Seoul Lantern Festival 2011: Gorgeous Photos and Video

Seoul Lights It Up for 2011 Lantern Festival The Seoul Lantern Festival is underway from November 4 through 20. If you're in South Korea, check it out. For the rest of us, we can only experience the lantern festival...

Crabby Koreans

Trading shots North and South Korea jostle and trade salvos again. Pretty soon they will blow up all the fish in the area and there will be nothing left to fight about. " “Official: North Korean Shell Lands...

Asiana Airlines Plane Crash: Jeju Island, South Korea

Cargo Plane Crash in South KoreaA cargo plane operated by Asiana Airlines has crashed off Jeju-do (Jeju Island) in South Korea early on July 28.Map: Jeju Island (Jeju-do)According to the South Korean Coast Guard, the two crewmembers aboard the plane have been killed. The...

Protestors Help Cancel Dog Meat Festival in South Korea

The annual dog meat festival held close to the city of Seongnam, which is just south of Seoul in South Korea, was canceled on Tuesday due to an uproar of protests from animal rights activists. The Korea Dog...

South Korea's planned live-fire military exercise has started

           South Korea's planned live-fire military exercises started Monday afternoon, the country's ministry of defense said.           North Korea has said the drill could ignite...

Explain to North Korea what nuclear war means to them

Dear President Kim Jong Il: To have amassed the weapons and military power that you have in North Korea is a mighty accomplishment at a huge cost to the people of North Korea. You enjoy great power with the backing...

China the enabler to North Korea and USA

Irony, China is an economic enabler to the North Koreans and the USA. North Korea is run by a deranged old man and his family, backed by an equally finatical  military. The anti-democratic dictatorship...

Politically engineered economies

Economic relationships among nations are often brokered behind the scenes by powerful people such as the Bilderberg Group, for instance. There are many such forces, including the Oil Cartel.  An effective...

New approach: South Korea and China strategy for North Korea

North Korea is a burden of sort to China, one that causes more trouble maybe than it’s worth. What would happen if South Korea invited China to Seoul to discuss what to do with North Korea? China could have much...

Cut off the kimchi – North Korea critical need for food

One thing that gets North Korean’s attention is linking the availability of food to nukes. " “Pyongyang at the time angrily vowed to never again take part in the six-party talks again, which linked ending...

North Korea-South Korea Tensions Mounts with Warnings of War

North Korea Warns of War as US Joins South Korea in Military Exercises North Korea has stepped up its rhetoric as well as its own military movements following the international response to the shelling of Yeonpyeong...

Korea situation – Chinese Report

North Korea’s alleging that the South is derailing the peace process is the pot calling the kettle black. Who in the world do the North Koreans think they are fooling? Is not developing nuclear weapons a...

North Korea warns war drills take region to 'brink of war'

" North Korea has warned that impending joint military exercises by the South and the US are pushing the region to "the brink of war". A group of naval ships, led by a nuclear-powered US aircraft carrier, is heading to the Yellow Sea to take part in the drills, due to begin...

Zakaria: US, China could solve Korean problem

Time/5 p.m. Abu Dhabi/9 p.m. Hong Kong. New York (CNN) -- The United States and China could play a crucial role in helping finally to resolve the conflict that plagues the Korean Peninsula, says analyst Fareed Zakaria. In one of the most violent incidents in decades,...

CNN Fareed Zakaria: U.S., China could solve Korea standoff

" The United States and China could play a crucial role in helping finally to resolve the conflict that plagues the Korean Peninsula, says analyst Fareed Zakaria. In one of the most violent incidents in decades, North Korea shelled a South Korean island Tuesday, killing four...

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