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• North Korean defectors say 571 South Koreans abducted, Chosun Ilbo reports

  
  The Tokyo Reporter - News, Features, and Photos from Tokyo — Authority: 462
  TOKYO (TR) – North Korea has kidnapped 571 South Koreans since the end of the Korean war, the Chosun Ilbo newspaper reported, citing a document obtained by a North Korean defectors group. The document, which appears to have been prepared by the North Korean Red Cross and dates from 2008, says 554 South Koreans ...
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• Associated Press Independence in Doubt after ‘Deal’ with North Korean Regime (The Daily North Korea, South Korea)

  
  The Moderate Voice — Authority: 648
  Has the North Korean regime ‘played’ one of the Western World’s leading news agencies? Cho Jong-ik of South Korea’s Daily North Korea reports on concerns about the announcement that North Korea has given the Associated Press permission to become the first Western outlet ever permitted to open an office ...
  1 week ago

• AP Opens Office in North Korea

  
  Naked News Headlines — Authority: 127
  It may sound impossible to believe, but the Associated Press now has an all-format news bureau in North Korea! Operations started there this month, and so far it’s been relatively smooth sailing. Speaking from Pyongyang, executive editor Kathleen Carroll stressed that the famed newsgathering organization will not ...
  1 week ago

• Daily MP3 Headlines 01/18/2012

  
  Naked News Headlines — Authority: 127
  Wikipedia Goes Dark to Protest SOPA The world’s largest free encyclopedia, Wikipedia, has shut itself down to oppose the US Stop Online Piracy Act, also known as SOPA. SOPA would give the US Justice Department the power to block websites associated with piracy from appearing in search engine results. However ...
  1 week ago

• New North Korean leader Kim Jong Un will not last long, says elder brother

  
  TopNews Law — Authority: 153
  Pyongyang, Jan 18 Former North Korean leader Kim Jong il’s eldest son has predicted that the new regime will not last long, with or without reforms, under the rule of his half brother Kim Jong Un. read more
  1 week ago

• US, allies say NKorea welcome to resume nuclear talks

  
  Philippine News Feed — Authority: 143
  WASHINGTON – The United States, Japan and South Korea agree that ‘a path is open’ for North Korea to return to stalled six-party talks on Pyongyang’s nuclear program, the State Department said on Tuesday. Read full story: US, allies say NKorea welcome to resume nuclear talks (external link)
  2 weeks ago

• The Pyongyang Boombox

  
  the gar spot — Authority: 95
  (Ed.’s note:  This story is vaguely inspired by a dream.) A motley group of Americans found themselves wandering around a rail yard in the outskirts of Pyongyang, North Korea.  They were captured and taken in for questioning.  They didn’t know how they got there, so the story goes, and they were anxious to ...
  2 weeks ago

• U.S., allies say N.Korea welcome to resume nuclear talks

  
  God of Information — Authority: 140
  The United States, Japan and South Korea agree that "a path is open" for North Korea to return to stalled six-party talks on Pyongyangs nuclear program, the State Department said on Tuesday.
  2 weeks ago

• Senior North Korean official dismisses concerns about Kim Jong Un

  
  CY.TALK: VoIP, IP telephony and telecommunications news — Authority: 115
  A senior North Korean party official dismissed concerns about Kim Jong Uns readiness to lead, saying he spent years working closely with his late father and helped him make key policy decisions on economic and military affairs.
  2 weeks ago

• State Department Fleshes Out Fast Moving Change In Burma U.S. Relations

  
  Newsroom Magazine — Authority: 123
  we called on the government to declare clearly the date for elections – by-elections. They were announced two weeks ago. They will take place on April 1st. And I think as you all have seen, Aung San Suu Kyi and her party have been – made very clear their determination to contend in those elections. [...]
  2 weeks ago

• Associated Press Opens Full News Bureau in North Korea

  
  A Digest of Tech News and Opinions — Authority: 425
  The Associated Press (AP) has become the first international news organization with a full-time presence in North Korea. AP has opened a full news bureau inside the headquarters of the state-run Korean Central News Agency in Pyongyang. After a year of negotiations, the North Korean government allowed the news ...
  2 weeks ago

• AP Opens Office in North Korea

  
  PRI's The World — Authority: 601
  For the Geo Quiz we want you to name the city where the Associated Press has just opened a full-time news bureau. The city is in North Korea and the news agency is the first Western news organization to open report from North Korea. North Korea has mostly been off limits to international journalists for decades. AP ...
  2 weeks ago

• US news agency opens North Korean bureau

  
  top99news - breaking news from the world top newspapers — Authority: 164
  http://www.guardian.co.uk US news agency opens North Korean bureau The US-based Associated Press (AP) news agency has opened a news bureau in the North Korean capital, Pyongyang. It is the first major Western news organisation to do so, although agencies such as China’s Xinhua also have a presence ...
  2 weeks ago

• Associated Press opens the first full international news bureau in communist North Korea

  
  The Tokyo Reporter - News, Features, and Photos from Tokyo — Authority: 462
  TOKYO (TR) – The Associated Press has opened the first full-time international news bureau in North Korea, nearly a month after the death of Kim Jong-il. The new full-service bureau comes a year after the AP started negations with the North Korean government, the news agency said. The deal allows Associated Press ...
  2 weeks ago

• AP opens news bureau in Pyongyang

  
  top99news - breaking news from the world top newspapers — Authority: 164
  http://www.bbc.co.uk AP opens news bureau in Pyongyang The Associated Press formally opens a news bureau in the North Korean capital – the first Western news agency to do so. published date:Mon, 16 Jan 2012 05:38:22 GMT
  2 weeks ago

• North Korean realities

  
  East Asia Forum — Authority: 537
  Author: Peter Drysdale, Editor, East Asia Forum One of the more momentous changes in Asia that heralded in the New Year was the sudden death of North Korean leader, Kim Jong-il, and the succession by his son, Kim Jong-un. Kim Jong-il’s death had long been seen by some outside observers as portent for the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Those Who Have Complained About Kim Jong Il, Sent to Labor Camps

  
  Socyberty — Authority: 568
  Thousands of North Koreans who were not “quite sad” after the death of former leader and did not complain will be pedepstiti, and those who did not attend the funeral will be sent to labor camps for at least six months. Harsh regime in Pyongyang and will punish those who have criticized the country’s new ...
  2 weeks ago

• Punished for not crying: Thousands of North Koreans face labor camps for not being upset enough about death of Kim Jong-il

  
  InvestmentWatch: Emerging markets, Real Estate, Personal finance, Business management, Politics, Economics — Authority: 148
  
  2 weeks ago

• Kim Jong-il immortalised in North Korea – video

  
  top99news - breaking news from the world top newspapers — Authority: 164
  http://www.guardian.co.uk Kim Jong-il immortalised in North Korea – video North Korea issues a special report saying that the body of late leader Kim Jong-il will be laid in state permanently. Pyongyang citizens welcome the news published date:Thu, 12 Jan 2012 12:11:46 GMT
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• Kim Jong-il to be embalmed

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 533
  Moscow, Jan 12 (IANS/RIA Novosti) The body of late North Korean “Dear Leader” Kim Jong-il is to be embalmed and put on display at a palace in the capital Pyongyang, state media said.North Korean state news agency KCNA said memorial towers to Kim’s “immortality” would also be erected across the country and ...
  2 weeks ago

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