North Korea will reopen border to South Korea
August 17, 2009
The agreement to ease restrictions on the border follows a meeting between the reclusive state’s leader Kim Jong-il and the head of the South Korean Hyundai Group who had gone to Pyongyang to seek the release of a detained worker.
North Korea threatens with nukes in response to sanctions
August 17, 2009
“Should the US imperialists and (South Korean government) threaten the (North) with nukes, it will retaliate against them with nukes,” North Korea’s military said in a statement reported on Sunday by the country’s official Korean Central News Agency.
Reports that North Korea helps Myanmar build atomic bomb
August 11, 2009
Several reports indicate that North Korea may be supporting Myanmar, positioned between India and China, in building a secret nuclear reactor and plutonium extraction plant. It is also claimed that Myanmar intends to build an atomic bomb by 2014.
Clinton diplomacy may not change relations with North Korea
August 7, 2009
According to American journalist and political commentator Michael Crowley, it seems “depressingly plausible” that normalized relations, and a concession on the scale of dismantling the nuclear program, would run so fundamentally against the North Korean regime’s identity that it could no longer exist.
Hillary played vital role in release of journalists
August 5, 2009
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North Korea’s use of Russian missile technology
August 5, 2009
Arms blogger Josua Pollock is discussing Russia’s aid to North Korea’s missile program and whether North Korea is still using Russian missile know-how and technology.
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New U.N. sanctions against North Korea
July 16, 2009
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The U.N. imposed new sanctions against North Korea on Thursday, which take immediate effect and are to be carried out by all of the U.N.’s 192 member nations. North Korea will now face travel bans and a freeze on the financial assets against the officials, companies and state agency. Nations were also instructed to refrain from supplying North Korea with certain types of materials used in ballistic missile parts.
U.K., not North Korea, may be behind cyberattacks
July 14, 2009
The U.K. was the likely source of a series of DDOS attacks last week that took down popular Web sites in the U.S. and South Korea, according to an analysis performed by a Vietnamese computer security analyst. The results contradict assertions made by some in the U.S. and South Korean governments that North Korea was behind the attack.
Does North Korea’s leader have cancer?
July 14, 2009
The health of North Korea’s leader Kim Jong-Il, 87, is clearly worsening, but some analysts question whether Il has life-threatening pancreas cancer, as previously reported.
