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NorthKoreaTimes.com Sunday 21st March 2010 Issue 8/80
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North Korea spurns UN push to stop executions and torture
North Korea's Ambassador to the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, Ri Chol, has denounced its recommendations to stop public executions, torture of prisoners, and other endemic violations of human rights in the aftermath of the reported execution of the senior official responsible for disastrous economic...


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<span Class="style3">more Koreans Do Eating, Watch Movies Alone </span>
One thing new foreign expats to South Korea soon find out about the nation is that here people hate to do things alone. Eating alone during lunch hours at a restaurant, for example, is simply...
North Korea Spurns Un Push To Stop Executions And Torture
Geneva, Mar.20 : North Korea's Ambassador to the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, Ri Chol, has denounced its recommendations to stop public executions, torture of prisoners, and other endemic...
North Korea Sets Date For Parliament Session
SEOUL (AFP) - North Korea's parliament will hold its annual meeting on April 9, state media announced Saturday.The Korean Central News Agency gave no more details of the upcoming session. The...
North Korea Parliament To Meet, Kim And Cadres In Focus
SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea's rubber stamp parliament will meet in April for an annual session where the secretive and isolated state typically reveals changes to its ruling elite and spending...
Nkorean Loggers In Russia Making Defection Bids
Russia in a week to make a bid for asylum. On March 9, two other North Koreans who had fled their jobs as loggers managed to get into the South Korean consulate in...
North Korea's Parliament To Convene April 9
(AP) — SEOUL, South Korea - North Korea's state news agency says this year's gathering of the country's parliament will be on April 9. The Korean Central News Agency reported Saturday from ...
Dprk To Hold Supreme People's Assembly Annual Meeting In April
The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) will hold the annual meeting of the 12th Supreme People's Assembly (SPA), the country's top legislative body, in Pyongyang on April 9, an official...
U.s. Says Still Waits For N.korea To Resume Six Party Talks
Six Party talks as soon as North Korea decides to resume the stalled negotiations, a spokesman for the U.S. Department of State said. "There have been several communications or meetings with North...
Dprk Condemns South Korea For Blocking Resumption Of Border Tours
The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) issued a detailed report Friday condemning South Korea for suspending tours in the Mt. Kumgang and Kaesong border areas.The report, released by the...
'it's Dangerous To Talk About Our Opinions': A Teenage Life In North Korea
END: Module - M24 Article Headline with no image --> BEGIN: Module - Main Article --> Wearing tight black trousers and a sequined red jersey, Song Hee looks the part of a typical...
N. Korea Needs To Take Action To Reopen 6-party Talks: U.s. Official+
WASHINGTON, March 19 (AP) - (Kyodo)—North Korea should take action, rather than make statements indicating positive signs to resume the stalled six-party talks on Pyongyang's nuclear...
Okada, Kouchner Talk Iran, N. Korea
Foreign Minister Katsuya Okada met Thursday with his French counterpart, Bernard Kouchner, ahead of a Group of Eight meeting in Canada later this month and said the two shared "serious concerns" over...