North Korea News

Posted in: Front Page Written By: Observer Staff Article Date: Nov 10, 2007 - 12:58:01 AM The North Korean ship "Dan Hong Dai," which Somali pirates attempted to capture two days ago arrived safely at the port ... via Yemen Observer

"The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers," shouts one of the leaders of a revolt of the rabble in Shakespeare . via New Republic

“We would like to urge the United States not to remove North Korea from the list until the international community sees that North Korea has become a country with common sense”

NARITA Family members of Japanese nationals abducted by North Korea and their supporters headed to the United States on Sunday to press top U.S. officials not to remove North Korea from the U.S. list of ... via The Japan Times

“We will thwart (the passage) of the FTA as it would deepen the polarization of our society”

Tens of thousands of South Korean farmers and workers clashed with riot police Sunday at a massive rally against a free trade agreement with the United States. via The Florida Times-Union

Remembrance Day is for veterans and the nation to honour those who died in past wars: The Boer War, WWI and II, Korea, 40 years of "peacekeeping" and now Afghanistan -- 100,000-plus killed in Canada's name. via Free Republic

“The people in those units were people I had spent years with”

Special to the Times A Silver Star pinned to his chest, Pfc. Jesse Youngblood of Parthenon is congratulated by Maj. via Harrison Daily Times

“Three crew members of Korean ships who were wounded in fighting with pirates off the coast of Somalia and treated earlier by U.S. medics were admitted to al-Naqib hospital for treatment in Aden.”

The Korean ships with a group of 24 Asian sailors held hostage by pirates in Somalia for more than five months was freed on Sunday off the Somali coast and has left for Yemen." The South Korean Foreign Ministry ... via Yemen Times

In 1950, I was sent to Japan with the U.S. Army to work in a hospital lab as a technician. via Middletown Times Herald Record

Written on November 7th, 2007 in Civil Society Linked with Bruce Cumings - USA . via NGO's

“The colonialist bloc and national traitor axe-handles instigated mass protests in September. Now... peace and stability has been restored... The government is building a peaceful, modern and developed democratic nation with flourishing discipline”

The UN's envoy did not even get to meet Burma's most senior leader Burma's senior generals must know the dance moves by heart. via BBC

“To 'liberate' South Korea we're destroying it and its people. . . . All Koreans hate us”

In what fate made his final book, David Halberstam remembered a "forgotten" war, exploring the 1950-53 Korean conflict with 719 pages of foxhole-level heroism and command-level folly. via London Free Press

“Veterans of repressive regimes in Eastern Europe and elsewhere have spoken of the positive effect that accurate information from the free world had on them”

Advancing the human rights of the North Korean people will require the free nations of the world to continue taking an interest in promoting those rights, says Christian Whiton, the president's deputy special ... via U.S. Department of State

“I didn't want to get citizenship because I wanted to go back to Korea”

YUZHNO-SAKHALINSK, Russia : Pak Den Dya has lived as an outsider in this hardscrabble land in the frigid North Pacific - never taking Soviet or Russian citizenship in the 68 years since the Japanese empire ... via International Herald Tribune

One-time U.S. Army deserter Charles Jenkins used to pitch communism in propaganda films for the North Korean government. via PR-inside.com

“I see this as an ongoing process, rather than a one-time event.”

A group of South Koreans hold a press conference against the planned Security Consultative Meeting between South Korea and the United States in Seoul, South Korea, Monday, Nov. via Seattle Post-Intelligencer

“The North Koreans told (former South Korean President) Kim Dae-jung and Noh privately they would live with a situation where U.S. troops remain south of the DMZ”

Written on November 7th, 2007 in World People Linked with He says: "With huge armies confronting each other, the logistics of actually ending the armistice are very difficult," and: "The North Koreans told Kim ... via World People's Blog

“Nothing has been more damaging to Syria and the Syrian national interest than this single ugly terrible crime.”

While not as potentially dramatic as the hysterical student with her cellphone in hand being talked down by police negotiators from her 21st floor perch, the ground floor speech by the Syrian Ambassador Imad ... via Metroblogging San Francisco

Foreign Minister Winston Peters' travel plans for North Korea have been confirmed. via Newstalk ZB

“This girl can now lead as good a life as anyone else”

Although North Korea has begun dismantling its nuclear facilities, it remains a threat to the region, South Korea's defense minister said yesterday. via The Boston Globe

“Notably, Manh will explain the outcome of his visit to North Korea in October.”

The leader of Vietnam's ruling Communist Party is to visit South Korea next week, a month after he made a rare trip to North Korea, as Hanoi boosts ties on both sides of the divided Korean peninsula. via WNED.org