And yet, incomprehensibly-and two months overdue-the State Department’s recent Friday news dump of its annual “Country Reports on Terrorism” still clings to the tendentious, perennial boilerplate that North Korea “is not known to have sponsored any terrorist acts since the bombing of a Korean Air Lines flight in 1987”.
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The terrapin farm had been created under orders by Kim Jong-un’s father, Kim Jong-il.
Kim Jho Gwang-Soo (left), a South Korean movie director who is gay, and his partner Kim Seung-Hwan, a colleague at his entertainment firm, pose during a press conference before their wedding in central Seoul on September 7, 2013.
So far about 28,000 North Koreans have resettled in the South since the end of the 1950-1953 Korean War.
He attacked the South for “being persistent in forcing” North Koreans who stray into the South to “defect”, calling for an immediate repatriation of all the five people.
“But if officials ousted from power defect to the South in the process of a leadership change or the eradication of the last vestiges of (Kim’s uncle) Jang Song Thaek, it can’t be seen as an indicator of regime instability in North Korea”.
The manager tried to explain that electricty outages led to their deaths, but Kim Jong-un wasn’t having any of it and it’s alleged that the manager was executed.
We hope that the South Korean government will view Lee’s plans to visit the North in a positive light and will support her. It would also be worth considering the idea of using Lee to deliver a message from President Park Geun-hye to North Korea.
“If all our citizens are not returned promptly and continue to be held, we will take a firmer responsive measure”.
Seoul notified Pyongyang of the sailors’ rescue and pledged to return the two through the truce village of Panmunjom at 11 a.m. Tuesday. The greenhouses surrounded by mountains are known to grow North Korea’s finest fruits and vegetables.
North Korea and South Korea have a disputed maritime boundary, and encroachment by North Korean fishing vessels into waters claimed by the South is quite common.
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A severe drought in North Korea is putting the lives of children at risk and many are in serious danger of disease and malnutrition, the United Nations children’s agency said yesterday.
