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By , on May 19th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> In a gigantic stadium, an audience of 150,000 enjoys a 120-minute spectacle, with tickets costing as much as €300 (HK$3,000). The show itself, boiled down from 250-million man hours of gymnastic effort, features spectacular scenes of seamlessly choreographed human mosaics followed by a grand fireworks display as the finale. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 19th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> North Korea on Sunday test-fired a short-range missile off its east coast, its fourth in two days, despite pleas from South Korea and the UN chief to halt the launches at a time of high tensions. The guided missile was fired into the East Sea (Sea of Japan) on Sunday afternoon, a defence ministry spokesman said without elaborating. On Saturday the North fired three short-range missiles off its east coast, apparently as part of a military drill. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 17th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> In the wake of its apparent aversion to virgins – as expressed in its recent article “Never Sleep With a Virgin”, China’s nationalist newspaper, the Global Times, seems enthusiastic about lesbians – at least when former US secretary Hillary Clinton is suspected of being one. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 15th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The organisation that represents North Korean residents of Japan accused the Japanese government of blocking the sale of its headquarters in Tokyo to a priest who wanted to permit the Chongryon group to remain in the building. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 13th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> North Korea has replaced its hard-line defence chief with a little-known army general a state media report said yesterday. Analysts called Jang Jong-nam’s appointment an attempt to install a younger figure to help solidify Kim Jong-un’s grip on the military. Kim succeeded his late father, Kim Jong-il, in 2011. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 10th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The US Treasury yesterday set sanctions on a Taiwan company and its chief executive for their ties to an effort to supply arms-related equipment to North Korea. The Treasury named Trans Multi Mechanics of Taichung, Taiwan, and chief executive Tony Chang Wen-Fu as having sanctions imposed under laws aimed at freezing the assets of those designated “proliferators of weapons of mass destruction” and their supporters. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 8th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Basketball hall-of-famer Dennis Rodman, who forged an unlikely friendship with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un on a recent trip, has appealed for the freedom of an American sentenced to 15 years in prison. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 8th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The leaders of the United States and South Korea vowed no concessions to North Korea after months of high tension, saying it is up to Pyongyang to end the crisis over its nuclear programme. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 8th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The United States and South Korea vowed on Tuesday to keep up their guard and not reward bad behaviour by North Korea, which US President Barack Obama said had won no benefits or prestige from recent war threats. “If Pyongyang thought its recent threats would drive a wedge between South Korea and the United States or somehow garner the North international respect, today is further evidence that North Korea has failed again,” Obama said at a joint news conference with South Korean President Park Geun-hye. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 7th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Bank of China has shut the account of North Korea’s main foreign exchange bank, which was hit with US sanctions in March after Washington accused it of helping finance Pyongyang’s nuclear weapons programme. The state-run Foreign Trade Bank had been told its transactions had been halted and its account closed, Bank of China, the country’s biggest foreign exchange bank, said in a brief statement on Tuesday. It gave no reason for the closure and the bank declined to comment further. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By By DAVID E. SANGER and CHOE SANG-HUN, on May 7th, 2013 At a time when the United States has learned to target drone strikes with increasing accuracy and direct cyberweapons at specific nuclear centrifuges, its understanding of North Korea has gotten worse.
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By , on May 6th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> South Korea on Monday dismissed an “incomprehensible” list of North Korean demands for reviving suspended operations at a jointly-run industrial park. The Kaesong Industrial Complex, opened north of the border in 2004 as a rare symbol of co-operation, has been shut indefinitely with the withdrawal of all North and South Korean workers amid soaring military tensions. On Sunday, the North’s National Defence Commission led by leader Kim Jong-un said re-starting the complex would require the South to cease all “hostile acts and military provocations”. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By By CHOE SANG-HUN, on May 2nd, 2013 Kenneth Bae, who ran a tour business out of China and was arrested in November, was convicted of committing hostile acts against the government.
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By , on May 2nd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> North Korea has sentenced a US citizen to 15 years of prison labour for “hostile acts” against the communist regime, the North’s official Korean Central News Agency said on Thursday. Pae Jun-ho, known in the United States as Kenneth Bae, was arrested in November as he entered the northeastern port city of Rason. “The Supreme Court sentenced him to 15 years of compulsory labour for this crime,” KCNA said. Pyongyang has not specified the basis of the crimes allegedly committed by Bae, who is believed to be a Korean-American tour operator. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 1st, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> China has stepped up checks on shipments to and from North Korea almost two months after agreeing to new UN sanctions that demand greater scrutiny of trade, but the flow of goods in and out of the reclusive state appears largely unaffected. The sanctions were imposed after North Korea’s third nuclear test on February 12. China has said it wants the measures enforced, but few analysts believe Beijing will take steps that hurt North Korea as it is committed to a policy of engagement. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on April 30th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Park Hee-sung, a 78-year-old former North Korean agent who has been held in the enemy South for close to half a century, remains staunchly loyal to his homeland, the ruling Kim family and its juche ideology of economic self-reliance. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
Continue reading In South Korea, aged North Korean soldiers still believe in Kim dynasty
By , on April 30th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The United States and South Korea on Tuesday wrapped up military drills at the centre of soaring tensions with North Korea, as Pyongyang ignored a new overture over a flagship joint industrial zone. The two-month-long “Foal Eagle” air, ground and naval field training exercise – which involved more than 10,000 US troops along with a far higher number of South Korean personnel – had infuriated Pyongyang. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on April 29th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> South Korea was due on Monday to pull out its last remaining workers from a factory zone in North Korea – a rare symbol of cross-border cooperation now crippled by the stand-off on the Korean peninsula. The move raises the prospect of the permanent closure of the Kaesong complex, the last point of contact between the two Koreas and a key source of income for Kim Jong-un’s isolated regime. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on April 28th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Preparations are under way near the North’s western port of Nampo for a combined live-fire drill involving artillery units and air force jets, the South’s Yonhap news agency said, citing a Seoul government source. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on April 27th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> North Korea said on Saturday that it would put a US citizen on trial for trying to overthrow the communist regime, in the face of soaring tensions between Pyongyang and the West. The North’s official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) said US citizen Pae Jun-ho had admitted to the charges and would soon face “judgment”. Pae was arrested in November as he entered the northeastern port city of Rason, which lies inside a special economic zone near North Korea’s border with Russia and China. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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Images of spectacular mass games captured in secretive North Korea
<!– google_ad_section_start –> In a gigantic stadium, an audience of 150,000 enjoys a 120-minute spectacle, with tickets costing as much as €300 (HK$3,000). The show itself, boiled down from 250-million man hours of gymnastic effort, features spectacular scenes of seamlessly choreographed human mosaics followed by a grand fireworks display as the finale. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
Continue reading Images of spectacular mass games captured in secretive North Korea
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