Friday 28 November 2014

DPRK news round up

Kim’s sister a vice department director in Workers’ Party
Kim Yo Jong, the younger sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, is a vice department director in the Central Committee of the ruling Workers’ Party of Korea (WPK).
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South Korean chief nuclear envoy to visit Russia
South Korea’s chief nuclear envoy Hwang Joon-kook is set to conduct a four-day visit to Russia next week, South Korea’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced Thursday.
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North Korean workers abroad aren't slaves, By Dr. Andrei Lankov
There are tens of thousands of North Koreans employed worldwide. No statistics are available, but the current estimate is in the neighbourhood of 60 to 70,000.
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Ex-vice minister tapped to head Kaesong complex committee (Yonhap News)
 South Korea has picked a former vice unification minister to lead a civilian committee to support the operation of an inter-Korean industrial complex in North Korea, the ministry said Thursday.
UMG: '1 Mill. Listeners Can Change North Korea' (The Daily NK)
The first ever unification broadcasting station for South and North Koreans kicked off Wednesday under the name UMG [Unification Media Group] with a launching ceremony.
Sharp increase in North Korean fishing boats in Japan's EEZ (Asahi Shimbun)
The number of North Korean squid fishing boats entering Japan’s exclusive economic zone has tripled this year, another apparent sign of the desperate economic conditions in the isolated nation.
S. Korea's top nuke envoy to visit Russia next week (Xinhua)
 South Korea's top nuclear envoy will make a three-day visit to Russia next week after the DPRK expressed its willingness to resume the long-suspended six-party talks without preconditions.
More than half of people feel unsafe living in S. Korea (The Korea Herald)
More than half of people feel unsafe living in South Korea, with many of them citing "man-made" disasters as the biggest cause for concern, a government survey showed Thursday. 

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