Archive for December, 2010

North Korea should return to the non-proliferation regime and get back under IAEA control, Russia’s Deputy Foreign Minister Alexey Borodavkin told reporters on Thursday. North Korea has a

The North Korean military, the world’s fourth largest, has bolstered its special forces units since 2008 and has deployed a new battle tank, called the Storm, the South

In the last year, North Korea has more than doubled the number of training exercises held for its troops. Conspicuously absent from most of these has been large

Some days ago the Japanese reactionaries staged drill for inspecting cargo of airliners bound for the DPRK. Rodong Sinmun Friday observes in a signed commentary in this regard: This indicates

Rumor has it that China is getting directly involved in the development of North Korea's Rajin-Sonbong Port, once the center of the UN Development Programme's Duman (or Tumen)

One October day in Juche 99 (2010) leader Kim Jong Il gave field guidance to the newly constructed delicacy restaurant attached to Okryu Restaurant. After going round fashionable dining halls, he

North Korean TV released video footage of leader Kim Jong Il using his left hand Thursday, a sign that his health might be improving. The state-run (North) Korean Central

Bend it like Beckham has become the first western-made film to be broadcast on television in North Korea – but the broadcast, monitored in Seoul on Boxing Day, was

A government resettlement center for North Korean defectors has been accused of having illegally detained a defector from the North and sending him to a mental hospital. The National