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North Korea Injecting Rocket Fuel 'as We Speak'

'We don't care about outside opinions,' says official, to no one's surprise

(Newser) - Ignoring international protests, North Korea says it is fueling its satellite rocket "as we speak" and could be ready to launch as early as tomorrow, reports Reuters . Once the fueling is complete, chemicals that cause corrosion need to be injected into the rocket, pushing the urgency of a launch....

150K Held in Secret North Korea Gulag

 150K Held in Secret 
 North Korea Gulag 
new REPORT
Apr 10, 2012 10:11 AM CDT

150K Held in Secret North Korea Gulag

Human rights committee based report on account of 60 ex-prisoners

(Newser) - More than 150,000 North Koreans are incarcerated in a Soviet-style, hidden gulag despite Pyongyang's denial it even holds political prisoners, a human rights group reported today. The US-based Committee for Human Rights in North Korea said it based its report, which it's releasing as Pyongyang prepares to...

Korea Neighbors Reroute Flights on Rocket Path

White House warns media not to get 'co-opted' by Pyongyang propaganda

(Newser) - North Korea's threatened rocket launch has rerouted about 20 flights around the Philippines and closed three air corridors from Thursday to Monday as the region braces, reports the AP . North Korea said it chose a southerly path for the launch so that debris would not affect its neighbors,...

North Korea Digging Tunnel for Nuke Test: Seoul

And piles of dirt at the Punggye-ri site indicate it could happen soon

(Newser) - North Korea looks to be preparing a third nuclear test, the AP reports: New photos show work on an underground tunnel—at the site of two earlier such tests—is nearly finished, say South Korean intelligence officials. "North Korea is covertly preparing for a third nuclear test, which would...

North Korea Puts Rocket Into Place

Washington, South Korea watch nervously

(Newser) - North Korea has put a new long-range rocket into position as reports circulate that a nuclear test is underway, the BBC reports. Pyongyang insists the Unha-3 rocket will launch a harmless satellite, but South Korean leaders suspect otherwise—especially because the rocket is positioned at the Punggye-ri site, where North...

Kim Jong Un to Korean Troops: Sink Enemies

North Korean leader is hell-bent on rocket test, warns against interference

(Newser) - Kim Jong Un has a message for anyone who would mess with North Korea's planned rocket test (ahem, America and South Korea): We will "send all the intruders into the bottom of the sea." Bluntly underscoring again that his father's flair for the dramatic did not...

North Korea Building Missile That Could Hit US

And they have 10K experts working on such rockets

(Newser) - North Korea is working on a rocket so big that it makes the long-range Taepodong-2 missile it's preparing to test-launch look modest, South Korean government sources tell the Chosun Ilbo . Based on satellite images, they've determined that the North is working on a missile with a booster so...

Images Show North Korea Close to Rocket Launch

Preparations further along than previously thought: experts

(Newser) - Satellite images taken last week show that North Korea's preparations for a rocket launch this month are "more extensive … than previously understood," experts tell the AP . The images show a mobile radar trailer, necessary for any launch, as well as apparently empty fuel and oxidizer tanks,...

North Korean Gulag Survivor Tells His Tale

Book recounts his sending his own mother and brother to execution

(Newser) - Born in North Korea's largest and most infamous internment camp, Shin In Geun was raised behind electrified, barbed-wire fences in some of the most horrid conditions imaginable—constantly malnourished, beaten regularly, and forced to endure backbreaking labor every day. When Shin was just 13, he ratted out his older...

Obama Ready to Cut Nukes Again

President issues nuclear warnings to North Korea, Iran

(Newser) - President Obama still thinks we could stand to get rid of a bunch of our nukes, and has promised a renewed effort to cut American and Russian nuclear arsenals following 2010's START treaty . "We can already say with confidence that we have more nuclear weapons than we need,...

Obama Visits DMZ, Praises Troops at 'Freedom's Frontier'

President gives credit to troops for success of South Korea

(Newser) - President Barack Obama visited the Demilitarized Zone today, staring down North Korea from behind bulletproof glass just 100 yards from the demarcation line and praising US troops serving on "freedom's frontier." His visit, which the AP calls "an unmistakable show of force," comes 100 days...

Search for North Korea MIAs Over Before It Began

$5.7M search for soldier remains was just days from restarting

(Newser) - A program to recover the remains of the 5,500 American soldiers missing in North Korea from the Korean War has been shut down again, just two weeks after being announced , due to renewed tensions over North Korea's planned satellite launch , reports the New York Times . The US was...

China to North Korea: Cool It With Missile Launch

China calls for calm as South Korea, US condemn planned launch

(Newser) - China is apparently wagging its finger at North Korea over its plan to launch a long-range rocket, as a North Korean nuclear envoy arrived in Beijing today for talks. Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Zhang Zhijun met with North Korea's ambassador to China, Ji Jae Ryong, to voice Beijing's...

N. Korea to Launch Long-Range Rocket

Move threatens agreement only 2 weeks old

(Newser) - Even by North Korean standards, this is an impressive renege. Just two weeks after agreeing to stop uranium enrichment and all nuclear and long-range missile testing in exchange for food aid, Pyongyang has announced it will launch a long-range missile next month. The North says it is just launching an...

Fistfight Breaks Out Between Korean Diplomats

UN meeting in Switzerland turns ugly

(Newser) - Things got ugly at a UN meeting in Switzerland yesterday, as the South Korean and North Korean delegations briefly came to blows. The confrontation came after North Korean ambassador So Se-pyong dismissed a UN report on his country's human rights record as a "useless interpretation" that had been...

Search to Resume for MIAs in N. Korea

60 years after conflict, US hunts remains of 5,300 troops

(Newser) - For the first time in seven years, searchers will enter North Korea to track down the remains of thousands of troops who went missing in the Korean War 60 years ago. The US had previously shut down a decade-long operation, fearing for the safety of its officials in the country;...

Why North Korea Has So Many Famines

Slate: Bad management, lack of fertilizers, and lousy terrain

(Newser) - With North Korea agreeing to suspend its nuclear program in exchange for food aid (yet again), the Explainer blog at Slate takes on the question of why the North keeps suffering from famines and food shortages. In short, "poor growing conditions, fertilizer shortages, and general mismanagement." In the...

North Korea to Halt Nuclear Activities
 North Korea to Halt 
 Nuclear Activities 
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Feb 29, 2012 11:44 AM CST

North Korea to Halt Nuclear Activities

Country will receive food aid in return

(Newser) - North Korea will suspend uranium enrichment and has agreed to a moratorium on nuclear and long-range missile tests; it has also agreed to allow International Atomic Energy Inspectors to verify and monitor the moratoriums and confirm disablement of its nuclear reactor at Yongbyon. Today's joint announcement suggests North Korea...

N. Korea to South: We&#39;ll Attack
 N. Korea to South: We'll Attack 
ON EVE OF WAR GAMES
Feb 26, 2012 8:36 AM CST

N. Korea to South: We'll Attack

Kim Jong Un vows retaliatory strike if US or South intrude '.001 millimeter'

(Newser) - North Korean leader Kim Jong Un threatened a powerful retaliatory strike against South Korea if provoked, state media said today, a day before the annual South Korean-US military drills that Pyongyang calls an invasion rehearsal. South Korean and US officials have said the 12-day, largely computer-simulated war games are defensive...

US-North Korea Nuke Talks Return 'Bit of Progress'

But no breakthroughs, says US negotiator Glyn Davies

(Newser) - The US and North Korea came to the table to talk about nukes, and the negotiations ended today with a "little bit of progress," said the chief US negotiator. The two-day meeting in Beijing was the first official contact between the two countries since the death of Kim...

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