Several months earlier, Google debuted its new crowd-sourced map of one of the most reclusive countries in the world, North Korea. Martyn Williams shared a video on his Youtube channel where Google Maps’ vice president talks about mapping...
A senior North Korean military official sent to China as a special envoy has met with a top Chinese official, at a time of strained relations between the two traditional allies.
Choe Ryong Hae, director of the General Political Bureau of the...
There is only one prisoner actually born in one of North Korea's infamous prison camps known to have escaped alive. His name is Shin Dong-hyuk.Mr. Shin was raised in Camp 14, reported to be one of the cruelest in a system of hard labor...
The probe into leaks to Fox News's James Rosen about North Korean nuclear test plans stretched into the White House, according to court records reported on Tuesday by the New Yorker.
The document listing two White House numbers was provided to...
May 21, 2013: MoJo Blogs and Articles | Mother Jones
Four years ago, Fox News reporter James Rosen wrote a story saying the CIA had learned that North Korea planned to carry out a nuclear test if the UN approved additional sanctions:
What's more, Pyongyang's next nuclear detonation is but one of...
South Korea says it will never accept rival North Korea as a nuclear-weapons state. But there appears to be no international consensus on how to prevent that.
Speaking Tuesday in Seoul, South Korean Foreign Minister Yun Byung-se characterized...
Officials in Beijing say 16 Chinese fishermen who were seized for ransom in North Korea have been released.
China's foreign ministry said the men and their fishing boat were returned safely on Tuesday. It added that no ransom was paid.
The owner...
May 20, 2013: The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
It is not too late for the Obama administration's Atrocities Prevention Board to take the lead in thwarting mass atrocities. Everyday it fails to act is an invitation to Khartoum, Pyongyang, Damascus and their ilk to step up their assaults on human...
James Rosen, a Fox reporter, has been named a co-conspirator in a Department of Justice (DOJ) investigation into the 2009 illegal leaks of classified information regarding North Korea. Although the investigation took place in 2010, an indepth report...
At 7 a.m. on May 6, Yu Xuejun received a phone
call from the captain of a fishing boat he owns. "I asked him what the problem
was," Yu told state broadcaster China Central Television in an interview broadcast Monday, "and he said...
Russia is among several countries around the world including Saudi Arabia, North Korea, Cuba, Iran, and China that imposed restrictions on freedom of religion last year, according to an annual report released Monday by the US State Department.
May 20, 2013: MoJo Blogs and Articles | Mother Jones
The Washington Post writes today about the extraordinary treatment of a reporter in a recent leak investigation. But this one isn't about the AP or an al-Qaeda mole. It's about North Korea:
When the Justice Department began investigating possible...
Earlier this month, North Korean state media finally revealed the country’s case against an American citizen named Kenneth Bae, who had been detained there since November. They listed three accusations: that he had smuggled in a critical...
From the Washington Post:
A rare peek into a Justice Department leak probe
By Ann E. Marimow | May 19, 2013
When the Justice Department began investigating possible leaks of classified information about North Korea in 2009, investigators did...
North Korea has fired short-range projectiles into its coastal waters for a third consecutive day, defying international calls for restraint.
South Korea says it is trying to determine whether the North had launched guided missiles or rockets into...
As a result of Fox News Channel’s State Department reporter James Rosen’s 2009 investigation into the government’s response to North Korea’s repeated provocations, it was reported on Monday that the Department of Justice tracked Rosen’s...
May 20, 2013: Most Recent News & Opinion Posts from THE WEEK
North Korea fired two short-range missiles into the sea off its north coast on Monday. That makes six missile launches in three days for the combative communist regime, in what United Nations chief Ban Ki-moon calls a "dangerous escalation" of...
North Korea launched another two short-range missiles into the Sea of Japan on Monday, marking the third straight day of firings, South Korea's defense ministry said, Yonhap reported.
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