Tag Archives: DPRK
Downtown Pyongyang
North Korea’s capital city of Pyongyang It’s like a semi-abstract still life… minus the life part. . Image by David Guttenfelder from The Independent: Lost world: Scenes from North Korea’s closed society Story to go with the pictures, by David … Continue reading
China advises against Iran sanctions
Russian President Medvedev may be considering a more pliant position on Iranian sanctions, but the Chinese are cautioning restraint. While this would likely not entail a Chinese veto on any sanctions agreeable to Moscow… Continue reading
‘John McCain’ to Nab Suspect DPRK Ship
The USS John McCain, a navy destroyer, will intercept the ship Kang Nam as soon as it leaves the vicinity off the coast of China, according to a senior U.S. defense official. Continue reading
The Eager Sanction
This is the final draft of the United Nations resolution concerning the Democratic People’s Republic of North Korea (DPRK).
It was unanimously adopted by the Security Council in today’s session, which included avid support for the measure by both Russia and China; states that had previously shied away from harsher penalties against the roguish regime of North Korean leader, Kim Jong-il. Continue reading
DPRK: Nuke Warning
Per our June 2nd posting, North Korea has begun to ratchet up its rhetoric in advance of the rapid succession of Kim Jong-un to the leadership of the DPRK; the rationalisation being that any leader of the insular communist regime must be tried by fire. [...] Continue reading
Sum Yung Sun Rises, in the North
Watch for Kim Jong-il to create a ‘defining moment’ to mark his youngest son’s anticipated ascendancy. Continue reading
Exactly 55 Years, 10 Months
Fifty-five years and ten months. That’s precisely how long the Korean Armistice lasted.
Today, Kim Jong-Il, North Korea’s insanely fearless leader, declared that his country is abandoning the armistice agreement [...] Continue reading
DPRK: N-Test, Take 2
It was early October, 2006. Overhead, satellites skimmed the sky above the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) and took careful note of the goings-on below.
On the ground, as well as far beneath it, technicians busily prepared for North Korea’s highly-anticipated, first nuclear weapons test – an event that was confirmed in dramatic fashion on October 9th, when it appeared on one of the seismographs I was monitoring… Continue reading
