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    China’s crackdown on defectors driven by separatism fears

    China’s deep-seated concerns regarding the separatist movement of ethnic minority groups is seen as the key reason behind a recent crackdown on immigrants in the Yanbian Autonomous Prefecture. The northeastern city is home to the largest number of ethnic Koreans in China. “Separatist protests by Tibetans and Uyghurs in Xinjiang,…

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    Scholars prefer FTA to TPP for East Asian countries

    Scholars of South Korea, Japan and China exchange talks under the theme of Nuclear Security and Regional Community in the second East Asian Community Forum held at the International Studies Hall in Korea University on May 26, 2012. The scholars of South Korea and Japan expressed opinion that the Trans-Pacific Partnership…

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    President blasts pro-N. Korea groups

    President Lee Myung-bak lashed out at pro-North Korean groups in the South that blindly support the Pyongyang regime, Monday, saying that “North Korean followers are “worse than North Korea.” Lee’s remarks come at a time when the public is showing tiredness about the way so-called pro-Pyongyang leftists are behaving, especially…

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    NK stays mum on UK refugee policy: envoy

    North Korean refugees and their human rights is a touchy issue which often provokes a stormy reaction from the reclusive Stalinist state whenever South Koreans address it. Yet, according to Ambassador Scott Wightman, the North’s regime has yet to complain about the political refugee policy of the United Kingdom, a…

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  • 200,000 inmates held in 6 N. Korean political camps

    Up to 200,000 North Koreans are being held in its sprawling political prisoner system including hundreds of former officials, human rights group Amnesty International said Thursday. In its annual report, the group said the prisoners “were held in horrific conditions in six sprawling political prison camps, including the notorious Yodok…

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  • US envoy calls for end to NK brinkmanship

    United States Ambassador to Seoul Sung Kim urged North Korea’s new leadership Thursday to shift its policies and enhance the lives of its people. “The new leadership of North Korea can move into the 21st century by educating its people, opening up its economy and allowing the talents of the…

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    North Korea upgrades rocket launch pad

    This April 29 satellite image provided by DigitalGlobe shows what appears to be the initial stages of construction of a rocket assembly building at Musudan-ri in northeastern North Korea. The U.S.-Korea Institute at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies says this building and a nearby launch pad under construction…

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    Russia opposes NATO’s missile defense system

    In dual press conferences held on Monday evening after the closing of NATO’s historic summit in US President Barack Obama’s hometown of Chicago, NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen and President Obama discussed NATO missile defense program and developments in Afghanistan and Yemen. One of the most contentious issues which…

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    “NK Is On Our Palm”

    This April 29, 2012 satellite image provided by DigitalGlobe shows what appears to be the initial stages of construction of a rocket assembly building at Musudan-ri in northeastern North Korea. The U.S.-Korea Institute at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies says this building and a nearby launch pad under…

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  • NK reaffirms nuke policy

    North Korea vowed Tuesday to continue to pursue its nuclear program as long as the United States maintains a “hostile policy” amid ongoing tension over Pyongyang’s failed April 13 rocket launch. The North “will not stop for a moment in its nuclear deterrence as long as the United States continues…

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