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The United Nations' recently implemented sanctions against North Korea are already driving a wedge between longtime allies North Korea and China, a document from the Workers' Party of North Korea reveals. In the document, the Workers' Party condemns Beijing for partaking in the sanctions aimed at curbing North Korea's nuclear program and urges its people to confront China with a "nuclear storm" for its alleged "betrayal of socialism," Daily NK reports.

Obama: 'Korea was a win' By Peter Schroeder - 07/27/13 11:19 AM ET President Obama hailed veterans of the Korean War Saturday, saying their sacrifices ensured that millions of Koreans could live safely in a democracy. Speaking on the 60th anniversary of the Korean War's armistice, he noted that some had expressed their dissatisfaction with the war's resolution, which resulted in the establishment of a demilitarized zone separating North and South Korea and did not end with a definitive truce. He noted that many dismissed the conclusion with the phrase "die for a tie." But he argued that, decades later,...

North Korea greeted the weekend by stating through its KCNA news agency that it is entering a "state of war" with South Korea. This seems like much more serious news than an earlier KCNA story about using nutritious leeks in seasonal dishes, but there's reason to be skeptical that NoKo's latest declaration means anything at all. The statement wasn't accompanied by an actual attack, which would have been the most obvious sign that North Korea was serious about this. Instead, it's just more chest-beating, this time in response to the "provocation" of the U.S. flying stealth bombers over South Korea....

The Obama administration is drawing no “red line” for North Korea after a successful long-range rocket test, tempering the public condemnation to avoid raising tensions or possibly rewarding the reclusive communist nation with too much time in the global spotlight. The U.S. has told the world that it won’t tolerate Iran’s acquisition of nuclear weapons or Syria’s use of chemical stockpiles on rebels. North Korea, in some ways, is a trickier case. The U.S. wants to forcefully condemn what it believes is a “highly provocative act,” and that was the first public reaction from the White House late Tuesday. But...

Hwang, systemized the juche ideology in the 1970s and redefined it to support Kim Il Sung’s regime. He entered the consular section of the South Korean Embassy in Beijing on Feb. 12, 1997, and asked for political asylum. Died in Seoul yesterday, 13 years after becoming the highest-ranking North Korean to defect to the South.

I cut up a North Korea propaganda video and added a lively soundtrack for the entertainment of you all.

MUGABE'S MODEL: NORTH KOREA'S 'GREAT LEADER" RW Johnson Visitors to the offices of high-ranking officials in Robert Mugabe's beleaguered government in recent weeks have noticed the same book open for study: Juche ! The Speeches and Writings of Kim Il Sung. "Some may actually believe this stuff but it's more that they want to understand where the President is coming from," one insider told me. For it appears that those who have become anxious about Mugabe's Canute-like attempt to order inflation of 7,000 per cent to be halved and to subordinate the economy in general to his political will, is...

North Korea has created religion in its attempt to reject it PAUL ASAY Freedom News Service Monday May 7th, 2007 We all know North Korea’s Kim Jong Il is a happenin’ dude. He’s got the nukes. He’s got the hair. He’s got a basketball signed by Michael Jordan. And he’s got his very own worshippers, too. The North Korean state-sanctioned philosophy of Juche is the 10th-largest religion in the world with 19 million adherents, according to Adherents.com, a Web site that tracks world religions. It’s bigger than Judaism, bigger than Jainism, bigger than Baha’i. Sorry Tom Cruise, but it’s nearly...

What follows are the chief reasons why I support Zionism stated as briefly as possible. 1. Oppression of the Jews. The Jewish people are the most oppressed people in all History. Romans feeding Jews to the lions, pogroms in Russia & in Eastern Europe, the Spanish Inquisition, the Holocaust, anti-Semitic Palestinian terrorism, etc., all make this exceedingly clear. In proportion as the gentiles are so inclined to treat Jews in such a way, in that same proportion the feeling of equality and the existence of tolerance between Jews and gentiles are inconceivable. 2. Anti-Zionism is anti-Semitism This being the case,...

SEOUL, South Korea -- North Korea's communist government is urging women in the country to wear traditional Korean clothes instead of pants, according to a North Korean monthly magazine. "Keeping alive our dress style is a very important political issue to adhere to specific national cultural traditions at a time when the U.S. imperialists are maneuvering to spread the rotten bourgeois lifestyle inside North Korea," the Joson Yeosung (Woman) magazine said, according to South Korea's Yonhap news agency. The magazine said exotic dress dampens the revolutionary atmosphere in society and blurs national sentiment and asked the public to reject clothes...

Book Review of: Unholy Alliance: Radical Islam and the American Left, By David Horowitz, Regnery Publishing, Inc. 2004. 296 pp. The nature of political doublespeak never changes and its agenda is always the same: Obliteration of historical memory in the service of power…. Only a restored memory can demolish totalitarian myths and make men free. (David Horowitz, in Big Lies, Center for the Study of Popular Culture, 2005) At first sight, a merger of the secular political left and the Islamist radical believers is an anomaly. But this book carefully dissects the secret of their partnership: their shared hatred of...

North Korea and Venezuela should stand together US pressure and blackmail, North Korean parliament Vice-President Yang Hyong Sop recommended, as quoted by AP. Both nations "are subject to US high pressure and blackmail," Tang said, according to a note on the web page of the Venezuelan Vice-President's Office. The Korean lawmaker met Thursday with Venezuelan Vice-President José Vicente Rangel. "The (President George W.) Bush administration is plotting a lot to suppress our Democratic People's Republic of Korea and the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela," Yang said, according to the note. "Closer relations and friendship of both peoples to face in this...

/begin my translation The Coming Collapse of N. Korean Regime [Analysis by Kim Young-hwan, (the author of) 'On N. Korean Democratization'] Ideology and organization greatly weakened, 80% chance of collapse in 10 years[04/08/05 19:42] A scene from Romanian uprising in '89 The prediction of N. Korean collapse was made twice already. The first was in 1989, when communist regimes in Eastern Europe went down in a series, and the second, in 1994, when (N. Korean) president Kim Il-sung died. However, these two predictions had a serious flaw. At the time, N. Korea had few internal factors to cause a collapse....

Pyongyang, January 20 (KCNA) -- Eighty years have elapsed since President Kim Il Sung, in his teens, crossed the River Amnok, which Korea and China border, with a firm resolution to liberate the country occupied by the Japanese imperialists. Thirteen days after he left Mangyongdae in Pyongyang on January 22, Juche 14 (1925) for national liberation, he arrived at Phophyong on the bank of the river. Departing the motherland with bitter heart, he made a solemn resolution to come back to the motherland without fail after defeating the Japanese imperialists. He walked slowly towards the opposite side of the river...

Pyongyang, August 17 (KCNA) -- Workers and office employees of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea are enjoying summer holidays at rest homes together with their families. Nearly twenty reconstructed rest homes in Sokam, Lake Sohung, Onpho, Kuam and other scenic spots have received holiday-makers. The holiday-makers at the Onpho Rest Home in Kyongsong County, North Hamgyong Province, and the Majon Rest Home in Hamhung City, South Hamgyong Province, are playing various kinds of sports games and amusements and swimming and boating in the sea. The Kuam Rest Home in Hwayang-ri, Chongdan County, South Hwanghae Province, has also opened the...

<p>If you have ever started to emerge from one nightmare only to find yourself plunged into a new one, you will find the ordeal of Ri Song Dae frighteningly familiar.</p> <p>In August 2001, Ri entered Canada with his wife and their 6-year-old son, Chang Il. They were defectors from the monstrous dictatorship in North Korea and had come to Canada to seek asylum.</p>