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...
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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.
North Korea said Saturday the nuclear standoff should not impede efforts to improve relations with South Korea, accusing the Seoul government of using the issue as an excuse to block warmer ties. The sanctions-hit communist state has criticised Seoul in recent weeks for maintaining its ban on cross-border tourism projects which earned the North tens of millions of dollars a year. South Korea wants six-nation nuclear disarmament negotiations to resume before it makes any such major moves... Read Full Story
North Korea made a rare expression of gratitude Friday after South Korea sent swine flu medicine, an official said, a day after Pyongyang threatened retaliation over naval drills near their disputed sea border. A convoy of South Korean trucks crossed the heavily armed border into North Korea earlier in the day to deliver enough doses of the antiviral drugs Tamiflu and Relenza for 500,000 North Koreans. The shipment marks the South Korean government's first humanitarian aid since conservative... Read Full Story
North Korea threatened retaliation against South Korea over what it claimed were naval drills around their disputed sea border, accusing Seoul on Thursday of attempting to escalate tension. The North's Korean Central News Agency cited an unidentified source as saying that the South Korean military staged underwater explosive exercises around the border — the scene of a naval clash last month that left one North Korean sailor dead and three others wounded. The drills represent "a threat and... Read Full Story
Police say a court in Thailand has approved a 12-day detention for the crew of a seized plane carrying 35 tons of weapons from North Korea. Police spokesman Pongsapat Pongjaren said Monday that the Bangkok Criminal Court approved a request by authorities to keep the five-man crew detained for further investigation. The crew includes four men from Kazakhstan and one from Belarus. They were arrested Saturday when their plane was impounded in Bangkok during a reported refueling stop... Read Full Story
North Korean Hackers May Have Stolen US War Plans — The Guardian
Files outline South Korea and Washington’s strategy in event of war on the peninsula. South Korea’s military is investigating a cyber attack in which North Korean hackers may have stolen secret defence plans outlining Seoul and Washington’s strategy in the event of war on the Korean peninsula.
The highly sensitive information, codenamed Oplan 5027, may have found its way into hostile hands last month after a South Korean... Read Full Story
North Korea raised the amount of old currency that citizens can turn in for new bills after merchants rioted against the rules, a news report said Tuesday. North Korea redenominated its national currency, the won, late last month, limited the maximum amount of old bills that could be converted into new ones and told its people to deposit the rest in government-run banks. The sudden move has reportedly touched off anger and frustration, especially among middle-class merchants holding large... Read Full Story
An official says South Korea will deliver swine flu medicine to North Korea this week. North Korea acknowledged for the first time last week that swine flu had broken out in the country. It did not mention any virus-related deaths, but a Seoul-based civic group claimed that the disease has killed about 50 people since early November. South Korea's Unification Ministry spokesman Chun Hae-sung told reporters Tuesday that the government will truck enough doses of the antiviral Tamiflu and... Read Full Story
Key points in the U.N. Security Council resolution adopted in June imposing additional sanctions on North Korea for its second nuclear test in defiance of an earlier ban. The resolution: _ "Condemns in the strongest terms" North Korea's second nuclear test on May 25 "in violation and flagrant disregard of its relevant resolutions." _ Orders North Korea to suspend all activities related to its ballistic missile program and re-establish a moratorium on missile launches. _ Bans North Korea from... Read Full Story
The special U.S. envoy to North Korea says he has been encouraged by his meetings with North Korean officials. Stephen Bosworth is in Moscow to brief Russian officials on his three days of meetings with North Korean officials last week. He said at Monday's briefing that he was encouraged by the fact that the North Korean representatives reiterated their view of the importance of the six-party talks and of their commitment to the joint statement of September 2005. He wouldn't say when the... Read Full Story
North Korea said Friday it had agreed with the United States to cooperate on resolving a nuclear impasse, raising hopes for progress after ice-breaking meetings in Pyongyang this week. "Both sides agreed to continue to cooperate with each other in the future to narrow down the remaining differences," a foreign ministry spokesman said in a statement published by the North's official Korean Central News Agency. The statement came as US envoy Stephen Bosworth left Seoul after a three-day visit... Read Full Story
