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  • Missile Defense: Where to put the interceptors? - Washington Post (blog)

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    16 May 2012 | 12:21 pm
    The Weekly StandardMissile Defense: Where to put the interceptors?Washington Post (blog)By Al Kamen North Korea's long-range rocket launch last month was a bust. But they'll keep trying. (The Associated Press) The House is scheduled this week to take up a bill that would require the Pentagon to start work on a missile defense system to MAD-Men Lawmakers Want to Kill East Coast Missile Defenses Against IranThe Weekly Standard (blog)all 4 news articles »

  • Myanmar Vows to Cease Buying Weapons From North Korea

    NYT > North Korea
    14 May 2012 | 11:00 pm
    President Thein Sein of Myanmar acknowledged that his country had bought conventional weapons from Pyongyang over the past 20 years but vowed to end the practice.

  • Korean Army and People Full of Confidence in Victory

    North Korea News
    16 May 2012 | 1:33 pm
    The delegation of Tokyo Ward Assemblymen's Liaison Society for the Promotion of Japan-Korea Friendship and the group of Korean residents in Japan who are visiting their homeland visited the statues of President Kim Il Sung and General Secretary Kim Jong Il standing on Mansu hill and paid tribute to them on May 15.

  • Hero Showed How to Bust Through Propaganda in China

    Yanji, North Korea News
    15 May 2012 | 1:17 pm
    A rally held in London on Dec. 30, 2003, protests the death of Changchun TV highjacker Liu Chengjun on Dec.

  • BP restarting Cherry Point refinery after fire

    Pyongyang, North Korea News
    16 May 2012 | 1:48 pm
    BP is in the process of restarting its Cherry Point refinery near Blaine. Spokesman Michael Abendhoff told The Bellingham Herald it should be fully operational by the end of May.
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  • Missile Defense: Where to put the interceptors? - Washington Post (blog)

    16 May 2012 | 12:21 pm
    The Weekly StandardMissile Defense: Where to put the interceptors?Washington Post (blog)By Al Kamen North Korea's long-range rocket launch last month was a bust. But they'll keep trying. (The Associated Press) The House is scheduled this week to take up a bill that would require the Pentagon to start work on a missile defense system to MAD-Men Lawmakers Want to Kill East Coast Missile Defenses Against IranThe Weekly Standard (blog)all 4 news articles »

  • N. Korea lambasts S. Korean presidential hopeful - Bangkok Post

    16 May 2012 | 11:53 am
    N. Korea lambasts S. Korean presidential hopefulBangkok PostNorth Korea on Wednesday lambasted South Korea's conservative ruling party and its leading presidential hopeful Park Geun-Hye, linking her ambitions to the dictatorship of her late father Park Chung-Hee. North Korea on Wednesday lambasted South Korea's and more »

  • Satellite imagery shows progress in North Korea nuclear reactor construction - Washington Post

    16 May 2012 | 11:48 am
    Satellite imagery shows progress in North Korea nuclear reactor constructionWashington PostWASHINGTON — A US-based institute said Wednesday new satellite imagery shows that North Korea has resumed building work on a reactor after months of inactivity. That indicates the North is pressing on with efforts to expand its nuclear program, and more »

  • North Korea's Gulag - Wall Street Journal

    16 May 2012 | 11:19 am
    CBS NewsNorth Korea's GulagWall Street JournalSouth Korean President Lee Myung-bak deserves praise for one accomplishment above all others: He has put human rights in North Korea on the world's agenda. This certainly has hit a nerve in Pyongyang. The late Kim Jong Il cut off talks with the South, Myanmar Vows to Cease Buying Weapons From North KoreaNew York TimesMyanmar and South Korea set for businessUPI.comSouth Korea says Myanmar has promised to stop buying arms from North KoreaWashington PostTIME -Voice of Americaall 428 news articles »

  • North Korea 'Piracy' Targets China Fishing Vessels, As Chinese Fishermen Draw ... - International Business Times

    16 May 2012 | 10:56 am
    International Business TimesNorth Korea 'Piracy' Targets China Fishing Vessels, As Chinese Fishermen Draw International Business TimesEven North Korea, which relies on China for large quantities of economic assistance, is picking on its far bigger neighbor's sailors. On Wednesday, state media reported that the Chinese Foreign Ministry confirmed that 29 Chinese fishermen and 3 fishing China probes N Korean seizure of fishermenAljazeera.comall 3 news articles »
 
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  • Korean Army and People Full of Confidence in Victory

    16 May 2012 | 1:33 pm
    The delegation of Tokyo Ward Assemblymen's Liaison Society for the Promotion of Japan-Korea Friendship and the group of Korean residents in Japan who are visiting their homeland visited the statues of President Kim Il Sung and General Secretary Kim Jong Il standing on Mansu hill and paid tribute to them on May 15.

  • North Korea Upgrading Missile Launch Site

    16 May 2012 | 9:23 am
    North Korea has started work to upgrade its Musudan-ri missile launch site and potentially make the facility capable of firing an intercontinental ballistic missile.

  • Eugene Billo, a Marine veteran of the Korean War, is sending a...

    16 May 2012 | 7:13 am
    Eugene Billo, a Marine veteran of the Korean War, is sending a replica division guidon and streamer that is autographed with survivors of his regiment, to a Korean War museum in South Korea, commemorating the battle where nearly all of his division was killed.

  • North Koreans Quietly Open to International Broadcasts

    16 May 2012 | 3:04 am
    For well more than a decade, Korea experts who specialize in international media have been examining the impact of foreign broadcasts and DVDs on users in North Korea.

  • Lee Meets Aung San Suu Kyi

    15 May 2012 | 11:09 pm
    President Lee Myung-bak shakes hands with Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi after their joint press conference at a hotel in Rangoon, Burma on Tuesday.
 
 
 
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  • In praise of ... kimchi | Editorial

    7 May 2012 | 5:59 pm
    Korean cuisine which marries raw vegetables with spices is enjoying growing popularity far west of Seoul or PyongyangIf the thought of eating fermented cabbage makes you squirm, then perhaps you're not ready for it – but plenty of others are. Kimchi, a staple of Korean cuisine which marries raw vegetables with spices, is enjoying growing popularity far west of Seoul or Pyongyang. A spicier, more colourful, cousin of Germany's sauerkraut, it can lighten up a number of meals: simply eaten with rice, added to stews for depth of flavour, slathered on a fried egg sitting on top of a bed of…

  • Eritrea tops list of world's worst press censors

    2 May 2012 | 3:17 am
    New-York-based journalism group also names North Korea, Syria and Iran among 10 most restrictive nations for mediaEritrea leads the world in imposing censorship on the media, followed closely by North Korea, Syria and Iran, according to a journalism group.The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) said in a report on Wednesday that 10 countries stood out as censors for barring international media, putting "dictatorial controls" on domestic media and imposing other restrictions.The other countries on the list are Equatorial Guinea, Uzbekistan, Burma, Saudi Arabia, Cuba and Belarus.The report…

  • North Korea escalates anti-Seoul campaigns – video

    28 Apr 2012 | 10:16 am
    South Koreans rally in Seoul over campaigns against the country's president, Lee Myung-bak, by the regime in North Korea

  • Pass notes No 3,164: Defense Clandestine Service

    24 Apr 2012 | 2:00 pm
    With the Secret Service, the CIA, the FBI and many others, does the US really need another intelligence agency? The Pentagon says yes …Age: Newborn.Appearance: Classified.Don't ask me how, but I'm sure this has something to do with America. Gosh darn tootin' it does. The DCS is the US's newest intelligence agency.The others being? The CIA, of course …Of course … the Secret Service, the FBI, the DEA, the National Security Agency, the Office of Intelligence and Analysis, the Office of Terrorism and Financial Intelligence, the Bureau of Intelligence and Research, the Office of Intelligence…

  • Pentagon sets up new spy agency to eavesdrop on a changing world

    Julian Borger
    24 Apr 2012 | 7:25 am
    Defense Clandestine Service will focus on global threats and emerging economic and military powersThe Pentagon is to create a new spy service to focus on global strategic threats and the challenges posed by countries including Iran, North Korea and China. The move will bring to 17 the total number of intelligence organisations in the US.The Defense Clandestine Service is supposed to work closely with its counterpart in the CIA, the National Clandestine Service, recruiting spies from the ranks of the Pentagon's Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) and deploying them globally to boost the flow of…
 
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  • UK energy company pulls out of North Korea

    NKeconWatch
    16 May 2012 | 12:28 pm
    By Michael Rank Independent British energy company Aminex PLC has withdrawn from North Korea, citing ‘”the volatile and unpredictable politics of the area”, just two years after signing a deal covering a 50,000 sq km area off the country’s east coast. Aminex said it was “in the best interests of shareholders for the Company to withdraw from the Korean exploration programme and not participate in seismic acquisition. This decision will allow Aminex to focus on growing its African portfolio.” The company first signed an agreement for co-operation in oil and…

  • Friday Grab Bag

    NKeconWatch
    10 May 2012 | 3:48 pm
    ITEM 1: The Adventures of Kim Jong-un! An anime perspective on the life of Kim Jong-un (College Humor): Click image to watch full video. ITEM 2: Looks like the KFA’s “Special Delegation” to the DPRK to celebrate Kim Il-sung’s 100th birthday was not so special–and more expensive to boot! A participant reports here, here, and here. ITEM 3: A reader points out  that KCNA has updated the broadcast background to reflect the new construction on Mansudae Street. Below are two KCNA screen shots (2012-5-4, 2012-5-9): Also, the news presenters have started wearing the…

  • A Quiet Opening

    NKeconWatch
    10 May 2012 | 10:12 am
    Nat Kretchun and Jane Kim of InterMedia have published a quantitative analysis of the ability of North Koreans to access outside information.  It is quite rigorous! Download the PDF here Abstract: This study assesses levels of access to outside information within North Korea based on research conducted among North Korean defectors, refugees and travelers, as well as outside media content analysis and expert interviews. Survey samples of refugees and defectors are not statistically representative of the home population of North Korea and generally contain a disproportionate number of…

  • Chinese students in Pyongyang pose for photo-op

    NKeconWatch
    10 May 2012 | 12:08 am
    By Michael Rank The Chinese embassy in Pyongyang has posted photos of the latest batch of Chinese students who have come to study in North Korea. There are sixty students in total, but the report gives no details of what they are studying or at which universities. They are casually and colourfully dressed, as if on an American campus in fact, for the group photos which were taken at Sunan Airport and at the Chinese embassy when they attended a briefing by the consular section on “current conditions in Korea, consular protection and assistance and life as a student in Korea”. The…

  • Kim Jong-un’s guidance trip to the Mangyongdae Funfair

    NKeconWatch
    10 May 2012 | 12:00 am
    Wow. In the (approximately) seven years of KCNA reports I have perused on Kim Jong-il’s and Kim jong-un’s guidance trips I have never heard of either of the leaders adopting the tone Kim Jong-un deployed on this trip. Pictured above (Google Earth): The Mangyongdae Funfair (Not to be confused with the Kaeson funfair or the Taesongsan Funfair). I have actually visited this funfair twice. See here and here. According to Yonhap: North Korean leader Kim Jong-un lashed out at officials of an amusement park for neglecting to take proper care of the facility’s grounds and rides, the…
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    International Association for Contemporary Korea Studies

  • 2012 AKS Research Grant (Visiting)

    Leonid Petrov
    14 May 2012 | 7:45 am
    The Academy of Korean Studies (AKS) invites graduate students majoring in Korean Studies to apply for the new AKS Research Grant program. 1. Eligibility and Requirements ◦ Graduate students who are working on a thesis in the field of Korean studies at an overseas university or who have completed the required coursework (non-Korean citizens) ※ Korean citizens who has completed more than 16 years of education outside of Korea that is compatible with Korea’s elementary, middle, high school and college education can apply. ※ Applicant living in Korea during application period is not…

  • Master of Arts scholarship in Korean Studies at The Australian National University

    Leonid Petrov
    27 Apr 2012 | 10:56 am
    The ANU Korea Institute in the College of Asia and the Pacific invite applications for a Master of Arts scholarship in Transnational Humanities in Korean Studies based on funding from the Academy of Korean Studies. We are seeking an individual with a deep-seated interest in Korea and a commitment to scholarly research in one of the disciplines of the humanities.  The successful applicant will receive an annual stipend of A$23,000 for a period of two years, comprising one year of coursework followed by one year devoted to a research project culminating in a thesis. Additional funding for…

  • Kyujanggak Institute for Korean Studies offers Fellowships in 2012

    Leonid Petrov
    19 Apr 2012 | 7:39 am
    The Kyujanggak Insitute for Korean Studies would like to invite applications for its fall 2012 fellowships. The fellowships provide Korean Studies researchers with the opportunity to use the Kyujanggak collection as well as other resources at Seoul National University to carry out their research projects. Two kinds of fellowships are available this time: - fellowship A: For researchers in Korean Studies affiliated with overseas universities; 3 to 4 months, monthly stipend, housing and airfare provided; fellows are expected to give a talk and submit a report upon completion of their fellowship…

  • Vacancy: Temporary lecturer or Visiting Assistant Professor position in the history of modern Northeast Asia

    Leonid Petrov
    17 Apr 2012 | 12:13 pm
    UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY HISTORY OF MODERN NORTHEAST ASIA ESPECIALLY KOREA, temporary 2012-13 with possibility of extension of 1 year The Department of History at the University of California, San Diego, (http://history.ucsd.edu/), invites applications for a part time Temporary lecturer or Visiting Assistant Professor position in the history of modern northeast Asia, especially Korea for the academic year 2012-13 with the possibility of extension of 1 year. Candidates will be expected to teach a survey course on modern East Asia, advanced undergraduate lecture…

  • 2013 Endeavour Awards now open

    Leonid Petrov
    2 Apr 2012 | 12:28 am
    Endeavour Awards The Endeavour Awards are the Australian Government’s internationally competitive, merit-based scholarship program providing opportunities for citizens of the Asia-Pacific, Middle East, Europe andthe Americas to undertake study, research and professional development in Australia. Awards are also available for Australians to undertake study, research and professional development abroad.  Currently around 500-600 awards are available each year.  Applicants who have already commenced study in Australia are ineligible. Guidelines for these awards are available here:…
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  • Picture of the Day: World’s Largest Lego Tower In Korea

    GI Korea
    16 May 2012 | 3:00 pm
    Lego Group officials announced that they have completed the world's tallest Lego tower in Seoul, South Korea, which stands at 104 feet, 8 inches tall. Lego said Crown Prince Frederik of Denmark had the honor of placing the final brick on the structure which was built by 4,000 young contest winners to help mark the 80th anniversary of the Danish toy maker. The tower, which stands in front of Seoul's Olympic Stadium, took more than 50,000 colorful bricks and five days to build. According to Lego, the South Korean tower bests the previous tallest structure which was erected in France…

  • Jogye Order of Buddhist Monks In Korea Faces Sex Scandal

    GI Korea
    16 May 2012 | 10:38 am
    Via a reader tip comes this news that the Jogye Buddhist monk scandal in South Korea could become much worse: Following the recent scandal that exposed monks of the largest Buddhist sect in Korea for gambling while intoxicated, the whistle-blower, Venerable Seongho, reported further allegations yesterday that Jogye Order monks gambled overseas, kept mistresses, had secret wives, frequented room salons and even paid for sex. Ahead of prosecutor questioning, Venerable Seongho, a former official of the Executive Office of the Korean Buddhist Jogye Order, stated yesterday morning in a radio…

  • China Arrests Four South Koreans For Aiding North Korean Refugees

    GI Korea
    16 May 2012 | 5:28 am
    It looks like the Chinese are continuing with their crackdown on groups assisting North Korean refugees within China: South Korea’s foreign ministry says China has been holding four of its citizens in Dandong, activists linked to North Korean refugees, since their arrest March 29 in Dalian. Spokesman Cho Byung-je says Seoul is asking Beijing to handle the case in a fair and swift manner. “South Korea understands that the investigation is proceeding based on procedures under Chinese law,” said Cho, who did not comment on specific accusations because formal charges have yet to…

  • House Republicans Stop US Navy Purchases of Biofuels

    GI Korea
    16 May 2012 | 1:44 am
    At a time of reduced budgets where there are people in the Pentagon and within the US government pushing to cut retirement benefits for servicemembers and making retirees pay more for their health the Navy has enough funding to buy fuel that is 4 times more expensive than conventional fuel: Congressional Republicans have thrown a wrench into the Navy’s plans to get half its energy needs from alternative fuel sources by 2020, Wired magazine reported, voting to effectively ban the military from purchasing biofuels. Navy Secretary Ray Mabus announced in August that the service…

  • North Korea Stops GPS Jamming Over South Korea

    GI Korea
    15 May 2012 | 7:33 pm
    I guess we will see how long this lasts:  North Korea appears to have stopped jamming satellite signals in an apparent attempt to disrupt air and maritime traffic navigation systems in parts of South Korea, a high-ranking government source in Seoul said Tuesday. The North has been blamed for global positioning system (GPS) disruptions that affected hundreds of commercial flights and ships in and out of South Korea since April 28, although no damage was caused as all had backup navigational systems. “GPS jamming signals from North Korea have not been detected since May 14,” the…
 
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  • Anju, May 16, 2012

    Joshua
    16 May 2012 | 9:02 am
    NORTH KOREA LOSES A CUSTOMER, MAYBE?  The Burmese junta says it will stop buying weapons from North Korea, but that’s what you expect them to say, given that any such purchases would violate UNSCR 1874, and have previously attracted unwanted attention from the U.S. Navy. We’ll see soon enough if they’re serious about that. __________________________________DO YOU SUPPOSE IT’S A COINCIDENCE that Kim Yong Nam recently chose to make a state visit to Indonesia, which also happens to be the home country of the current U.N. Special Rapporteur for Human Rights in North…

  • Is KCNA Replaying the Kumgang Gambit?

    Joshua
    15 May 2012 | 7:22 pm
    Recently, the AP’s Pyongyang Bureau has produced thankfully little of the reprocessed KCNA propaganda that caused me to set up my AP Watch category. It’s still not too much to hope that the AP will cease to deceive its readers by reporting stage-managed propaganda as news, or as an accurate portrayal of life in North Korea. The next weeks will tell us whether this trend will persist, and whether the AP’s corporate management has any shame.  They have invested a great deal of intangible capital in this arrangement; they will not want a public blow-up of the relationship.

  • Anju, May 15, 2012

    Joshua
    15 May 2012 | 7:42 am
    SPLITTERS! ________________________________ THE WORLD’S LEAST REASSURING THEME PARK: “It’s a shame that North Koreans are treated by their rulers as basically an expendable race of people. Before we were allowed on the ride, the guys in charge sent a few terrified farmers on test runs like a shipment of human flour sacks.” Read the whole thing. ________________________________ CAT-AND-MOUSE JOURNALISM IN CHINA: For all the kvetching I’ve done lately about junk reporting from Pyongyang, it’s easy to forget that some dedicated and intrepid journalists are…

  • Anju, May 14, 2012

    Joshua
    14 May 2012 | 8:11 pm
    CHRISTINE AHN ON HUMAN RIGHTS IN NORTH KOREA: OK, it’s a few months old, but I can’t help myself. Have a wastebasket handy when you click this, preferably not one made of wicker or wire mesh. The fact that Ahn explicitly (if ever so briefly) acknowledges that there are human rights violations in North Korea somehow manages not to make her sound like any less of a tool. ________________________________ I DON’T KNOW HOW ANY HONEST FEMINIST COULD BE AN APOLOGIST for North Korea, but then, who ever said that Christine Ahn was honest? The price for a North Korean woman named Kim…

  • North Korea Executes Three (We Know About) for Cannibalism

    Joshua
    14 May 2012 | 11:10 am
    My first reaction to these reports years ago was skepticism, but if you hear enough people say the same thing (see here and here), you start to think they can’t all be lying: North Korea has held public executions of at least three people on charges of cannibalism in recent years, a South Korean state-run institute said Thursday, the latest development that could support what has long been rumored in the isolated country. There have been accounts among North Korean defectors in the South that some North Koreans ate and sold human flesh during the massive famine in the late 1990s that…
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