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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 2009
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Pyongyang stories: 59 news summaries

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 North Korea 
 Conducts Nuke Test 

First test since 2006 draws international condemnation

May 25, 09 2:38 AM CDT
(Newser) - North Korea announced today it had successfully conducted its first nuclear test since 2006, catching the South and the US off guard and drawing a swift denunciation from Barack Obama. The underground test produced a 4.7-magnitude earthquake, but as with the previous test, it remains unclear whether the North... More »

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Barack Obama • North Korea • South Korea • nuclear weapons • Pyongyang • nuclear program • Kim Jong Il • UN Security Council • nuclear test

N. Korea to Try Jailed US Journos Next Month

Pyongyang to put women on trial for alleged intent to commit 'hostile acts"

May 14, 09 2:17 AM CDT
(Newser) - Two American journalists accused of entering North Korea illegally to commit unspecified "hostile acts" will face trial June 4, Reuters reports. Euna Lee and Laura Ling—who were working on a story for Current TV about the country's refugee crisis—have been detained by North Korea since they were... More »

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North Korea • trial • Pyongyang • Euna Lee • Laura Ling • Jay-ZTV

US Reporters Languish in North Korea

Regime shuts out diplomats, refuses dialog with Washington

May 11, 09 7:17 AM CDT
(Newser) - While media and diplomatic pressure on Iran seems to have won the release of Roxana Saberi, two other reporters held captive in North Korea for nearly two months are receiving far less attention, the Wall Street Journal reports. The plight of Euna Lee and Laura Ling has been overshadowed by... More »

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North Korea • diplomacy • Pyongyang • arrest • journalist • Kim Jong Il • Euna Lee • Laura Ling

(Newser) - North Korea says it will view any punishment for its recent rocket launch as a threat to its very sovereignty and will take "necessary and strong steps" in response, the BBC reports. It did not specify what those steps might be. "Every country has the inalienable right to... More »

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North Korea • ICBMS • Pyongyang • rocket • Kim Jong Il • UN Security Council

 Japan, US Ready 
 Defenses for 
 N Korean Missile 

Navy moves ships in as Tokoy says it will shoot down debris

Mar 27, 09 6:09 AM CDT
(Newser) - The Japanese government ordered its military to fire on a North Korean rocket if any part of it falls into Japanese airspace, reports Reuters. North Korea has said it will launch a communications satellite but is presumed to be testing a long-range missile, which is currently on a launch pad.... More »

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North Korea • Japan • Pyongyang • missile • satellite • Japanese Defense Force • rocket

North Korea Makes Threat Over Missile Launch

Vows to restart nuclear plants if sanctioned

Mar 26, 09 1:49 PM CDT
(Newser) - North Korea said today it would reopen its nuclear facilities if the UN Security Council takes action over a planned missile launch, Reuters reports. If the UN adds sanctions against North Korea, Pyongyang said it would reverse the closing of both a nuclear reactor and its Yongbyon atomic plant, which... More »

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North Korea • Pyongyang • missile • satellite • rocket • Kim Jong Il • UN Security Council

Despite Hunger, N. Korea Rejects US Food Aid

Pyongyang boots humanitarian groups ahead of rocket launch

Mar 18, 09 6:48 AM CDT
(AP) - North Korea will reject future US food assistance and kicked out five groups distributing American aid, a move that could make an already precarious humanitarian situation even worse, reports the AP. Pyongyang gave no reason for refusing the aid, according to the State Department. North Korea faces chronic food shortages... More »

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North Korea • South Korea • State Department • famine • Pyongyang • food aid

North Koreans Eat Pizza—After 10 Years' Wait

Kim Jong-Il wanted perfect recipe before authorizing restaurant

Mar 16, 09 7:50 AM CDT
(Newser) - Millions of North Koreans suffer from undernourishment, but in Pyongyang, the ruling elite have a new dining option: the country's first pizzeria. It opened last December, more than a decade after Kim Jong-Il, reportedly a serious gourmand, brought a stable of Italian pizza chefs to teach army officers how to... More »

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North Korea • Pyongyang • dictatorship • pizza • Kim Jong Il

 Stroke Survivor Kim Puffs Away 

Despite strict anti-smoking laws, North Korean leader takes a drag

Feb 26, 09 7:33 AM CST
(AP) - President Obama isn't the only world leader with a less-than-consistent message about smoking. Despite his reported stroke last August, North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il was recently photographed puffing on a cigarette during a recent tour of a tobacco factory, reports the AP. One photo shown on North Korean state television... More »

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North Korea • smoking • Pyongyang • Kim Jong Il • cigarette

 North Korea Prepares 
 'Satellite' Launch 

Neighbors believe country is readying test of long-range missile

Feb 24, 09 4:18 AM CST
(Newser) - North Korea’s announcement today that it is preparing to launch an "experimental communications satellite" on one of its rockets has raised fears that a long-range missile test is imminent, CNN reports. US and South Korean officials, citing intelligence reports, believe that the country is preparing to launch a... More »

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North Korea • South Korea • Pyongyang • missile • satellite

 Post-Stroke Kim Jong-il 
 Meets Chinese Official 

Visit marks first appearance with foreigners since illness

Jan 23, 09 7:40 AM CST
(Newser) - Kim Jong-il, the North Korean supreme leader, met a senior official from China's Communist Party today—in his first known meeting with a foreigner since suffering a stroke in August. The meeting was seen as an attempt to show that Kim remains in charge of North Korea, which has strongly... More »

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North Korea • Pyongyang • stroke • Kim Jong Il • Chinese Communist party

North Korea Threatens to 'Shatter' South

Pyongyang claims to have plutonium for
4 nuclear bombs

Jan 17, 09 5:21 PM CST
(Newser) - North Korea threatened to “shatter” South Korea today as reports surfaced that Pyongyang may have enough plutonium stocks to produce at least four nuclear bombs, the Guardian reports. The North said rising hostilities with Seoul compelled it to take “an all-out confrontational posture” over a disputed maritime border... More »

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Barack Obama • North Korea • South Korea • Seoul • nuclear weapons • United States • Pyongyang • plutonium

 N. Korea to Shut
 Border With South 

Pyongyang angered by South Korean government's actions

Nov 12, 08 1:45 PM CST
(Newser) - North Korea says it will cut access to South Korea on Dec. 1, by closing the border and severing the sole civilian phone link between the two nations, the BBC reports. The North has grown increasingly hostile to the South since it elected President Lee Myung-bak, who promised to “... More »

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North Korea • United Nations • South Korea • Pyongyang • reunification • Lee Myung-bak

Brother-in-Law Pilots N. Korea for Ailing Kim

Head of secret police fills in as dictator heals from stroke: analysts

Nov 7, 08 2:47 PM CST
(Newser) - Kim Jong-Il’s brother-in-law is running North Korea as the dictator recovers from a stroke, experts tell the Times of London. South Korean analysts say that while Kim is conscious and probably mobile, he remains weak. But Pyongyang appears to be functioning normally in the hands of Chang Sung Taek,... More »

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North Korea • South Korea • Pyongyang • dictatorship • stroke • Kim Jong Il

North Korea Threatens
to Sever Ties With South

Calls South Korean government 'traitors'

Oct 16, 08 2:18 AM CDT
(Newser) - North Korea is threatening to sever ties with South Korea in a war of words that has plunged relations between the partitioned neighbors to a new low, Reuters reports. North Korean officials are upset about hardline policies of South Korea's conservative government.  "If the traitors keep to the... More »

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nuclear proliferation • North Korea • South Korea • Pyongyang • disarmament • plutonium • Lee Myung-bak • state sponsored terrorism

 US May Yank 
 N. Korea Off 
 Terror List 

Strategy to restart nuclear diplomacy

Oct 10, 08 5:49 AM CDT
(Newser) - The US is expected to provisionally remove North Korea from the State Department's list of state sponsors of terrorism, possibly as early as today, reports the Washington Post. It may be the Bush administration's last "carrot" to offer as diplomatic efforts to persuade North Korea to abandon its... More »

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North Korea • State Department • nuclear weapons • Pyongyang • uranium enrichment • Kim Jong Il • plutonium • state sponsors of terror list • Christopher R. Hill

ANALYSIS

 Kim's Death Unlikely 
 to Breed Chaos 

Doomsday scenarios for North Korean succession farfetched

Sep 22, 08 12:49 PM CDT
(Newser) - With Kim Jong Il conspicuously out of the public eye in recent months, some speculate that his death could shatter the North Korean government and precipitate humanitarian and possibly military crises. But the reality of succession, Philip Bowring writes in the International Herald Tribune, is likely to be far more... More »

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North Korea • nuclear weapons • Pyongyang • dictatorship • Kim Jong Il • reunification • succession

OPINION

 N. Korea: Not So 1984-Like 

Pyongyang could be 'Anytown, USA,' student writes

Sep 14, 08 9:25 AM CDT
(Newser) - When many Americans picture North Korea, they see “gulag and famine,” but what one student found was less 1984 and "more like the set of Austin Powers 4, minus the hot blondes.“ In fact, wandering Pyongyang revealed what could be “Anytown, USA,” free from... More »

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North Korea • Pyongyang • capitalism • college student

 Power Struggle
 Looms in
 North Korea

Kim's sons, military will vie to take charge in wake of president's illness

Sep 10, 08 3:55 AM CDT
(Newser) - With no obvious successor in the shadows, North Korea may be in for a bitter power struggle if reports prove true that President Kim Jong Il is gravely ill after suffering a stroke. The North Korean autocrat was mysteriously absent from 60th anniversary celebrations yesterday. The power vacuum could be... More »

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North Korea • Pyongyang • Kim Jong Il • Jong Nam • Jong Chol • Kenji Fujimoto • Jong Un • Kim Hak-sung • Yoo Ho-yeol • Institute for International Economics

North Korea Sticks on 'Axis
of Evil' List

Rice says Pyongyang hasn't made progress on nuclear issue

Aug 11, 08 5:33 AM CDT
(Newser) - The US will not remove North Korea from its list of state sponsors of terrorism, Reuters reports. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice told her Japanese counterpart that Pyongyang had not made sufficient progress on a verification plan for its nuclear programs, which was a condition for removing it from the... More »

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North Korea • Condoleezza Rice • nuclear weapons • Pyongyang • Axis of Evil • nuclear disarmament

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