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  • Russia Seeks to Resume North Korea Nuclear Talks, Interfax Says - BusinessWeek

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    28 Jan 2012 | 5:31 am
    Russia Seeks to Resume North Korea Nuclear Talks, Interfax SaysBusinessWeek28 (Bloomberg) -- Russia is working to resume talks between six countries regarding North Korea's nuclear program as soon as possible, Interfax reported, citing Foreign Affairs Ministry Sergei Lavrov speaking to reporters in Tokyo.

  • North and South Koreans Mix in Cambodia

    NYT > North Korea
    18 Jan 2012 | 11:00 pm
    An effort by North Korea to bring in currency with a small chain of restaurants outside the country has led to the odd scene of Koreans mingling in a way that would be impossible back home.

  • SKorean activists send socks to NKorea in balloons

    North Korea News
    28 Jan 2012 | 5:20 am
    The activists hoped Saturday that North Koreans could wear the socks or trade them for food during the harsh winter.

  • Five More to Die For, Part 2: Must-See Movies You Missed in 2011

    Yanji, North Korea News
    16 Jan 2012 | 11:01 am
    Worried about the volatile situation in North Korea? Concerned that Kim Jong-un might not have the Supreme Leadership abilities of Kim Jong-il , his stylishly despotic, cinema-mad dad? Sure you are.

  • Japan, Russia to boost economic, security ties

    Pyongyang, North Korea News
    28 Jan 2012 | 3:43 am
    The foreign ministers of Japan and Russia agreed Saturday to strengthen economic and security cooperation but made no progress on resolving a long-standing territorial dispute over islands off northeastern Japan.Foreign Minister Koichiro Gemba and visiting Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said the two countries needed to address the ... (more)
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  • Russia Seeks to Resume North Korea Nuclear Talks, Interfax Says - BusinessWeek

    28 Jan 2012 | 5:31 am
    Russia Seeks to Resume North Korea Nuclear Talks, Interfax SaysBusinessWeek28 (Bloomberg) -- Russia is working to resume talks between six countries regarding North Korea's nuclear program as soon as possible, Interfax reported, citing Foreign Affairs Ministry Sergei Lavrov speaking to reporters in Tokyo.

  • Japan, Russia to boost economic and security ties - Fox News

    28 Jan 2012 | 5:13 am
    Fox NewsJapan, Russia to boost economic and security tiesFox NewsLavrov and Gemba were to discuss North Korea over a working lunch in the second part of their meeting. Japan and Russia are among six nations involved in long-stalled talks offering aid for North Korean nuclear disarmament. Asked about North Korea, and more »

  • From S. Korea with love: Warm socks sent to North by balloon - msnbc.com

    28 Jan 2012 | 1:29 am
    msnbc.comFrom S. Korea with love: Warm socks sent to North by balloonmsnbc.comMembers of Seoul-based aid group North Korea Peace release a large balloon containing socks in Paju near the Demilitarized zone dividing the two Koreas Saturday. South Korean activists sent warm socks and messages attached to balloons toward North North Korea Warns South Over Military Drill but Accepts Food AidNew York TimesSouth Korean activists send balloons carrying boxes of socks to North KoreaWashington PostSock on that, Kim: South Korea floats footwear to communist NorthHerald SunSan Antonio…

  • North Korea succession offers U.S. opportunity - San Francisco Chronicle

    27 Jan 2012 | 8:43 pm
    Foreign Policy (blog)North Korea succession offers U.S. opportunitySan Francisco ChronicleKim Jung Un (second from left) inspects a Korean People's Army unit last week. State-run TV describes the young leader as a "military genius." Don't give up on Kim Jong Un, the cherubic naif who is North Korea's new supreme leader.North Korea's new leader may surprise old-linersKansas City StarRussia Seeks to Resume North Korea Nuclear Talks, Interfax SaysBloombergNorth Korea threatens to treat cellphone users as 'war criminals'GMA NewsForeign Policy…

  • Pentagon Seeks Mightier Bomb vs. Iran - Wall Street Journal

    27 Jan 2012 | 7:52 pm
    Wall Street JournalPentagon Seeks Mightier Bomb vs. IranWall Street JournalThe 30000-pound "bunker-buster" bomb, known as the Massive Ordnance Penetrator, was specifically designed to take out the hardened fortifications built by Iran and North Korea to cloak their nuclear programs. Defense Threat Reduction Agency US toothless against Iran rock: Pentagon seeks new superbombRTUS bunker-buster 'not powerful enough' against IranAFPWSJ: US military seeks more powerful bomb against IranChannel 6 News OnlineIBNLive.comall 52 news articles »
 
 
 
 
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  • Press freedom index: big falls for Arab trio in year of protest

    Roy Greenslade
    26 Jan 2012 | 2:51 am
    Syria, Bahrain and Yemen fall backwards as uprisings fail to secure democracyThree Arab countries where popular risings have been quashed have achieved their worst-ever rankings in the annual press freedom index.But the falls by Syria, Bahrain and Yemen are among many changes that reflect a year of unrest and protest.The United States, for example, has dropped markedly due to the targeting of journalists covering the Occupy Wall Street movement. It slipped 27 places, down to 47th place out of a total of 179 countries in the survey. Britain fell from 19th to 28th (though the reason for that…

  • North Korea's leader will not last long, says Kim Jong-un's brother

    Jonathan Watts, Tania Branigan
    17 Jan 2012 | 6:43 am
    Kim Jong-nam, eldest son of Kim Jong-il, describes succession as 'a joke' and predicts the regime will collapse in new bookThe eldest son of North Korea's late leader Kim Jong-il has predicted the regime would soon fail, with or without reforms, according to a new book that the author says is based on emails and interviews with Kim Jong-nam.The book says that Kim Jong-nam – who has never met the new leader, his half-brother Kim Jong-un – described the dynastic succession as "a joke to the outside world", and said even his father had originally opposed the hereditary transfer of power."The…

  • Associated Press opens news bureau in North Korea

    Tania Branigan
    16 Jan 2012 | 6:27 am
    Associated Press president says new office will operate under the same standards and practices as AP bureaux worldwideNorth Korea has allowed the Associated Press to open the first full western news bureau in the tightly controlled and highly secretive country.The North permits foreign media occasional visits, often for important ceremonial occasions, although journalists are restricted in their movements and accompanied by officials.AP said the move followed a year of discussions. It planned to open its office in December, but postponed the official launch after the death of leader Kim…

  • US news agency opens North Korean bureau

    Roy Greenslade
    16 Jan 2012 | 4:27 am
    The US-based Associated Press (AP) news agency has opened a news bureau in the North Korean capital, Pyongyang.It is the first major Western news organisation to do so, although agencies such as China's Xinhua also have a presence there.AP president Tom Curley said the bureau would operate under the same standards as other bureaux worldwide.All media outlets in North Korea are state-run. Most citizens have no access to the internet or foreign media.Visits by most foreign journalists are severely restricted and, if granted a visa, reporters are accompanied by government minders to carefully…

  • Five die in unexplained explosion on South Korean ship

    15 Jan 2012 | 12:11 am
    Six people are missing following explosion which occurred relatively far from the tense sea border with North KoreaA South Korean cargo ship was rocked by an explosion off the country's west coast on Sunday, leaving five people dead and six others missing, according to officials.The unexplained explosion tore apart the front of the ship and left the 4,198-tonne vessel half-submerged, according to the coastguard. Two of the five bodies located later had serious external wounds, suggesting they were killed by the explosion, coastguard officer Kim Dong-jin said.Five crewmen were rescued and…
 
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    North Korean Economy Watch

  • Another Songun-era agriculture project launched in Haeju

    NKeconWatch
    27 Jan 2012 | 3:15 pm
    Pictured Above: The DPRK’s two most famous waterways are the Paekma-Cholsan Waterway (see here and here) and the Kaechon-Lake Thaesong Waterway. A third waterway in the Miru Plain is too recent to appear on Google Earth.  According to KCNA (2012-1-26): Waterway to Be Built in South Hwanghae Province, DPRK Pyongyang, January 26 (KCNA) — A gravity-fed waterway will be built in South Hwanghae Province. It is another gigantic nature-remaking project in the era of Songun as part of the far-sighted nature-harnessing plan of leader Kim Jong Il and the dear respected Kim Jong Un. The…

  • Food distribution to resume for the first time in seven years

    NKeconWatch
    27 Jan 2012 | 12:57 pm
    Institute for Far Eastern Studies (IFES) 2012-1-25 A month into Kim Jong-un’s ascension to power, it is reported that food distribution is likely to resume nationwide in North Korea. Many experts evaluate this as a symbolic measure to propagate the construction of a powerful economy and improve the lives of the people. For the North Koreans, the most apparent and obvious economic accomplishment is the improvement of the food situation. Thus, North Korea is most likely to take action to normalize food rations as its top priority. According to a statement made by a South Korean government…

  • KCNA: 20-day industrial output value increases over Jan 2011

    NKeconWatch
    27 Jan 2012 | 11:41 am
    According to KCNA (2012-1-25): The gross industrial output value grew 1.2 times for twenty days of January this year as against the same period last year. This is the result of the high-pitched drive waged by all the workers of the country since the first day of this year after receiving with excitement the joint calls of the Central Committee and the Central Military Commission of the Workers’ Party of Korea, the joint New Year editorial for this year and the letter of the working people in South Hamgyong Province. In the period, the Ministry of Light Industry increased the production…

  • Malicious email update

    NKeconWatch
    27 Jan 2012 | 9:19 am
    I received another example of the malicious emails that appear in the mail boxes of North Korea researchers. Always be on the lookout for these attempts to hack into your computer: From: Ben Watkins [mailto:ben.watkins2@aol.com] Sent: 26 January 2012 08:15 To: [DELETED] Subject: FW:NKorea,contacts with Iran related to nuclear program in secret North Korea, contacts with Iran related to nuclear program in secret January 26, 2011 5:29AM, EST FULL STORY © 2012 Daily Cable News Network, LP, LLLP. All Rights Reserved. Terms under which this service is provided to you. Read our privacy guidelines.

  • UNESCO to help DPRK’s pest control efforts at ancient tombs

    NKeconWatch
    24 Jan 2012 | 8:39 am
    According to Yonhap: The U.N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) said Tuesday it will help North Korea eradicate pests at forests near ancient tombs. The Complex of Koguryo tombs, located in the North’s cities of Pyongyang and Nampo, has some 30 individual tombs from the late period of the Koguryo Kingdom, which controlled the northern half of the Korean Peninsula and northeastern China for more than 700 years until 668 A.D. Read more about the UNESCO World Heritage sites in the DPRK here. Read the full story here: UNESCO to help N. Korea’s pest control…
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  • 2012-2013 Postdoctoral fellowship in Korean Studies at the ANU

    Leonid Petrov
    23 Jan 2012 | 11:17 pm
    The Korea Institute at the Australian National University is offering a two-year postdoctoral fellowship focusing on any one of three possible areas of investigation: 1) the politics of Korea, with a focus on modern and contemporary developments; 2) the economics of Korea, including Korea’s global involvement in multilateral issues; or 3) the security of the Korean peninsula within the East Asian context. The fellowship is for a fixed term of two years, beginning in August 2012. Applicants must have his/her PhD completed by the time of appointment. Native or near-native fluency in both…

  • PhD and MA Scholarships in Korean Studies at the Australian National University

    Leonid Petrov
    20 Jan 2012 | 8:07 am
    PhD scholarships The ANU Korea Institute in the College of Asia and the Pacific invites applications for two PhD scholarships for 2012 commencement based on funding from the Academy of Korean Studies. Scholarship name: PhD Scholarship in Transnational Humanities in Korean Studies Grant amount: A$25,000 per annum, tax-free, paid in fortnightly instalments Duration: Up to four years, pending satisfactory academic performance Number of Scholarships: 2 Closing date for application: 24 February 2012 Commence by: 1 August 2012 Eligibility and Selection Criteria Successful applicants must meet the…

  • KFCP Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Illinois

    Leonid Petrov
    19 Jan 2012 | 6:40 am
    The 5-year Korean Family in Comparative Perspective (KFCP, 2010-) Laboratory for the Globalization of Korean Studies at the University of Illinois, funded by the Academy of Korean Studies, and housed in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, is pleased to announce its second KFCP Postdoctoral Fellowship starting August 16, 2012. This one-year position, with the possibility of a one-year extension, is open to: (1) recent PhD recipients (within the last 5 years) and (2) those who will deposit their dissertation by August 15, 2012. The KFCP Laboratory aims to bring the Korean…

  • ASSISTANT PROFESSOR IN PRE-20TH CENTURY KOREAN HISTORY

    Leonid Petrov
    19 Jan 2012 | 12:05 am
    The Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at Columbia University invites applications for a full-time position in pre-20th century Korean History at the Assistant Professor rank, to begin in Fall 2012. The Ph.D. must be in hand by time of appointment. The appointee will teach at both the graduate and undergraduate levels and is expected to work with fellow faculty in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, the History Department, and other university institutions in the development of Korean studies research, teaching, and programming at Columbia. Please submit a C.V.,…

  • MELLON POST-DOCTORAL FELLOW IN KOREAN/EAST ASIAN ARCHEOLOGY AND HISTORY

    Leonid Petrov
    19 Jan 2012 | 12:00 am
    The East Asian Studies and Anthropology Departments at Oberlin College invites applications for a non-continuing faculty position as a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in the College of Arts and Sciences. Appointment to this position will be for a term of two years beginning Fall 2012 and will carry the rank of Visiting Assistant Professor. The position is supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and by a challenge grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. The incumbent will teach in the general area of Korean/East Asian archeology and history of any period from 2nd c. BCE…
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    Korea Report

  • Korea Enters 2012

    kawandc
    2 Jan 2012 | 12:54 pm
    The Korean Peninsula enters 2012 with both sides of Korea in flux. North Korea, with a recent transition of power, will be celebrating the 100th birthday of its founding leader Kim Il Sung in April. South Korea will be holding crucial elections in 2012 -- parliamentary elections in April and presidential election in December, with opposition forces eyeing for a transfer of power. China, Russia, and the US will be holding presidential elections or transfer of power as well. With these expected changes and infusion of new players, an opportune moment may come in 2012 for a renewed and refreshed…

  • North Korea After Kim Jong Il

    kawandc
    21 Dec 2011 | 2:30 pm
    Wild speculations and conjectures abound in the international circles in the aftermath of the death of Chairman Kim Jong Il of North Korea, whereas the transition of power to Kim Jong Un seems to be playing out without any incident. During upcoming uncertainties of the situation, all parties concerned should support a development conducive to fostering peace and reconciliation in the Korean Peninsula. See alternative analyses: Korea Policy Institute article, interview on Democracy Now!

  • 1000th Continuous Wednesday Protest on "Comfort Women" Issue

    kawandc
    16 Dec 2011 | 10:11 am
    Dec. 14, 2011 marked the 1000th "Wednesday Protest" on behalf of the Korean "Comfort Women" victims -- the continuous protest every Wednesday, rain or shine, for the past 19 years in front of the Japanese embassy in Seoul, Korea. The few surviving and aging victims and their support organization (The Korean Council for the Women Drafted for Sexual Slavery by Japan) have been demanding sincere acknowledgement and apology from the Japanese government on this issue, yet no representative of the Japanese embassy has ever come out of its building over these years to acknowledge the…

  • Naggomsu -- The Rise of Alternative Media and Political Activism in South Korea

    kawandc
    10 Dec 2011 | 12:31 pm
    Naggomsu -- the phenomenal podcast (internet radio) team that is all the rage in South Korea these days -- is on the U.S. tour. (The photo is the event on Dec.8 in Washington, DC at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies.) Naggomsu is made up of independent journalist, commentator, producer and a former national legislator. Its programs draws the largest audience in Korea as well as being the top downloaded podcast in iTunes.   While it specializes in humorous satire and parody of President Lee Myung-bak and his policies, it relies more…

  • A Korean-American Becomes U.S. Ambassador to South Korea

    Korea Report
    11 Nov 2011 | 12:17 pm
    Sung Kim, a "1.5 generation" Korean-American, is the new U.S. ambassador to South Korea (photo showing his family's arrival in Seoul), marking the first time that a Korean-American has taken this post. Kim hadserved as a Korea expert in the State Department. He was also a special envoy to the six-party talks, which now puts him in a good position on the ground in the Korean Peninsula to help foster an atmosphere for possible renewal of the talks aimed at nuclear disarmament and regional security in Northeast Asia.
 
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  • On Post USFK Clubs To Have Extended Weekend Hours Due To Curfew

    GI Korea
    27 Jan 2012 | 6:06 pm
    This pretty much puts everything back to the way it used to be when USFK last had a curfew:  Bars and restaurants at some U.S. Army bases in South Korea will remain open until 3 a.m. on Fridays and Saturdays, beginning this weekend, as a result of the 1 a.m. off-base curfew imposed by the military earlier this month. “With the curfew, soldiers come back before 1 a.m. and want to do something,” said David Roudybush, business operations chief for Family and Morale, Welfare and Recreation in Area I. “We’re trying to give them a safe option, a safe location to spend their evening.” In…

  • Picture of the Day: River Crossing

    GI Korea
    27 Jan 2012 | 2:04 pm
    ROK Army conduct river crossing training on the Namhanggang River near Yeoju. Via the Chosun Ilbo.

  • ROK & US Marines To Expand Military Cooperation

    GI Korea
    27 Jan 2012 | 9:52 am
    It looks like the Korean peninsula is going to be seeing a heavier US Marine Corps presence in the future as military cooperation between the ROK & US Marine Corps expands: South Korean and U.S. Marine Corps will increase joint exercises and strengthen measures for defending the islands near the northern limit line in the West Sea. On Thursday, Commander of the South Korean Marines Lt. Gen. Lee Ho-yeon and U.S. Marine Corps in Korea Commander Maj. Gen. Michael Regner confirmed that the two forces will conduct the largest joint landing exercise in 23 years during the first half of 2012 as…

  • US To Import M1 Rifles From South Korea

    GI Korea
    27 Jan 2012 | 4:40 am
    For those of you who collect classic firearms it appears that you may have a good shot of buying a Korean War era M1 soon: The U.S. is set to import antiquated firearms from South Korea that were previously banned from entry, officials here said Thursday. Defense ministry officials said the United States has approved imports of M1 Garrand rifles, which were used by U.S. forces during the 1950-53 Korean War. “The U.S. sent an approval letter in September last year,” a ministry official said. “The U.S. will be willing to review legal procedures once we seek to export the rifles.” The…

  • Korean Government Pushes For Tougher Penalties Against Illegal Chinese Fishermen

    GI Korea
    27 Jan 2012 | 12:36 am
    Hopefully these fines and confiscation of their boats will be enough to get these thug Chinese fishermen to respect Korean waters: The government will submit a bill next month for a law revision that would double fines against illegal fishing, in its latest effort to counteract Chinese fishing boats poaching in South Korean waters in the Yellow Sea, an official said Saturday. Korea has vowed to take tougher measures against illegal fishing by Chinese vessels in the Yellow Sea after a coastguard officer was stabbed to death last month by a Chinese skipper during a raid on a Chinese boat for…
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  • Jabba the Kim among the Ewoks, or worst photo op ever

    Joshua
    27 Jan 2012 | 6:07 am
    Maybe the Associated Press’s new vocation as a propaganda outlet for North Korea has a brighter side than I’d originally realized. Today, the AP brings us what must be the worst photo op ever, a barracks inspection by Kim Jong Eun. Where to begin? The unwittingly (I think) subversive decision to surround the morbidly obese kid — has he ever looked so fat? — with these lean, hungry leprechauns and their leathery, wizened officers? Posing him next to the their tiny little day-care bunks, about one-third of a Kim wide? Or standing His Porcine Majesty behind the tin plates…

  • Grafs from the new Kim Jong Nam book

    Joshua
    26 Jan 2012 | 6:15 am
    Rather than spoon-feed you the parts that interest me, I’ll just link to this, this, and this and let you read and judge for yourself. You may also find this related article by Scott Snyder interesting. My reaction on reading these excerpts? Disappointment, mostly. Few of Jong Nam’s broader conclusions about North Korea are surprising or even divergent from the consensus of outside speculators. Most are either obvious, unsupported by any credible new revelations of fact, or both. An exception is his intriguing assertion that North Korea is “extremely unstable…

  • North Koreans killing secret police?

    Joshua
    25 Jan 2012 | 6:27 am
    So says the Daily NK of recent events in the northeastern city of Chongjin, a frequent venue for reports of anti-government sentiment: A source in North Hamgyung Province told Daily NK on January 19, “During the mourning period, one official from the provincial NSA, one from the prosecutor’s office and two from the People’s Safety Agency were murdered in Cheongjin.” The source added, “There was a note found lying next to the body of the executed NSA official which said ‘Punished in the name of the people.’” North Korean authorities have not released the identities of the…

  • Anju: January 21, 2012

    Joshua
    21 Jan 2012 | 10:14 am
    The Daily NK writes about “The High Price of Idolatry:” We should perhaps remember with great concern the time when Kim Jong Il used $900 million to both permanently preserve Kim Il Sung’s body and then create Keumsusan Memorial Palace to keep it in. It is no simple task to erect a statue of anybody, let alone someone who presumably requires a large statue such as Kim Jong Il. In the South Korean city of Gumi, a mere 5m statue of former President Park Chung Hee cost 1.2 billion South Korean Won ($1.03 million). Kim Il Sung’s statue in Pyongyang is 24m high. For a massive…

  • Global news agency being held hostage in North Korea.

    Joshua
    20 Jan 2012 | 6:19 am
    The dalliance between the Associated Press and the Korean Central News Agency, the world’s most mendacious news agency, has already fathered the global distribution of doctored photographs and some awfully dubious journalism by its correspondent, Jean H. Lee — and transmitted all of it to hundreds of millions of news consumers around the world. Recall that last summer, just after the AP first signed a joint distribution agreement with KCNA, the AP distributed this photograph of a flood in North Korea. The picture turned out to have been doctored to make the water look deeper than…
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