Secretive North Korea opens up to cellphones

Release Date 25 Nov, 2011 in GMANews-TV

 
   

UN envoy urges N. Korea to end 'inhuman' treatment

Straits Times - 25 Nov, 2011
SEOUL (AFP) - A United Nations envoy urged North Korea on Friday to end torture and other 'inhuman and degrading' treatment of detainees, saying it is perhaps the only country which believes it can ignore human rights. Marzuki Darusman, the UN special ...

Secretive North Korea opens up to cellphones

GMANews.TV - 25 Nov, 2011
SEOUL - Secretive North Korea is expected to register the one millionth cellphone user on its new 3G network by the end of the year, barely four years after people were thrown into prison camps, or possibly even executed, for owning one. ...

North Korea rejects UN 'smear campaign' on rights

AsiaOne - 25 Nov, 2011
SEOUL - Pyongyang Thursday rejected a United Nations resolution condemning human rights abuses by North Korea, denouncing it as a smear campaign led by the United States. A foreign ministry spokesman said that no matter how ferocious the campaigns by ...

UN rights envoy pledges utmost efforts to locate 'abducted' family in N. Korea

Yonhap News - 25 Nov, 2011
SEOUL, Nov. 25 (Yonhap) -- The United Nations' envoy on North Korean human rights on Friday promised to work toward the return of a Korean family believed to be held in the communist country, saying the case highlights the urgency of ...

Number of NK mobile phone users jump in recent years

The Korea Herald - 25 Nov, 2011
The number of North Korean mobile phone users has jumped in recent years, with the figure projected to top the 1-million mark by year's end, an unusual phenomenon in the tightly controlled state. In the last three months, there has been an increase of ...

 

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