All posts tagged Disaster/Accident

Concern is rising over the possibility of flooding in North Korea amid reports that this year’s seasonal rain front could be more intense, the head of a coalition

WASHINGTON -- U.S. President Barack Obama issued a public notice Thursday to extend the national emergency in relation to North Korea that provides a legal and administrative basis

Pyongyang, June 22 (KCNA) -- Kim Yong Nam, president of the Presidium of the DPRK Supreme People's Assembly, on Tuesday sent a message of

South Korean marines mistakenly fired at an Asiana Airlines passenger plane because they were tense due to inter-Korean tension after last year's attacks by North Korea on the

A Japanese newspaper is reporting that 40 percent of infants in North Korea are malnourished. The Asahi Shimbun said the figure stems from a study conducted on some 170

SEOUL -- An alleged North Korean police document reported a case of cannibalism, a South Korean missionary group said Monday, a development, if confirmed, that could support what

The U.S. has tentatively concluded that North Korea is not suffering from a food crisis though certain areas in the Stalinist country do have food shortages. This conclusion is

A seminar has found that North Korean defectors who have relocated to the South to build new lives for themselves and their families tend to obsessively pursue money

South Koreans are divided over Jimmy Carter’s call for unconditional food aid to North Korea, reflecting their ambivalence over the 39th president’s 35 years of activism on the Korean Peninsula. North Korea’s