North Korea fires 25 short-range and obsolete rockets: South Korea (click here)
March 16, 2014
SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea fired 10 short-range missiles into the sea off the east of the Korean peninsula on Sunday, South Korea's Yonhap news agency reported, citing unidentified government officials in South Korea.
Yonhap said the missiles flew for 70 km (45 miles) before splashing into the sea.
North Korea is not banned from short-range missile launches under U.N. sanctions and frequently tests its arsenal....
The Washington Post has an interesting video.
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PYONGYANG, North Korea — China’s top negotiator (click here) on North Korea’s nuclear programs has arrived in Pyongyang.
No details of the purpose of the trip, which began Monday, were immediately announced by North Korea or China....
...Wu Dawei is the Chinese Foreign Ministry’s special representative for Korean Peninsula affairs and has previously chaired rounds of six-nation talks in Beijing which bring together North and South Korea, China, the U.S., Japan and Russia for negotiations on North Korea’s nuclear ambitions....
Kyodo News International
March 17, 2014 9:18am
...Wu and his delegation (click here) arrived in Pyongyang also for the first time since the execution in December of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's once-powerful uncle, who had close ties with China....
The former North Korean regime was reviewed by the UN.
Published : 2014-03-17 22:03
Updated : 2014-03-17 22:03
The crimes of North Korea's regime (click here) are as chilling as those of the Nazis, South Africa's apartheid regime or Cambodia's Khmer Rouge and must be stopped, the head of a U.N. inquiry said Monday.
"Contending with the great scourges of Nazism, apartheid, the Khmer Rouge and other affronts required courage by great nations and ordinary human beings alike," Michael Kirby told the U.N. Human Rights Council.
"It is now your solemn duty to address the scourge of human rights violations and crimes against humanity in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea," he said.
His comments followed a searing 400-page report, released last month, that documented a range of gross human rights abuses in the country, including the extermination of people, enslavement and sexual violence....
...The report also estimated 200,000 people from other countries had been abducted -- mostly South Koreans left stranded after the 1950-1953 Korean War, but also hundreds from around the world since then....
These citizens have to be reclaimed by their homelands. It is the responsibility of every nation to seek to protect and secure their citizens in foreign lands. These are also POWs. When is that going to end for them?
March 16, 2014
SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea fired 10 short-range missiles into the sea off the east of the Korean peninsula on Sunday, South Korea's Yonhap news agency reported, citing unidentified government officials in South Korea.
Yonhap said the missiles flew for 70 km (45 miles) before splashing into the sea.
North Korea is not banned from short-range missile launches under U.N. sanctions and frequently tests its arsenal....
The Washington Post has an interesting video.
By
PYONGYANG, North Korea — China’s top negotiator (click here) on North Korea’s nuclear programs has arrived in Pyongyang.
No details of the purpose of the trip, which began Monday, were immediately announced by North Korea or China....
...Wu Dawei is the Chinese Foreign Ministry’s special representative for Korean Peninsula affairs and has previously chaired rounds of six-nation talks in Beijing which bring together North and South Korea, China, the U.S., Japan and Russia for negotiations on North Korea’s nuclear ambitions....
Kyodo News International
March 17, 2014 9:18am
...Wu and his delegation (click here) arrived in Pyongyang also for the first time since the execution in December of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's once-powerful uncle, who had close ties with China....
The former North Korean regime was reviewed by the UN.
Published : 2014-03-17 22:03
Updated : 2014-03-17 22:03
The crimes of North Korea's regime (click here) are as chilling as those of the Nazis, South Africa's apartheid regime or Cambodia's Khmer Rouge and must be stopped, the head of a U.N. inquiry said Monday.
"Contending with the great scourges of Nazism, apartheid, the Khmer Rouge and other affronts required courage by great nations and ordinary human beings alike," Michael Kirby told the U.N. Human Rights Council.
"It is now your solemn duty to address the scourge of human rights violations and crimes against humanity in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea," he said.
His comments followed a searing 400-page report, released last month, that documented a range of gross human rights abuses in the country, including the extermination of people, enslavement and sexual violence....
...The report also estimated 200,000 people from other countries had been abducted -- mostly South Koreans left stranded after the 1950-1953 Korean War, but also hundreds from around the world since then....
These citizens have to be reclaimed by their homelands. It is the responsibility of every nation to seek to protect and secure their citizens in foreign lands. These are also POWs. When is that going to end for them?
