South Pyongan

DPRK "Jisong 5" sailors come back home

The crew members from cargo ship "Jisong 5" of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) arrived in Pyongyang by special plane after a shipwreck, the official news agency KCNA reported on Monday. The report said the...

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SKorea offers to ship food aid to NKorea (AFP)

AFP/HO/WFP/File – A North Korean worker unloads bags food aid in the country's western port of Nampo. South Korea has … SEOUL (AFP) – South Korea Monday offered to ship about 10,000 tons of corn to North Korea, in what would be...

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UN experts to venture inside Iran mountain for atomic checks

Tehran (AFP) Oct 25, 2009 - UN inspectors will visit Iran's controversial second uranium enrichment plant on Sunday, as US President Barack Obama garnered support for a separate deal with Tehran to end the crisis over its...

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Nuclear Reaction - A Greenpeace blog about nuclear power: Nuclear News: Depleted Uranium Weapons:...

Today's big stories from the nuclear industry: Depleted Uranium Weapons: Dead Iraqi and Afghani Babies Are No Joke ’The horrors of the US Agent Orange defoliation campaign in Vietnam, about which I wrote on Oct. 15, could...

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North Korea has 20 nuclear-related sites

SEOUL : North Korea has an estimated 3,000 workers at 20 sites related to its nuclear weapons programme, a South Korean legislator said on Thursday. Some 200 scientists and key researchers are among the total staff, lawmaker...

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Gates pledges nuclear umbrella to counter North Korea

South Korean lawmaker says Pyongyang has 20 nuclear-related sites SEOUL: US Defence Secretary Robert Gates said on Thursday that North Korea poses a threat to his country’s allies in North Asia and promised to protect them...

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Banyan: Hell on Earth

The West still turns a blind eye to the world’s most brutal and systematic abuse of human rights A SPRAWLING encampment of think-tankers, academics, hacks and policymakers earns a living outside North Korea’s walls. They pick...

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N. Korea shuts down largest market

North Korean leader Kim Jong-il inspects a new shop in Pyongyang in an undated photo distributed by Korea News Service in August 2009. (Korean Central News Agency via Korea News Service/Associated Press)  North Korea closed...

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North Korea Razes Unofficial Market

North Korea closed the country's biggest unofficial market in June, a South Korea-based organization that tracks economic activity in the North learned this week, a significant step in a government effort to slow the spread of...

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N.Koreans' quiet food aid trip to US (AFP)

AFP/KCNA/KNS/File – Farmers work at a farm in South Pyongan province, North Korea. Officials from the hardline Stalinist … by Shaun Tandon Shaun Tandon – 14 mins ago WASHINGTON (AFP) – North Korean officials quietly visited Los...

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Kaechon , Nampo , Pyongsong , Sunchon