All posts tagged "North Korea"

  • Park Hyung-seo explains the project to send sweet potato cultivation to North Korea.
    Organization helps North Korean food shortage with sweet potatoes

    A North American organization is supporting better children’s nutrition and spreading agricultural techniques to North Korea. The organization, led by Canadian Korean Park Hyung-seo, is working to teach North Koreans cultivation methods for sweet potatoes. In May...

    • Posted August 12, 2014
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  • Ralph Ahn, right, discusses the independence movement with North Korean defectors and guides visiting from Korea. (Park Sang-hyuk/The Korea Times)
    North Korean defectors visit L.A. to learn history

    By Park Ju-yeon North Korean defectors arrived in Los Angeles Monday to attend a program aimed at teaching Korean American history. The visit, arranged by the YoungNak Presbyterian Church of Los Angeles and supported by Seoul’s YoungNak...

    • Posted July 30, 2014
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  • 50 North Korean students killed in May bus accident

    Fifty North Korean students from the country’s most prestigious middle school were found to have died in a bus accident on May 24. While driving through the the Masik Pass, the bus overturned and killed everyone aboard,...

    • Posted July 29, 2014
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  • Secretary General Kwon Kyung-sang of the 2014 Incheon Asian Games Organizing Committee, second from front in the right row, introduces other South Korean delegates to Son Kwang-ho, back in the left row, vice chairman of Pyongyang's National Olympic Committee, during working-level talks between the two Koreas event at Panmunjeom, Thursday, about the quadrennial sporting event. Kwon and Son led their respective three-member delegations. (Yonhap)
    Two Koreas fail to reach agreement over Asian Games

    By Yi Whan-woo The two Koreas failed to reach an agreement over Pyongyang’s plan to dispatch athletes and cheerleaders to the 2014 Incheon Asian Games in September, the government said Thursday. The South Korean delegation said the...

    • Posted July 17, 2014
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  • South Korean marine LVT-7 landing craft sail to shores through smoke screens during the U.S.-South Korea joint military exercises called Ssangyong, part of the Foal Eagle military exercises, in Pohang, South Korea, Monday, March 31, 2014. South Korea said North Korea has announced plans to conduct live-fire drills near the rivals' disputed western sea boundary. The planned drills Monday come after an increase in threatening rhetoric from Pyongyang and a series of rocket and ballistic missile launches in an apparent protest against the annual military exercises by Seoul and Washington.(AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)
    North Korea fires 100 rounds of artillery near eastern sea border

    (Yonhap) — North Korea on Monday fired about 100 artillery shells into the East Sea from a place close to the inter-Korean border, the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said, the latest in a series of military...

    • Posted July 14, 2014
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    North Korea files protest against U.S. film about assassination attempt on Kim Jong-un

    SEOUL (Yonhap) — North Korea has filed a protest with the United Nations against a U.S. movie featuring an assassination attempt on North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, calling on the U.S. government to ban the release of...

    • Posted July 9, 2014
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    North Korea again fires two short-range missiles into East Sea

    SEOUL (Yonhap) – North Korea fired off two more short-range ballistic missiles into the sea from an inland site on Wednesday (KST), the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) in Korea said, the latest in a series of launches...

    • Posted July 8, 2014
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