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Breaking News From North Korea :

Sat, 31 Jul 2010 21:55:05 -0400

N. Korean football coach sacked, could be executed
North Korea World Cup coach Kim Jong-hun has been sacked, publicly ridiculed, expelled from the Worker's Party and made a construction labourer after his team failed to do well in South Africa.

North Korea to probe truth behind "Cheonan" warship case
North Korea has said that its people and army would probe the truth behind the March 26, 2010 "Cheonan" warship sinking case "to the end."

Kim Jong Il biographies seized in Myanmar
North Korean diplomats seized translations of a biography on regime leader Kim Jong Il by a local writer prior to a visit of the country's foreign minister, sources said Saturday.

N Korea coach made to work as builder, no pay
England's disgraced World Cup footballers and coach Fabio Capello must be thankful they are not from Communist North Korea. Here we just boo our players when they fail (or give them more money) but...

US-led drills not about sending message
HONOLULU – The commander of military drills in the Pacific says the focus of the exercises was training to combat terrorism, not sending a message to North Korea. Vice Adm. Richard W. Hunt says...

UNC proposes joint probe of ship sinking to NK
By Jung Sung-ki Staff reporter The U.S.-led United Nations Command (UNC) proposed North Korea a plan Friday to conduct a joint assessment of the sinking of South Korea’s ship, Cheonan, in March ...

US sanctions target NK funds from arms sales
By Na Jeong-ju Staff reporter The U.S. plan to impose new financial sanctions on North Korea will focus on cracking down on its overseas arms sales and the supply of luxury goods to its leadership...

Pyongyang again warns of water discharge
By Kang Hyun-kyung Staff reporter North Korea informed Seoul Thursday of the possible plan to release water downstream of the Imjin River running into the South, the second notice in advance follo...

North Korea has apparently begun discharging water from a dam near the inter-Korean border, officials here said Monday.
Water is released from Gunnam Dam in Yeoncheon, Gyeonggi Province, to deal with rising water levels on the Imjin River, Monday. A discharge of dam water by North Korea near the inter-Korean border cau...

Pyongyang ready to resume six-party talks
By Kim Young-jin Staff reporter North Korea is ready to rejoin the six-party negotiations on its denuclearization, its state-run media said Saturday. But a senior government official in Seoul s...

N. Korea runs risk of economic crisis again
By Kang Seung-woo Staff reporter The North Korean economy is forecast to contract this year due largely to South Korea's decision to suspend inter-Korean trade in countermeasures for its surprise ...

NK ruling party to elect new leaders in Sept.
By Kim Young-jin Staff reporter North Korea said Saturday that delegates of its ruling Workers' Party will hold a rare meeting in September to elect new leaders, a move experts say that will set t...

Clinton backs Seoul’s response to NK threat
President Lee Myung-bak, left, welcomes U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton during their meeting at Cheong Wa Dae in Seoul, Wednesday. Clinton said the world must respond to the sinking of ...

Korea women should also serve in the m..
“Korean women should also serve in the military to become strong and learn self-discipline,” preached one of South Korea’s leading women entrepreneurs. “Look at the women in Israel and Swed...

Washington shies away from harsh sanct..
The United States will not resort to establishing a new legislation to punish North Korea for the Cheonan warship incident as it sees that new legal measures won’t have its intended effect on the al...

Lee’s critic applied to be Lee’s spoke..
A person who opposed to President Lee Myung-bak’s policy turned out to be among the candidates who applied for Lee’s spokesperson post. The Cheong Wa Dae in May announced a job vacancy for an o...

Scores of South Korean tourists in Chi..
A group of 55 South Korean tourists in China were stranded due to heavy floods, China’s official Xinhua news agency reported Saturday. The tourists were stranded in Fushu, a city in northeastern ...

'Ugly' stars bounce back too easily
By Park Si-soo Staff reporter Several top entertainers have recently made headlines not with their hit movies or songs but by taking the role of villain in the real world. But such celebrities are...

Girls' Generation forgives 92 slandero..
By Park Si-soo Staff reporter Nearly 100 Internet users accused of posting digitally-doctored nude photos of Girls’ Generation in cyberspace avoided punishment thanks to a petition by the popula...

Nudist forest to open in Jangheung Cou..
By Kang Shin-who Staff reporter Korea’s first nudist forest is scheduled to open in Jangheung County, South Jeolla Province in late August. The county said Friday that it is working on a ther...

Seoul to privatize Woori Financial by ..
By Kang Seung-woo Staff reporter The government said Friday it will complete the privatization of Woori Financial Group by the end of June 2011 by seeking to sell its stake or have the group merge...

Cat abuser indicted without detention
By Kang Shin-who Staff reporter A woman, who became notorious for savagely beating a neighbor’s cat and throwing it out a window on the 10th floor of her apartment building, was indicted without...

KOREA – UNITED STATES Third round of talks between the United Nations and North Korea over ROKS Cheonan
The US-led UN Command that oversees the 1953 armistice met North Korean military officers in the DMZ. The sinking of a NOKS corvette that killed 46 South Korean sailors is still unsolved.

South Korean firms hike wages for workers in joint industrial estate in N Korea
SEOUL : South Korean firms operating in a Seoul-backed industrial estate in North Korea have accepted the North's demand to raise workers' wages by five percent, a spokesman said Saturday. A...

N.Korean landmines found in S.Korea
SEOUL (AFP) – Heavy rains washed eight anti-personnel mines from North to South Korea in the past week, a military spokesman said Saturday. The landmines in wooden casings were found off thre...

North Korean Dictator, Kim Jong-il, Punishes the Football Team for Failure at South Africa!
Just like his ill-fated counter part in Iraq (Saddam Hussein), Kim Jong-il of North Korea subjected the entire North Korean football team to public humiliation. After losing all three games at the pr...




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