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North keeps out South Korean officials

news.com.au     Apr 11, 2008    24 related    Send to a friend

NORTH Korea has blocked South Korean officials from entering the country amid growing tensions prompted by Seoul's tougher line on cross-border relations, officials said today. ... They said the communist state is following through on its announcement last week that it...

Inter-Korean trade doubled in 1st quarter

xinhuanet.com     Apr 7, 2008    Send to a friend

SEOUL, April 7 (Xinhua) -- The trade volume between South ... ... SEOUL, April 7 (Xinhua) -- The trade volume between South Korea and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) in the first quarter of this year doubled from a year earlier, a South Korean government...

Back in the DPRK

formerspook.blogspot.com     Apr 1, 2008    Send to a friend

Not what you’d normally expect from a British tabloid, but today’s U.K. Sun has a rare glimpse inside the gulag known as North Korea. A South Korean firm has been running visits to the DPRK since last December; participants are bused through the DMZ to the city of...

Inside the nightmare world of North Korea...

drudgereport.com     Mar 31, 2008    Send to a friend

No one in the room was smiling – least of all me. My day trip had begun with a strict set of rules provided by the South Korean tour company which has been running trips to the city of Kaesong, in the North, since December. Sun photographer Phil Hannaford and I were given...

The nightmare world of North Korea

thesun.co.uk     Mar 31, 2008    155 related    Send to a friend

OUR man goes inside North Korea & finds a land built on fear and people losing hope ... Red scare ... a grim faced communist soldier on duty in Kaesong's deserted streets IN a cold sweat, I was led away by the jackbooted and armed North Korean border guards to a bleak...

Seoul Says North Hurts Only Itself in Expulsions

nytimes.com     Mar 28, 2008    93 related    Send to a friend

The expulsions were in reaction to a recent hardening in the South’s policy toward the North over its lack of cooperation on its nuclear program. ... SEOUL, South Korea — South Korea said Thursday that it was “deeply regrettable” that North Korea had ordered South Korean...

Sunset for Korean Sunshine Policy?

bbc.co.uk     Mar 28, 2008    Send to a friend

Korean analyst Aidan Foster-Carter looks at the implications of Lee Myung-bak's tougher approach to relations with North Korea. ... On Thursday, before dawn, North Korea summarily expelled 11 South Korean government officials from the Kaesong industrial complex. The...

Writing wrongs of Wilfred

news.com.au     Mar 21, 2008    1 related    Send to a friend

Renowned Australian foreign correspondent Wilfred Burchett obliged his hosts with his reports from communist countries for decades ... Tibor Meray | March 22, 2008 THE long discussion over Wilfred Burchett's activities is still alive in Australia and there are questions...

S. Korea Warns North's Nuclear Stall May Slow Economic Cooperation

voanews.com     Mar 20, 2008    8 related    Send to a friend

Officials say lack of progress in multinational talks aimed at eliminating North's nuclear weapons could threaten scheduled expansion of industrial park in Kaesong ... Achin report - Listen (MP3) South Korea's chief official on North Korea policy has warned a continued...