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North Korea: US Owes Us $65T
 North Korea: US Owes Us $65T 
...for being so mean
Jun 25, 2010 8:10 AM CDT

North Korea: US Owes Us $65T

...for being so mean to us for the past 60 years

(Newser) - With the 60th anniversary of the Korean War fast approaching, cash-strapped North Korea is demanding that the US pay it nearly $65 trillion to repay it for the damage caused by those decades of hostility, the AFP reports. According to the regime's inscrutable math, the US owes $26.5 trillion...

North Korea Allows First Live Soccer Broadcast
North Korea Allows First
Live Soccer Broadcast
but team is trounced
Jun 22, 2010 5:29 AM CDT

North Korea Allows First Live Soccer Broadcast

Players can expect harsh welcome home after 7-0 thrashing by Portugal

(Newser) - North Koreans, for the first and possibly only time, watched their nation's soccer team play on foreign soil yesterday live on TV. Censors, fearing the appearance of anti-government protesters at matches, usually slap lengthy delays on such broadcasts—17 hours in the case of North Korea's game against Brazil. No...

N. Korea Allows Private Food Markets
N. Korea Allows Private Food Markets
Jun 18, 2010 12:10 PM CDT

N. Korea Allows Private Food Markets

Pro-capitalist policy shift comes amid growing famine

(Newser) - North Korea has effectively admitted that it can't feed its citizens by allowing people to buy food and other necessities at private markets, the Washington Post reports. Such markets have existed under the radar for years, but the government order sanctioning what amounts to capitalism "abandons all pretense of...

North Korean 'Fans' Actually Chinese Actors

Real North Koreans not allowed to leave country

(Newser) - Remember those rambunctious North Korean fans who made the trek to South Africa to watch their country take on Brazil? They were supposedly “hand picked” by Kim Jong-Il. Well, turns out they were hand picked right out of China. No actual North Korean fans were allowed to leave the...

US May Deploy Aircraft Carrier to Korean Waters

Pentagon mulls sending USS George Washington

(Newser) - The US is considering deploying one of the world's biggest warships to the waters off the Korean peninsula where the sinking of a South Korean warship has raised tensions with the North. The nuclear-powered USS George Washington would be deployed separately from upcoming joint US-South Korean exercises, defense officials say....

Israel Looks a Lot Like North Korea
Israel Looks a Lot
Like North Korea
opinion
Jun 1, 2010 12:14 PM CDT

Israel Looks a Lot Like North Korea

Both are isolated except for a superpower

(Newser) - Be careful, Israel, you're starting to look like "gulp—North Korea," writes Daniel W. Drezner. Israel may not be in similarly dire financial straits, but the parallels are "pretty eerie" beyond that, writes Drezner in Foreign Policy . Let us count the ways:
  • "Both countries are diplomatically
...

US to Give South Korea's Navy a Boost

Joint training exercises planned

(Newser) - South Korea is about to get a little help from a friend: In response to the ease with which North Korea sank a South Korean warship, the US plans to help the South shore up its naval defenses, say American officials. The South has spent billions on defense in recent...

S. Korea Stages Show of Force

North scraps naval agreement, warns that ships will be attacked

(Newser) - South Korea staged a massive military exercise off its west coast today in defiance of warnings from the North that such drills could trigger war. Ten warships fired artillery and dropped anti-submarine bombs in waters near where South Korea's Cheonan warship was sank by what an investigation concluded was a...

Clinton: World Must Act on N. Korea Aggression

Sinking of S. Korean warship 'unacceptable'

(Newser) - North Korea's sinking of a South Korean warship is an "unacceptable provocation" that the international community has a duty to respond to, Hillary Clinton said after crisis talks in Seoul today. The secretary of state arrived in South Korea this morning after discussions on the worsening situation with officials...

North Korea Severs Ties With South

Irate over 'smear campaign' in battleship's sinking

(Newser) - North Korea says it will sever all ties and communication with Seoul as punishment for what it calls a "smear campaign" over the sinking of a South Korean warship. North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency quoted the Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of Korea as saying late today...

S. Korea Blocks Trade With N. Korea

US backs South's new more aggressive stance

(Newser) - Tensions on the Korean peninsula were ratcheted up today when South Korea suspended trade with the North, closing its waters to North Korean ships. Showing a newly aggressive stance, President Lee Myung-bak also called on Pyongyang to apologize for the torpedo attack that sank a South Korean warship in March,...

Kim Jong-Il Ordered Attack on S. Korean Ship: Intel Sources

North Korean leader plays tough to assert authority, boost succession of his son

(Newser) - Kim Jong-Il not only knew about the North Korean torpedo assault that sank a South Korean warship in March, US intelligence sources tell the New York Times , but the ailing strongman actually ordered it to boost the succession prospects of his youngest son, Kim Jong-un. Both the US and South...

S. Korea to Haul N. Korea to UN Over Ship's Sinking

Pyongyang remains defiant; report an 'enormous fabrication'

(Newser) - South Korea will take Pyongyang to the UN Security Council as part of its response to the sinking of a South Korean warship blamed on a North Korean torpedo attack, officials said today. An international team said last week that a North Korean submarine fired a torpedo on March 26,...

US Journo Ling: Koreans 'Hit Me'
 US Journo Ling: 
 Koreans 'Hit Me' 
Interview
May 20, 2010 12:11 PM CDT

US Journo Ling: Koreans 'Hit Me'

And Clinton freed them with pure charm

(Newser) - Laura Ling and Euna Lee didn't go quietly when the North Koreans arrested them. In an interview with Larry King on CNN , Ling reveals that the men who arrested them beat them into submission. Though she admits they had crossed, briefly, into North Korean territory, she says they were actually...

S. Korea Vows Retaliation for Ship Sinking by North

Any action will trigger war: North Korea

(Newser) - South Korea vowed to take "firm action" after a multinational inquiry concluded that a North Korean submarine was responsible for sinking one of its warships in March, killing 46 sailors. Evidence overwhelmingly proves that North Korea is responsible for the sinking of the Cheonan, casuing the military's largest loss...

South Korea Will Blame North for Torpedo Attack

International investigators fault Pyongyang for strike

(Newser) - South Korea is going to officially blame North Korea tomorrow for killing 46 sailors in a torpedo attack, reports the Washington Post . The decision is based on the conclusions of international investigators, who reconstructed parts of the ship and said the torpedo used matches a North Korean weapon recovered earlie...

North Korea Claims to Have Created 'Artificial Sun'

Scientists highly skeptical

(Newser) - North Korea says it has discovered the secrets of nuclear fusion, allowing it to create an “artificial sun” able to produce untold amounts of energy—which would be quite a feat for a country that currently lacks the power to keep the lights on at night. Nuclear fusion, the...

Kim Jong-Il Visits China
 Kim Jong-Il Visits China 
say reports
May 3, 2010 5:54 AM CDT

Kim Jong-Il Visits China

South Korea seeks action after deadly naval strike

(Newser) - Kim Jong-Il likely entered China by train today as tensions over an alleged attack on a South Korean cruiser threatened to boil over. Both North and South Korea are looking to China for help—Seoul wants the North to be punished economically for the strike, while Kim wants further aid...

Pyongyang: Kim Jong Il Style 'Sweeps World'
 Pyongyang: 
 Kim Jong Il Style 
 'Sweeps World' 
DEAR FASHION PLATES
Apr 7, 2010 12:28 PM CDT

Pyongyang: Kim Jong Il Style 'Sweeps World'

Style spreads 'expeditiously' in 'unprecedented' manner: 'expert'

(Newser) - The rest of the world might think he needs a straight jacket, but to hear the North Korean state news apparatus tell it, “Dear Leader” Kim Jong-Il’s matching Ike jackets and slacks has inspired a global vogue for the style. “The reason is that the august image...

Border-Crossing Yank Gets 8 Years in No. Korea

Experts predict he'll be freed sooner as goodwill gesture

(Newser) - An American detained in North Korea for illegally crossing the border has been sentenced to 8 years hard labor for his "hostile act committed against the Korean nation." Aijalon Mahli Gomes, 30, was also ordered to pay a $700,000 fine, reports the BBC . Gomes, described by pals...

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