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All posts tagged "north"

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  China not invited to 3rd death anniversary of Kim Jong-il

  BEIJING (Yonhap) — China is unlikely to send a delegation to next week’s third death anniversary of North Korea’s former leader, Kim Jong-il, because it has yet to receive a formal invitation from Pyongyang, a diplomatic source...

  • Posted December 8, 2014
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  [CNN] Suki Kim’s Experience in North Korea ‘it’s the most horrific place to me in the world’

  —  CNN’s FAREED ZAKARIA GPS features an interview with Suki Kim who explains how she got inside a North Korean school and the warped worldview of students there. On North Koreans’ perception of the world:  “They, first of all, didn’t...

  • Posted December 8, 2014
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  [Harvard Review] Unexpected Partnerships with North Korea

    Despite political tension surrounding the country, NGOs have found ways to collaborate effectively with the North Korean government in an effort to fight its deadliest disease. When North Korea makes international headlines, it...

  • Posted December 3, 2014
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  Sony denies N. Korea as suspect in hacking case

  (AP) — Sony Pictures said Wednesday that the investigation into the cyberattack that crippled its computer systems is continuing and denied a report that it is poised to name North Korea as the culprit. Earlier Wednesday, Re/code...

  • Posted December 3, 2014
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  N. Koreans banned from using leader’s name

  SEOUL (Yonhap) — North Korea has ordered its people not to use the name “Kim Jong-un” in a bid to protect the supreme authority of the current leader, according to Pyongyang’s official document confirmed Wednesday. In January...

  • Posted December 3, 2014
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  Security experts doubt North Korea hacked into Sony

  Some cybersecurity experts say it is unlikely North Korea was behind the cyberattack that crippled Sony Pictures’ computers and possibly leaked unreleased movies online. Speculation has been rampant that the hard-line communist state sponsored last week’s hack...

  • Posted December 2, 2014
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  Comedian Jack Black ‘deadly terrified of’ NK

  By Lee Ji-hye Actor and musician Jack Black brings his band Tenacious D to Seoul this weekend, but a performance in Pyongyang looks unlikely anytime soon. In an email interview ahead of his group’s maiden performance in...

  • Posted December 2, 2014
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