Aijalon Gomes, held prisoner in North Korea for seven months, was finally released through the efforts of former U.S. President Jimmy Carter. Gomes was arrested and sentenced to eight years of hard labor after he was caught in North Korea after illegally crossing from China on January 25 this year. He used to be an [...]
What history marked as a trained assassin from North Korea is now living life in South Korea as a protestant minister. 30 years ago, Kim Shin Jo and 30 other trained assassins managed to slip through the border into the woods and within a couple hundred meters from the president’s residence at that time. They [...]
If the United States and South Korea go ahead with scheduled naval maneuvers beginning Sunday in the Sea of Japan, North Korea has threatened to use what it calls “nuclear deterrence” against the two nations. North Korea’s army and people will start a “retaliatory sacred war” if the maneuvers are carried out, said the nation’s [...]
The United States will increase sanctions against North Korea to hit its leadership in its pocketbook, said US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton. On Wednesday, after emerging from a first-ever session involving Defense Secretary Robert Gates and their South Korean counterparts, Clinton said that the sanctions would be designed to stop Pyongyang from buying [...]
In a two-day summit, the G8 (Group of Eight) rich nations plan to focus on revival from global economic crisis, but they also touched on other crucial issues as well. They touched on Iran and North Korea, and criticized both. The leaders of G8 rebuked North Korea’s communist government and its alleged part in the [...]
World Cup 2010 Live Stream | North Korea VS Ivory Coast Live Stream – Both Ivory Coast and North Korea will fight to restore some pride in their last Group G match at the Mbombela Stadium in Nelspruit. Ivory Coast needs at least 9 goals against North Korea and hope that Brazil beats Portugal to [...]
After the complete rout of North Korea by Portugal on Monday in their second match of the World Cup against Portugal, some observers have seized on the opportunity to blame North Korean leader Kim Jong-il personally. The license was provided by a claim by the team’s coach Kim Jong-hun that the dictator “gives regular tactical [...]
Finally, Cristiano Ronaldo scored. So did Raul Meireles, Simao, Hugo Almeida, Liedson and Tiago (twice). On Monday, Portugal put on the most dominant performance of the 2010 World Cup, knocking in a flurry of second-half goals and routing North Korea, 7-0, in Cape Town, South Africa—a win that puts Portugal on the brink of advancing [...]
