National Post Staff: Since Kim Jong-un's succession, it is believed the number of political prisoners being sent to camps is once again on the rise. The National Post's graphics team takes a look. | Like this:LikeOne blogger likes this post. | The Province (Vancouver)
THE Government is lining up one of Yorkshire's iconic air bases to be at the forefront of a global battle against rogue terrorist nations. | RAF Fylingdales in North Yorkshire has been one of the key strategic elements in the battle to contain the threat of missile strikes against the West since the Cold War. | Senior civil servants are drafting the first ever National Space Security Policy, which is due to be published this year.
At the time of Cohen's appointment, Rice was attempting to open diplomatic lines to Iran, North Korea , and Syria – a move Cohen and the Cheneys fiercely opposed. A few months after Bush left office, the former State Department official said Cohen...
Korea, in addition to striking a balance between the US and China, has been lumbered with the additional burden of maintaining an appropriate military relationship with Japan. | Please direct questions or comments to [englishhani@hani.co.kr]
Meanwhile, "Naneun Ggomsuda" was deemed pro- North Korea media by the government, and is banned from distribution among soldiers. According to local media, a subordinate unit of the Army Logistics Command last Tuesday compiled a list of eight smartphone...
Netizens are taunting an army unit after learning it designated the podcast "Naneun Ggomsuda¡± (Naggomsu) as a "pro-North Korean" app and ordered it deleted.(( | Please direct questions or comments to [englishhani@hani.co.kr]"
While North Korea is set to grant amnesty to prisoners, Open Doors USA awaits word whether that will include any Christians. General amnesties for a few prisoners, political and otherwise, are granted twice a year, but Open Doors spokesman Jerry...
Amnesty International on Thursday urged South Korean authorities to release a social media activist accused of helping "the enemy" for re-tweeting messages from a North Korean government Twitter account. | "This is not a national security case, it's a sad case of the South Korean authorities' complete failure to understand sarcasm," said Sam Zarifi, Amnesty International's Asia-Pacific Director.
As of autumn last year, Koryolink, North Korea's third-generation mobile phone network operator in which Orascom has a 75 percent stake, offers service in 14 major cities and 86 other municipalities, RFA said. | The service covers areas in which 94 percent of North Korea's 24 million people live, it added.
Thursday's Page 1 story about a ship portrait of the USS Missouri brought back memories for Gloucester's Paul Kelley, who served aboard the ship during the Korean War. | The 80-year-old Kelley served in the U.S. Air Force. | "In 1952, myself and two other airman from the 5th AF were deployed from Korea, where we served for 12 months, to the Missouri for 'special operations,'" he wrote in an email to the Times.
Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak issued a warning at a security conference Thursday that time is running out, and dealing with a nuclear Iran would be more complicated and costly than attempting to stop one. Ray Suarez and guests discuss the potential of a unilateral Israeli strike and a U.S. response to Israeli action.
Posted: 02/4/2012 1:00 AM | Comments: 0 (including replies) getCommentCount(138700979) | SEVERAL great novels have been written about totalitarianism. | George Orwell, Ayn Rand and Alexander Solzhenitsyn have penned fictional accounts of tyrannical societies, mostly based on the Soviet example. | But totalitarianism did not disappear with the collapse of the Soviet Union and its empire. | North Korea, whose so-called "Dear Leader,"
4 (Yonhap) -- North Korea is stepping up efforts to develop smartphone applications, a move that underscores its commitment not to be left behind in the fast moving world of information technology. Choe Hyok-chol, a North Korean professor...
By Donald Kirk WASHINGTON - North Korea stands to be a major winner if Israeli hotheads lose patience and drive Israel into attacking Iranian nuclear facilities. With Iran said in some quarters to be only months away from emerging as the world's 10th...
North Korea increased its imports of grain from China last year despite an improved harvest, a South Korean researcher said Wednesday, indicating an apparent attempt to ensure a successful celebration of the North's milestone anniversary this year.
Putin said "today there is no threat from Iran or North Korea " and NATO is not offering any guarantees, even written, that the (anti-missile) system is not targeted against Russia. The Russian prime minister said the US is the initiator...
Then, about halfway through the address, Bush started to sketch the perceived perils and coined a three-word phrase: "axis of evil" -- Iran, Iraq and North Korea. "In any of these cases, the price of indifference would be catastrophic."
South Korea's Unification Ministry belatedly confirmed Friday that another group visited North Korea via land route in December last year to pay condolences over the death of the North`s late leader Kim Jong Il. The government had said that it allowed...
Daniel Treisman, Special to CNN: Editor's note: Daniel Treisman is a professor of political science at the University of California, Los Angeles, and author of "The Return: Russia's Journey from Gorbachev to Medvedev." | On January 31 Russia joined with China to block a plan presented to the U.N. Security Council by Morocco and supported by the Arab League that called on Assad to hand power to his deputy, who would then call a general election.
SEOUL, Feb 3 (Bernama) -- South Korea's ruling party is considering programms to promote youth exchanges with North Korea as a campaign promise for April's parliamentary elections, officials said Friday, a move seen as softening the party's hard-line...
Of the countries that have not ratified the NPT, four are on nuclear “watchdog” lists: India, Pakistan, Israel and North Korea . The NPT itself presents an interesting situation for Iran, according to Art. In an interview with The Hoot, he stated...
The question is one of the hottest topics of debate among North Korea watchers as Kim's youngest son, Kim Jong-un, is installed as the next leader of the impoverished state. “Economic reforms usually take quite some time from the time they...
In October, 2003, eight representatives of the Global Children's Foundation charity organization were invited to North Korea to monitor the delivery of aid items for children we sent up there via the Eugene Bell Foundation. After a four-day visit we...
3 (Yonhap) -- President Lee Myung-bak named a well-known expert on North Korea as chief of the secretariat at a state advisory council on national unification, his office announced Friday. Nam Sung-wook, a security scholar who has served as head...
As far as I can tell, North Korea , Cuba and Somalia are the only nations genuinely inhospitable to millionaires with gigantic sacks of cash. If the global retreat of capital-unfriendly national social welfare and regulatory policies - and the rise...
South Korea is unlikely to accept most of the demands made in a statement by the Policy Department of the North's powerful National Defense Commission. But the timing of the statement, which follows comments Wednesday by a senior U.S.
North Korea's ceremonial head of state met Naguib Sawiris, founder and executive chairman of Egypt's Orascom Telecom Holding SAE, the state-run Korean Central News Agency reported.
By Jeremy Laurence SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea's new leadership, highly critical of South Korea since taking power, published an unusual "open questionnaire" to its rival on Thursday, demanding answers to show that Seoul was sincere about resuming...
South Korea is unlikely to accept most of the demands made in a statement by the Policy Department of the North's powerful National Defense Commission. But the timing of the statement, which follows comments Wednesday by a senior U.S.
SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA -- US missionary and human rights activist Robert Park will press charges against the DPRK (Democratic People's Republic of Korea) for extensive torture he suffered in flagrant violation of International Laws and Principles during his 43-day imprisonment in North Korea.
The Phuket Gazette Co., Ltd.: PHUKET: The US government is open to diplomacy with North Korea under the new leadership of Kim Jong-un, a senior US diplomat told reporters yesterday. US Assistant Secretary of State Kurt Campbell, a key diplomat for Asia, told reporters in the South...
But Thein Sein is dodging the issue. Although there are suspicions to that effect, no one has actually claimed that Burma has a nuclear relationship with North Korea.
NORTH Korea's top ruling body today again rebuffed South Korea's call for talks, saying Seoul's conservative leaders should first "repent of their crimes" and honour past summit agreements. | Seoul has said there is a "window of opportunity" for dialogue to ease tense relations after the death of Pyongyang's longtime leader Kim Jong-Il on December 17.
SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea on Thursday issued a long list of strident demands, including the cancellation of joint American-South Korean military exercises, that it said South Korea should meet before ties could improve between the two Koreas.
GateHouse Media, Inc.: On Feb. 16, three experts will discuss the "Future of Korea" at the Ivy Club in Peoria. | Cost is $35 and reservations must be made in advance. Tickets for the program only may be purchased at the door for $15. Contact the Peoria Area World Affairs Council at 677-2454 or www.pawac.org for reservations and questions.
Pam Benson CNN Senior National Security Producer: Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Michigan, made the comment in response to a question about a new report by the Bipartisan Policy Center that says the United States must put more teeth into its threat to use military power to stop Iran's nuclear ambitions. | In an interview with CNN, Rogers said more needs to be done: "I'm not saying we ought to bomb Iran, but you almost have to scare them, you have to frighten them to get to the right place."
A 24 year old man is facing up to seven years in jail in South Korea after he retweeted messages on Twitter that were sent by neighbouring North Korea's government. | Park is a member of the the South Korean Socialist Party which has regularly criticised the North Korean regime for the ill-treatment of its people. Nonetheless, he has been branded "an enemy"
But it remains to be seen whether runner0ups will be able to jumpstart the market, which is neglected by top- tier firms such as Canon and Nikon, market watchers said, "We plan to grab 50 percent of the mirrorless camera market here and overseas this year, "a Samsung executive told The Korea Herald on the sidelines of a news conference announcing the Korean Launch of the NX 10. Samsung, which is weak in the DSRL camera business, is betting...
But it remains to be seen whether runner0ups will be able to jumpstart the market, which is neglected by top- tier firms such as Canon and Nikon, market watchers said, "We plan to grab 50 percent of the mirrorless camera market here and overseas this year, "a Samsung executive told The Korea Herald on the sidelines of a news conference announcing the Korean Launch of the NX 10. Samsung, which is weak in the DSRL camera business, is betting...
Park Jung-geun, 23, a photographer who specialized in taking pictures of babies, was detained last month on charges of violating South Korea's controversial National Security Law, which bans “acts that benefit the enemy” — North Korea — but does...