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QUEZON City, Philippines – Freed American prisoner, Kenneth Bae, related his experiences as a prisoner of North Korea for two years. Bae was sentenced with fifteen years of hard labor last 2013. He said that he was forced to work in a mine from eight in the morning to 6 in the evening and was also subjected to verbal abuse by North Korean officials. (Eagle News Service Described by Jay Paul Carlos, Video Editing by […]
(REUTERS) North Korea’s Supreme Court sentenced a Korean American man to 10 years of hard labor on Friday for subversion, China’s Xinhua news agency reported, in the latest conviction of a foreigner for crimes against the isolated state. Kim Dong Chul was arrested in North Korea in October and had admitted to committing “unpardonable espionage” including stealing military secrets, the North’s official news agency reported earlier. “The Supreme Court of the Democratic People’s Republic of […]
by Carole Landry with Jung Ha-Won in Seoul UNITED NATION ,United States (AFP) — UN Security Council diplomats on Thursday warned North Korea to expect a response after Pyongyang’s repeated failed attempts to test-fire a powerful ballistic missile, the latest defiance of UN resolutions. At the request of the United States, the council held urgent closed-door consultations after North Korea’s unsuccessful launch earlier in the day of two medium-range missiles, as fears grew that the […]
SEOUL,South Korea (AFP) — North Korea has released a video appeal by the parents of one of 12 waitresses that Pyongyang insists were kidnapped by South Korean agents from the restaurant where they were working in China. In the footage, uploaded Wednesday to the North’s propaganda website Uriminzokkiri, the parents wept and demanded the South return their daughter, So Gyong-A. So and 11 other waitresses from the same restaurant arrived in South Korea earlier this […]
by Giles HEWITT Seoul,South Korea (AFP) — North Korea on Wednesday formally set May 6 for the opening of a landmark ruling party congress — the first in nearly four decades and an event many fear will be preceded by a fifth nuclear test. Anticipation over the congress, last held in 1980, has been mounting since the North signalled its intentions to hold the gathering way back in October. Kim Jong-Un is expected to use […]
(Reuters) The United States warned on Tuesday it would consider “other” options, which could include new sanctions or security steps, if North Korea continued nuclear and ballistic missile testing.South Korea’s Yonhap news agency earlier said North Korea appeared to be preparing a test-launch of an intermediate-range ballistic missile, after what the United States described as the “fiery, catastrophic” failure of a launch attempt this month. It is widely expected to conduct a fifth nuclear test […]
SEOUL/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – North Korea appears to be preparing a test-launch of an intermediate-range ballistic missile, South Korea’s Yonhap news agency said on Tuesday, after what the United States described as the “fiery, catastrophic” failure of the first attempt. Separately, President Barack Obama said the United States is working on defending itself and its allies against potential threats from what he called an “erratic” country with an “irresponsible” leader. On April 15, the North failed […]
North Korea said on Sunday a submarine-launched ballistic missile test it conducted under the supervision of leader Kim Jong Un had been a “great success” that provided “one more means for powerful nuclear attack”. The launch is the latest in a recent string of North Korean demonstrations of military might that began in January with its fourth nuclear test and included the launch of a long-range rocket the next month. The tests have increased tension […]
by Jung Ha-Won SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — North Korea tried and failed to test-fire what appeared to be a medium-range Musudan missile on the birthday of founding leader Kim Il-Sung Friday, a high-profile misstep after Pyongyang claimed a series of breakthroughs in its nuclear weapons program. There had been widespread intelligence reports in recent days that the North was preparing a first-ever flight test of the Musudan, believed to be capable of striking US […]
(Reuters) — North Korea’s state media on Saturday (April 2) released still photographs of its leader Kim Jong Un observing a test of what it said was a new type of anti-air guided weapon system. The still photographs, broadcast on the North’s state-run television KRT, showed Kim watching missiles being fired from surface and aerial targets being blown up. KRT, however, did not specify the date or location of the test firing. North Korea […]
Washington, United States (AFP)—United States President Barack Obama will this week meet Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and South Korean President Park Geun-Hye on the sidelines of a nuclear security summit, with North Korea on the agenda, the White House said recently. The trilateral meeting on Thursday in Washington comes the same day that Obama is scheduled to meet one-on-one with Chinese President Xi Jinping. “This meeting will be an opportunity for the three leaders […]
Seoul, South Korea (AFP)—North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un has claimed a “historic” advance in the country’s nuclear strike capability with the successful test of a solid-fuel rocket engine, state media said Thursday. The announcement came as South Korean President Park Geun-Hye ordered the military to “strengthen readiness” in the wake of multiple North Korean threats to launch nuclear and conventional missile attacks. Tensions have been soaring on the divided Korean peninsula since the North carried […]
