War Wind on 38th : The US has deployed an additional Patriot missile battery in South Korea.
The US has deployed an additional Patriot missile battery in South Korea, the military said on Saturday, ahead of talks to set up an even more sophisticated US defence system - a move that has worried China and Russia. The US military command in South Korea said an air defence battery unit has been conducting ballistic missile training using the Patriot system at Osan Air Base near Seoul. North Korea launches rocket despite criticism A North Korean long-ran…
' Brothers but enemies' :S Korea cuts off power to industrial complex in North
South Korea has cut off power and water supplies to a bordering industrial complex in North Korea, officials said, a day after the North deported all South Korean workers there and ordered a military takeover of the complex that had been the last major symbol of cooperation between the rivals . Seoul's move to shut down operations at the joint-run Kaesong complex is the latest in an escalating standoff over North Korea's recent rocket launch that the UN has condemned as a banned test of missile technology. Pyongyang says the decis…
War Wind (?) : Japan readies to 'destroy' North Korea rocket !
Japan's Aegis-equipped destroyers have set to sea off the west coast ahead of the North's launch [Itsuo Inouye/AP] Japan vowed on Wednesday to shoot down any missiles or rockets fired over its territory after North Korea announced plans to launch a satellite in the coming days. "Today the defence minister issued an order" to destroy any projectiles if "confirmed that it will fall on Japanese territory", the defence ministry said in a statement. North Korea on Tuesday informed international organisations …
Politics : Kim Jong-un: What we know about the North Korean leader
Detonating the bomb is a reminder he does not appear to care much about what the international community thinks. North Korean leader Kim Jong Un looks through a pair of binoculars during an inspection of the Hwa Islet Defence Detachment [Reuters] by Andrej Lankov Andrei Lankov is professor of Korean Studies at Kookmin University, Seoul. He is the author of "The Real North Korea: Life and Politics in the Failed Stalinist Utopia". In early January 2011, many North Koreans learned that January 8 was going to be a special day. I…
Breaking News:Teenage North Korean soldier defects to the south across land border
Teenage North Korean soldier defects to the south across land border. South Korea confirmed ‘will to defect’ of soldier who made a rare crossing directly through one of the world’s most fortified frontiers. A teenage North Korean soldier surrendered himself to South Korean border guards about 8am after walking across the border into Hwacheon, north-east of Seoul. “We’ve confirmed his will to defect after he reached our guard post,” said a South Korean ministry spokesman. He was under investigation by the authorities, and the ministry promis…
North Korea announces test of submarine-launched missile
North Korea announces test of submarine-launched missile. Kim Jong-un supervised firing of ‘world-level strategic weapon’, says regime’s official press, following threat to attack South Korean ships. North Korea has said it successfully test-fired a newly developed ballistic missile from a submarine. Kim Jong-un personally attended the test launching of what he described as a “world-level strategic weapon”, the official Korean Central News Agency said. The report did not reveal the timing and location of the launch. A day earlier the Nor…
North Korea test-fires anti-ship cruise missile
North Korea test-fires anti-ship cruise missile A picture released by the official North Korean Central News Agency shows Kim Jong-un watching the test-firing of the missile. Photograph: KCNA/HANDOUT/EPA Pyongyang releases images of missile that resembles Russian KH-35 ahead of US-South Korean military exercises. North Korea has test-fired a new anti-ship cruise missile, images released by state media on Saturday showed, demonstrating the increased capability of the secretive state’s outdated navy. The images were released in the lead-…
N. Korean cinema: Kidnappings and evil Americans
N. Korean cinema: Kidnappings and evil Americans SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea hates the currently scrapped Hollywood film that revolves around the assassination of its beloved leader, but the country has had a long love affair with cinema — of its own particular styling. In the six decades since North Korea began to cultivate its own film industry, a South Korean director and his movie star wife have been kidnapped, a Godzilla-inspired monster movie has bombed at the box office in the South, American defectors have hammed it up in …
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