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North Korea Warns It May Retaliate

Because US cut food aid, all deals are off, says Pyongyang

(Newser) - North Korea says it may retaliate after its failed rocket test prompted the US to cut off food aid . Pyongyang holds that the launch was peaceful, and that Washington's move invalidated a deal requiring the North to halt nuclear and missile tests. "We have thus become able to...

Bus&#39;s Wrong Turn Reveals Real North Korea


 Bus' Wrong Turn 
 Reveals Real 
 North Korea 
IN CASE YOU MISSED IT
Apr 15, 2012 7:00 PM CDT

Bus' Wrong Turn Reveals Real North Korea

Reporters get a look at grimy reality normally hidden on staged presentations

(Newser) - The press bus took a wrong turn. And suddenly, everything changed in the official showcase of North Korean achievement. Dust swirled down deeply potholed streets, past crumbling concrete apartment buildings. Old people trudged along the sidewalk, while two men in wheelchairs waited at a bus stop. There were stores with...

Kim Gives 1st Public Speech
 Kim Gives 1st Public Speech 
HAPPY B-DAY, KIM IL SUNG
Apr 15, 2012 9:43 AM CDT

Kim Gives 1st Public Speech

Great spectacle designed to show military might, support of new leader

(Newser) - That whole rocket launch may not have worked out so well, but such minor inconveniences didn't stop North Korea from putting on a display of pomp for the occasion of founder Kim Il Sung 100th birthday that belied the nation's enduring poverty. Kim Jong Un himself surprised the...

Rocket Failure? Kim Jong Un Still Promoted

And North Korea re-confirms 'military-first' policy

(Newser) - If at first you don't succeed, bomb, bomb again. In the wake of its failed rocket launch , North Korea is doubling down on its "military-first" policy, promoting 20-something Kim Jong Un to first secretary of the powerful National Defense Commission—that officially makes him the country's leader,...

North Korea Escapes UN Penalties, for Now

But US scraps deal to provide food assistance

(Newser) - The UN Security Council criticized North Korea today for its attempt to launch a rocket but didn't impose sanctions or other penalties. US ambassador Susan Rice said the council "deplored this launch" and agreed to "continue consultations on an appropriate response." The Washington Post says some...

North Korea Admits Rocket a Dud
 North Korea: OK, 
 Rocket Was a Dud 
WORLD REACTIONS
Apr 13, 2012 7:59 AM CDT

North Korea: OK, Rocket Was a Dud

Satellite 'failed to enter preset orbit,' Pyongyang says

(Newser) - In a rare concession to reality, the North Korean regime has admitted that its rocket launch was not a complete and resounding success. "The Earth observation satellite failed to enter its preset orbit," the state-run Korean Central News Agency admitted hours after the rocket fell apart within 90...

North Korea Launches Rocket
 North Korea 
 Rocket Fizzles 
Apr 12, 2012 8:31 PM CDT

North Korea Rocket Fizzles

It broke apart soon after liftoff and landed in the sea

(Newser) - It's not polite to laugh: North Korea defied the world and launched its long-range rocket—and it stayed up all of about 90 seconds. South Korea confirmed a "failure," reports AP , and Reuters adds that the rocket broke into pieces and landed harmlessly in the sea off...

No NK Rocket Launch Yet— but Will It Even Work?

North Korea's past launches all failed, experts believe

(Newser) - Thanks to bad weather, North Korea's anticipated rocket launch did not come to pass today, but Pyongyang still appears determined to go through with the launch—or, as the US and other allies see it, a long-range missile test—sometime before Monday, the AP reports. But the Los Angeles ...

North Korea Injecting Rocket Fuel 'as We Speak'

'We don't care about outside opinions,' says official, to no one's surprise

(Newser) - Ignoring international protests, North Korea says it is fueling its satellite rocket "as we speak" and could be ready to launch as early as tomorrow, reports Reuters . Once the fueling is complete, chemicals that cause corrosion need to be injected into the rocket, pushing the urgency of a launch....

150K Held in Secret North Korea Gulag

 150K Held in Secret 
 North Korea Gulag 
new REPORT
Apr 10, 2012 10:11 AM CDT

150K Held in Secret North Korea Gulag

Human rights committee based report on account of 60 ex-prisoners

(Newser) - More than 150,000 North Koreans are incarcerated in a Soviet-style, hidden gulag despite Pyongyang's denial it even holds political prisoners, a human rights group reported today. The US-based Committee for Human Rights in North Korea said it based its report, which it's releasing as Pyongyang prepares to...

Korea Neighbors Reroute Flights on Rocket Path

White House warns media not to get 'co-opted' by Pyongyang propaganda

(Newser) - North Korea's threatened rocket launch has rerouted about 20 flights around the Philippines and closed three air corridors from Thursday to Monday as the region braces, reports the AP . North Korea said it chose a southerly path for the launch so that debris would not affect its neighbors,...

North Korea Digging Tunnel for Nuke Test: Seoul

And piles of dirt at the Punggye-ri site indicate it could happen soon

(Newser) - North Korea looks to be preparing a third nuclear test, the AP reports: New photos show work on an underground tunnel—at the site of two earlier such tests—is nearly finished, say South Korean intelligence officials. "North Korea is covertly preparing for a third nuclear test, which would...

North Korea Puts Rocket Into Place

Washington, South Korea watch nervously

(Newser) - North Korea has put a new long-range rocket into position as reports circulate that a nuclear test is underway, the BBC reports. Pyongyang insists the Unha-3 rocket will launch a harmless satellite, but South Korean leaders suspect otherwise—especially because the rocket is positioned at the Punggye-ri site, where North...

Kim Jong Un to Korean Troops: Sink Enemies

North Korean leader is hell-bent on rocket test, warns against interference

(Newser) - Kim Jong Un has a message for anyone who would mess with North Korea's planned rocket test (ahem, America and South Korea): We will "send all the intruders into the bottom of the sea." Bluntly underscoring again that his father's flair for the dramatic did not...

North Korea Building Missile That Could Hit US

And they have 10K experts working on such rockets

(Newser) - North Korea is working on a rocket so big that it makes the long-range Taepodong-2 missile it's preparing to test-launch look modest, South Korean government sources tell the Chosun Ilbo . Based on satellite images, they've determined that the North is working on a missile with a booster so...

Images Show North Korea Close to Rocket Launch

Preparations further along than previously thought: experts

(Newser) - Satellite images taken last week show that North Korea's preparations for a rocket launch this month are "more extensive … than previously understood," experts tell the AP . The images show a mobile radar trailer, necessary for any launch, as well as apparently empty fuel and oxidizer tanks,...

North Korean Gulag Survivor Tells His Tale

Book recounts his sending his own mother and brother to execution

(Newser) - Born in North Korea's largest and most infamous internment camp, Shin In Geun was raised behind electrified, barbed-wire fences in some of the most horrid conditions imaginable—constantly malnourished, beaten regularly, and forced to endure backbreaking labor every day. When Shin was just 13, he ratted out his older...

Obama Ready to Cut Nukes Again

President issues nuclear warnings to North Korea, Iran

(Newser) - President Obama still thinks we could stand to get rid of a bunch of our nukes, and has promised a renewed effort to cut American and Russian nuclear arsenals following 2010's START treaty . "We can already say with confidence that we have more nuclear weapons than we need,...

Obama Visits DMZ, Praises Troops at 'Freedom's Frontier'

President gives credit to troops for success of South Korea

(Newser) - President Barack Obama visited the Demilitarized Zone today, staring down North Korea from behind bulletproof glass just 100 yards from the demarcation line and praising US troops serving on "freedom's frontier." His visit, which the AP calls "an unmistakable show of force," comes 100 days...

Search for North Korea MIAs Over Before It Began

$5.7M search for soldier remains was just days from restarting

(Newser) - A program to recover the remains of the 5,500 American soldiers missing in North Korea from the Korean War has been shut down again, just two weeks after being announced , due to renewed tensions over North Korea's planned satellite launch , reports the New York Times . The US was...

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