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The Best Vegan Naengmyeon in America

admin — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 21:35:03 +0000

Okay, so maybe I could have just called this post “Naengmyeon.” But I am kind of liking these bold proclamations. After all, when in Pyongyang…. Actually I really should be calling it Raengmyeon, because that is how they say it in North Korea. But the South Korean spelling and romanization ...

Conspicuous silence on NK defectors` plight

admin — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 13:07:19 +0000

Chinina’s repatriation of North Korean defectors has grown into an international human rights issue. South Korea plans to directly raise the matter at a U.N. Human Rights Council meeting in Switzerland late this month. In a recent report, the U.N. Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights in North ...

Dealing with the Kims, by Joel Witt & Jenny Town

admin — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 13:06:34 +0000

This week’s meeting between U.S. Special Envoy Glyn Davies and North Korean First Vice Foreign Minister Kim Gye Gwan will be the first official encounter between the United States and North Korea since the death of Kim Jong Il two months ago. After endless speculation by the press and experts ...

DPRK-China Science and Technology Cooperation Committee Meets

admin — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 13:06:02 +0000

Pyongyang, February 24 (KCNA) — The 45th meeting of the DPRK-China Science and Technology Cooperation Committee was held in Beijing on Thursday. Signed there was a protocol of the 45th meeting of the DPRK-China Inter-governmental Science and Technology Cooperation Committee. Present there were the visiting DPRK delegation of the State ...

Yang Hyong Sop Meets Delegation of Koreans in Japan

admin — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 13:04:56 +0000

Pyongyang, February 24 (KCNA) — Yang Hyong Sop, vice-president of the Presidium of the DPRK Supreme People’s Assembly, met and had a talk with the visiting delegation of Koreans in Japan for commemorating the Day of the Shining Star in a compatriotic atmosphere at the Mansudae Assembly Hall on Friday. ...

US envoys says North Korea talks make some progress – Reuters

admin — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 13:01:06 +0000

By Chris Buckley BEIJING | Fri Feb 24, 2012 3:53am EST BEIJING (Reuters) – The United States’ first sit-down negotiations with North Korea since its new and untested leader took over made some progress although Kim Jong-un’s ascent to power did not appear to have altered the North’s positions, a ...

China Hopes North Korea-US Meeting Conducive To Six-party Talks – Bernama

admin — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 13:01:05 +0000

You are here : World › News February 24, 2012 17:40 PM China Hopes North Korea-U.S. Meeting Conducive To Six-party Talks BEIJING, Feb 24 (Bernama) — China hopes talks between the North Korea and the United States yield positive progress and promote the resumption of six-party talks, Xinhua news agency ...

How the US Could Pressure North Korea Tomorrow: Quit the $100 Bill – TIME

admin — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 13:01:03 +0000

Photo-Illustration by TIMEU.S. negotiators are heading into a second day of what have been dubbed “serious and substantial” talks with North Korean officials. Yet amidst all the discussion of how the U.S. will attempt to work with Kim Jon-un, there has been little (open) speculation as to whether Dear Leader ...

Assembly committee passes resolution against China’s repatriation of defectors

admin — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 13:01:02 +0000

(2nd LD) Assembly committee passes resolution against China’s repatriation of defectors By Kim Eun-jung SEOUL, Feb. 24 (Yonhap) — A South Korean parliamentary committee on Friday adopted a resolution demanding China stop repatriating North Korean defectors to their communist homeland.The resolution came as a group of 34 defectors caught in ...

N. Korea blasts S. Korea for protest over defectors’ repatriation

admin — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 13:01:00 +0000

N. Korea blasts S. Korea for protest over defectors’ repatriation SEOUL, Feb. 24 (Yonhap) — North Korea denounced South Korea Friday for its recent protest over a group of North Korean defectors facing repatriation from China, claiming the South has no right to interfere in the decisions of sovereign nations.A ...