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Chicago Tribune
April 28, 2018
North Korea glorifies 'immortal achievement' with South one day after summit, repeats nuclear promises .... the border occurred within walking distance of the spot where a North Korean soldier fled south in a hail of gunfire last year, and where North Korean soldiers killed two U.S. soldiers with axes in 1976.
Live Science
April 28, 2018
"The accumulated effect of these explosions that weaken rocks and create that fracturing [farther away from the point of explosion] is what we call tired mountain syndrome," Anderson told Live Science. Tired mountain syndrome can also stymie scientists trying to measure how strong an explosion is, he saidÃâà...
The Guardian
April 28, 2018
North Korea's state media is playing down Kim Jong-un's pledge to pursue denuclearisation, made at a summit with South Korea, raising the stakes for ... of human or political behaviour – for Kim to give up a deterrent right after attaining it,” said Alex Wellerstein, a historian of science and nuclear weapons.
Newsweek
April 27, 2018
According to the Times, Batsh was involved in a Turkey-based Hamas operation to recruit foreign scientists to undertake research for the group. He had been due to travel to Istanbul on the day he was shot, the newspaper said. A 2017 United Nations report alleged that the North Korean military has set upÃâà...
AOL
April 27, 2018
Kim Jong Un was willing to move mountains to develop his nuclear weapons, though doing so may have lead to the stop in his testing program. North Korea announced last weekend that it would no longer carry out missile or nuclear tests, with its leader saying that the quest for weapons of massÃâà...
The Diplomat
April 27, 2018
With North Korean Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un and South Korean President Moon Jae-in soon to kick off their historic meeting at the inter-Korean border, Chinese scientists reported that Punggye-ri, the only known nuclear test site of North Korea, has collapsed. This may partly explain why Kim suddenlyÃâà...
South China Morning Post
April 26, 2018
0 SHARES. Chinese scientists have found evidence that North Korea's nuclear tests may have destroyed its own facilities, forcing the regime to freeze its nuclear programme. April 25, 2018. 0. up nextauto play on. Traffic controllers in the Philippines put on a dance routine to control traffic in Quezon City 01:03. Asia.
Business Insider
April 26, 2018
North Korea's mountain nuclear test site has collapsed, putting China and other nearby nations at unprecedented risk of radioactive exposure, two separate groups of Chinese scientists studying the issue have confirmed. The collapse after five nuclear blasts may be why North Korean leader Kim Jong-unÃâà...
BBC News
April 25, 2018
Chinese scientists have concluded that North Korea's nuclear test site has partially collapsed, potentially rendering it unusable. The test site at Punggye-ri has ... On Saturday, North Korean leader Kim Jong-un announced he was suspending his country's nuclear and missile tests. The surprise declarationÃâà...
Business Mirror
April 23, 2018
Chinese hackers have targeted Japanese defense companies, possibly to get information on Tokyo's policy toward resolving the North Korean nuclear ... One of the lures used in a “spear-phishing” e-mail attack was a defense lecture given by former head of United Nations Educational, Scientific andÃâà...
OZY
April 10, 2018
That was followed in 2010 by the Pyongyang University of Science and Technology (PUST), North Korea's first foreign university built entirely with resources from outside the ... He made a divine wager: If I survive the war, I will devote my life to serving North Korean and Chinese foes with “God's love.”.
Foreign Affairs
April 1, 2018
There have even been reports in South Korean media that North Korea used telephones, rather than global VSAT communications, to speak with South Korean air traffic controllers when coordinating the arrival of high-level North Korean delegations for the Olympics, since the state had lost access toÃâà...
38 North
March 31, 2018
Commercial satellite imagery of North Korea's Yongbyon Nuclear Scientific Research Center from March 20 indicates construction of a new building has ... Given the importance placed on the ELWR—as a showcase of North Korean technological prowess—it is also hard to imagine that any ELWR “firingÃâà...
Vox
March 31, 2018
“Rocket Man is on a suicide mission for himself and for his regime,” he continued, using his favored nickname for North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. Flash-forward to March 29, 2018, when Pyongyang and Seoul announced that Kim and South Korean President Moon Jae-in will meet face to face in April forÃâà...
NBCNews.com
March 31, 2018
"South Korea is a completely different society," said Ji Cheol-ho, a 32-year-old North Korean defector who helps to run Now Action and Unity for Human Rights, a group in Seoul that raises awareness about human rights abuses in North Korea. "If you don't study, you won't understand this society, and if youÃâà...
Asia Times
March 31, 2018
Xi Jinping has for the first time since ties with North Korea went south at the outset of his administration extended his hand to the rogue state. From the images broadcast on both Chinese and North Korean state media it looks like Xi wants to revive a long-wilted Socialist brotherhood in Northeast Asia.
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
March 31, 2018
Bolton has been—and continues to be—wrong about Iran, North Korea, and Iraq, and while his past mistakes are readily seen and felt, the details bear repeating. On Iran. In 2004, Bolton warned that it was only a matter of time before Iran acquired a nuclear weapon, perhaps just three years. Eleven yearsÃâà...
New York Magazine
March 30, 2018
For our North Korean primer, we consulted a knowledgeable group that includes Barbara Demick, author of National Book Critics Circle finalist Nothing ... for international affairs; Jieun Baek, author of North Korea's Hidden Revolution; Darcie Draudt, Ph.D. student in political science at Johns Hopkins; BruceÃâà...
New York Times
March 30, 2018
Mr. Kim's two-day visit — his first known trip abroad since taking power — was a reminder of how much he has set the agenda in the North Korean nuclear crisis ... The announcement narrows the possibilities of how the victims came into contact with Novichok, a lethal toxin developed by Soviet scientists.
Japan Today
March 30, 2018
Pyongyang has released commemorative stamps and built monuments in honour of its ballistic missile tests, while nuclear and rocket scientists have ... "Kim Jong Un does not need to sell anything to the North Korean population, particularly because denuclearisation is a process that will take at least 10Ãâà...
CNN
March 29, 2018
Chinese state media reported Kim said he's committed to denuclearization -- with conditions; North Korean state media reported Xi accepted an ... Doctors and scientists have known about interstitial tissue and interstitial fluid, but a new study in the journal Scientific Reports raises the possibility that it couldÃâà...
CBC.ca
March 21, 2018
A Malaysian judge will soon decide the fate of two women accused of killing the half-brother of Kim Jong-un — with little regard to North Korea's alleged involvement; 13-year-old Canadian water activist Autumn Peltier will address the UN General Assembly tomorrow, something "bigger than basicallyÃâà...
New York Times
March 21, 2018
... 38, the lead singer of the Cambodian Space Project, who was killed Tuesday in a traffic accident in Phnom Penh. (Watch one of the band's performances.) [The Phnom Penh Post]. • Space junk is a problem. A team of Australian scientists wants to use powerful ground-based lasers to shoot it away. [ABC]Ãâà...
Fair Observer
March 21, 2018
In the early 1990s, when computer networks were beginning to reach a level of maturity, a group of North Korean computer scientists proposed using the internet to spy on and attack enemies. These computer scientists were introduced to cyber military purposes by observing other countries' uses of theÃâà...
NK News
March 20, 2018
The questions that social scientists ask matter, who they ask, how they ask, and how they find the people they ask all matter too. ... The survey was conducted in North Korea, and this alone raises manifold issues – many of which, to be fair, are acknowledged by CSIS in the “methodology” section of theÃâà...
Newsweek
March 20, 2018
President Donald Trump and North Korean supreme leader Kim Jong Un's upcoming meeting would be a historic first, but experts are concerned as to how the leaders of two nations existing in diplomatic estrangement for over half a century plan to achieve a breakthrough. As the summit approaches,Ãâà...
ABC News
March 18, 2018
Son of US detainee in North Korea stays hopeful amid anticipation of Trump-Kim talk ... “He had a heart for the North Korean people,” said Sol Kim. ... Pyongyang University of Science and Technology was founded by an evangelical Christian and was built entirely with funds from outside North Korea,Ãâà...
Next Big Future
March 15, 2018
Trump versus North Korea, 2018 edition: The U.S. and its democratic allies, South Korea and Japan, are not demanding regime change. North Korea's vicious regime can continue to run a Stalinist gulag and starve its wretched citizens. This is a concession to China. If the North Korean gulag remains,Ãâà...
CANOE
March 15, 2018
Curtis Melvin, a researcher at the US-Korea Institute at Johns Hopkins University and editor of the North Korean Economy Watch blog, describes the airline as a “wholly owned subsidiary” of the air force, which is using its consumer goods business to help finance reconstruction of its own infrastructure,Ãâà...
Foreign Policy (blog)
March 15, 2018
North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un attending an art performance dedicated to nuclear scientists and technicians. (Photo credit should read STR/AFP/Getty Images) ... For North Korea, however, a key element in the dispute is its desire for recognition and prestige. In addition to wanting a reliable deterrentÃâà...
The National Interest Online (blog)
March 14, 2018
With tensions high between the United States and North Korea, there is the possibility that the U.S. would launch a “tactical” nuclear strike in the Korean peninsula. There would ... Seoul, with a population of 22 million, is a mere 35 miles from the North Korean border and would be affected by nuclear fallout.
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
March 14, 2018
For South Korea, the efforts of the past few weeks have been directed toward creating a joint position with North Korea to manage the dangers presented by an unpredictable government in Washington. This has meshed neatly with North Korea's short-term objective; to extricate itself from the strangleholdÃâà...
The National Interest Online (blog)
March 14, 2018
The CTBTO scientists apparently had never seen The Great Escape. But North Korea's "Dear Leader" Kim Jong-il was a great film buff, and any country capable of building a clandestine nuclear weapons program would presumably also be capable of sneaking high explosives into a remote mountainÃâà...
Voice of America
March 14, 2018
... citizens imprisoned in North Korea got a big boost by the news of a possible summit between President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. ... Two of them - Tony Kim and Kim Hak Song - were instructors at the Pyongyang University of Science and Technology prior to their arrest andÃâà...
Business Insider
March 6, 2018
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un meets scientists and technicians in the field of researches into nuclear weapons in this undated photo released by ... North Korea reportedly had activity at its nuclear reactor before talking to South Korea's diplomatic envoy, and it suggests Pyongyang has been trying toÃâà...
38 North
March 5, 2018
A 38 North exclusive with analysis by Frank V. Pabian, Joseph S. Bermudez Jr. and Jack Liu. Commercial satellite imagery of North Korea's Yongbyon Nuclear Scientific Research Center from February 25 indicates that the 5 MWe reactor continue to show signs of operation as indicated by steam vaporÃâà...
New York Times
February 27, 2018
He has been a strong advocate for a diplomatic — rather than military — resolution to the North Korean nuclear crisis. ... “I'm very suspicious that there are conditions under which North Korea will denuclearize peacefully,” said Bridget Coggins, an associate professor of political science at University ofÃâà...
PBS NewsHour
February 21, 2018
North Korean officials pulled out of the meeting at the last minute. It would have come after Pence sat near Kim Jong-un's sister during the Olympics' opening ceremony. The Trump White House considers North Korea's nuclear and missile programs the main threat to American national security. Last weekÃâà...
Scientific American
February 20, 2018
But the North Korean cyberthreat is different in two ways. First, the regime's online power did not grow out of groups of independent hackers. Even today, it seems unlikely the country has hackers who operate independent of the government. Second, North Korea's cybercrime efforts—all seeminglyÃâà...
Live Science
February 15, 2018
Snow told Live Science. "But there's still this distance there." As a propaganda effort, Snow said, the cheerleaders might be a "softening agent" meant to keep the North Korean regime on the global stage and to subtly smooth over relationships between it and its Asian neighbors. It's no mistake the groupÃâà...
38 North
December 31, 1999
Developing nuclear energy has long seemed an obvious option for North Korea to bolster its energy security. ... It should be noted that Russia has always maintained due diligence when admitting North Korean interns to science and technical departments in order to prevent any leaks of dual-use tech.
NPR
December 31, 1999
When President Trump sent his CIA director Mike Pompeo on a secret trip to North Korea, what was the calculation? And will it pay off? There are a lot of questions today about whether that was the right move before a possible U.S.-North Korean summit. The visit happened just before Pompeo'sÃâà...
New York Times
December 31, 1999
The White House has used intelligence, rather than diplomatic channels, to communicate with North Korea, ever since last month, when Mr. Trump unexpectedly accepted Mr. Kim's invitation to meet. Mr. Pompeo, who is awaiting confirmation as secretary of state, has been dealing with North KoreanÃâà...
New Republic
December 31, 1999
Not only has no sitting president of the United States met with a North Korean leader, Trump and Kim have spent the last 15 months calling each other names and ratcheting up tensions. Trump called Kim “little rocket man” last year; Kim returned the favor by referring to the septuagenarian president as aÃâà...
New York Times
December 31, 1999
... North Korea to “denuclearize.” What does this mean? Are the reactors and the centrifuges to be rendered inoperable? And how will that be monitored? More important, the North Korean scientists' knowledge of how to make a nuclear weapon cannot be erased. How can that knowledge be contained?
The New Yorker
December 31, 1999
In a breathtaking gambit that surprised his closest advisers, President Trump, almost impulsively, accepted an invitation on Thursday to meet the North Korean leader Kim Jong Un—by May—to discuss how to defuse the world's most dangerous nuclear standoff. The invitation was relayed by a South KoreanÃâà...
New York Times
December 31, 1999
Mr. Kim, who is in his 50s, had previously taught at Yanbian University of Science and Technology, an affiliated institute in the Chinese province of Jilin, near the North Korean border. He had most recently been living in North Korea with his wife, who is believed to still be in the country. Mr. Kim studiedÃâà...
