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UK’s Channel 4 showing North Korea’s evening TV news
As part of a season of programs and reports on North Korea, the U.K.’s Channel 4 is showing the main evening news from Korea Central Television with English translation. The news bulletins are being carried on Channel 4’s website under the banner “North Korea Uncovered” and begin with the news from October 14. “North Korea…
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Associated Press names new Pyongyang bureau chief
The Associated Press has named Eric Talmadge as the new chief of its Pyongyang bureau. Talmadge was previously a news editor for the AP in Tokyo and also wrote on regional military and security issues. He is a long-time Asia correspondent for the New York-based newswire. Most recently, he accompanied AP President and CEO Gary…
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South Korea’s Internet only “partly free,” says Freedom House
Despite living in one of the most wired societies in the world, South Korean Internet users enjoy a “partly free” Internet due to government censorship of content, according to the results of a global survey on Internet freedom. Censorship of content, which includes many websites that carry North Korean content, has shot up in recent…
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AP president concludes latest visit to Pyongyang
The president and CEO of the Associated Press, Gary Pruitt, just concluded a four-day visit to Pyongyang during which he toured the city and sat down for an interview with Kim Yong Nam, president of the country’s parliament. The visit was the first reported trip to North Korea for Pruitt, who took over as CEO…
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South Korea eyes high-tech blimps at the border
South Korean defense officials plan to soon launch a high-tech blimp just south of the disputed maritime border with North Korea in November to get a better look into the neighboring country, according to a report in Stars and Stripes. The airship will hover over the island group that includes Yeonpyong, which is the island that was…
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Autumn trade fair begins in Pyongyang
The second of Pyongyang’s two annual international trade fairs opened on Monday. The Pyongyang Autumn International Trade Fair is scheduled to run until Thursday and has attracted companies from Germany, Russia, Malaysia, Mongolia, Singapore, Italy, China, Cuba, Turkey and Taiwan, according to the Korean Central News Agency. In previous years, the fair has been the launching…
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Pyongyang gets 3D movies
Could North Korea be on the cusp of a 3D movie boom? A movie theater capable of showing 3D motion pictures has been built at Pyongyang’s Rungna People’s Pleasure Park, according to a weekend report by the state-run Korea Central News Agency. The theater, which also includes video game rooms, was inspected recently by Kim…
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Minju Joson criticizes U.S. spy satellite launch
North Korea’s Minju Joson (민주조선) newspaper on Saturday criticized the recent launch of a new spy satellite by the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office, according to a report on the state-run Korea Central News Agency. The classified satellite, called NROL-65, was launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California on August 28 into an orbit that…
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Kim Jong Un visits ‘cell phone factory’
Kim Jong Un visited on Saturday the Pyongyang factory where North Korean cell phones are supposedly made, according to the state-run Korean Central News Agency. Photos of the visit, released by KCNA, show Kim touring the May 11 Factory and talking to officials. There’s also a picture of what’s said to be the latest cell phone…
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North Korean newspaper hits out at U.S. cyber warfare policy
Citing a top secret U.S. government document leaked by former intelligence contractor Edward Snowden, North Korea’s Minju Joson newspaper has attacked America’s cyber warfare policy calling it an “open threat to mankind” and a “declaration of the cyber war.” The Presidential Policy Directive 20, an October 2012 paper that outlined U.S. cyber operations policy for those in the…