International
Written: 2009-09-02 15:01:32 / Updated: 0000-00-00 00:00:00
The 40th WorldSkills Championship opened Wednesday morning (Korea time) at Stampede Park in Calgary, Canada, for a six-day competition.
Twenty-thousand ...
International
Written: 2009-09-02 14:34:13 / Updated: 0000-00-00 00:00:00
U.N. food agencies are reportedly discussing with North Korea a joint dispatch of inspectors to survey this year’s crop harvests in the North.
U.S. ...
International
Written: 2009-09-01 16:15:30 / Updated: 0000-00-00 00:00:00
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has visited the Dasan Korean Arctic Station on the Norwegian island of Spitsbergen, part of the Svalbard Archipelago ...
International
Written: 2009-09-01 07:27:25 / Updated: 0000-00-00 00:00:00
Korea’s Busan will host the tenth Assembly of the World Council of Churches (WCC) in 2013.
The decision was made by the WCC at a central committee ...
International
Written: 2009-09-01 07:13:12 / Updated: 0000-00-00 00:00:00
The U.S. State Department says it is encouraged by North Korea’s release of American and South Korean citizens and a recent increase in dialogue ...
International
Written: 2009-08-31 14:47:08 / Updated: 0000-00-00 00:00:00
A South Korean has been selected to partake in a three-judge panel that will try a major war criminal.
Kwon O-gon, the vice president of the International ...
International
Written: 2009-08-31 07:57:56 / Updated: 0000-00-00 00:00:00
Australia says it has launched an investigation into an Australian-owned vessel which was found to be carrying North Korean weapons in violation ...
International
Written: 2009-08-31 07:47:38 / Updated: 0000-00-00 00:00:00
Japan’s main opposition party scored a huge win in Sunday’s general elections to dethrone the Liberal Democratic Party, which lost majority rule ...
International
Written: 2009-08-30 13:03:18 / Updated: 0000-00-00 00:00:00
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has welcomed the improvement in inter-Korean relations as shown by the planned resumption of family reunions ...
International
Written: 2009-08-29 13:07:25 / Updated: 0000-00-00 00:00:00
The French daily Le Monde says commercialism is spreading in North Korea.
The daily said in a report from Pyongyang that initial signs of market ...