Latest North Korea Stories
-Hudson Institute Senior Fellow Melanie Kirkpatric Pens OpEd Piece Highlighting David Sneddon's Disappearance from China- WASHINGTON, May 8, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- At least six Americans have been officially held or detained in North Korea since 2009, according to the New York Times, but the abduction of United States citizens likely goes back to 2004 - and beyond, notes the family of missing American David Louis Sneddon. In a Wall Street Journal OpEd piece in late April, a Japanese...
LOS ANGELES, April 15, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- YesStyle, the leading online Asian fashion retailer, announces its sponsorship of Korea Music Festival 11, to be held on April 27, 2013 at the world-famous Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles. YesStyle's support of the Korea Times Music Festival, also known as the Korean Music Festival, represents its third collaboration with the show following similar sponsorships in 2011 and 2012. Korea Times Music Festival 11 offers one of their strongest...
VADUZ, Liechtenstein, April 5, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- http://www.worldreview.info North Korea continues to defy the United Nations and openly threaten South Korea and the United States. But despite the escalating rhetoric it remains impossible to predict how this crisis will pan out, says defence and security expert Dr James Jay Carafano. Dr Carafano, the Washington-based Heritage Foundation's vice president for foreign and defence policy studies tells World Review that limited...
Lee Rannals for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online The hacking group Anonymous is flexing its guns and getting involved in the North Korean controversy. On Thursday, members of the hacktivist group began hacking and vandalizing social networking profiles linked to North Korea and even kicked a news site offline. The group says it has accessed 15,000 usernames and passwords from a university database in a collective it calls "Operation Free Korea." Anonymous is calling for leader Kim...
VADUZ, Liechtenstein, April 4, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- http://www.worldreview.info As North Korea continues to defy the United Nations by openly threatening South Korea and the United States, China is using the crisis for its own ends, writes World Review [http://www.worldreview.info ] author Dr Uwe Nerlich. "China is following a long-term strategy aimed at neutralising US power and influence in its neighbourhood," he says. "It has also tried to reduce the political...
redOrbit Staff & Wire Reports – Your Universe Online As members of the Obama administration called upon China’s newly-elected president to do more to stop cyberthreats targeting the US, officials from North Korea accused Americans of participating in a series of attacks that targeted servers in the nation’s capital, according to various media reports. US Treasury Secretary Jack Lew, who is planning to visit new Chinese President Xi Jinping this week to discuss economic...
HONOLULU, Feb. 13, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Riki Ellison, Chairman and Founder of the Missile Defense Advocacy Alliance (MDAA), www.missiledefenseadvocacy.org, comments on the last night's successful SM-3 Block IA intercept. Ellison is one of the top lay experts on missile defense in the world. On a dark night, with stars sparkling high above the shores of the Hawaiian Islands, at 11:10 p.m., a two-stage unified non separating target missile representing a Scud-B medium-range...
HONOLULU, Feb. 12, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Riki Ellison, Chairman and Founder of the Missile Defense Advocacy Alliance (MDAA), www.missiledefenseadvocacy.org, comments on the North Korea's nuclear test this morning. Ellison is one of the top lay experts on missile defense in the world. Kim Jong-un has followed the success and international notoriety from his long-range ballistic missile firing on December 17th and vow against the United Nations and the United States to...
Michael Harper for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online Have you grown tired of virtually touring the gulags of North Korea? Why not take a cruise around the Grand Canyon for a while? Today, Google has announced that they’ve added some new imagery to their Google Maps Street View service. Now, users can take a virtual trip through more than 75 miles worth of trail in the Grand Canyon National Park, all from the comfort of their own home. Last summer, Google announced they’d...
Michael Harper for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online Though the country is at war with its neighbors and closely watched by the US and the rest of the world, Google has found it fitting to play neutral with North Korea and cover the country in Google Maps. Until today, the only view of North Korea available in Google Maps was stitched together using Google’s “Map Maker.” This process creates maps from data supplied by the public. Working with citizen cartographers, the new...
Latest North Korea Reference Libraries
The Chinese Goral (Nemorhaedus caudatus), is a species of wild goat found in the mountains of eastern and northern Asia. A population of this subspecies exists in the Korean Demilitarized Zone, near the tracks of the Donghae Bukbu Line. The species is classified as endangered in South Korea, with an estimated population of less than 250.
The Eurasian Water Shrew, known in British English as the water shrew, is a relatively large shrew. It is up to 3.94 inches (100 mm) long, with a tail up to three-quarters as long again. It has short dark fur, often with a few white tufts. It has a few stiff hairs around the feet and tail that act as a keel in the water. Its fur traps bubbles of air in the water that greatly aids its buoyancy, but requires it to anchor itself if it wishes to remain underwater for more than the briefest of...
