All posts tagged "North Korea"

  • A visitor reads messages on ribbons wishing for the reunification of the two Koreas at the Imjingak Pavilion near the border village of Panmunjom, which has separated the two Koreas since the Korean War, in Paju, South Korea, Tuesday, Aug. 25, 2015. After more than 40 hours of talks, North and South Korea pulled back from the brink Tuesday with an accord that allows both sides to save face and, for the moment, avert the bloodshed they've been threatening each other with for weeks.(AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)
    Korea reunification would create $8.7 trillion economy: gov’t think tank

    By Brian Han The Korean peninsula has been split into two countries since 1948. Since 1950, North and South Korea have technically been engaged in a state of war. Though numerous social and political barriers still exist...

    • Posted October 28, 2015
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  • Kim Jong-un and his administration deny accusations of human rights violations from the United Nations. (Yonhap/KCNA)
    Pentagon used NGO for espionage missions in N. Korea: report

    WASHINGTON (Yonhap) — The U.S. Defense Department declined comment Monday on a news report that it had secretly funded a nongovernmental aid group to carry out espionage missions in North Korea in the name of humanitarian assistance....

    • Posted October 26, 2015
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  • Jung Gun-mok, front, a 64-year-old former South Korean fisherman who was abducted by North Korea in the Yellow Sea about 40 years ago, looks away as he is about to burst into tears, as he bids farewell to his mother on the bus. His mother Lee Bok-soon, 88, helplessly looks out the window as the bus is about to leave the resort on Mount Kumgang on the North's east coast on Oct. 26, 2015, the last day of the three-day reunions. (Yonhap)
    Koreas’ separated families bid tearful farewell

    MOUNT KUMGANG, North Korea (Yonhap) — Korean family members torn by the 1950-53 Korean War bid a tearful farewell to their relatives in North Korea on Monday after days of the much-awaited but short reunions. A total...

    • Posted October 26, 2015
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  • South Koreans gather to resister for the upcoming family reunions with their North Korean family members at a hotel in Sokcho, South Korea, Friday, Oct. 23, 2015. South Koreans will travel to the Diamond Mountain resort in North Korea for the Separated Family Reunion Meeting, which begins Saturday and ends Monday. (Kim Do-hun/Yonhap)
    Second group of South Koreans prepare for final cross-border family reunion

    SOKCHO, South Korea (Yonhap) — Another group of South Korean families separated by the 1950-53 Korean War gathered at the country’s east coastal city on Friday to prepare for their first reunions with North Korean relatives. The...

    • Posted October 23, 2015
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  • South Korean President Park Geun-hye, right, shakes hands with her Botswana counterpart Ian Khama before their summit at the presidential Blue House in Seoul Friday, Oct. 23, 2015. (Jung Yeon-je/Pool Photo via AP)
    Botswana president berates N. Korean regime

    SEOUL (Yonhap) — Botswana President Ian Khama was firm Friday as he expressed no interest in maintaining diplomatic relations with an oppressive regime like that of North Korea. Speaking in an exclusive interview with Yonhap News Agency,...

    • Posted October 23, 2015
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  • National security adviser Kim Kwan-jin speaks at a parliamentary audit session on Oct. 23, 2015. (Yonhap)
    S. Korea to push for talks with N. Korea after family reunions: NSC chief

    SEOUL (Yonhap) — South Korea will push for inter-Korean government and red cross talks in the near future after the on-going event of family reunions, Seoul’s security adviser said Friday. “Regarding the South-North agreement, we will go...

    • Posted October 23, 2015
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  • Buddhists from South and North Korea pose for a picture at Shingye Temple on Mount Kumgang along the North's east coast on Oct. 15, 2015, after a service for reconciliation and a peaceful unification of the two Koreas. (Yonhap file photo)
    Religious leaders of two Koreas to gather in N. Korea next month

    SEOUL (Yonhap) — Religious leaders in South Korea will visit North Korea next month to hold a joint event for peace with their counterparts in the communist country, a religious group said Friday. Some 150 men from...

    • Posted October 23, 2015
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