All posts tagged "North Korea"

  • This photo provided by Derek Sciba shows Kenneth Bae, center, and his mother Myunghee Bae, in red coat, praying with other family members after his release from North Korea, Saturday Nov. 8, 2014. (AP Photo/Derek Sciba)
    Kenneth Bae, detained 2 years in North Korea, releasing book

    SEATTLE (AP) — Kenneth Bae, a U.S. citizen who was detained in North Korea for two years before his release last November, plans to tell his story in a book. W Publishing Group, an imprint of the...

    • Posted November 5, 2015
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    Elder Bush criticizes son’s ‘axis of evil’ address

    WASHINGTON (Yonhap) — Former U.S. President George H.W. Bush has criticized his son’s 2002 State of the Union address that labeled Iraq, Iran and North Korea as part of an “axis of evil,” a news report said....

    • Posted November 5, 2015
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  • Five Nobel laureates plan North Korea visit

    Five Nobel laureates will visit North Korea in April next year as a part of a program involving visits to Asian universities, according to Johns Hopkins University Professor Peter Agre Thursday. Agre, who received a Nobel Prize...

    • Posted November 5, 2015
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  • This undated file photo shows shampoos produced at the Pyongyang Cosmetics Factory. The new and improved North Korean cosmetics are said to be packaged much better. (Yonhap)
    Want to try N. Korean beauty care? Kim Jong-un’s wife inspires better quality cosmetics

    SEOUL (Yonhap) — North Korea appears to have advanced the quality of the cosmetics the country produces, a feat attributable to encouragement by the fashionable wife of leader Kim Jong-un, according to North Korean news reports and...

    • Posted November 4, 2015
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  • Senior North Korean Foreign Ministry official Jong Tong Hak poses before an interview with APTN in London, Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2015. North Korea says the United States needs to end its “nuclear blackmail“ and respond to Pyongyang's recent diplomatic overture to formally end the decades-old Korean conflict. Fighting ended in 1953 without a peace treaty, leaving North and South Korea still technically still at war. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)
    N. Korea says bold action by US could open path to treaty

    LONDON (AP) — North Korea says the United States needs to end its “nuclear-based threats and blackmail” and respond to the North’s recent diplomatic overture to formally end the decades-old Korean conflict. Fighting ended in 1953 without...

    • Posted November 4, 2015
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  • Ex-South Korean football coach Guus Hiddink (Yonhap)
    Ex-S. Korea football coach Hiddink to visit N. Korea

    SEOUL (Yonhap) — Former South Korea football coach Guus Hiddink will visit North Korea this week to open a futsal stadium, officials said Wednesday. According to Guus Hiddink Foundation, the Dutchman will travel to Pyongyang on Thursday...

    • Posted November 4, 2015
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  • U.N.'s Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in North Korea Marzuki Darusman of Indonesia speaks during a press conference to discuss wages that North Korean laborers are receiving in Siberia. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara)
    N. Koreans in Siberia earn US$200-3,000 per year: report

    SEOUL (Yonhap) — North Korean workers in the eastern Siberian region earn a mere US$200-3,000 a year on average, often exposed to a delay in payment due partly to corruption among managers, a report showed Wednesday. It...

    • Posted November 4, 2015
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