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Seoul delivers barrage of K-pop music across border to North Korea

January 17, 2016 By Northwest Asian Weekly

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea tries to get under the skin of its archrival with border broadcasts that feature not only criticism of North Korea’s nuclear program, troubled economy and human rights abuses, but also a unique homegrown weapon: K-pop.

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2016, Associated Press, Big Bang, IU, Kakao Talk, Lee Ae-ran, Manuel Noriega, North Koreans, Panama, SEOUL, South Korean, TV, USB, Vatican Embassy, Vol 35 No 3 | January 16 - January 22, attention, culture

Retracing war past, ex-N. Korean POWs return to South Korea

August 16, 2015 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Hyung-Jin Kim Associated Press YANGPYEONG, South Korea (AP) — Back in the country where they were detained as prisoners of war in the 1950s, two former North Korean soldiers now find little apparent objection or hostility, at least superficially — they were even welcomed by veterans who had fought for the South. But it’s […]

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2015, Brazil, Cho Kyeong-duk, Cold War, Korean War, Lee Kyu-hwan, Maria Valerio Kang, Mato Grosso, North Korean People, North Koreans, POW, Return Home, San Francisco, South Koreans, United States, Vol 34 No 34 | August 15 - August 21, YANGPYEONG

Holiday in socialist fairyland? North Korea woos tourists

June 7, 2015 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Eric Talmadge Associated Press PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) — If you’re still looking for somewhere exotic to go this summer and don’t mind a vacation that comes with a heavy dose of socialist propaganda and leader worship, North Korea says it’s just the place for you. Fresh off a drastic, half-year ban that closed […]

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2008, 2015, Associated Press, China, Kim Jong-un, Kim Sang Hak, Kim Yong Il, North Koreans, PYONGYANG, Russia, South Koreans, Southeast Asia, State Department, Vol 34 No 24 | June 6 - June 12

South Korea deports American over positive N. Korea comments

January 18, 2015 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Hyung-Jin Kim Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — A Korean-American woman accused of praising rival North Korea in a recent lecture was deported from South Korea on Saturday, in the latest in a series of cases that critics say infringe on the country’s freedom of speech.

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2013, 2015, Associated Press, Culture Ministry, Farhan Haq, Kim Du-yeol, Kim Jong-un, National Security Law, North Korean-style, North Koreans, President Park Geun-hye, SEOUL, Shin Eun-mi, South Korean, State Department, United Nations, Vol 34 No 4 | January 17 - January 23

Defectors play big role in North Korean rumor mill

November 23, 2014 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Hyung-Jin Kim Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Video secretly taken in North Korea shows public executions by firing squad. The country is said to begin a currency revaluation that turns disastrous. Leader Kim Jong Un is reported to have thrown South Korean leaflets containing rumors about his wife in his aides’ faces.

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2008, 2012, 2014, Ahn Kyung-su, Associated Press, Choe Ryong Hae, Free North Korea Radio, Kim Heung Kwang, Leader Kim Jong Un, North Korea Intellectuals Solidarity, North Koreans, Ri Sol Ju, Russia, Son Jung-hun, South Korean, TV, Vol 33 No 48 | November 22 - November 28

Tense turns in freeing US captives in North Korea

November 23, 2014 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Calvin Woodward Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — When U.S. spy chief James Clapper flew to North Korea on a mission to bring home two U.S. captives, he ran into a potential hitch. North Korean officials wanted a diplomatic concession of some sort in return for freeing the men and Clapper had none to offer. […]

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2012, 2014, Associated Press, CBS, James Clapper, Matthew Miller, North Koreans, President Barack Obama, Reconnaissance Guidance Bureau, South Korea, US, Vol 33 No 48 | November 22 - November 28, letter

Welcome home! — Kenneth Bae finally gets home, family, pizza, and freedom

November 13, 2014 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Donna Bankinship and Josh Lederman Associated Press SEATTLE (AP)—Kenneth Bae arrived home after two years of imprisonment in North

Filed Under: Features, Community News, World News Tagged With: 2014, Air Force One, Associated Press, Bobby Lee, Columbia University, International Criminal Court, James Clapper, Jeffrey Fowle, Kenneth Bae, Kim Jong-un, Matthew Miller, North Koreans, President Barack Obama, Seattle, Speaking Sunday, Sue Mi Terry, Terri Chung, Vol 33 No 47 | November 15 - November 21, reunion

2 Koreas meet for highest level talks in 5 years

October 11, 2014 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Hyung-Jin Kim and Foster Klug Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea’s presumptive No. 2 and other members of Pyongyang’s inner circle met with South Korean officials Saturday in the rivals’ highest level face-to-face talks in five years, a possible indication that both sides are interested in pursuing better ties after months […]

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2014, Asian Games, Cheong Seong-chang, Choe Ryong Hae, High-level North Korean, Kim Jong-un, Kim Ki Nam, Kim Yang Gon, Korean War-divided, National Defense Commission, North Koreans, Park Geun-hye, Sejong Institute, South Korean President Kim Dae-jung, South Korean President Park Geun-hye, South Korean Unification Minister Ryoo Kihl-jae, University Games, Vol 33 No 42 | October 11 - October 17, Workers Party

Son says China espionage inquiry ‘mindboggling’

August 17, 2014 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Jeremy Hainsworth Associated Press VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) — The son of a Canadian couple arrested in China on suspicion of stealing state secrets about military and national defense research said Friday the situation is “mindboggling.’’

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2014, Associated Press, British Columbia-registered, Canada, Canadian Foreign Affairs, China, Chinese, Coffee House, Friendship Bridge, John Babcock, Julia Dawn Garratt, Kevin Garratt, National Research Council, North Koreans, North Star Aid, OK, Son Simeon Garratt, VANCOUVER, Vol 33 No 34 | August 16 - August 22

S. Korea rescues North Koreans drifting off coast

June 7, 2014 By Northwest Asian Weekly

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) – South Korea has rescued three North Koreans who were drifting off the east coast of South Korea on May 31.

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2014, North Koreans, South Korea, Unification Ministry, Vol 33 No 24 | June 7 - June 13

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