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Korea
Dan Liftman
April 24, 2012
Incident compared to "Roadrunner cartoons."
Jeramey Thompson
October 26, 2011
South Korea, situated in East Asia is a sovereign state which has many historic sites, waterfalls, ancient shrines, natural parks and many more. South Korea tourist destinations with so many distinctive characteristics attract many tourists from all parts of the world.
Robert Siciliano
September 05, 2011
The Guardian reports, "South Korean police recently arrested five people who allegedly collaborated with North Korean hackers to steal millions of dollars in points from online gaming sites. Members of the gang, which included North Korea’s technological elite, worked in China and shared profi...
Joseph Raglione
August 24, 2011
Gentle readers of this American Chronicle, while the United States continues to languish in economic and political turmoil, caused mostly by a few greedy companies and their political friends in Washington; Russia is growing as a world power and pulling into its political and economic spheres some i...
William Lambers
July 25, 2011
They say the Korean War is the forgotten war. Nothing should ever be forgotten about the courage and sacrifice of those who fought in the war, and the humanitarian heroes who saved and changed the lives of a generation
Mike Banos
June 09, 2011
Turkish and Korean investors have shown interest in acquiring the Iligan Diesel Power Plant now owned by the Iligan City Government.
Jeffery Sims
December 25, 2010
Opinion: A Cold War approach to outlaw rouge regimes is the best way best deal with a saber-rattling and defiant North Korea (and other international belligerents).
Ismail Imadudeen
December 18, 2010
Itīs featured as one of remaining two extreme communist regimes in our planet (along with Cuba). Synonymous with droughts, starvation and economic inefficiency, North Korea doesnīt impress much a lot of people in America or the West in general.
Well, may be it is true that North Korea is not mode...
Robert Paul Reyes
November 28, 2010
"Venezuela's former Miss Universe Alicia Machado closed her Twitter account after being mocked for confusing the Koreas with China.
Concerned by North Korea's artillery attack on a South Korean island, the 1996 beauty queen winner got muddled when tweeting for world peace via her @aliciamachado77...
Robert Paul Reyes
November 24, 2010
"Nations reacted swiftly Tuesday in condemning a North Korean artillery attack that South Korea said killed two marines and wounded 15 soldiers and civilians.
The strongest reaction came from South Korean President Lee Myung-bak, who ordered his military to punish North Korea "through action," not ...
Sam Vaknin
November 23, 2010
The regime in North Korea is all but dead on its feet. These are its last days. China is facing the terrifying spectacle of a crony failed state with tens of millions of starved and destitute potential refugees swarming across its porous and indefensible borders. There is only one solution to all the problems of the Korean Peninsula: unification. The parties came close to discussing it in secret talks in 2002 and then again in 2009.
David Swanson
November 23, 2010
An excerpt from the just published book "War Is A Lie" http://warisalie.org
Matthew Freer
September 26, 2010
In this article, attorney Matthew Alan Freer considers the disparity between the South Korean and American Real Estate Rental Model
Patricia Shin-Ae Ko
July 24, 2010
Re-think the response to the Cheonan disaster. If North Korea had really done it, they'd surely be bragging! But, would South Korea really lie? Sure, they have a history to prove they can. True or false, what really matters is heart.
Frank A. Hilario
July 22, 2010
My Short Essay About The Philippines
By Jaeyoun KimEdited by Frank A Hilario 22 July 2010. I am re-presenting it after all these years this essay has been circulating in the Internet, because it is all so true, frank and honest and simple and doable. And donīt forget that the Philippines is the o...
Mariah Joseph
June 16, 2010
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Mariah Joseph
June 16, 2010
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Mariah Joseph
June 16, 2010
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Mariah Joseph
June 16, 2010
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Mariah Joseph
June 16, 2010
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Newswire Services
May 30, 2010
NEW YORK, NY -- The Korea Society will honor General Colin L. Powell, former Secretary of State, and General Paik Sun Yup, who commanded ground forces during the Korean War, at the Society's Annual Dinner at New York City's Plaza Hotel. Generals Powell and Paik will receive the Society's Van Fleet A...
Congressional Desk
May 27, 2010
WASHINGTON, D.C. U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.), a senior member of the Senate Armed Services Committee and the senior Republican member of the East Asian and Pacific Affairs Subcommittee of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, responded to the international civilian-military investigation tea...
John Atwood
May 25, 2010
Is it finally time to take more than diplomatic action against the aggression of North Korea? Is the risk of conflict now less than allowing them to continue their erratic, hostile and unpredictable actions in the future?
Joseph Raglione
March 19, 2010
Gentle readers within this American Chronicle, if most of you are like me your Telephone Bill is exhorbitant. For me it's twenty short of a hundred dollars a month and for most of you, over a hundred. Cancelling my Telephone is an idealistic option and very tempting in its simplicity.
No more p...
Newswire Services
December 05, 2009
Five airplanes worth $1.5 billion at list prices
Crime Blotter
November 23, 2009
WASHINGTON—A South Korean businessman was sentenced today in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas to five years in prison for his role in a bribery conspiracy involving a $206 million telecommunications contract and employees of the Army and Air Force Exchange Service (AAFES)...
Joseph Raglione
November 17, 2009
Gentle readers of this American Chronicle, life is hard enough without military dictators creating fear and terror in countries like North Korea. The following is a message from Rohit Mahajan, Media Relations Manager for the Radio Free Asia network...>
Also on www.rfa.org:
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Crime Blotter
October 29, 2009
WASHINGTON The U.S. Department of the Treasury today designated Amroggang Development Bank (Amroggang) as a proliferator of weapons of mass destruction under Executive Order (E.O.) 13382 for being owned or controlled by North Korea's Tanchon Commercial Bank (Tanchon). Treasury also today designate...
John Atwood
September 04, 2009
North Korea is as much of a threat today as it was in June of 1950. That threat is punctuated with the recent missile launches and statements of nuclear weapons development from Jong Il.
Sarma Venkateswara Vemuri
August 28, 2009
North Korea has been taking very aggressive postures in the recent times with sending rockets, testing missiles and nuclear devices, all clandestinely developed with technological assistance from China. China´s policy has been to check the countries such as Japan, South Korea and the Pacific o...
Harry Kelber
July 26, 2009
Hundreds of discharged workers from South Koreaīs Ssangyong Motors have continued to clash with police as they resist efforts to end a two-month siege at the companyīs main factory. Up to 600 workers have been occupying the paint shop part of the factory in protest against massive job cuts that are ...
Newswire Services
July 06, 2009
WASHINGTON, DC -- Riki Ellison, Chairman and Founder of the Missile Defense Advocacy Alliance (MDAA) www.missiledefenseadvocacy.org explains why the actions of North Korea on July 4th dictate the need for our nation to have a strong missile defense program, and that the ballistic missile tests by No...
Joseph Raglione
July 02, 2009
Radio Free Asia is a private, nonprofit corporation broadcasting and publishing online news, information, and commentary in nine East Asian languages to listeners who do not have access to full and free news media.
Joe Fleishman
June 29, 2009
United States strengthens its missile defense system in Hawaii. This extra safety measures is for North Korea if they seriously consider of any attack on American soil. One Japanese newspaper reported North Korea may launch missile attack targeting Hawaii. Although experts believe North Korea´s missile will not reach Hawaii. But still this is for the safeguard to avoid any unexpected situation.
Alice Aspen March
June 23, 2009
Bullying behavior is being recognized more and more, not only among boys, but girls too; even bad, abusive bosses are being appropriately handled. Even countries can become bullies when they feel they are not taken seriously and feel invisible. N, Korea is desperately seeking attention and is acting out just like a bully. Can we create a workable and peaceful relationship with N. Korea before they carry out their threats with their nuclear missiles to destroy a country?
Congressional Desk
June 19, 2009
WASHINGTON, DC Rep. Adam Schiff, co-chair of the Congressional Caucus for Freedom of the Press, introduced a resolution urging North Korea to release American journalists Laura Ling and Euna Lee on humanitarian grounds. Ms. Ling and Ms. Lee have been held since March 17th when they were detained ...
Congressional Desk
June 13, 2009
Legislation Would Restore Funds for Ground-based Midcourse Defense System
The Strategic Forces Subcommittee passed by voice vote the portion of the defense bill that includes a $1.2 billion cut from last year´s ballistic missile defense appropriated level. The Republicans on the Strategic F...
Krista Dandridge-Barnett
June 03, 2009
Two American Journalists, Euna Lee and Laura Ling, are schelduled to face trial [in North Korea] this Thurdsay [06.04.2009] for a number of issues, including, allegedly entering [forbidden] territory, [supposedly] "illegally". Hopefully DPRK will submit to Article 16 of the Socialist Constitution...
John W. Sammon
May 31, 2009
Next Wednesday, letīs attack North Korea. Cīmon US Government. Donīt be chicken.
Under the Republicans, you attacked Saddam Hussein because he was building a nuke. He wasnīt. That was a lie.
But letīs say it was true, instead of a lie from Bush and big Dick Cheney. Letīs say Saddam was building a ...
Joe Fleishman
May 29, 2009
World attention suddenly concentrated in one country North Korea. After the second nuclear test tension rises to the pick in the whole region. World opinion is critical against North but they have little care on the criticism. Now they are showing belligerent attitude threatened to attack South Korea if they do any misconduct like checking North bound ships.
William Lambers
May 25, 2009
Open Skies can be one of many diplomatic tools that can help rejuvenate the peace process on the Korean peninsula.
May 25, 2009
North Korea claimed Monday it had "successfully" conducted a nuclear test, its second since October 2006, to "bolster its nuclear deterrent for self-defense."
South Korea's Yonhap news agency reported the testing comes in the wake of the Communist country's warning last month about its nuclear pla...
William Lambers
April 24, 2009
Open Skies can be one of many diplomatic tools that can help rejuvenate the peace process on the Korean peninsula.
Congressional Desk
April 14, 2009
New legislation conditions diplomatic relations, non-humanitarian aid on abandonment of illicit nuclear and missile programs, human rights progress
WASHINGTON, - U.S. Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL), Ranking Republican on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, commented on the pending introduction...
International Desk
April 06, 2009
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today expressed his regret that the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) has, against strong international appeals, proceeded with its planned launch, urging the resumption of diplomatic talks.
According to media reports, the East Asian nation launched a roc...
Stafford Williamson
November 26, 2008
Obama says he is "Governors' ally in Washington" on clean energy. Korea triples mandated biodiesel content by deadline. "Native" algae species growth "disappointing" but informative.
Dr. Muhammad Shamsaddin Megalommatis
August 31, 2008
I highlighted an aspect of immorality in the Anuak political activist Mr. Obang Metho´s attitude of giving political speeches to help his Amhara racist friends at a moment terrible floods have devastated his occupied homeland, the tyrannized Gambella province of Abyssinia, in my article ´...
North Star Writers Group
July 07, 2008
Welcome to Hell: Life in North Korea
North Star Writers Group
June 30, 2008
President Bush tries to make headway with North Korea; both sides complain.
Jennie Gandhi
June 25, 2008
The music of Korea is over 1000 years old and Korean folk songs bring pure melody to the listener. Read this article if yu want to know more on Korean folk songs.
