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“Northern Limit Line” — Crossing emotional and historical borders

July 17, 2015 By Andrew Hamlin

By Andrew Hamlin Northwest Asian Weekly Wikipedia and military refers to it as the “Second Battle Of Yeonpyeong.”  On June 29, 2002, two border patrol boats from North Korea slipped over the Northern Limit Line, the maritime boundary between the Democratic People’s Republic Of Korea (DPRK—North Korea) and the Republic Of Korea (South Korea) in […]

Filed Under: At the Movies Tagged With: 2015, Alderwood Mall, Andrew Hamlin, DPRK, Democratic People, Four North Koreans, Hak-soon Kim, Jin-sung Jang, Northern Limit Line, Northwest Asian Weekly, Soon-jo Choi, South Korean Battleship, Vol 34 No 30 | July 18 - July 24, WA, Yellow Sea

NK uses racial slur on Obama over hack

January 6, 2015 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Hyung-Jin Kim Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea blamed its recent Internet outage on the United States on Saturday and hurled racially charged insults at President Barack Obama over the hacking row involving the movie “The Interview.’’ North Korea’s powerful National Defense Commission, which is headed by country leader Kim Jong […]

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: Associated Press, DPRK, Democratic People, Kim Jong-un, Korean Central News Agency, NK, National Defense Commission, National Security Council, North Korean, Policy Department, President Barack Obama, Sony Pictures, South Korean President Park Geun-hye, State John Kerry, United States

US man in North Korea given 6 years of hard labor

September 20, 2014 By Northwest Asian Weekly

AP Wire Service PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) — North Korea’s Supreme Court on Sunday sentenced a 24-year-old American man to six years of hard labor for entering the country illegally to commit espionage.

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2014, Aijalon Gomes, DPRK, Democratic People, Eddie Yong Su Jun, Following Sunday, Former President Bill Clinton, Jeffrey Fowle, Jen Psaki, Jimmy Carter, Korean American, Matthew Miller, New Jersey-based, North Korean, Robert King, Russian President Vladimir Putin, State Department, Uri Tours, Vol 33 No 39 | September 20 - September 26

North Korea says it’s holding a third American prisoner

June 21, 2014 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Hyung-Jin Kim Associated Press North Korea said on June 6 it has detained an American tourist for committing an unspecified crime, the third U.S. citizen being held there.

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2014, Associated Press, DPRK, Democratic People, Jeffrey Edward Fowle, KCNA, Kenneth Bae, Korean American, Korean Peninsula, North Korea, South Korean, Sweden, United States, Vol 33 No 26 | June 21 - June 27

Wireless living: Limited Internet access in North Korea affects country’s development

January 24, 2014 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Imana Gunawan Northwest Asian Weekly While most of the developed world enjoys Internet access as a basic human right, North Koreans live with their web access heavily regulated and monitored.

Filed Under: Features, Community News Tagged With: 2014, Brigit Stadler, Clark Sorensen, DPRK, Democratic People, Google, International Studies, Jackson School, Limited Internet, North Koreans, PUST, Seattle, South Korean, Sudan, Though Scott, UW, Vol 33 No 5 | January 25 - January 31, World Policy Journal, technology

US calls for NKorea amnesty for sentenced American

May 12, 2013 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Matthew Pennington and Sam Kim The Associated Press WASHINGTON, D.C. (AP) — The United States called May 3 for North Korea to grant amnesty and immediately release a Korean American sentenced to 15 years of hard labor for “hostile acts” against the state.

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2009, 2013, China, Democratic People, Euna Lee, Jay Carney, Jimmy Carter, Kim Jong-un, Laura Ling, North Korean, Patrick Cronin, Patrick Ventrell, Russia, Swedish Embassy, United States, Vol 32 No 20 | May 11 - May 17, WASHINGTON, White House

All wait with bated breath for a post-Kim Jong-il world

December 22, 2011 By Stacy Nguyen

By Stacy Nguyen Northwest Asian Weekly In the early 1990s, when North Korea opened its borders a tiny bit to Americans, Seong Suk Kim, also known as Joan, sought the opportunity to visit her siblings — two brothers — and their children, Kim’s nieces and nephews, whom she had never met. During the Korean War, […]

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: Democratic People, Jang Song Thaek, KCNA, Kim Il Sung, Kim Jong-il, Kim Jong-un, Kim Kyong Hui, Korean Peninsula, Korean Studies, Korean War, North Koreans, Party Delegates Conference, President Barack Obama, Seong Suk Kim, United States, Whereas South Korea

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