SEOUL (Reuters) - The only way North Korea will give up nuclear weapons is if China finally abandons decades of support for the isolated state, a senior South Korean official said on Tuesday. North Korean leader Kim Jong-il shows his ballot during the 12th Supreme People's Assembly in Pyongyang April 9, 2009 in this frame grab taken from footage released by KRT. (REUTERS/KRT via Reuters TV/Files) In unusually direct comments, he said there were enough sanctions in place to force Pyongyang back to the negotiating table if China gave them its full backing following a surge in military threats by...
ROK promotes TV dramas / Japan should bolster cooperation to spread own visual creations
Daily Yomiuri
Daily Yomiuri
Leading men talk
The Daily Tribune
The Daily Tribune
By Alwin M. Ignacio, Contributor 06/30/2009 Currently airing on television as part of their 59th year celebration is the commercial of GMA Channel 7, which features their upcoming programs. The line-up includes...
N. Korea says American journalists admitted crimes
Seattle Times
Seattle Times
SEOUL, South Korea - North Korea said Tuesday that two American journalists it sentenced to 12 years in a labor camp admitted at their trial that they entered the country illegally to slander the North's human rights...
Media firm is quiet about detention of its journalists in North Korea
Newsday
Newsday
File - In this June 8, 2009 file photo, a South Korean man watches a TV broadcasting news about two American journalists detained in North Korea at the Seoul Railway Station, in South Korea. North Korea's state-run news...
Pyongyang's True Ideology
Wall Street Journal
Wall Street Journal
By B.R. MYERS From today's Wall Street Journal Asia. How long will the U.S. and its allies keep misperceiving North Korea as a communist state? For decades the regime in Pyongyang has preached the racial superiority of...
Now for South Korea? North Korea reaches World Cup finals
The Guardian
The Guardian
Forty-three years after success in England, North returns to football's big stage...
US and S.Korea hold security talks on N.Korea
Yahoo Daily News
Yahoo Daily News
SEOUL (AFP) – The United States and South Korea Friday held high-level security talks amid high tensions sparked by North Korea's nuclear sabre-rattling, officials said. The meeting between US undersecretary...
North Korea TV airs first beer commercial
Tulsa World
Tulsa World
SEOUL, South Korea — In an apparent first, North Korea — a country that struggles to feed its 24 million people — has aired a beer commercial on state television. The advertisement, which lasted nearly three minutes...
In A First, North Korea Airs Beer Ad On TV
The Statesman
The Statesman
SEOUL, 3 JULY: In an apparent first, North Korea ~ a country that struggles to feed its 24 million people ~ has aired a beer commercial on state television. The advertisement, which lasted nearly three...


