DPRK releases Chinese fishermen

China Daily - Tuesday 21st May, 2013

/enpproperty--> BEIJING - A Chinese fishing boat held by the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) with 16 fishermen onboard was released early on Tuesday, the Foreign Ministry confirmed on Tuesday. Ministry spokesman Hong Lei made the remarks at a regular press conference here, quoting report by the owner of the vessel. "The crew was safe and the owner did not pay the ...

China says North Korea released detained sailors

Yahoo - Tuesday 21st May, 2013

BEIJING (AFP) - North Korea released 16 Chinese fishermen and their boat Tuesday, Beijing said, demanding an explanation after the kidnapping by armed attackers heightened strains between the neighbours."The DPRK side released the fishing boat and all the fishermen were safe and healthy," foreign ministry spokesman Hong Lei told a regular press briefing, using the North's official ...

Chinese boats captain beaten by North Koreans released after 2 weeks hostage

Fox News - Tuesday 21st May, 2013

The owner of a Chinese fishing boat seized for more than two weeks by armed North Koreans says the captors wore military uniforms, and that they beat up the boat's captain and stole its fuel. Owner Yu Xuejun says the captors eventually released the boat Tuesday without the ransom they had demanded. The incident was the latest irritant in relations between North Korea and a Chinese ...

DPRKs Kim Jong Un has 2 daughters S.Korean media

SINA - Tuesday 21st May, 2013

Kim Jong Un now has two daughters, probably with different women, S.Korea's Chosun Ilbo quoted a source in Beijing as saying. His older brother Kim Jong-chol apparently has a son. The source said Kim Jong Un's wife Ri Sol Ju gave birth to a baby girl late last year. Former NBA star Dennis Rodman, who visited Pyongyang in February this year, said Ri talked mostly about her ...

U.S. calls on DPRK to exercise restraint

SINA - Tuesday 21st May, 2013

The United States has reiterated its call on the DPRK's leaders to exercise restraint and abide by its international obligations. A spokesman for the US State Department made the remarks in a daily press conference in response to the DPRK's latest missiles launches. "To monitoring the situation, and we continue to urge them to exercise restraint and take steps to improve ...

Japan tips its hand via North Korea

Asia Times - Tuesday 21st May, 2013

By Peter Lee The big story in Asia affairs today is a little trip that was supposed to stay a secret: the dispatch of Isao Iijima, adviser to Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, to meet with senior officials in North Korea, thereby breaking the united US/South Korean/Japanese front in negotiations with Pyongyang. It is the first instance of an overt divergence between Japanese and US ...

China media North Korea warned

General Sources - Tuesday 21st May, 2013

State media in China warn North Korea to stop detaining fishing boats amid public anger over the "kidnapping" of fishermen by unidentified ...

N Korea releases China sailors

iafrica.com - Tuesday 21st May, 2013

North Korea has released 16 Chinese fishermen and their boat, Chinese state-run media said on Tuesday, after reports that armed assailants had taken the sailors hostage and demanded a ransom. "All the fishermen with the boat are safe on their way back," China's Xinhua news agency said, citing a Chinese embassy official in Pyongyang it said had heard the news from the ship's ...

Detained Chinese Fishermen Boat Released by North Korea

VOA - Tuesday 21st May, 2013

The official Xinhua news agency reported the development Tuesday, quoting a Chinese consular official in Pyongyang who spoke with the owner of the fishing boat. The official said the men were safe and on their way home, but he gave no other details. The owner of the boat says North Korea was demanding nearly $100,000 for the return of the boat and crew, which were taken May 6 in the waters ...

Hijacked Chinese Vessel Leaves N.Korea - Agency

RIA Novosti - Tuesday 21st May, 2013

BEIJING, May 21 (RIA Novosti) - A Chinese fishing vessel seized by a group of North Koreans in Chinese waters about two weeks ago was released on Tuesday, China’s Xinhua news agency said. Xinhua quoted the ship’s owner as saying that the fishermen aboard the boat were "all safe on their way back." The boat, Liaoning Generic Fishing No. 25222, and its crew are from the ...

FBI cast reporter as criminal in probe of North Korea leak

Tribune Review - Tuesday 21st May, 2013

WASHINGTON -- In another case of the Obama administration's investigating classified information improperly disclosed to reporters, the government is prosecuting a State Department expert on North Korea in a probe that appears to step into uncharted territory -- by declaring that a journalist is committing a crime in disclosing leaked ...

Obama Chinas Xi to meet earlier than expected amid issues from North Korea to cyberspying

Canada.com - Tuesday 21st May, 2013

BEIJING, China - China's new leader Xi Jinping will confer with President Barack Obama next month in California, months earlier than their expected first meeting, as both sides seek to stem a drift in relations, troubled by issues from cyberspying to North Korea. The June 7-8 meeting at a retreat southeast of Los Angeles, announced Monday by the White House, underlines the importance of ...

Chinese fishing boat crew released by North Korea

San Diego Union-Tribune - Tuesday 21st May, 2013

BEIJING -; The owner of a Chinese fishing boat seized for ransom by unidentified North Koreans says the boat and its 16 crew members have been ...

North Korea releases detained Chinese fishermen—Xinhua

Inquirer - Monday 20th May, 2013

BEIJING--North Korea has released 16 Chinese fishermen and their boat, Chinese state-run media said Tuesday, after reports that armed assailants had taken the sailors hostage and demanded a ransom. ';All the fishermen with the boat are safe on their way back,'; China’s Xinhua news agency said, citing a Chinese embassy official in Pyongyang it said had heard the news from the ...

Can Iijimas trip to North Korea be conducive to solving abduction issue

Asia News Network - Monday 20th May, 2013

Is there any chance of finding a toehold to break the long-standing impasse on the problem of Japanese abducted by North Korean agents? The effectiveness of the diplomatic strategy of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's administration is now being tested over the issue. Isao Iijima, special adviser to the Cabinet Secretariat, who visited North Korea from Tuesday to Friday, briefed Chief Cabinet ...

Pyongyang frees Chinese fishermen

The Standard - Monday 20th May, 2013

(34 mins ago) North Korea has released 16 Chinese fishermen and their boat, media reports said. ';All the fishermen with the boat are safe on their way back,'' Xinhua said, citing a Chinese embassy official in Pyongyang it said had heard the news from the shipowner. The vessel's owner Yu Xuejun told AFP that armed North Koreans seized the boat in waters between the two ...

Spring Trade Fair wraps up

North Korea Tech - Monday 20th May, 2013

‘ve taken a look through some of the footage from Korean national television and KCNA and spotted a few companies that were exhibiting. At last year’s trade ...

Detained Chinese fishermen in DPRK released official

Global Times - Monday 20th May, 2013

A Chinese private fishing boat seized by the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) side was released early Tuesday, a Chinese consular officer to the DPRK told Xinhua.Yu Xuejun, shipowner of the "Liaoning Generic Fishing No. 25222" from Dalian City in Northeast China's Liaoning Province, "has told us all the fishermen with the boat are safe on their way ...

Ambassy DPRK frees fishermen

China.org.cn - Monday 20th May, 2013

The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) has released the 16 fishermen it had kept in detention since May 5, the People's Daily quoted an official from the Chinese Ambassy in DPRK as saying early ...

North Korea Releases Chinese Fishing Crew

International Herald Tribune - Monday 20th May, 2013

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Rabbi Abraham Cooper From Sudan to North Korea and Syria A Plea to President Obama to Activate His Atrocities Prevention Board

Huffington Post - Monday 20th May, 2013

Co-authored by Professor Samuel Totten "In remembrance lie the roots of redemption; in forgetfulness the roots of destruction." That Judaic theme has inspired museums, international memorial days, and not a few politicians to invoke "Never Again" when the specter of genocide rears its horrific head. Yet while millions may draw inspiration and hope from survivor's ...

Fueling the Nuclear Fire in North Korea

Santa Barbara Independent - Monday 20th May, 2013

Intercontinental Ballistic Missile from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California to the Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands, 4,200 miles away. The test was originally scheduled for early April, at the height of the current U.S.-North Korea nuclear crisis. At that ...