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Jon Stewart’s humor a hit with millions of envious Chinese

Jon Stewart is picking up millions of fans in China, where his gloves-off political satire is refreshing for many in a country where such criticism is a rarity – especially when directed at their own leaders.

Posted in International, News
Tagged CCTV, censorship, China, Chinese, criticism, humor, Jon Stewart, leaders, North Korea, satire, Sina Weibo, Stephen Colbert, The Daily Show
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un (C) visits the missile firing site

North Korea fires short-range missiles for two days in a row

North Korea fired a short-range missile from its east coast this morning, a day after launching three similar missiles, ignoring [...]

Posted in International, News
Tagged crisis, firing, missile, North Korea, South Korea
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un speaks during a plenary meeting of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea in Pyongyang
Credit: Reuters

North Korea fires three short-range missiles

North Korea fired three short-range missiles from its east coast on Saturday, South Korea’s Defense Ministry said, but the purpose of the launches was unknown.

Posted in International, News
Tagged Kim Jong-un, North Korea | Reply
An undated still image of a video footage released in Seoul by Yonhap News Agency on May 2, 2013, shows a portrait of U.S. citizen Kenneth Bae. REUTERS/Yonhap

North Korea sentences American to 15 years hard labor

North Korea sentenced U.S. citizen Kenneth Bae to 15 years hard labor today for what it said were crimes against [...]

Posted in National, News
Tagged hard labor, kenneth bae, North Korea, tour. spy
Human rights activist Linda Dye, Defense Forum Foundation President Suzanne Scholte, North Korea refugee and human rights activist Shin Dong-hyuk and Korean Churck Coalition for North Korea Freedom Executive Director Sam Kim march outside the White House while demonstrationg for human rights in North Korea July 10, 2012 in Washington, DC.
Credit: Getty Images

Pyongyang confidential: Forget nuclear war, we have real problems

While Kim Jong-un continues war talk, North Koreans are in fact busy preparing for planting season. The state news agency, [...]

Posted in International
Tagged Free NK, interview, KCNA, North Korea, Pyongyang | Reply
North Korean soldiers, workers and students place flowers before the statues of North Korean founder Kim Il-sung (L) and his son, late leader Kim Jong-il, on the 101st anniversary of Kim Il-sung's

North Korea looks inward for founder’s birthday, tensions ease

North Korea celebrated the anniversary of its founder’s birth on Monday and abandoned its shrill threats of war against the United States and the South, easing tensions in a region that had seemed on the verge of conflict.

Posted in International, News
Tagged anniversary, birthday, founder, North Korea, nuclear, threats
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry 
Credit: Reuters

Kerry says U.S. ready to ‘reach out’ Tto North Korea

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Sunday stressed the United States is willing to engage with North Korea as long as it takes steps to give up nuclear weapons.

Posted in National, News
Tagged International, John Kerry, North Korea | Reply
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry (L) looks at Chinese President Xi Jinping before their meeting at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing
Credit: Reuters

U.S., China agree on North Korea denuclearization push

The United States and China agreed on Saturday to make a joint effort to push for the peaceful denuclearization of North Korea.

Posted in International, News
Tagged John Kerry, North Korea, Nuclear Talks | Reply
The US will never accept a nuclear armed North Korea said secretary of state John Kerry

U.S. will never accept a nuclear-armed North Korea: Kerry

Secretary of State John Kerry dismissed as “unacceptable by any standard” weeks of bellicose warnings of impending nuclear war by [...]

Posted in International, News
Tagged John Kerry, North Korea, nuclear armed, nuclear war, US
South Korean soldiers of an artillery unit walk past 155mm Towed Howitzers during an artillery drill as part of the annual joint military exercise

South Korea increases surveillance as North moves missile

South Korea said this morning there was “very high” probability that North Korea, engaged in weeks of threats of war, [...]

Posted in International, News
Tagged launch, missile, North Korea, South Korea, surveillance
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