North Koreans Use Cellphones to Bare Secrets

Release Date ‎Mar 28, 2010‎ in New York Times

 
   

S. Korean search operations for missing sailors hampered by bad weather

Xinhua - Mu Xuequan - 31 Mar, 2010
SEOUL, March 31 (Xinhua) -- The South Korean military's sixth day's underwater search operations for 46 missing sailors of a sunken naval vessel were ...

Divided we fall

JoongAng Daily - 31 Mar, 2010
The sinking of the 1200-ton patrol ship Cheonan over the weekend left 46 sailors missing. One member of the rescue team died during his mission to save the ...

Defector in Washington to discuss North Korea

JoongAng Daily - 31 Mar, 2010
WASHINGTON - The highest-ranking North Korean official ever to defect to South Korea arrived here Tuesday to discuss nuclear weapons, human rights and other ...

Top brass ordered the Sokcho to fire

JoongAng Daily - Kim Min-seok - 31 Mar, 2010
The South Korean Navy fired northward on the night of the Cheonan's sinking at the order of the upper military chain of command, with orders to destroy a ...

North Korean leader will go to China soon

JoongAng Daily - 31 Mar, 2010
North Korean leader Kim Jong-il's visit to China is imminent, Blue House and government sources said yesterday. “We believe there is a high possibility and ...

Kim Jong-il's China Visit Imminent

Korea Times - 31 Mar, 2010
By Na Jeong-ju North Korea appears to be pushing for a visit by its leader Kim Jong-il to China this month, according to South Korean officials Wednesday. ...

Chinese Continued Financial Support of N. Korea Questioned

Voice of America - Kurt Achin - 31 Mar, 2010
North Korea's leader appears poised to travel to China, as his country reels from what regional analysts describe as an economic policy fiasco. ...

NKorea's Kim reportedly preparing to visit China

Ynetnews - 31 Mar, 2010
North Korean leader Kim Jong Il will likely visit China soon, a trip that could lead to the country's return to international nuclear disarmament talks, ...

Bad weather halts South Korean search for sailors

CNN - 31 Mar, 2010
South Korean marines search the shoreline for possible survivors and bodies from the sunken warship on March 31, 2010. (CNN) -- The South Korean military ...

Official: North Korean leader Kim Jong Il may visit China

TODAYonline - 31 Mar, 2010
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - An official and news reports say North Korean leader Kim Jong Il will likely visit China soon. South Korea's presidential Blue ...

Currency chaos shakes N.Korea

Straits Times - 31 Mar, 2010
SEOUL - NORTH Korea's botched currency reform has shaken the reclusive communist regime to its core and may hasten its bankruptcy or force it to reach out ...

Seoul Suspects North Korean Involvement, but US Doubts It

Korea Times - Jung Sung-ki - 31 Mar, 2010
In a delicate turnaround from its initial position, Cheong Wa Dae is cautiously raising the possibility of North Korea's involvement in the ...

Kim Jong-Il to make surprise trip to China

Herald Sun - 31 Mar, 2010
NORTH Korean leader Kim Jong-Il is highly likely to visit China soon, South Korea's presidential office said, a move which could signal his country's return ...

Kim Jong Il May Visit China Amid Stalled Arms Talks

BusinessWeek - Bomi Lim - 31 Mar, 2010
March 31 (Bloomberg) -- Kim Jong Il is set to visit China on his first overseas visit in four years, South Korea said, a trip the US government ...

SKorea Suspends Underwater Rescue Operation

New York Times - Kwang-tae Kim, Young-joon Ahn - 31 Mar, 2010
By AP BAENGNYEONG ISLAND, South Korea (AP) -- Stormy conditions forced the South Korean military to suspend the search for 46 sailors missing since a ...

Bad weather hampers search for missing sailors

The Sun Daily - 31 Mar, 2010
SEOUL (March 31): Hopes of finding survivors from a sunken South Korean military ship grew dimmer Wednesday as stormy weather brought rescue operations to a ...

SKorea maintains alert after warship sinking

Channel News Asia - 31 Mar, 2010
BAENGNYEONG ISLAND, South Korea: South Korea said Wednesday it has ordered all government officials to stay on emergency alert until the crisis sparked by ...

Are the North Korea watchers right this time?

Wall Street Journal - 31 Mar, 2010
The professors, military experts and think-tank analysts who scrutinize North Korea's power elite seemed to have settled in recent years into a belief in ...

This Is a Time for the Nation to Stand United

The Chosun Ilbo - 31 Mar, 2010
President Lee Myung-bak on Tuesday visited the area where the Navy corvette Cheonan sank in an unexplained explosion Friday. ...

N.Korean Submarine 'Left Base Before the Cheonan Sank'

The Chosun Ilbo - 31 Mar, 2010
Amid rampant speculation that the Navy corvette Cheonan sank due to a torpedo attack by a North Korean submarine or semi-submersible, there are reports that ...

US Downplays Likelihood of N.Korean Hand in Shipwreck

The Chosun Ilbo - 31 Mar, 2010
The US government is being cautious about speculation that North Korea was involved in the sinking of a South Korean Navy corvette near the inter-Korean ...

No Signs Of Life From Stern Of Sunken South Korea Warship

Wall Street Journal - 31 Mar, 2010
SEOUL (AFP)--Divers on Monday heard no sounds of life from the stern of a sunken South Korean warship, the defence ministry said, dimming hopes that some of ...

New Clues to Sinking of the Cheonan Emerge

The Chosun Ilbo - 31 Mar, 2010
More pieces of the puzzle began to fall into place Tuesday, five days since the Navy corvette Cheonan sank in an unexplained explosion near the maritime ...

PRESS DIGEST - South Korean newspapers - March 31

Reuters - 31 Mar, 2010
SEOUL, March 31 (Reuters) - The following is a summary of major South Korean newspapers on Wednesday prepared by Reuters in Seoul. ...

Hermit economics hobbles Pyongyang

Financial Times - Aidan Foster-Carter - 31 Mar, 2010
Great Leader? Pyongyang's fawning hagiography not only grates, but is singularly unearned. Even by its own dim lights, North Korea's ...

Mine offered as cause of S Korea sinking

Financial Times - Christian Oliver - 31 Mar, 2010
Just days after Seoul all but ruled out any North Korean involvement, a senior South Korean official suggested yesterday that a ...

Video Clips Show Sinking Navy Ship

The Chosun Ilbo - 31 Mar, 2010
Military authorities on Tuesday revealed video footage showing the moment the Navy corvette Cheonan sank in the West Sea last Friday. ...

South Korean diver dies in warship rescue as military is put on alert

TODAYonline - 31 Mar, 2010
BAENGNYEONG ISLAND (South Korea) - A South Korean diver died yesterday during a mission to rescue dozens of sailors believed trapped inside a warship that ...

North Korea Strains Under New Pressures

Wall Street Journal - Evan Ramstad - 31 Mar, 2010
SEOULâ€"North Korea's authoritarian regime appears to be weakening and the prospect of its collapse is being discussed anew by longtime ...

S Korea continues search for 46 missing sailors

Xinhua - Mu Xuequan - ‎Mar 30, 2010‎
SEOUL, March 30 (Xinhua) -- South Korea's Navy and coastguard on Tuesday continued their rescue efforts to search for the missing sailors of a naval vessel ...

 

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