Archive for: north-korea

North Korea lost 30% of its population as a result of US bombings in the 1950s

The World is at a dangerous crossroads. The US is seeking a pretext to wage war on North Korea. North Korea is said to constitute a threat to Global Security. From...

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Trade The News Weekly Market Update

– Volatile trading has been the rule during the Thanksgiving-shortened week. In weekend negotiations with the ECB and the IMF, Dublin dropped its initial...

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Korean Hostility Triggers Wall Street Sell Off

Korean Hostility Triggers Wall Street Sell Off

Filed under: Market Matters , Headline News , DJIA On a quiet Tuesday two days before Thanksgiving, you wake up to find that North Korea has shelled an island off...

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Energy Blast – Nov 10, 2010

President Medvedev has said that North Korea’s nuclear program is making Russia feel ‘uneasy’.  A meeting between the Russian President and...

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US demands N. Korea be made to pay for ‘provocations’

AFP June 6, 2010 The United States demanded North Korea pay a price for allegedly sinking a South Korean warship even as Washington and its Asian allies brace for...

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Starving and deluded – yet North Korea is ready for war

Sue Lloyd-Roberts London Times May 30, 2010 SITTING in a leather chair in one of Pyongyang’s smartest hotels, the economic adviser to the North Korean government...

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Who is staging a War between North and South Korea?

Tensions between North and South Korea continue to escalate: On Friday, North Korea blamed its southern neighbor of staging the sinking of its own warship, which...

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North Korea Warns UN to Be Wary of False Evidence of Sinking

North Korea warned the United Nations to be wary of evidence that it said falsely accuses the country of torpedoing a South Korean warship, likening the case to...

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Dow Ends Worst May Since 1940 On Spain Debt Downgrade, Korea Tensions

Dow Ends Worst May Since 1940 On Spain Debt Downgrade, Korea Tensions

Rita Nazareth and Elizabeth Stanton Bloomberg Friday, May 28, 2010 May 28 (Bloomberg) — U.S. stocks slid, capping the worst May for the Dow Jones Industrial...

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N. Korea expels S. Korean officials from joint factory park

Sam Kim Yonhap Wednesday, May 26th, 2010 Further fueling tension between the Koreas, North Korea kicked South Korean government officials out of their joint factory...

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North Korea threatens to close border with south as relations worsen

Tania Branigan London Guardian Wednesday, May 26th, 2010 North Korea threatened to halt all border traffic with its southern neighbour today as Hillary Clinton...

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North Korea puts military on alert: report

North Korean leader Kim Jong-il has reportedly ordered his military to be on combat alert as tensions rise sharply on the peninsula after the South accused its...

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