,NY,USA
(RTTNews) - North Korea has conveyed to South Korea that it was willing to return some of that country's prisoners of war and civilian abductees in exchange ...
North Korea clutching 30kgs. of plutonium
Examiner.com - USA
by Aimee Kligman, NY Foreign Policy Examiner There is a stall in the progress of nuclear disarmament with North Korea. Ever since the world community (US,
NKorean general threatens SKorea amid tensions
The Associated Press
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea's defense minister accused the United States and South Korea on Tuesday of plotting war on the Korean peninsula and ...
22.Dec.2008
What is Jagang Province Spirit?
Daily NK - Seoul,South Korea
By Yang Jung A So, we must ask, why did Kim Jong Il pick Jagang Province? The topography of Jagang Province is extremely inhospitable, and therefore ...
North Korean Revolutionary Me..
Daily NK - Seoul,South Korea
The competition was held to stabilize the volatile state of affairs, spurred by rumors of Kim Jong Il's illness, issues of food shortages, ...
Turbulent times could let North Korea play both sides
Mainichi Daily News - Japan
Ultimately, there has been no conclusive evidence on whether or not North Korean leader Kim Jong Il is still alive. It was in the midst of this strange ...
Kim Jong-il recovers and in control of the nation
AsiaNews.it - Italy
Seoul (AsiaNews/Agencies) – Over the past five days the North Korean leader Kim Jong-il has paid visits to factories and military bases in the north west of ...
21.Dec.2008
Inter-Korean trade declines for second month
MSNBC - USA
North Korea has curtailed government-level exchanges and dialogue in response. After a series of threats, the North ordered from Dec. ...
Leaflets rain down on North Korea
Cambodia News - Cambodia
A group of North Korean defectors, now in the south, have dropped more than one million anti-Pyongyang propaganda leaflets over the border. ..
N. Korea claims Kim Jong Il slay plot
Times of the Internet - North Olmsted,Ohio,USA
North Korea says it has arrested an agent it claims was sent by South Korea to assassinate its reclusive leader, Kim Jong Il. Pyongyang says the man, ...
Out in public 6 straight days
Straits Times - Singapore
SEOUL - RECLUSIVE North Korean leader Kim Jong Il has been out in public for six consecutive days, state media reported on Sunday, in an apparent attempt to ..
Activists send more propaganda leaflets to NKorea
International Herald Tribune - France
The leaflets criticized North Korean leader Kim Jong Il's authoritarian rule and luxurious lifestyle while his 23 million people were on the brink of ...
North Korea Reports Kim Jong Il’s Activities for Fifth Day
Bloomberg - USA
21 (Bloomberg) -- North Korean leader Kim Jong Il, who may have suffered a stroke in August, toured a ceramics factory, the communist nation’s official ...
North Korean refugees may face trial in Myanmar
International Herald Tribune - France
But that was before Myanmar and North Korea restored ties," a Foreign Ministry official said. "It is a political issue. If North Korea does not intervene, ...
11.Dec.2008
Chinese war museum casts US in harsh light
San Francisco Chronicle - CA, USA
Hundreds of historical photographs and exhibits present a pro-Beijing side of a conflict that saw Chinese forces rush to the aid of North Korea ...
Reinsurers pay North Korea claim, drop fraud case
Reuters - USA
The reinsurers had refused to pay despite a North-Korean court order. They had their primary defence struck out by the High Court in August 2007, ...
US may put North Korea back on terror list
NDTV.com - New Delhi,India
The US is not ruling out possibilities of putting back North Korea on the list of states sponsoring terrorism, a senior official has said. ..
Beijing. Nuke talks end without deal ANN Newsletter
10.Dec.2008
Escapee Tells of Horrors in North Korean Prison Camp
Washington Post - United States
"It is just a matter of time before Kim Jong Il thinks of this," Shin said in an interview. "I hope that the United States, through pressure and persuasion, ...
09.Dec.2008
Korean Leaflet War Escalates
自由亞洲電臺 - Washington DC,USA
"The two characteristics of the North Korean regime are its isolation and its Dear Leader Kim Jong Il's personality cult. The leaflets are the only ...
Famine fears crop up again in North Korea
National Post - Toronto,Ontario,Canada
Reuters/KCNAUncertainty about the health of North Korean leader Kim Jong Il and fears of famine are worrying observers of the reclusive state. ...
08.Dec.2008
Aid to N.Korea 'Depends on Nuclear Verification'
조선일보(영문판) - South Korea
South Korea says economic and energy aid to North Korea is linked to reaching an agreement on a verification protocol. Seoul's top nuclear negotiator Kim ...
Six Nations Draft North Korea Nuclear Accord
RTT News - Williamsville,NY,USA
The meet is also expected to discuss the delivery of compensation aid to North Korea in exchange for deactivating the Yongbyon nuclear reactor and, ...
Dispute Stalls US Food Aid To N. Korea
Washington Post - United States
8 -- A much-heralded US program to restart food aid to North Korea has run into difficulty as Washington and Pyongyang haggle over the terms of access, ...
Defector reaches out to North Koreans by balloon
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
He calls his messages "a peaceful war against Kim Jong Il." Lee Min-bok sends fliers drifting across the border in hopes of enlightening his former ...
6.Dec.2008
North Korea: A Prisoner of Its Own History
OhmyNews International - South Korea
However, to reject this economic theory means to admit the failure of Juche ideology and the regime created by Kim Il-sung and Kim Jong-il. ...
Radio Free North Korea
동아일보 - South Korea
... North Korean defectors and anti-North Korea activists struggling to let the North Korean people know about their leader Kim Jong Il’s totalitarianism. ...
Jang Sung Taek Does Not Have Power over Military
Daily NK - Seoul,South Korea
Therefore, he predicts that, ※They may keep their current rights by having Jong Choel or Jong Woon, the second and third sons of Kim Jong Il, ...
Kim Jong Il Grows Sicker, US Prepares for Death, Yomiuri Says
Bloomberg - USA
5 (Bloomberg) -- North Korean leader Kim Jong Il's health is worse than initially thought, Japan's Yomiuri newspaper reported today, citing a US source it ...
S. Korean Group Agrees to Halt Leaflet Launches to North
Voice of America - USA
By Kurt Achin The private group mainly responsible for launching anti-Kim Jong Il leaflets by balloon into North Korea says it will stop the launches for ...
A change of wind over North Korea
Asia Times Online - Kowloon,Hong Kong
"They are quite upset about the leaflets, which said Kim Jong-il is living like an emperor when most people are starving." The South-North confrontation ...
Idolization Ever Increasing
Daily NK - Seoul,South Korea
By Park Hyun Min The North Korean authorities have been expanding the construction of facilities that laud and idolize Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il ...
North Korea says to ignore Japan at nuclear talks
Reuters - USA
By Jon Herskovitz SEOUL, Dec 6 (Reuters) - North Korea said on Saturday it would not recognise Japan at international nuclear talks starting next week, ...
No easy way out of North Korea
중앙데일리 - South Korea
A North Korean woman dressed in a cheap pink jacket is trying to force her way past two burly Chinese security guards. One is grabbing the refugee tightly ...
In this museum, US is the bad guy in Korean War
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
A Chinese tourist points to wreckage on the so-called Broken Bridge in Dandong, China, which is across the Yalu River from North Korea. ...
5.Dec.2008
S. Korean School Isolates North Koreans to Better Integrate Them
Voice of America - USA
None of the students attending classes here were born in South Korea All of them fled - at one point or another - from North Korea. ..
Bangladesh, N Korea most hit by disasters in 2007
AFP
POZNAN, Poland (AFP) — Bangladesh, North Korea and Nicaragua suffered most from natural disasters in 2007, according to a barometer published on Thursday at ...
Seoul repatriates workers from North Korea
Spero News - USA
By Asia News South Korea today completed the operation of repatriating hundreds of its citizens from North Korea, following the refusal to renew their work ...
3.Dec.2008
N.Korean Army in Propaganda Leaflet Sweep
조선일보(영문판) - South Korea
North Korea has mobilized soldiers in a campaign to sweep up propaganda leaflets from South Korean activists, which are dropped in large quantities on the ...
Activists Clash Over Anti-N. Korea Flyers
동아일보 - South Korea
Rival activists yesterday scuffled over sending anti-North Korea leaflets over the border into North Korea. The South Korean government has urged a stop to ...
North Korean teen defectors get capitalist education
Reuters - USA
The children at Hangyoreh mostly come from the poorest parts of impoverished North Korea. Most live in South Korea without one or both of their parents, ...
S.Korea on guard
AsiaOne - Singapore
SEOUL - SOUTH Korea is on guard against any military provocation by North Korea after the communist state ordered a border clampdown amid worsening ties, ...
Unknown Kim Jong Il Son Emerges
Post Chronicle - USA
by Staff A previously unknown third son of North Korean leader Kim Jong Il has emerged as a contender for power in Pyongyang, an analyst says. ...
Why the Messages to North Korea Must Continue
조선일보(영문판) - South Korea
Today, it is perhaps more important than ever that these launches continue because of the declining health of Kim Jong-il and the uncertainty clouding his ...
2.Dec.2008
Report: NKorean leader visits Pyongyang zoo
The Associated Press
Kim, 66, is believed to have suffered a stroke in August, but North Korea has steadfastly denied he was ever ill. On Monday, state-run television released ...
North slashes number allowed into Kaesong
중앙데일리 - South Korea
Analysts also said speculation over the health condition of the North’s leader, Kim Jong-il, still plays an important role in determining the country’s ...
1. Dec. 2008