To Punish Kim Jong Un, South Korea Shuts Down Industrial Zone in North (Posted 2016-02-10 12:16:00) ; the Closure Will Cut off a Chief Revenue Source for the NorthYoonjung SeoAnna Fifield
North Korea’s domestic market and manufacturing sector has made pretty significant strides in the past few years, so Kim’s words (highlighted below) may not just be the same old Juche talk of past generations: Kim visited Machine Factory run by Ho Chol Yong on May 19th and ordered to ...
I never felt Korea was calling. I’m not a fan of Korean pop culture, and my knowledge of Korean cuisine had always been limited – to kimchi, fried chicken and beer (chimaek), barbecue, stir-fried rice cakes (tteokbokki) and army stew (budae jjigae)– basically bright red-hued ...
After Kim Dae-jung became the president of South Korea, there was a thaw in inter-Korean relations. The two Koreas stepped on the road of reconciliation for a short decade.In mid-June 2000 President Kim Dae-jung visited Pyongyang and the 1st Inter-Korean Summit took place....
FILE PHOTO: A North Korean flag flutters at the propaganda village of Gijungdong in North Korea, in this picture taken near the truce village of Panmunjom inside the demilitarized zone (DMZ) separating the two Koreas, South Korea, July 19, 2022. REUTERS/Kim Hong-Ji/Poo...
Korea Hyon Sang Ju who is a delegate of the Jagang Provincial party organization, Chairman of the C.C., the Union of Agricultural Workers of Korea Ri Myong Gil who is a delegate of the North Phyongan Provincial party organization and President of Kim Il Sung University and concurrently ...
The primary cause for a retreat in North Korea's women policy was a political one; since the 1950s to the first half of the 1960s, North Korea was under the political influence of the Soviet Union, but after the establishment of the North Korean leadership system, the leader's standpoint...
North Korea, country in East Asia that occupies the northern portion of the Korean peninsula. It is bordered by China and Russia to the north and by the Republic of Korea (South Korea) to the south. The national capital, P’yongyang, is a major industria
Kim Dae-JungKim Dae-Jung, 2000. In December 1997perennialopposition candidate Kim Dae-Jung was elected president of South Korea, narrowly defeating the New Korea Party (NKP; the renamed DLP) nominee. Shortly after the election, Chun and Roh were pardoned in a gesture of goodwill, and on Fe...