North Korean Won

North Korean Won

North Korean Won

The North Korean Enigma

China s North Korean Pivot

The World s North Korean Test

I'm not Russian. I'm a North Korean communist.

North Korean media criticized the United States for not easing the sanctions on North Korea.

This shows the reality of North and South Korean relations, which the South Korean authorities often clamour about.

Following the frank discussion of North Korea by Xi and Obama, Xi hosted a summit with South Korean President Park Geun hye, without first meeting with its official North Korean ally. Instead, two senior North Korean officials subsequently visited Beijing and were scolded for the North s behavior.

He's a South Korean when he's runnin' with ya... and he's a North Korean when he's runnin' after ya.

Ki Seh moon was also accused of having praised the North Korean regime.

The North Korean representative also spoke at length about our national security law.

The vast majority of defectors from the North are eventually offered South Korean citizenship.

Today, my delegation would like to make a brief statement on the North Korean nuclear issue.

North Korean border guards often shoot and kill people trying to cross the border without permission.

The number of North Korean defectors to South Korea has fallen since Kim Jong un came to power seven years ago, a South Korean lawmaker has said.

If the Chinese leadership can think beyond its usual default response to North Korean misbehavior abstract condemnation followed by a call for dialogue it can apply real pressure on the North Korean regime in full view of the international community. North Korea s last ally should give it one last chance.

The South Korean authorities have declared their compatriots of the North their sworn enemy, and, together with the United States and Japan, are trying their utmost to isolate and stifle the North. We can cite instances attributable to the South Korean authorities.

North Korea has always been seeking to formally end the 1950 53 Korean War, but the United States said that North Korea must firstly abandon nuclear weapons.

5 White Paper on Human Rights in North Korea 2005 (Seoul Korean Institute for National Unification, 2004), p. 38.

This year has seen some positive developments in international efforts to resolve the long standing North Korean nuclear issue.

But North Korea s test this month was by all measures the real thing. Moreover, though it is hard to evaluate North Korean bluster on these occasions, there appears to be reason to be concerned that North Korean scientists have also made progress in miniaturizing their design, a step needed to mount a nuclear device on a missile.

6 For recent information, see the material relating to the Sixth International Conference on North Korean Human Rights and Refugees, Seoul, 14 16 February 2005 on the website of the Citizens' Alliance for North Korean Human Rights (www.nkhumanrights.or.kr nkhr_new main.htm) J. R. Charney, Acts of Betrayal The Challenge of Protecting North Koreans in China (Washington, D.C. Refugees International, 2005).

Following this spring s round of North Korean provocations, Xi appears to have concluded that enough is enough. As a result, China s North Korea policy has entered a new stage.

China was sincere in expressing its desire for a non nuclear Korean Peninsula, but the nuclear issue was not its primary concern. It also sought to prevent the collapse of the North Korean regime and the resulting potential for chaos on its border not only flows of refugees, but also the possibility that South Korean or US troops could move into the North.

But on Saturday, North Korean Foreign Minister Ri Yong ho blamed US sanctions for the lack of progress since then.

Recent reports claimed that a Chinese ship was alleged to have transferred oil to a North Korean vessel in international waters.

Seoul says more than 30,000 North Koreans have illegally crossed the border since the end of the Korean War in 1953.

Today, the South s GDP is 40 times larger than that of the North. Comparing the two Korean economies is virtually meaningless.

This ill treatment reportedly pressured him into signing a quot confession quot to membership of the North Korean Workers apos Party.

It is only reunification between the north and south that can guarantee a complete and durable peace on the Korean peninsula.

China s warning that it will not allow North Korean troublemaking on China s doorstep can be considered the equivalent of a yellow card in soccer. China has not decided to abandon North Korea.

First and foremost, I would like to ask my North Korean colleague if he truly believes North Korea is in any position to call into question human rights anywhere in the world.

North Korean Foreign Minister Ri Yong Ho says his nation will never disarm its nuclear weapons first if it can't trust Washington.

Pompeo, US Secretary of State, insisted that sanctions against North Korea will not be lifted until the Korean Peninsula is fully denuclearized.

To put it bluntly, we needed such a law because North Korea continues to dispatch armed agents to the Republic of Korea, as evidenced by the North Korean submarine infiltration incident last September.

Ri referred to a joint statement issued by Kim Jong Un and Donald Trump at a first ever summit between a serving U.S. president and a North Korean leader in Singapore on June 12, when Kim pledged to work toward denuclearization of the Korean peninsula while Trump promised guarantees of North Korea's security.

South Korean President Moon Jae in related the irreversible denuclearisation determination as told by the DPRK and said that US President Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong un may meet before the end of this year.

Sino North Korean relations have borne a significant scar since 1991, when China recognized South Korea without insisting that the US formally recognize the North. The North Koreans believe that China sacrificed them for commercial interests, and bilateral relations have yet to recover.

In recent years, inter Korean cooperation had made further progress, in the spirit of the North South Joint Declaration of 15 June 2000.

We look forward to the Agency's continued assistance in and contribution to the smooth and efficient resolution of the North Korean nuclear issue.

Relations between North and South Korea have taken a turn for the worse this year, following the election of South Korean President Lee Myung bak, who has taken a more hard line approach toward the North. And then there is Japan, a member of the six party talks and a steadfast US ally, which was angered by the recent delisting of North Korea, because the North has yet to satisfy fully Japanese inquiries into the abduction of its citizens by North Korean agents decades ago.

The tragedy of Korea is that no one really wishes to change the status quo China wants to keep North Korea as a buffer state, and fears millions of refugees in the event of a North Korean collapse the South Koreans could never afford to absorb North Korea in the way that West Germany absorbed the broken German Democratic Republic and neither Japan nor the US would relish paying to clean up after a North Korean implosion, either.

Why would the North Korean regime jeopardize its relationship with China, the only country that could bring it down immediately, just to execute one official? Assuming that Kim is rational, he must have had good reason to believe that the Chinese lifeline would be sustained, even if he executed China s favorite North Korean interlocutor.