LYCOS RETRIEVER 
North Korea: Korean War
built 656 days ago
The aisles brim with fresh cucumbers, tomatoes, peaches, scallions, watermelons and cabbage, as shown by rare video footage taken last year by the Osaka, Japan-based human rights group Rescue the North Korean People. Everything else comes from China: belts, shoes, umbrellas, notebooks, plates, aluminum pots, knives, shovels, toy cars, detergents, shampoos, lotions, hand creams and makeup.
Source:
Recently, newer communications and more fuel have boosted North Korean forces, the senior official said. Exercises during the winter training cycle ... are more active. Despite cold weather and temperatures of minus-50, "they are out there exercising," the official said.
Source:
This is how hard-nosed diplomacy should proceed in the face of North Korean intransigence. The question is: What took so long? It was clear over a year ago that President Bush’s “regime change” strategy for dealing with the “axis of evil” was a failure. And it’s been clear for some time that a tough, but more nuanced approach, could work — witness the success of negotiations with Libya stretching over three administrations that resulted in a deal that “cost little, caused no deaths, and was 100 percent effective.”
Source:
This brief contains reporting and speculation concerning the new North Korean reactor - noting the construction of a cooling tower, while estimating the type of reactor and fuel source involved. It ... gives an estimate of when the reactor will be completed.
Source:
A brief look indicates that this is and will be an outstanding resource for those interested in North Korean and Cold War history. There are several collections, including but not limited to, North Korea’s Nuclear Program, DPRK in the Sino-Soviet Split, DPRK-PRC Relations, DPRK-Soviet Union Relations, etc.
Source:
The ROK Foreign Ministry designed a roadmap for North Korean denuclearization which it presented to Lee Myung-bak's transition team. The plan seeks the complete end of the DPRK's nuclear programs by 2010.
Source:
MORE ABOUT
Korean War