Saturday 28th January, 2012
Recovery Mission to Begin This Spring in North Korea
By Donna MilesAmerican Forces Press Service WASHINGTON, Jan. 27, 2012 – Members of the Joint Prisoner of War/Missing in Action Accounting Command are preparing for their first mission to North ...
Irish may try IRA veteran over North Korean scam
North Korean embassy in Moscow in 1998. Edwards issued his follow-up statement one month after he rejected a 6-year-old U.S. extradition warrant for Garland. The judge explained that the alleged ...
North Korea Renews Commitment To Gas Pipeline Project With Russia
MOSCOW, Jan 27 (Bernama) -- Top North Korean officials have vowed to move ahead with an ambitious project to build a pipeline through their isolated country to ship Siberian gas to South Korea. ...
North Korea's new leader Kim Jong-un made yet another visit to a military unit, his fifth this month, according to a state media report Sunday, as the young successor tries to consolidate his power after the death of his father Kim Jong-il.
The Korea TimesNorth Korea's new leader Kim Jong-un made yet another visit to a military unit, his fifth this month, according to a state media report Sunday, as the young successor tries to consolidate his ...
Korean War criminals tried as Jap..
The Korea TimesBy Shin Hee-seok Hiromura Gakurai was a prison guard at the Hintok work camp along the Thailand-Burma "death railway," infamous for the extremely high human toll on the Allied prisoners ...
North Korea warns South but accepts food aid
Times of IndiaNorth Korean government has focused on consolidating the succession, it has sharpened its criticism of President Lee Myung-bak's government in Seoul, vowing never to deal with it. The ...
North Korea Outlaws Cell Phones
General SourcesFor everyone who protests the new internet restrictions that could have come with SOPA and might still come with ACTA, this one comes from the perspective department: North Korea has threatened to ...
North Korea makes cellphone usage a 'war crime' under 100 days of mourning
General SourcesSummary: During the 100 day mourning period for Kim Jong-Il, citizens in North Korea are banned from using mobile phones, and those caught will be treated as ‘war ...
US team due in NKorea in March
General SourcesU.S. military personnel will travel to North Korea in March to restart efforts to recover thousands of servicemen missing from the 1950-53 Korean War, the Defense Department said ...
North Korea Would Punish Cellphone Users As War Criminals
Web Pro NewsGenocides, obliterations of cities, murder of prisoners, egregious violation of international humanitarian law. These are crimes that will likely get a person tried as a war criminal. But using a ...
N. Korea holds first Cabinet meeting since Kim's death
The Korea TimesNorth Korea held its first cabinet meeting since its long-time leader Kim Jong-il's death, the state media said Sunday. According to North Korea's official Korea Central News Agency ...
Mercedes prosecutor gets 3-year j..
The Korea TimesBy Yun Suh-young A former prosecutor who received luxury items from a law firm in exchange for peddling her influence in a court ruling was sentenced to three years in prison by a local court, ...
Top telecom regulator quits amid ..
The Korea TimesBy Kim Tae-gyu Korea Communications Commission (KCC) Chairman Choi See-joong resigned Friday amid an investigation into the bribery and influence-peddling allegations involving his close aide. ...
Lee's aide denies role in diamond..
The Korea TimesBy Park Si-soo A former vice minister denied his involvement in a stock price rigging scam Friday in which the state auditor pinpointed a ranking diplomat as the prime suspect a day earlier. ...
Samsung suffers legal setback aga..
The Korea TimesBy Kim Yoo-chul Samsung Electronics suffered another legal setback in its patent battle with Apple, after a German court ruled against its claim that the iPhone maker infringed on its smartphone ...
Leaders toughen foreign policy in..
The Korea TimesBy Kang Hyun-kyung Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda has rejected Seoul's call on a Japanese cabinet minister to withdraw his controversial remarks on Korea's easternmost islets, ...
Samsung Electronics reports 17% r..
The Korea TimesSamsung Electronics Co., the world's largest maker of computer memory chips, said Friday that its fourth-quarter earnings rose 17 percent from a year earlier, fueled by strong sales of ...
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