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
Photo: AP/Jae C. Hong
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.
