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The Taiwan Foundation for Democracy is honouring exiled North Korean journalist Kim Seong-Min with its 2009 Asia Democracy and Human Rights Award. Seong-Min is the founder and director of Free North Korea Radio and is being recognised...Tobruk yesterday...
Tags: human rights, North Koreans
South Korea — Activists in South Korea staged a rally Monday near the border with North Korea, which has long been accused of having one of the world's worst human rights records. Organizers said the rally is aimed at calling for greater global attention...
Tags: North Koreans, South Koreans, Spirit of Berlin Wall, south koreas, Koreas, north koreas, West Germany, cold war
South Korea — A 30-year-old South Korean defected to communist North Korea by crossing the heavily fortified border dividing the two Koreas, Pyongyang's state media said Tuesday. The man crossed into North Korea on Monday and was in the country's "warm...
Tags: North Koreans, north koreas, South Koreans, communist north, korean defection, demilitarised zone, Pyongyang
South Korea on Monday offered to ship 10,000 tons of corn to North Korea in what would be the first government-funded humanitarian aid for the North in nearly two years. The offer is far smaller than what South Korea used to ship almost annually to the...
Tags: North Koreans, South Korean, China, Pyongyang
Banyan Hell on Earth Oct 22nd 2009 From The Economist print edition The West still turns a blind eye to the world’s most brutal and systematic abuse of human rights Illustration by M...They pick over its nuclear intentions and the prospects for the diplomatic...
Tags: North Koreans
Former Labor foreign minister Gareth Evans says he believes the communist regime has about eight nuclear devices, but there are questions over whether they can be fitted out as weapons. He has told Saturday AM that if Pyongyang were to use or threaten...
Tags: North Koreans, U.S, main foe
Hundreds of Koreans on Thursday bid tearful farewells to their relatives, recognizing that they will have little chance of seeing them again following decades of separation and short-lived reunions. Bitter cries, wails and lamentations filled the air...
Tags: korean family, North Koreans, South Korean
The brief honeymoon of mysterious moves toward reconciliation between North and South Korea appears to be nearing an end. Although the level of vituperation remains relatively low, North Korea is leaving one reality totally clear. There has been no change...
Tags: North Koreans, South Korea
A North Korean woman wept as she embraced her 100-year-old South Korean mother for the first time since 1951 on Tuesday, during a fresh round of reunions of divided families - the latest sign of warming ties between the Koreas...The first group of more...
Tags: North Koreans
On Saturday, the first day of the September 26-28 reunion program agreed by the two countries, 97 South Koreans reconnected with 240 of their relatives in the North, AFP reported. The plan is to be followed through on September 29 when 99 North Koreans...
Tags: North Koreans, South Korean, north koreas, korean war, south koreas, family reunions, family members, korean cross, korean separation