http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/northkorea/ en-us Mon, 17 Nov 2008 14:10:20 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2133478/posts While the left insists that the United States and religion is evil and the source of violence in the world, THIS is what is going on in North Korea. I have nothing left to say. This video says it all. Don't believe liberals who pretend to care for the good of humanity, when this is ALLOWED to exist in the world, openly and shamelessly. If our world leaders truly cared about humanity, we, with the so-called power of the U.N. would be working together to destroy regimes like this one: The Gadfly http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2133478/posts#comment Mon, 17 Nov 2008 14:10:20 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2132570/posts Violent Battle on Provincial Train By Jung Kwon Ho [2008-11-14 13:08 ] Shenyang, China -- A gunfight on October 22nd between train security agents and soldiers in Manpo, a border town across the Yalu River from Jian, China caused six deaths, it has emerged. Daily NK http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2132570/posts#comment Sat, 15 Nov 2008 12:23:58 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2131201/posts The order complicates U.S. efforts to determine if the North is exporting its nuclear technology. SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA - In its first major act of defiance since Barack Obama's election, North Korea said Wednesday it would bar international nuclear inspectors from taking soil and nuclear waste samples, which are considered crucial to determining the extent of its weapons program. The Foreign Ministry said that U.S. experts would be allowed to visit the main nuclear complex in Yongbyon, north of Pyongyang, to review documents and interview engineers, according to the North's state-run Korea Central News Agency. But no samples can be... Star Tribune http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2131201/posts#comment Thu, 13 Nov 2008 03:02:48 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2130608/posts Kim at a Barack Obama rally The "Dear Leader" was pictured in a group shot with hundreds of soldiers in a photo released by the Korean Central News Agency last week, confounding reports that he had suffered a serious stroke. But eagle-eyed observers noticed that Kim's shadow did not fall in the same direction as the troops either side of him, raising suspicions that his image was inserted into the photo later on. And more at the source.yitbos The Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2130608/posts#comment Wed, 12 Nov 2008 09:13:29 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2130587/posts Greetings Ladies and Gentlemen, I know that it's late, but I thought you might find this Youtube video interesting. First and foremost, most of us have seen the disturbing "Sing For Change" video that was posted by a bunch of brainwashed cultists who support Obama. These people not only remind me of the Jonestown people, but they scare me even more now that I realize the amount of mental illness which pervades our Republic. Second, I found this video to be both humorous and disturbing when we examine the similarities of Kim Jung Il and Barack Hussein Obama. The cults... Youtube http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2130587/posts#comment Wed, 12 Nov 2008 06:43:12 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2130279/posts A revolving gold statue, pink champagne and a "Pleasure Brigade" of nubile retainers all feature in Times Money's list of history's most decadent dictators. While their people suffered, these men - and sometimes their wives and children - agonised over how best to spend their ill-gotten gains... 1. Kim Jong-il, "Dear Leader" of North Korea since 1994. The son of the communist state's "Great Leader", Kim Jong-il has super-expensive tastes, with 17 palaces and collections of hundreds of cars and about 20,000 video tapes. On one state visit to Russia, he reportedly had live lobsters airlifted daily to his armoured... The Times of London http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2130279/posts#comment Tue, 11 Nov 2008 20:43:03 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2129801/posts TOKYO (AFP) – North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il may have had a second stroke in October that has affected his speech, a Japanese news report said Tuesday. US intelligence received information that Kim, 66, had another stroke in late October, Tokyo Broadcasting System (TBS) said on its website, citing an unnamed American intelligence source based in South Korea. According to the information, Kim was receiving treatment at an exclusive Pyongyang hospital for a first stroke he suffered in mid-August, TBS said. "However, he had the second stroke in late October, which caused him difficulty moving his left hand and leg,... AFP on Yahoo http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2129801/posts#comment Tue, 11 Nov 2008 03:39:53 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2128300/posts November 07, 2008 President-Elect Obama's First CIA Briefing By Ishmael Jones On November 6th, 2008 President-Elect Obama sat through his first detailed CIA briefing. It is unlikely that Mr. Obama realized during this one appointment, in what must be a hurricane of meetings, that he was staring into the face of the greatest threat to the success and survivability of his presidency: the CIA's lack of fundamental human sources of intelligence on the terrorist organizations and hostile nations which threaten Americans. The CIA would do the United States a great service by advising Mr. Obama: We don't have any good... www.americanthinker.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2128300/posts#comment Sat, 8 Nov 2008 01:02:57 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2127529/posts It was intended to be the photograph that settled the matter once and for all — three months after vanishing from public view, and after reports that he had undergone brain surgery following a stroke, the North Korean leader, Kim Jong Il, was alive and well. But a close look reveals something shady around the ankles of the world’s last Cold War dictator. While the legs of his soldiers cast a shadow at a sharp angle, the shadow of the “Dear Leader” is dead straight. In addition, there is a black line running horizontally behind the soldiers’ legs, but it... London Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2127529/posts#comment Fri, 7 Nov 2008 02:39:52 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2125728/posts TOKYO - The problem of North Korea's intractable nuclear development could grow even worse for Tokyo and Seoul if Barack Obama, the next United States president, seeks direct diplomacy without preconditions to end the threat from Pyongyang. Experts in East Asia are raising serious concerns about the adverse effects of the next US administration's possible conciliatory approach against North Korea on regional security. Obama, who has said he is willing to meet with the leaders of some of the US's "enemies", including Iran and North Korea, seems to believe the US can largely exercise its own discretion in coping bilaterally... Asia Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2125728/posts#comment Wed, 5 Nov 2008 12:12:22 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2118651/posts SEOUL, South Korea — The condemned inmate, his body torn apart by guard dogs, slumped unconscious as the three executioners fired. The bullets shattered his skull, splattering blood near other prisoners forced to watch. His offense: trying to escape from the remote prison camp in North Korea. "People were seized with fear but no one could say anything," former prisoner Jung Gyoung-il said, recalling the 2001 execution. "That's worse than the way animals are slaughtered." For a decade, North Korea has denied such accounts from defectors, and South Korea has shied away from them to maintain good relations with its... Fox http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2118651/posts#comment Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:48:02 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2116915/posts SEOUL — North Korea complained during rare military talks with the South on Monday about anti-Pyongyang leaflets being sent into its territory by balloons, with a South Korean civic group sending a new batch over the communist state. The talks were held despite a threat about 10 days ago from impoverished North Korea to cut off all ties with the South — a major supplier of aid and cash — in anger at the hardline policies of its president, whom it brands a U.S. sycophant. “North Korea pointed out that more leaflets have been sent recently and called on the... St. Peterburg Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2116915/posts#comment Mon, 27 Oct 2008 22:59:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2116649/posts Fresh doubts over the health of North Korea’s “Dear Leader” have erupted after Kim Jong Il’s eldest son was captured on film in Paris, apparently eliciting the emergency services of a top brain surgeon. The short film, shot by a Japanese television station, has re-kindled conjecture that Mr Kim is gravely ill, and has possibly been the victim of a stroke. Speculation over the enigmatic dictator’s health has reached fever pitch in recent weeks, with some North Korean defectors suggesting that Mr Kim is at death’s door. That speculation has led some intelligence experts to suggest that Pyongyang may, behind... timesonline.co.uk http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2116649/posts#comment Mon, 27 Oct 2008 18:24:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2114125/posts Obama Interview with GMA Journalist - Has no Regrets on Spreading the Wealth Around Comment Youtube http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2114125/posts#comment Fri, 24 Oct 2008 15:24:48 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2110388/posts The conventional wisdom is that the Bush administration, in its never-ending face-off with North Korea over its nuclear ambitions, has once again been the first to blink. President George W. Bush has been severely criticized for removing North Korea from the State Sponsors of Terrorism List prior to actual verification of North Korea's June 26 "complete and correct" nuclear declaration. The only thing that appears to be verified thus far is that Pyongyang's declaration was neither "complete" nor "correct." Overlooked in the delisting debate is a significant potential breakthrough in the six-party process. IF the finally agreed upon verification regime,... Japan Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2110388/posts#comment Mon, 20 Oct 2008 18:38:35 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2109882/posts <p>North Korean diplomats abroad have been ordered to stay close to their embassies and await an "important announcement," according to a Japanese newspaper.</p> <p>The news has prompted speculation that North Korea's officials are to be informed that "Dear Leader" Kim Jong-il has died or that Pyongyang is carrying out its threat to sever all ties with South Korea.</p> The Telegraph http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2109882/posts#comment Mon, 20 Oct 2008 02:51:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2109178/posts TOKYO (AFP) — North Korea has ordered its diplomats overseas to get ready for an "important announcement" that may be related to the health of its reclusive leader Kim Jong-Il, a Japanese newspaper said on Saturday. Pyongyang has told diplomats around the world to stay in one place and refrain from travelling, the Yomiuri Shimbun reported, quoting several unnamed sources familiar with North Korean issues. The sources speculated the message could be related to North Korea's relations with South Korea or the health of Kim, Japan's best-selling daily said, adding that the announcement was expected in a few days. Google | AFP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2109178/posts#comment Sun, 19 Oct 2008 00:48:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2108687/posts /begin my translation Something Happened? All N. Korean Diplomatic Missions Ordered to be on Stand-by N. Korea's diplomatic missions all over the world were ordered on Oct. 17 to stay at their mission, refraining from going out, and expect important announcement from their government. Sources explained they expect that official announcement could be made in a few days. They speculate that it is related to inter-Korean relationship or Kim Jong-il's health. /end my translation Yomiuri Shimbun http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2108687/posts#comment Sat, 18 Oct 2008 06:36:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2106563/posts N. Korea considers severing relations with S. Korea SEOUL, Oct. 16 (Yonhap) -- North Korea threatened to cut off all inter-Korean ties, citing the new conservative South Korean government's "hostile policy" towards Pyongyang. The Rodong Sinmun, published by the North's ruling Workers' Party, said in a commentary that the Lee Myung-bak administration is "trampling down" the two historic summit agreements between the Koreas in pursuit of confrontation and war with the North. Yonhap News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2106563/posts#comment Wed, 15 Oct 2008 23:20:28 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2105065/posts just this afternoon on Japanese TV and in the press... Sankei Shimbun News, Japan (Original in Japanese) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2105065/posts#comment Tue, 14 Oct 2008 07:47:29 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2105051/posts Over the past few years we have been witnessing the slow rolling defeat of the United States at the hands of North Korea. In the past six years this charter member of the Axis of Evil, a country with a nominal GDP slightly less than Aruba — and GDP per capita one-thirteenth that of the island paradise — has gone from being an isolated remnant of Stalinist political theory in action to joining the nuclear club and becoming a major weapons-of-mass-destruction proliferator. This took place while the United States asserted that North Korea should not, must not, will not be... National Review http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2105051/posts#comment Tue, 14 Oct 2008 06:01:42 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2104310/posts Pictures of North Korean leader Kim Jong-il issued by the communist state may be several months old and possibly taken before his reported illness, South Korean media said on Monday, raising more questions about his health. North Korea's state TV broadcast pictures of Kim on Saturday inspecting a women's military unit, as the reclusive country stepped up a campaign to show its "Dear Leader" was healthy after U.S. and South Korean intelligence officials said he may have suffered a stroke in August. The photographs of Kim, wearing sunglasses and looking generally healthy as he talked outdoors with women soldiers, were... Reuters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2104310/posts#comment Mon, 13 Oct 2008 07:26:53 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2103591/posts Japan has criticised as "extremely regrettable" Washington's decision to remove North Korea from its list of state sponsors of terrorism. Japanese Finance Minister Shoichi Nakagawa told Japanese media that "abductions amount to terrorist acts". Japan wants action on people it believes were kidnapped by Pyongyang. The US removed North Korea from its terror list after saying the North had agreed to provide full access to its controversial nuclear programme. Mr Nakagawa objected to the move during a visit to Washington, where he is attending G7 talks. Tokyo argues North Korea should remain on the list because issues related to the... BBC http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2103591/posts#comment Sun, 12 Oct 2008 05:17:43 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2103089/posts WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States plans to announce on Saturday that it will take North Korea off its terrorism blacklist in a bid to salvage denuclearization talks, a U.S. official familiar with the decision said. The official, who asked not to be named as the announcement is set to be made later in the day, said Pyongyang had provided assurances on verifying its nuclear activities and President George W. Bush decided to proceed with taking the North off the U.S. list of states considered sponsors of terrorism. The move, which will be unpopular with some conservative Republicans who see... reuters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2103089/posts#comment Sat, 11 Oct 2008 14:22:52 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2102700/posts The failing North Korean nuclear deal appears to have been saved from collapse after the United States agreed to remove the isolated dictatorship from its list of terrorist states. But the move has alienated the government of Japan, which opposes such concessions until Pyongyang has told the truth about Japanese citizens which it abducted during the Cold War. The fragile agreement on North Korean nuclear disarmament, finally agreed last year after four years of tortuous negotiation, had appeared to be in danger after North Korea threatened to reactivate the plutonium reactor where it has generated the material for an unknown... The Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2102700/posts#comment Fri, 10 Oct 2008 23:33:28 GMT