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News of North Korea
North Korea holds back seven South Koreans at industrial zone
North Korea held back seven of 50 remaining South Koreans at the suspended jointly run factory zone north of the heavily armed border on Monday, citing last-minute checks on taxes and wages. The North withdrew its 53,000 workers from the complex this month amid spiralling tension between the two (...)

29 - 04 - 2013
How Steve Jobs really changed the world
To maintain their power, authoritarian governments monopolize force and information. The fear maintained by violence reinforces rigid ideologies and discourages independent thinking while control of information prevents open debate and the promotion of ideas that could foment dissent and threaten (...)

14 - 10 - 2011
North Korea reach World Cup
North Korea secured a 2010 World Cup berth after playing out a goalless draw with Saudi Arabia in the Asian qualifying stage Group B finale on Wednesday. The Chollima finished in second place on 12 points, while Saudi Arabia lie third with as many points. The Koreans reached the gigantic (...)

18 - 06 - 2009
N. Korea sets top leadership meet, launches tirade against South
North Korea Wednesday announced plans for a top leadership meeting and launched a tirade against South Korea's new president, as heightened military alert levels frayed nerves on the tense border. State media said the politburo of the ruling Workers' Party would meet sometime in the next few days (...)

27 - 03 - 2013
North Korea threatens South with "final destruction"
North Korea threatened South Korea with "final destruction" during a debate at the UN Conference on Disarmament Tuesday, saying it could take "second and third steps" after a nuclear test last week. "As the saying goes, a new-born puppy knows no fear of a tiger. South Korea's erratic behavior would (...)

19 - 02 - 2013
Pope Francis makes Easter pleas for Mideast peace
Pope Francis is making an Easter Sunday peace plea, saying conflicts have lasted too long in Syria, and between Israelis and Palestinians. Francis also urges reconciliation on the Korean peninsula, where North Korea says it has entered "a state of war" with South Korea. Before a crowd of 250,000 in (...)

31 - 03 - 2013
North Korean Olympic official rails against flag blunder
North Korea's representative at the International Olympic Committee expressed anger and frustration on Thursday at a diplomatic blunder that marred the opening day of the women's Olympic football tournament. The North Korea women's soccer team walked off on Wednesday after the South Korea flag was (...)

26 - 07 - 2012
North Korea names Kim Jong Un Supreme Commander
North Korea announced Saturday that Kim Jong Un has been officially named supreme commander of the military, further strengthening his authority after the death of his father, longtime North Korean leader Kim Jong Il Officials and state media have bestowed on Kim Jong Un, who is in his late 20s, a (...)

31 - 12 - 2011
North Korean heir leads funeral for Kim Jong Il
PYONGYANG, North Korea — Tens of thousands of North Koreans lined the snowy streets of Pyongyang on Wednesday, wailing and clutching their chests as a black hearse carrying late leader Kim Jong Il's body wound its way through the capital for a final farewell. The funeral procession from Kumsusan (...)

28 - 12 - 2011
What to look for at NKorea funeral for Kim Jong Il
Wailing and sobbing, mourners beat their chests and dropped to their knees as North Korean President Kim Il Sung's hearse crawled through the streets of Pyongyang in 1994, draped with a red flag and bedecked with white magnolias. But even as they cried out on a hot summer's day for the leader (...)

27 - 12 - 2011
Kim Jong Il's son strengthens power with new post
Kim Jong Il's son was identified Monday as head of a top decision-making body of the ruling Workers' Party, a post that now gives him authority over political as well as military matters in North Korea. A week after state media reported leader Kim Jong Il's 17 December death, the campaign to (...)

26 - 12 - 2011
South Koreans convicted for breaching National Security Law
Amnesty International has condemned the conviction of eight South Koreans who are members of the Socialist Workers League (SWL), a small association that espouses socialism. All eight men were found guilty under Article 7.1 of the National Security Law (NSL) for “propagating or instigating a (...)

25 - 02 - 2011
Koreas talk at DMZ to ease tensions since attack
Military officers from North and South Korea held talks inside the heavily guarded Demilitarized Zone on Tuesday in the rivals' first official dialogue since the North's deadly artillery barrage of an island near the disputed border in November. Tensions on the divided peninsula rose sharply (...)

08 - 02 - 2011
South Korea's defense minister resigns
South Korea's defense minister Kim Tae-young tendered in his resignation Thursday, two days following a clash with North Korea. President Lee Myung-bak accepted the minister's resignation and said in a presidential statement that Kim wished to step down "to take responsibility for a recent series (...)

25 - 11 - 2010
S. Korea to propose flood aid to N.Korea
SEOUL- South Korea will send a list of proposed relief aid to flood-stricken North Korea and hold talks on reuniting families separated by war six decades ago, the government said, in signs of easing tension on the divided peninsula. An overflowing river last month swamped farmland, houses and (...)

12 - 09 - 2010
N. Korea threatens punishment for American
SOUTH KOREA- North Korea has threatened to increase punishment for an American who was sentenced to hard labor for illegally entering the country. The North's official Korean Central News Agency reported Thursday that North Korea is examining what harsher measures it would take against Aijalon (...)

24 - 06 - 2010
N. Korea vows to attack South facilities
SOUTH KOREA – North Korea vowed Saturday to launch an all-out attack against South Korean loudspeakers and other propaganda facilities along their heavily fortified border, warning it can even turn Seoul into a "sea of flame." In 2004, the rival Koreas ended decades of propaganda campaigns as (...)

12 - 06 - 2010
South Korea holds funeral for sailors
DAEJEON, South Korea - South Korea laid to rest 46 sailors killed in the sinking of a navy warship during an emotional and solemn burial Thursday, as officials vowed retaliation against those responsible for what many believe was a North Korean attack. Wailing families placed white chrysanthemums, (...)

29 - 04 - 2010
Military on alert as S. Korean ship sinks
SEOUL, South Korea - A South Korean naval ship sank near the disputed maritime border with North Korea early Saturday, prompting the South's military to rush vessels to the site to rescue its sailors and raising fears of an attack by the North. The ship, on a routine patrolling mission with 104 (...)

26 - 03 - 2010
N. Korea seeks talks with rival South
SEOUL – North Korea has proposed holding military talks with the South next week after it raised tension on the troubled peninsula last week by warning it would hold live-fire drills near the border with its rival. North Korea is apparently using military threats against US ally South Korea to (...)

22 - 02 - 2010
S. Korea seeks G-20 sustainability, says Lee
Richard Quest of the CNN interviewed President Lee Myung-Bak of South Korea in Davos. The following is the text of the interview, made available to The Egyptian Gazette Online: ICHARD QUEST, HOST: South Korea's president has called for a coordinated response to the financial crisis. Speaking here (...)

01 - 02 - 2010
North Korea fires more artillery at South
SEOUL, South Korea -- North Korea fired more artillery near its disputed western sea border with South Korea on Thursday, a day after it lobbed dozens of shells during military exercises that prompted the South to respond with warning shots. North Korea fired several artillery shells early (...)

28 - 01 - 2010
North and South Korea exchange fire
SEOUL -- North Korea fired artillery and South Korea responded with warning shots along their disputed western sea border on Wednesday, but there were no reports of casualties and the North vowed more barrages would follow as part of a military drill. North Korea fired about 30 artillery rounds (...)

27 - 01 - 2010
North Korea dent Saudi Arabia's World Cup hopes
Saudi Arabia's hopes of reaching a fifth consecutive World Cup suffered a major blow following a 1-0 defeat to North Korea on Wednesday. Mun In-guk's 28th-minute goal from close range gave the hosts all three points. Saudi Arabia's second successive defeat leaves them fourth in the five-team (...)

11 - 02 - 2009
Montashari, Shalhoub axed by Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia coach Helio dos Anjos dropped four players from the final squad of the Asian Cup finals, including regular duo Hamad Al-Montashari and Mohamed Al-Shalhoub. Hilal winger Shalhoub was ruled out after picking up an ankle injury in a warm-up game against North Korea this week, while (...)

08 - 07 - 2007
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