Twitter can be dangerous for your Olympics wellbeing! (Olympics Diary)
August 1st, 2012 - 5:30 pm ICT by IANS
London, Aug 1 (IANS) Known for connecting people, social networking site Twitter has been making all the wrong noises at the London Games. Racial posts on the site caused ... Read more...
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88 killed in North Korea floods
July 29th, 2012 - 6:15 am ICT by IANS
Beijing, July 29 (IANS) Floods triggered by torrential downpour have killed 88 people in North Korea, the official KCNA news agency reported.A total of 134 were reported injured and around ... Read more...
Posted in Environment |
North Korea confirms mystery woman is leader’s wife
July 26th, 2012 - 10:50 pm ICT by BNO News
PYONGYANG, NORTH KOREA (BNO NEWS) -- North Korea's new leader, Kim Jong-un, is married, state-run media confirmed on Wednesday, ending weeks of speculation about a young woman who accompanied the world's ... Read more...
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North Korea executed three cannibals
May 11th, 2012 - 4:07 am ICT by IANS
Pyongyang, May 11 (IANS/RIA Novosti) North Korea held at least three public executions of people charged with cannibalism in the last few years, Yonhap news agency reported Thursday.Some North Koreans ... Read more...
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India’s missile test is not bad news for the world (Comment)
April 22nd, 2012 - 10:40 am ICT by IANS
Perusing the front pages of Delhi newspapers, one gets the impression that the launch of the Agni-V intercontinental missile with a striking range of 5,000 km by India was a prominent ... Read more...
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`North Koreans to try next missile launch in 2-3 years’
April 13th, 2012 - 3:24 pm ICT by IANS
Pyongyang, April 13 (IANS/RIA Novosti) Reports that a North Korean rocket plunged into the Yellow Sea Friday morning will not spell the end of North Korea's rocket programme, said a ... Read more...
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North Korea launches long-range rocket: reports (Lead)
April 13th, 2012 - 7:16 am ICT by IANS
Pyongyang/Washington, April 13 (IANS) Defying warnings from the international community, North Korea launched a long-range rocket into orbit Friday, reported CNN citing two US officials.International leaders had urged North Korea ... Read more...
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North Korea launches rocket: US
April 13th, 2012 - 6:39 am ICT by IANS
Pyongyang, April 13 (IANS) North Korea launched a long-range rocket into orbit Friday in defiance of warnings from the international community, reported CNN citing two US officials.International ... Read more...
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Pentagon urges North Korea to give up missile launch (Lead)
April 6th, 2012 - 1:32 pm ICT by IANS
Washington, April 6 (IANS/RIA Novosti) The US Department of Defense has urged North Korea not to go ahead with its plans to launch a satellite."The North Koreans will be violating ... Read more...
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North Korea snubs Obama over satellite launch
March 27th, 2012 - 8:21 pm ICT by IANS
London, March 27 (IANS) In a snub to US President Barack Obama over his appeal to North Korea about its satellite-launch plan in April, Pyongyang Tuesday vowed to go ... Read more...
Posted in World |
Freedom Bridge nothing like ‘Die Another Day’ projected (Feature)
March 27th, 2012 - 10:43 am ICT by IANS
Panmonjom (South Korea), March 27 (IANS) Remember the Freedom Bridge in the James Bond flick "Die Another Day"? That's where, in the Demilitarised Zone (DMZ) separating South and North ... Read more...
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North Korea to punish ‘non-mourners’
January 11th, 2012 - 5:38 pm ICT by IANS
Moscow, Jan 11 (IANS/RIA Novosti) North Koreans who did not mourn the death of "Dear Leader" Kim Jong-il can face at least six months in prison, a South Korean media ... Read more...
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South Koreans send anti-regime leaflets to North in balloons
December 22nd, 2011 - 6:53 am ICT by IANS
Moscow, Dec 22 (IANS/RIA Novosti) A group of South Korean activists and North Korean defectors launched balloons carrying propaganda leaflets to the North, protesting the succession of power in the ... Read more...
Posted in Politics |
‘Kim Jong-il’s death was extensive intelligence failure’
December 20th, 2011 - 11:09 pm ICT by IANS
Washington, Dec 20 (IANS) South Korean and US intelligence services failed to pick up any clues even after 48 hours of Kim Jong-il's death last Saturday, demonstrating an extensive intelligence ... Read more...
Posted in Politics |
Kim’s death: Will India-North Korea ties improve?
December 19th, 2011 - 6:18 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Dec 19 (IANS) India is closely watching developments in North Korea following the death of its longtime leader Kim Jong-il, which could improve New Delhi's ties with the ... Read more...
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North Korean leader Kim Jong-il dies of heart attack
December 19th, 2011 - 2:32 pm ICT by BNO News
PYONGYANG (BNO NEWS) -- Kim Jong-il, the mysterious Communist leader who ruled North Korea for more than seventeen years, died of a massive heart attack on early Saturday morning, the government announced ... Read more...
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‘North Korea’s Kim Jong-il has nightmares about stoning’
March 28th, 2011 - 4:08 pm ICT by BNO News
SEOUL (BNO NEWS) -- North Korean leader Kim Jong-il has had nightmares in which his own people threw stones at him, Rep. Chung Mong-joon of the ruling South Korean Grand National Party ... Read more...
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Kim Jong-Il had nightmares about people stoning him
March 27th, 2011 - 1:07 pm ICT by ANI
Melbourne, Mar 27 (ANI): North Korean Supreme Leader Kim Jong-Il, who has ruled the country with iron fist since its founding in 1948, told a visiting businessman he had nightmares of being ... Read more...
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Kim Jong-Il’s son prefers Eric Clapton gig to dad’s b’day celebration!
February 17th, 2011 - 6:29 pm ICT by ANI
London, Feb 17 (ANI): It seems that Kim-Jong Chol, one of the sons of Kim Jong II, would rather attend an Eric Clapton concert than celebrate his father's birthday.Chol was apparently caught ... Read more...
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N. Korean refugees sceptical of government, support unification with South
January 23rd, 2011 - 1:21 pm ICT by ANI
Pyongyang, Jan 23 (ANI): A new book about North Korea by two international academicians has claimed that refugees of that country hold their government in low regard, and are far more sceptical ... Read more...
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Lee’s praise for navy’s strike against Somali pirates ‘veiled threat to Pyongyang’: Expert
January 22nd, 2011 - 2:36 pm ICT by ANI
Seoul, Jan 22 (ANI): South Korean President Lee Myung-bak's national television appearance praising the navy for rescuing the crewmen of Seoul's cargo ship in the Arabian Sea from Somalia pirates, is seen ... Read more...
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Five North Korean defectors ’shot dead’
January 12th, 2011 - 1:11 pm ICT by ANI
Shanghai, Jan.12 (ANI): Five North Koreans trying to escape from the rogue state have reportedly been shot dead while trying to cross into China. The Telegraph quoted a local newspaper report as ... Read more...
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US must end ‘world’s most dangerous place’ Pakistan’s double game on terror: Book (Part-2)
January 8th, 2011 - 1:42 pm ICT by ANI
The US-Pakistan relationship has been a fraught one from the day the Central Asian nation broke free from British control to become an Islamic republic in 1947, the report said.There ... Read more...
Posted in South Asia |
‘Bend it Like Beckham’ - first Western-made film to air in North Korea
December 31st, 2010 - 1:11 pm ICT by ANI
London, Dec 31 (ANI): North Koreans got a break from the regular TV programmes this week, when British football film 'Bend it Like Beckham' was aired in the country.The 2002 ... Read more...
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David Beckham Unites North Korea And England!
December 31st, 2010 - 12:45 pm ICT by Sampurn Wire
, a film made on a teenage girl’s idol David Beckham, has become an instrumental part of television and diplomatic histories. The movie was broadcast on North Korean television screens four ... Read more...
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Human excreta, skinny jeans, adult films ’selling like hot cakes in N.Korea’
December 29th, 2010 - 2:31 pm ICT by ANI
New York, Dec 29 (ANI): Skinny jeans, adult films and even human manure were among some of the must-have items for North Koreans, according to a South Korean professor who has interviewed ... Read more...
Posted in South Asia |
Iran recruiting scientists to work on its nuke weapons programme
December 23rd, 2010 - 1:54 pm ICT by ANI
Tehran, Dec 23 (ANI): Iran is reportedly recruiting scientists from across the world to lure them to work on its nuclear weapons programme.The Telegraph quoted Iranian officials as saying that their ... Read more...
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Bill Richardson invited to North Korea amid tensions in peninsula
December 11th, 2010 - 4:52 pm ICT by ANI
Pyongyang, Dec 11 (ANI): Bill Richardson, a former US ambassador to the UN, would reportedly visit North Korea next week on the invitation of one of the country's top nuclear negotiators.Mexico ... Read more...
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Burma taking North Korea’s help to build secret nuclear sites: Wikileaks
December 10th, 2010 - 2:04 pm ICT by ANI
London, Dec 10 (ANI): Scores of secret US diplomatic cables released by the Whistleblower website 'Wikileaks' have revealed that witnesses in Burma had claimed to have seen evidence of secret nuclear and ... Read more...
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Obama criticises Jintao over not condemning North Korea’s provocative actions openly
December 7th, 2010 - 3:02 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Dec 7 (ANI): US President Barack Obama has reportedly criticised his Chinese counterpart Hu Jintao during a telephonic conversation between the two leaders, saying that Beijing was emboldening North Korea ... Read more...
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1000 North Koreans jailed for watching South Korean TV shows, films
December 6th, 2010 - 5:52 pm ICT by ANI
Seoul, Dec 6(ANI): Over 1000 North Koreans have reportedly been jailed for secretly watching South Korean television shows and films, a Seoul-based defector group has said.North Korea Intellectuals Solidarity (NKIS) said that ... Read more...
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US-S. Korea reject China’s request to hold emergency six-party talks with N Korea
November 30th, 2010 - 12:49 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Nov 30 (ANI): The United States, South Korea and Japan have reportedly rejected China's request to hold emergency six-party talks with North Korea over the crisis on the Korean Peninsula, saying ... Read more...
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Smuggled videos show North Koreans’ anger at regime
November 28th, 2010 - 5:34 pm ICT by IANS
London, Nov 28 (IANS) Two videos, shot by group of North Korean "citizen journalists" and then smuggled to the media, indicate a growing willingness among a previously-cowed public to speak out and ... Read more...
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USS George Washington To Start Military Exercises With South Korea
November 25th, 2010 - 8:37 pm ICT by GD
By Meena Kar
Nov 25, (THAINDIAN NEWS) The US has made its stance clear by dispatching the aircraft carrier USS George Washington to the Yellow Sea and undertaking four days of joint military ... Read more...
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North Korea could make two nuclear bombs per year, warns scientist
November 24th, 2010 - 6:37 pm ICT by ANI
Pyongyang, Nov 24 (ANI): North Korea, which carried out attacks on the South Korean island of Yeonpyeong yesterday, could make one or two bombs' worth of enriched uranium per year once the ... Read more...
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