North Korea issues threat over Hitler report

General Sources - Wednesday 19th June, 2013

Seoul: North Korea has angrily denied a report that its ruler used Adolf Hitler's memoir as a leadership guide, threatening to kill the authors of the ...

Kim Jong Un has a $7m yacht now

Global Post - Wednesday 19th June, 2013

NKNews reports . North Korea's state-run news agency, KCNA, first gave a glimpse of the boat in May while Kim Jong Un was touring the country. It was pictured in the background of one of the obligatory shots of Kim greeting comrades. And ...

Chinese FM talks with U.S. South Korean counterparts on Korean Peninsula tensions

People's Daily - Wednesday 19th June, 2013

BEIJING, April 14 (Xinhua) -- Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi has held separate talks by phone with his U.S. and South Korean counterparts Hillary Clinton and Kim Sung-hwan on tensions on the Korean Peninsula.Speaking to Clinton Friday and Kim Saturday, Yang said the Chinese side noted the concern of various parties about the Democratic People's Republic of Korea's (DPRK) ...

S Korean Catholic group delivers flour to DPRK

People's Daily - Wednesday 19th June, 2013

South Korea's Catholic aid agency delivered 100 tons of flour to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) Thursday, soon after the government granted approval for civilian food aid to the impoverished neighbor.Caritas Korea sent 100 tons of flour to the border city of Kaesong, which will then be delivered to nurseries and hospitals in Kangnam-gun County in North Hwanghae ...

China DPRK discuss situation on Korean Peninsula bilateral relations

Itar Tass - Wednesday 19th June, 2013

BEIJING, June 19 (Itar-Tass) - Chinese and North Korean deputies foreign minister, Zhang Yesui and Kim Gye Gwan, have discussed the development of bilateral relations and the situation on the Korean Peninsula within the inter-ministerial strategic dialogue, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Hua Chunying said on Wednesday. She said the parties "exchanged views on a wide range of ...

Why Doesnt Snowden Tell Us North Koreas Game Plan

Forbes - Wednesday 19th June, 2013

Computer whiz Edward Snowden's revelations of the NSA's broadbrush program for sweeping up internet and phone messages by the millions raises a perplexing question: If the NSA and CIA and others know so much, why do we have so much trouble seeing through North Korea? Take North Korea's offer to talk to the U.S. after spurning talks with South Korea. The excitement generated by ...

North Korea ‘used luxury yacht for tour’

General Sources - Wednesday 19th June, 2013

Seoul: North Korean leader Kim Jong-un toured the impoverished country’s east coast last month in a 95-foot luxury yacht, a boat that could be prohibited under UN sanctions, a website that tracks events in the reclusive state ...

Kim Jong-un’s yacht trip suspected of violating sanctions

Euro News - Wednesday 19th June, 2013

16/04/2013 05:15 CET Kim Jong-un, the supreme leader of North Korea, toured the country's east coast last month in a 95-foot luxury yacht that could be prohibited under UN sanctions imposed for the country's nuclear and missile tests. The Korean Central News Agency released a photograph of Kim on May 28 that showed him walking along a dock with the starboard side of a luxury boat ...

Chinas attitude on DPRK consistent

China Daily - Wednesday 19th June, 2013

/enpproperty--> The Foreign Ministry on June 18 said Beijing hasn't changed its attitude toward Pyongyang. The comment came in response to US President Barack Obama's statement that China was taking a tougher line against the Democratic People's Republic of Korea's nuclear program. "China's position on the Korean peninsula nuclear issue is consistent and ...

N. Korea Beijings problem child

CNN Asia - Wednesday 19th June, 2013

Pyongyang reacted angrily to tougher sanctions after its third nuclear test Chinese trade with North Korea has been a lifeline for the isolated regime But Beijing has struggled to control the angry rhetoric from its neighbor Expert: China fears a North Korean collapse would spark a refugee ...

North Korea China look to resolve crisis

CNN Asia - Wednesday 19th June, 2013

North Korea swings between provocation and negotiation Analysts say North Korean diplomacy follows a familiar pattern The U.S. insists de-nuclearization is a pre-condition of talks Analysts say North Korea's behavior is now an embarrassment to ...

N.Korea threatens to kill authors of Hitler report

General Sources - Wednesday 19th June, 2013

North Korea has angrily denied a report that its ruler used Adolf Hitler's memoir as a leadership guide, threatening to kill the authors of the report. The article by New Focus International, an online news portal run by North Korean defectors, said Kim Jong-Un had given copies of "Mein Kampf" to his top officials, urging them to study it as a leadership skills manual. He handed ...

Kim Jong-un ‘stresses Hitler’s skills’

IOL - Wednesday 19th June, 2013

Seoul - North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has reportedly given copies of Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf to his top officials, urging them to study it as a leadership skills ...

N Korea condemns Hitler report

General Sources - Wednesday 19th June, 2013

North Korea has blasted a report that its leader, Kim Jong-un, gave out copies of Adolf Hitler's memoir Mein Kampf to officials on his birthday. The report, from a news website run by North Korean defectors, said that senior officials were given the book as a gift in January. North Korea has denounced the defectors as "human scum" and threatened to kill them. Nazi leader Adolf ...

Tortured beaten starved life in a North Korean gulag

General Sources - Wednesday 19th June, 2013

Thousands of people are worked and tortured to death in North Korean gulags every year. Executive Director of the US Committee for Human Rights in North Korea Greg Scarlatoiu tells DW about their living ...

N.Korean envoy in Beijing seeking to mend ties - experts

General Sources - Wednesday 19th June, 2013

By Michael Martina BEIJING (Reuters) - A North Korean envoy held talks with Chinese officials on Wednesday that experts said were unlikely to yield concessions from Pyongyang on its nuclear programme but were more aimed at repairing ties with Beijing. First Vice Foreign Minister Kim Kye-gwan, who has represented Pyongyang at previous international talks to get North Korea to halt its nuclear ...

N.Korean leader Kim used luxury yacht to tour coast -website

General Sources - Wednesday 19th June, 2013

SEOUL, June 19 (Reuters) - North Korean leader Kim Jong-un toured the impoverished country's east coast last month in a 95-foot luxury yacht, a boat that could be prohibited under U.N. sanctions, a website that tracks events in the reclusive state said. North Korea is banned from importing luxury goods under layers of U.N. sanctions imposed for its nuclear and missile tests. The NK ...

China North Korea hold strategic talks in Beijing

Sign on San Diego - Wednesday 19th June, 2013

FILE - In this June 18, 2013 photo, North Korea's First Vice Foreign Minister Kim Kye Gwan, right, waves as he arrives at the Capital airport in Beijing, China. North Korean First Vice Foreign Minister Kim was expected to discuss bilateral relations and the situation on the Korean Peninsula with Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Zhang Yesui on Wednesday. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, ...

Pig Pasture in Daehongdan Has Closed

Open Radio - Wednesday 19th June, 2013

The North Korean authorities recently ordered the closing of all pig pastures in Daehongdan, which was Kim Jong ...

N. Korean leader stresses Hitlers skills report

General Sources - Tuesday 18th June, 2013

SEOUL: North Korean ruler Kim Jong-Un has reportedly given copies of Adolf Hitler's "Mein Kampf" to his top officials, urging them to study it as a leadership skills ...

Pyongyang said to recommend Hitlerian skills

The Standard - Tuesday 18th June, 2013

(15 mins ago) North Korean ruler Kim Jong Un has reportedly given copies of Adolf Hitler's ';Mein Kampf'' to his top officials, urging them to study it as a leadership skills manual. Kim handed out translations of the manifesto to select officials at the time of his birthday in January, reported New Focus International, an online news portal run by North Korean defectors, ...

Pyongyang offers dialogue and hope

China Daily - Tuesday 18th June, 2013

/enpproperty--> The Democratic People's Republic of Korea seems to have taken a U-turn from its belligerent rhetoric after the United Nations imposed sanctions on it for conducting its third nuclear test and launching a satellite. Although earlier it had lashed out at the joint military drills between the United States and the Republic of Korea, on Sunday the DPRK proposed talks ...