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Seoul steps up efforts over NK defectors
UN envoy urges China to halt forced repatriation Efforts are taking concrete shape both at home and abroad to stop China from repatriating North Korean defectors to their home country. The U.N. special rapporteur on North Korean human rights has urged neighbors of North Korea to handle those who escape…
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‘Samsung worker accused of shadowing CJ chairman’
CJ Group has claimed that a Samsung employee has been following its chairman around, demanding an apology from Samsung. Samsung declined to comment until the police conclude an investigation. CJ officials said Thursday that CEO Lee Jay-hyun’s guards caught a 42-year-old worker of Samsung C&T Corp., who they claim had…
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Diabetes incidence on rise in Singapore
About 11.3 percent of the people aged 18 to 69 in Singapore are living with diabetes in 2010, up from 8.2 percent in 2004, local daily the Straits Times reported on Friday. The disease is fairly widespread among those aged 70 and above. The newspaper said that one in three…
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N. Korea flexes muscles ahead of nuclear summit
North Korea is back in the spotlight. On Wednesday, it launched a verbal assault at South Korea for its scheduled hosting of the Seoul Nuclear Security Summit slated for March 26 and 27. The North’s Central News Agency characterized the global gathering as a grave threat to the Stalinist state,…
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Society
‘Let leaders feel Korean culture’
World leaders discuss ways to reduce the risk of nuclear terrorism in this photo taken at the inaugural Nuclear Security Summit in Washington in 2010. With the second summit slated for next month in Seoul, the government and experts are making last-minute efforts to create the ideal conference venue and…
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East Asia
“I’m the most Beauty”
A photographer takes photo of a farm cattle in Shuangtuan Village of Rizhao, east China’s Shandong Province, Feb. 23, 2012. A cattle contest was held here on Thursday to celebrate the Dragon Head-raising Day, the second day of the second lunar month, in hopes of a smooth and fruitful year.…
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South Asia
India Avalanche Kills 11 Soldiers
Kashmiri villagers search for belongings on the site where their homes were buried in snow after an avalanche in Ramwari, some 70 kilometers northeast of Srinagar, Indian-controlled Kashmir, on Feb. 23, 2012. At least 11 Indian army troopers were killed after avalanches hit their camps in Indian-controlled Kashmir, officials said…
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The Death of Kim Jong Il: Now What?
After 17 years at the helm of North Korea, the Dear Leader is no more, and suddenly we are faced with a reality on which so much “contingency planning” has been based. So, what can we expect of the next chapter in the North’s political history? And how should the…
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A Proposal for a Nuclear Weapons-Free Zone in Northeast Asia
As the Six-Party talks aimed at eliminating North Korea’s nuclear program remain stalled, a fresh approach incorporating the concept of a nuclear weapons-free zone in Northeast Asia should be considered as a way of ensuring peace and security in the region, Morton H. Halperin argues. If the international community…
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Society
Toddlers vulnerable to smartphone addiction
Parents’ ‘best nanny’ emerges as major concern Many infants these days learn how to play games on their parents’ smartphones even before they learn to walk or crawl. In their curious eyes, games and apps on smartphones and tablet PCs are often far more tempting than other toys —…
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