NK News – North Korea News
23rd May 2013
 

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One man’s plea for South Korea’s lost prisoners of war

One man’s plea for South Korea’s lost prisoners of war

Young-bok Yoo has not fought in a war since the fateful battle of 10 June 1953 when he was captured by Chinese forces in South Korea’s Gangwon Province. But sitting ramrod straight on a sofa in the Leadership Library of Sookmyung Womens’ University, Seoul, he has the bearing of an old soldier. [...]

May 23, 2013 Tom Farrell Featured Content, Slider 0

New residential construction project underway in Chongjin

New residential construction project underway in Chongjin

Satellite imagery highlights scale of new housing project in Chongjin that has mysteriously been ignored by official media. [...]

May 22, 2013 Curtis Melvin Featured Content, Slider 0

Media Watch – May 13th to 19th

Media Watch – May 13th to 19th

SAN FRANCISCO — The planting season continues in North Korea and stories on rice, hay and potatoes were found on most nights during the main evening news. There was also coverage of the spring trade expo, a Japanese visitor and German algae … Trade Exhibition Takes Place The Pyongyang International Trade Fair took place and [...]

May 22, 2013 Martyn Williams Featured Content, Media Monitoring 0

Located: State Academy of Science’s Turf Institute

Located: State Academy of Science’s Turf Institute

Satellite mapper Curtis Melvin locates the turf institute [...]

May 21, 2013 Curtis Melvin Featured Content 0

Exclusive: More pics from the first Western tourist in Sinuiju

Exclusive: More pics from the first Western tourist in Sinuiju

NK News has obtained exclusive pictures of a Westerners first look into Sinuiju city. [...]

May 21, 2013 Justin Rohrlich Featured Content, Tourism 0

North Korean society: Two classes, too little reason to resist

North Korean society: Two classes, too little reason to resist

SEOUL – North Korean society can essentially be divided into two groups, a young defector has said, and both groups have reasons for not publicly opposing the regime. [...]

May 21, 2013 Dominica Lim Featured Content, NK Lite 0

Kenneth Bae will be released, but not for a while

Kenneth Bae will be released, but not for a while

Had Bae been sent to regular prison, his chances of survival would be extremely slim – not because of the harsh conditions, but because he would learn too much information about the North Korean camp system. [...]

May 20, 2013 Andrei Lankov Featured Content, Slider 0

Rocky road to Pyongyang: DPRK-IRA relations in the 1980s

Rocky road to Pyongyang: DPRK-IRA relations in the 1980s

In a mark of solidarity between similarly divided anti-imperialist states, a group of young left-wing Irish militants went to Pyongyang for training in the 1980s. [...]

May 17, 2013 Tom Farrell Featured Content, Slider 0

The Kenneth Bae story: in his own words

The Kenneth Bae story: in his own words

Kenneth Bae's 2009 sermon to a Korean American church in St. Louis shares in minute detail how Bae started working in as a missionary in North Korea, according to an NK News translation. [...]

May 17, 2013 James Pearson Featured Content, Slider 0

NK Media Watch – May 6 to 12

NK Media Watch – May 6 to 12

Cooperative farms nationwide are planting, and industrial art exhibition ended, Pyongyang goes cycling and in international news, a U.S. aircraft crashes while brush fires ravage California. [...]

May 16, 2013 Martyn Williams Featured Content, Media Monitoring 0