
South Korea will resume propaganda broadcasts into North Korea on noon Friday – dictator Kim Jong-un’s birthday – likely to feature both criticism of the Kim regime and the South Korean genre of electro-pop known as K-pop.
by Frances Martel7 Jan 2016, 7:03 AM PST0

Kim Yang-gon, a senior North Korean official in charge of the nation’s relations with South Korea, died this week in a car accident, according to the communist nation’s official state news agency.
by Frances Martel30 Dec 2015, 9:48 AM PST0

Contents: China blocks Miss World Canada from attending Miss World pageant; ASEAN leaders harshly criticize China over South China Sea actions; Occupied Crimea declares state of emergency after electricity is cut
by John J. Xenakis23 Nov 2015, 6:10 AM PST0

A Japanese newspaper claims to have uncovered a North Korean spy guidebook teaching government officers how to abduct foreigners and extract information from them, proving that North Korea enforced a policy of systematic kidnapping under Kim Jong-Il.
by Frances Martel12 Nov 2015, 11:24 AM PST0

Contents: China’s Xi Jinping assesses the outcome of the WW II victory parade; Attendance by President Park Geun-hye a coup for China, S. Korea, taunting N. Korea
by John J. Xenakis14 Sep 2015, 4:00 AM PST0

Contents: China displays belligerence, militarism in WW II victory parade; China’s weaponry highlighted by the anti-American ‘carrier killer’; Many world leaders snub China’s WW II victory parade; China sends warships to Bering Sea off the coast of Alaska; China rewrites history of WW II by giving credit to Mao instead of Chiang
by John J. Xenakis4 Sep 2015, 5:43 AM PST0

United Press International (UPI) reports that North Korean soldiers are using pictures of South Korean President Park Geun-hye for target practice. They are putting pictures of her on targets and blasting away, with the “training session” broadcast by the dictatorship’s TV station as propaganda.
by John Hayward15 Aug 2015, 10:54 AM PST0

South Korea’s President Park Geun-hye postponed a scheduled trip to the United States so she could stay in her home country to supervise the public health response to the MERS crisis gripping South Korea.
by Michael Lucchese10 Jun 2015, 1:29 PM PST0