All posts tagged Korean language

Consular access: A two-way street on a crucial right, by Euna Lee

In 2009, while on assignment for Current TV, my colleague Laura Ling and I were arrested by North Korean soldiers for crossing the frozen Tumen River, which separates the Republic of China and North Korea. We were imprisoned and isolated from one another for 41 / 2 months. We were repeatedly interrogated, …

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European firms offer internship to N. Korean defectors

HSBC Bank and several other European companies in South Korea plan to offer a rare internship program to dozens of North Korean defectors in a move

Official guidebook offers glimpse of N.K. society

A North Korean government text disclosed by a South Korean protestant missionary group named Caleb Mission earlier this week offered a glimpse of the reclusive state’s unique adaptation

S. Korean minister urges Pyongyang to seek direct talks with Seoul

NEW YORK -- North Korea's unilateral revelation of a secret meeting with South Korea intended to arrange another inter-Korean summit reflects Pyongyang's diplomatic predicament as it seeks to

N.K. Human Rights Act, Editorial, The Korea Herald

North Korea again blared out warnings of “merciless retaliation,” this time against the move here to pass the North Korean human rights bill at the National Assembly. Their

Call for Abductee Advisory Body

An advisory body must be established to more effectively address the issue of Korean War abductees, Lee Mi Il, the director of Korean War Abductees Research Institute, demanded

Parties are poles apart over N. Korea, but will public care? By Kim Young-jin

When Democratic Party (DP) Chairman Sohn Hak-kyu last week called for the two Koreas to set aside “minor challenges” and hold a summit in the name of reconciliation,

Laotian figure praised Korea as a country where everything serves the people

Telling a press interview on May 12, Symuone Uonlasy, head of a delegation of the Lao Federation of Trade Unions praised Korea as a great country where everything

Alleged N. Korean police document reports case of cannibalism

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

South Korean marines fire at civilian jetliner (2 Stories)

South Korean marines fire at civilian jetliner near tense border with North Korea, no damage SEOUL, South Korea — South Korean marines fired rifles at a civilian jetliner as