All Entries in the "LiNK" Category
North Korea Getting Into The Car Business?
NKorea says Kim Jong Il met Hyundai Group chief
By KWANG-TAE KIM, The Associated Press
10:11 a.m. August 16, 2009
SEOUL, South Korea — North Korean leader Kim Jong Il held talks with the head of South Korea’s Hyundai Group, the North’s state media reported Sunday, in a rare meeting that could warm prospects for a resumption of [...]
Labor Camps – What That Really Means
Is Hard Labor Really that Bad?
Wednesday, Aug. 12, 2009
By Alex Altman
Before he becomes a forgotten footnote in Aung San Suu Kyi’s biography, it’s worth pausing to consider the price John Yettaw is about to pay for his unauthorized nighttime swim. On Aug. 11, Yettaw, 53, was sentenced to seven years in a Burmese prison for [...]
Former President Bill Clinton Headed To North Korea To Take Care Of Business
EOUL (Reuters) – Former U.S. President Bill Clinton is on his way to North Korea to try to negotiate the release of two American journalists convicted by the communist state of “grave crimes,” South Korea’s Yonhap news agency said on Tuesday.
Clinton had already left for the North but had not yet arrived in Pyongyang, Yonhap [...]
Kim Jong Il Going Out With A Bang?
Will Kim Jong Il go out quietly, or with a (big) bang?
The North Korean dictator made just his second public appearance on Wednesday since he reportedly suffered a stroke last August, looking gaunt and with dramatically less hair than he had in April, when the 67-year-old Dear Leader presided over a parliamentary meeting in Pyongyang [...]
A North Korean ship suspected of carrying illicit weapons towards Burma
NKorea threatens to harm US if attacked
By JAE-SOON CHANG
Associated Press Writer
North Korea reminded the U.S. on Monday that it has nuclear weapons and warned it will strike back if attacked, as a U.S. destroyer continued to trail a North Korean cargo ship suspected of carrying illicit weapons.
The Kang Nam, previously involved in weapons shipments, is [...]
