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• Kim Jong-il: No more TV commercials in North Korea

  
  BloggingStocks — Authority: 661
  Filed under: Media World , Headline news North Koreans dont need DVR technology any more. The most important purpose of these devices -- to fast forward through commercials -- no longer applies, now that the reclusive Communist state has banned television commercials from the airwaves . According to the Yonhap ...
  1 day ago

• Book review: The Reluctant Communist

  
  London Korean Links — Authority: 131
  Charles Robert Jenkins: The Reluctant Communist: My Desertion, Court-Martial, and Forty-Year Imprisonment in North Korea University of California Press, 2008 “Our choices are what makes us who we are. Nobody knows that better than me.” So ends the autobiography of Charles Robert Jenkins, the only ...
  2 days ago

• The Axis of Vaudeville: Images of North Korea in South Korean Pop Culture

  
  London Korean Links — Authority: 131
  Elizabeth Grace reports on Dr Stephen Epstein’s talk at Cambridge earlier this week We are all too familiar with the Western media’s portrayal of North Korea as a rogue communist state, complete with an evil dictator whose regime is seen as an unrepentant member of the “axis of evil.” Although these ...
  5 days ago

• From Gulag to Getaway: North Korean refugees tell their story in Parliament

  
  London Korean Links — Authority: 131
  “In South Korea, we are taught English, Maths, things like that. We are taught nothing about North Korea.” I was talking to a young South Korean after a meeting of the North Korean All-Party Parliamentary Group. She was visibly shocked at what she had just heard. Two North Korean refugees – Jung Guang-il and Lee ...
  6 days ago

• Franklin Graham Reaches Out To North Korea

  
  WordJourney Magazine — Authority: 114
  Franklin Graham, who heads up Samaritan’s Purse as well as the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, a pair of Christians organizations based in North Carolina, USA, is in North Korea this week to meet with high-level government officials and visit his ministries’ humanitarian assistance projects. “I believe ...
  3 weeks ago

• DPRK has quietly amended its Constitution

  
  Leonid Petrov's KOREA VISION — Authority: 410
  On 23 September, Radio Free Asia reported that the Supreme People’s Assembly of North Korea had revised the country’s constitution in April by dropping the use of the term “communism” and replacing it with “Songun,” or Military-first policy, for the first time in its history.The full Korean text of the ...
  4 weeks ago

• Bruce Cumings in Cambridge

  
  London Korean Links — Authority: 131
  In the second Ra Yong-yil lecture, Bruce Cumings, author of Korea’s Place in the Sun , comes to Robinson College to talk about North Korea. Details below: “The US and North Korea: Dealing with Irrationality” PROFESSOR BRUCE CUMINGS University of Chicago (USA) The Ra Jong-Yil Lecture in Korean Studies ...
  5 weeks ago

• Chinese President’s Special Envoy in North Korea

  
  Tongil Korea Net — Authority: 98
  Seoul — China’s State Councilor Dai Bingguo visited North Korea on Wednesday in his capacity as a special envoy of Chinese President Hu Jintao, holding talks with the North’s First Vice Foreign Minister Kang Sok-ju, Pyongyang’s Korea Central News Agency (KCNA) reported. “Dai Bingguo who is special envoy of ...
  7 weeks ago

• N Korea Trumpets Success of Labor Drive

  
  Tongil Korea Net — Authority: 98
  But Watchers SkepticalBY KIM HYUN, Yonhap News Seoul — North Korea trumpeted the success of a crucial 150-day labor campaign that wraps up on Wednesday, but outside watchers were divided over its impact on the country’s frail economy. The so-called 150-day Battle, launched on April 20, ordered North Koreans to ...
  8 weeks ago

• Working Plan for Cooperation between DPRK and China Signed

  
  Tongil Korea Net — Authority: 98
  Pyongyang — A 2009-2011 working plan for cooperation in the field of public health and medical science between the ministries of Public Health of the DPRK and China was signed in Beijing on Monday. Present at the signing ceremony from the DPRK side were Choe Chang Sik, minister of Public Health, and his party and ...
  8 weeks ago

• Message of Condolences to President of Council of Ministers of Cuba

  
  Tongil Korea Net — Authority: 98
  Pyongyang — Kim Yong Nam, president of the Presidium of the DPRK Supreme People’s Assembly, Tuesday sent a message to Raul Castro Ruz, President of the Council of State and president of the Council of Ministers of Cuba, expressing condolences over the death of Major of the Revolution Juan Almeida Bosque, member of ...
  8 weeks ago

• New Stamps on Year of DPRK-China Friendship off Press

  
  Tongil Korea Net — Authority: 98
  Pyongyang — Two kinds of sheetlets have been published in the DPRK to mark the Year of DPRK-China Friendship. This is the Year of DPRK-China Friendship, which greets the 60th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between the two countries.Printed on the upper parts of the sheetlets are the ...
  8 weeks ago

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