Washington: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee says that Marxists and Maoists are plotting to kill her in league with the Pakistani intelligence, North Korea, Venezuela and Hungary. Banerjee made the sensational charge in an interview to the Washington Post. The Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) rubbished the allegation. Banerjee told the Post how her "Marxist political opponents were plotting with Maoist rebels to discredit and kill her". They were...
06:44 PM, May 23, 2012
Washington: Satellite imagery shows North Korea is upgrading its old launch site in the secretive country's northeast to handle larger rockets, like space launch vehicles and intercontinental missiles, a US institute claimed on Tuesday. The US-Korea Institute at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies said the upgrade of the Musudan-ri site began last summer and reflects North Korean determination to expand its rocket program. The US and other nations...
03:58 AM, May 23, 2012
London: According to a poll conducted for BBC World Service, Iran, Pakistan, North Korea and Israel are the most negatively rated countries in the world. About 24,090 people worldwide participated in the survey. Citizens from 22 countries were interviewed face-to-face or by telephone between December 6, 2011 and February 17, 2012. Polling was conducted by the international polling firm GlobeScan and its research partners in each country, together with the...
11:13 AM, May 19, 2012
Seoul: North Korea has resumed construction work on an experimental light water reactor (ELWR) in a move that could extend its capacity to produce more material for nuclear weapons, website 38North reported on Thursday. Based on April 30 satellite images, work halted in December at the reactor had now re-started, said the website, run by the US-Korea Institute at Johns Hopkins University and former US State Department official Joel Wit....
05:29 PM, May 17, 2012
New Delhi: Twenty-six-year-old Shin Dong-Hyuk may not be as famous as Dith Pran, the Cambodian labour camp survivor in the 1984 screen drama, 'The Killing Fields', but his true survival story as a condemned political prisoner in North Korea who escaped is as powerful as it is unbelievable. Shin, who was born in one of the six sprawling Gulag style no-exit political prisons located 55 miles (88 km) north of...
12:44 PM, May 09, 2012
Beijing: US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton arrived in Beijing on Wednesday for annual talks with Chinese leaders that risk being upstaged by the case of a blind dissident said to be under US protection in the Chinese capital. The fate of legal activist Chen Guangcheng, who escaped from house arrest while under watch by scores of guards, has distracted from the planned two-day talks, likely to feature trade and...
06:02 AM, May 03, 2012
Pyongyang: In North Korea, the choreography can be part of the geography. The country is famous for organising crowds of thousands of people using coloured cards to spell out political slogans and images in stadiums or large squares, and the gathering last week to celebrate the 100th birthday of national founder Kim Il Sung was no different. This time, however, the spelled out message in a central square in the...
08:14 AM, Apr 29, 2012
Tokyo: Analysts say a half dozen ominous new North Korean missiles showcased at a lavish military parade were clumsy fakes. Their conclusions cast more doubt on the country's claims of military prowess after its recent rocket launch failure. The weapons displayed on April 15 appear to be a mish-mash of liquid-fuel and solid-fuel components that could never fly together. Undulating casings on the missiles suggest the metal is too thin...
10:20 AM, Apr 27, 2012
Pyongyang: North Korea is armed with "powerful modern weapons" capable of defeating the United States, a top military chief in Pyongyang said Wednesday amid increased speculation abroad about the nation's missile arsenal and nuclear ambitions. Vice Marshal Ri Yong Ho emphasised the importance of strengthening the military to defend North Korea against threats it sees from the United States and South Korea. He called his nation a nuclear and military...
01:37 PM, Apr 25, 2012
Moscow: Russia's military leadership has for the first time acknowledged a nuclear threat from Iran and North Korea. "The threat is always there, so we closely monitor the nuclear programme developments of many countries," Army General Nikolai Makarov, the chief of the General Staff, told RT television. "The analysis that we conducted together with the Americans confirms that, yes, there is a probability that the threat exists. And we agreed...
02:44 AM, Apr 25, 2012
Beijing: North Korea has almost completed preparations for a third nuclear test, a senior source with close ties to Pyongyang and Beijing told Reuters, which will draw further international condemnation following a failed rocket launch if it goes ahead. The isolated and impoverished state sacrificed the chance of closer ties with the United States when it launched the long-range rocket on April 13 and was censured by the UN Security...
02:03 AM, Apr 25, 2012
Pyongyang: North Korea has threatened to launch "special operations" against South Korea's president, the official KCNA news agency said on Monday. A special mission team of the Korean People's Army (KPA) said that "special operations" aimed at Lee Myung-bak and his followers are designed to begin soon "in the unique way of the DPRK", reported Xinhua citing the KCNA. It said that Lee, together with his conservative media group who...
02:25 PM, Apr 23, 2012
Zurich: North Korea's young leader Kim Jong-un spent more of his childhood being educated under a pseudonym in Switzerland than originally thought, Swiss newspapers reported on Sunday. Jong-un first travelled to Switzerland in 1991, aged eight or nine, rather than in 1998 as has previously been established, Le Matin Dimanche and the SonntagsZeitung reported, citing official Swiss police documents. Little is known about the leader of the reclusive communist state,...
03:39 AM, Apr 23, 2012
Moscow: North Korea will continue satellite launches for peaceful purposes, an official said a week after a failed launch. "The DPRK's (North Korea) satellites for peaceful purposes will be put into space one after another," said a spokesman for the Korean Committee for Space Technology (KCST) in a statement posted on the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) website. The statement, however, gave no specific launch date. "We have a comprehensive...
05:06 AM, Apr 21, 2012
Washington: Refusing to criticise India for the launch of its long-range nuclear-capable missile Agni-V, the United States has contrasted New Delhi's "solid non-proliferation record" with that of North Korea. "I would simply point out, because comparisons have been made to the DPRK (North Korea) and its actions, that India's record stands in stark contrast to that of North Korea," White House spokesman Jay Carney told reporters on Thursday. North Korea...
09:42 AM, Apr 20, 2012
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