(PYONGYANG, North Korea) -; North Korea is open to immediate talks with rival South Korea if Seoul responds to several preconditions for dialogue, a North Korean military official told The ...
According to Bloomberg (February 10, 2012), a New York-based company - Korea Pyongyang Trading USA – has been hired by North Korea to help open its Diamond Mountain Resort to Americans. The company has dealt with North Korea before – mainly selling Nork alcohol but they are pretty confident that they will be able to [...]
Could between a quarter and half of the North Korean population be meth users? SINO-NK reports:
Though the North Korean government would never admit to outsiders that there is a drug problem in the country, the Daily NK has filed many reports over the past several years suggesting that “bingdu” (meth) is available practically at epidemic levels inside the DPRK. Articles claim, among other things, that commodity prices rise and fall depending...
PYONGYANG, February 12 (Itar-Tass) - The American-South Korean exercises "Key Resolve" and "Foal Eagle", scheduled for February-March, aim at aggravating confrontation with North ...
Korean-American missionary Robert Park, who did a stint a couple of years ago as a guest of the North Korean state after he crossed into the country to highlight North Korean human rights abuses, is suing Pyongyang for sexual torture: The Christian missionary from Tucson, Arizona, was severely beaten by North Korean soldiers before being [...]
A community portal about North Korea with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: North Korea, officially the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, is a North Asian country situated on the northern half of the Korean Peninsula. Its capital is Pyongyang. Its northern border is shared mainly with China. Russia shares an 18.3 km...more
A community portal about North Korea with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: North Korea, officially the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, is a North Asian country situated on the northern half of the Korean Peninsula. Its capital is Pyongyang. Its northern border is shared mainly with China. Russia shares an 18.3 km border along the Tumen River in the far northeast corner of the country. To the south, it is bordered by South Korea, with which it formed one territorial unit known as Korea until 1945, when the country was divided into two separate states following World War II.