Posts tagged ‘north korea’

North Korean farmers are now said to be given nearly one-third of their harvests to sell at market prices. Collective farms are reportedly being reorganized into something closer to family farms. State propagandists are expounding the glories of change under the country’s new young leader. These overtones are encouraging to me. I certainly hope that [...]

 Analysts who have studied photos of a half-dozen ominous new North Korean missiles showcased recently at a lavish military parade say they were fakes, and not very convincing ones, casting further doubt on the country’s claims of military prowess. The missiles were loaded onto the largest mobile launch vehicles North Korea has ever unveiled. Pyongyang [...]

A North Korean youth football team refused to play a South Korean side in a tournament held in China, citing cross border tension after the death of leader Kim Jong-Il, an official said. This certainly sets an onmious tone for future relations between the two countries. I was hoping that the young Kim would be [...]

Well we have been waiting on signals from the new North Korean President and we have gotten a few brash statements which seem to indicate that he will follow in the same footsteps which is probably the reason that he was chosen as the successor in the first place. North  Korea used its traditional fiery [...]

    It has come to light that President Kim of North Korea has been pimping his people out to Russia for quite a while. US intelligence has found evidence that there are North Koreans living in some of the camps that they have found in Russia. They were sent there by their recently deceased President [...]

President Kim is Laid to Rest

January 16th, 2012

    The picture that you see here shows Korean women mourning at the funeral of the late North Korean President. I wonder if they are really feeling the grief or if they know that if they don’t cry hard enough that they will have suffer some type of punishment. The media in North Korea kept [...]

 Over the years there have been some who have successfully defected from North Korea which indicates to me that many there are aware that their government does not hold the best interests of it’s people dear. Their biggest concern is that if Kim’s death and the emergence of heir apparent Kim Jong Un will do anything [...]

    The latest story on the new North Korean Government is that it is punishing mourners who seemed to be insincere at the death and burial of Kim Jung Il the late president. This was reported by a North Korean newspaper is the source that revealed the information after saying that it had been revealed to [...]

North Korea makes a Statement

January 3rd, 2012

    I was hoping that the transition of power in North Korea since the death of Kim Jong il would usher in a new age of peace and prosperity between North Korea and the rest of the world but it seems unlikely. North Korea has stated in its first communication with the outside world since [...]

Members of a South Korean human rights group launched giant balloons carrying leaflets into North Korea. The purpose of the balloon launch was to criticize the regime in Pyongyang. It seems to be an attempt to cause the citizens of North Korea to attempt to escape or overthrow the treatment of the brutal regime since the [...]