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28 Jan 2016, 12:47 pm
The Wall Street Journal tells us that South Korea is leaning more towards adopting an advanced U.S. missile defense system in order to guard against threats from North Korea, amid heightened caution after Pyongyang’s recent nuclear test earlier this month. [read post]
22 Jan 2016, 1:18 pm
” An American student from Cincinnati was arrested in North Korea for an unspecified “hostile act” according to the hermit kingdom state-run media, the Washington Post reports. 21-year-old Otto Frederick Warmbier was detained on January 2nd at Pyongyang’s airport before he was about to leave for a trip over the New Year holiday, just four days after North Korea conducted its most recent nuclear test. [read post]
21 Jan 2016, 11:50 pm
The rest goes back to the government in Pyongyang. [read post]
19 Jan 2016, 2:08 pm
The AP reports that North Korea has launched propaganda leaflets via balloon into South Korea following increased tensions between the rival nations over the North’s recent nuclear test. [read post]
15 Jan 2016, 1:15 pm
Among the twenty nations are Argentina, China, Egypt, Israel, Mexico, and North Korea. [read post]
12 Jan 2016, 2:13 pm
” As the international community readies to lift sanctions against Iran, the United States Congress is preparing a new round of legislation that “seeks to punish North Korea for its latest nuclear test by expanding sanctions on Pyongyang,” the Associated Press reports. [read post]
11 Jan 2016, 1:23 pm
” In the Washington Post, nonproliferation expert Jeffrey Lewis writes that “North Korea is a joke. [read post]
7 Jan 2016, 1:28 pm
When North Korea last tested a nuclear device in 2013, the United States sent a pair of nuclear-capable B-2 stealth bombers to fly over South Korea as a show of force. [read post]
6 Jan 2016, 3:40 pm
After detection devices around the world picked up a 5.1 seismic event along North Korea’s northeast coast late Tuesday night, North Korea declared that it had tested its first ever hydrogen bomb. [read post]
17 Sep 2015, 5:51 pm
North Korea is preparing for its 70th anniversary, raising questions about how exactly the country will mark the occasion. [read post]
26 Aug 2015, 10:13 am
Fresh on the heels of the recent standoff between North and South Korea, the Journal examines a recent report on the political situation in Pyongyang. [read post]
26 Aug 2015, 4:02 am
August 13: North Korea denies the allegations at the highest level. [read post]
25 Aug 2015, 10:42 am
North and South Korea have reached a tentative agreement to defuse their recent standoff. [read post]
24 Aug 2015, 10:51 am
Diplomats have been conducting high-level talks since Saturday to defuse the situation, even as South Korean President Park Geun-hye demanded that Pyongyang apologize for recent landmine blasts and North Korea relocated its military forces to deploy along the border. [read post]
21 Aug 2015, 12:07 pm
” Meanwhile, the Times fills us in on the “unlikely cause” of this sudden escalation in tensions: South Korea’s use of loudspeakers to blast anti-Pyongyang propaganda across the border, which apparently goaded North Korea to the point of opening fire. [read post]
17 Aug 2015, 12:06 pm
North Korea blared propaganda messages over the border into South Korea as the military excersies began. [read post]
14 Aug 2015, 11:24 am
Speaking of those neighbors: after two South Korean soldiers were seriously wounded by explosions from mines laid along the border between the Koreas, North Korea has now denied any involvement in laying the mines. [read post]
11 Aug 2015, 8:27 am
North Korea has released photos of Kim Jong-un meeting the country's women's football team at Pyongyang airport after they won the East Asian Cup. [read post]
10 Aug 2015, 10:57 am
North Korean soldiers planted landmines last week across the heavily fortified border between the two Koreas, maiming two South Korean soldiers. [read post]
7 Aug 2015, 11:44 am
Top Democratic Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) dealt a blow to the Obama administration yesterday, posting a 1,600-word statement on the website Medium in which he revealed that “After deep study, careful thought and considerable soul-searching, I have decided I must oppose the [nuclear] agreement and will vote yes on a motion of disapproval. [read post]
