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North Korea will reopen border to South Korea

onnorthkorea — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 19:15:07 +0000

The agreement to ease restrictions on the border follows a meeting between the reclusive state’s leader Kim Jong-il and the head of the South Korean Hyundai Group who had gone to Pyongyang to seek the release of a detained worker.

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North Korea threatens with nukes in response to sanctions

onnorthkorea — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 19:06:18 +0000

“Should the US imperialists and (South Korean government) threaten the (North) with nukes, it will retaliate against them with nukes,” North Korea’s military said in a statement reported on Sunday by the country’s official Korean Central News Agency.

Read article at The News.

Reports that North Korea helps Myanmar build atomic bomb

onnorthkorea — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 19:11:38 +0000

Several reports indicate that North Korea may be supporting Myanmar, positioned between India and China, in building a secret nuclear reactor and plutonium extraction plant. It is also claimed that Myanmar intends to build an atomic bomb by 2014.

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Clinton diplomacy may not change relations with North Korea

onnorthkorea — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 19:55:29 +0000

According to American journalist and political commentator Michael Crowley, it seems “depressingly plausible” that normalized relations, and a concession on the scale of dismantling the nuclear program, would run so fundamentally against the North Korean regime’s identity that it could no longer exist.

Read blog post at The New Republic – The Plank

Hillary played vital role in release of journalists

onnorthkorea — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 19:54:30 +0000

Photo: AP/Jae C. Hong

Although husband Bill gets all the credits for winning the freedom from North Korea of two American journalists, Hillary Clinton was deeply involved in the case, too. She proposed sending various people to Pyongyang — including Mr. Clinton’s vice president, Al Gore — to lobby for the release of the women.

Read full article at The New York Times

North Korea’s use of Russian missile technology

onnorthkorea — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 19:36:04 +0000

Arms blogger Josua Pollock is discussing Russia’s aid to North Korea’s missile program and whether North Korea is still using Russian missile know-how and technology.

Read blog post at ArmsControlWonk.com

Clinton concerned over nuclear co-operation between North Korea and Burma

onnorthkorea — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 10:26:03 +0000

Photo: EPA

The Burmese military has been doing business with a North Korean company that specialises in nuclear technology. Hillary Clinton has expressed concern over the military links between the countries.

Read article at Guardian.co.uk

New U.N. sanctions against North Korea

onnorthkorea — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 21:15:54 +0000

UN/DPI Photo

The U.N. imposed new sanctions against North Korea on Thursday, which take immediate effect and are to be carried out by all of the U.N.’s 192 member nations. North Korea will now face travel bans and a freeze on the financial assets against the officials, companies and state agency. Nations were also instructed to refrain from supplying North Korea with certain types of materials used in ballistic missile parts.

Read AP article at Yahoo! News

U.K., not North Korea, may be behind cyberattacks

onnorthkorea — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 21:24:55 +0000

The U.K. was the likely source of a series of DDOS attacks last week that took down popular Web sites in the U.S. and South Korea, according to an analysis performed by a Vietnamese computer security analyst. The results contradict assertions made by some in the U.S. and South Korean governments that North Korea was behind the attack.

Read article at Network World

Does North Korea’s leader have cancer?

onnorthkorea — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 21:15:07 +0000

The health of North Korea’s leader Kim Jong-Il, 87, is clearly worsening, but some analysts question whether Il has life-threatening pancreas cancer, as previously reported.

Read article at channelnewsasia.com