Also Try Awesome Library in Korean (Requires Korean font.) Materials Korean Search Engine (Gumsak.com) Provides searches in Korean. Requires the Korean font. 6-02  News -02-10-05 North Korea: We Have the Bomb (Guardian Unlimited) "North Korea declared itself a nuclear power yesterday, announcing that it had developed a nuclear weapon to protect itself from what it sees as an increasingly belligerent White House." 2-05 -02-25-03 North Korea News (CNN) Provides news related to conflict between North Korea and the U.S. 2-03 -02-25-03 North Korea Warns Citizens of U.S. Attack (CNN) "North Korea has repeated warnings to its citizens and military that it believes the United States is preparing to launch a large-scale attack on it, including a pre-emptive nuclear strike." "The United States denies it has any plans to attack North Korea, consistently saying it is seeking a diplomatic and political solution to the increasing tensions sparked by Pyongyang's decision to reactivate its nuclear program." 2-03 -02-28-03 North Korea Going Nuclear (CBS News) "South Korea confirmed Friday that North Korea has restarted a small reactor that could produce plutonium for atomic weapons. " 2-03 -06-02-09 North Korean Successor Announced (USA Today) North Korean dictator Kim Jong Il has picked his youngest son — the NBA-loving product of a Swiss boarding school — to succeed him as ruler of the reclusive, nuclear-armed state, South Korean media and legislators reported Tuesday." "Choi and others suspect that, at best, Kim Jong Woon would emerge as the front man for someone wielding backstage power. 'If he is indeed the choice — a huge if — it might reflect the desire of some people to have a convenient but powerless figurehead,' Lankov says. 'So somebody is going to run the show, keeping the boy in front.' " "The real power broker after Kim Jong Il dies might be his brother in law, Jang Song Taek, 63, Choi and other analysts say." 06-09 -06-09-09 North Korea's Grim Prisons (Time.com) "Laura Ling and Euna Lee, the American journalists who were each handed 12 years in prison yesterday by a North Korean court for committing "hostile acts" by allegedly overstepping the border in March, have received a harsh sentence by Western standards of justice. The news is grim, to be sure. But former prisoners in Pyongyang's horrific penal system speculate that the pair may not have to endure the grimmest conditions, which very few have emerged to talk about." "Kyohwaso life is extremely harsh: scholars estimate only 50% of prisoners survive their first year. One of the first accounts of the North Korean prison system, a 2000 memoir called The Aquariums of Pyongyang, tells of routine torture and deprivations on par with those of Nazi concentration camps." 06-09 -06-09-09 What Should the U.S. Do About Korea Sentencing Two U.S. Journalists to Hard Labor? (PBS.org) "North Korea's highest court convicted two U.S. television journalists today of entering the country illegally. The announcement added to rising tensions with the communist regime." "And I think North Korea is very hierarchically inclined. I think they would react positively to a figure of real stature being sent to them." "And my choice for that would be former Vice President Al Gore for three reasons. One, he is highly prominent, known to the North Koreans, a world figure on global warming. Secondly, he is the founder of the firm for which the two journalists work. And, third, as vice president, he hosted what was the absolute high moment of North Korean-U.S. relations, which was a dinner on the top floor of the State Department for North Korean field marshal Jo Myong-Rok, when he visited the United States in the autumn of 2000." 06-09 -06-26-08 North Korea to Be Removed from Terrorist List (Time.com) "Back in early 2002, George Bush called North Korea a charter member of the axis of evil. This morning, the President gave Kim Jong Il one of the diplomatic plums the North Korean dictator has most sought: removal from both the State Sponsors of Terrorism list and the Trading with the Enemy Act. In short, Pyongyang is now off what one State Department official called "the ultimate bad guy list." Dropping North Korea from the terrorism roster will take effect 45 days after the Administration formally informs Congress of its decision." 06-08 -08-11-05 South Korea Backs North on Nuclear Program (International Herald Tribune) "South Korea objected Thursday to a vital American stance in deadlocked nuclear disarmament talks on North Korea, saying that the North should be allowed to run a nuclear program so long as it is for peaceful use." 8-05 07-06-03 North Korea Going Nuclear (Washington Times) "The CIA has revised an earlier intelligence estimate and now believes North Korea has begun reprocessing spent nuclear-fuel rods into plutonium for weapons, U.S. officials said.  Reprocessing the 8,000 stored nuclear fuel rods would be a key indicator that Pyongyang has abandoned past commitments to freeze its nuclear-arms program." 7-03 07-17-03 China Calls on N. Korea and U.S. to Honor Agreement (Bloomberg) "China's government called on the U.S. and North Korea to return to a 1994 agreement in order to defuse a dispute about North Korea's nuclear weapons development program." 7-03 08-26-03 Who Wants What (BBC News) "Representatives from six countries are meeting in Beijing for talks aimed at breaking the 10-month impasse over North Korea's nuclear weapons programmes." 8-03 1-10-03 North Korea Withdraws from Nuclear Arms Treaty (CBC News) "North Korea withdrew from the global nuclear weapons treaty Friday, a treaty it's already violating, but said its nuclear program is peaceful." 1-03 1-4-03 South Korea Proposes End to USA - North Korea Conflict (USA Today) "The United States refuses to talk until the North scraps its nuclear programs. And North Korea insists Washington must take the first step by signing a nonaggression pact promising not to attack the isolated country." "One South Korean compromise being considered calls for the United States to resume oil shipments to North Korea, in return for it abandoning its uranium nuclear development, media reported Saturday, citing an unnamed government source." 1-03 1-7-03 Timeline on USA - North Korean Tensions (BBC News) Provides a timeline, starting with early October of 2002 regarding the tensions between the USA and North Korea. 1-03 12-28-02 North Korea Expels U.N. Inspectors (Independent - Reeve) "Washington faced a deepening dilemma last night after North Korea declared it would expel United Nations nuclear non-proliferation monitors." The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) is the official name of "North Korea." News on Nuclear Threat of North Korea (CNN) Provides news stories related to North Korea's nuclear threat. 2-03 North Korean News (Kimsoft.com) Provides stories from a North Korean view. 7-02 Papers -North Koreans Launch Rocket (New York Times) "North Korea defied the United States, China and a series of United Nations resolutions by launching a rocket on Sunday that the country said was designed to propel a satellite into space, but that much of the world viewed as an effort to prove it is edging toward the capability to shoot a nuclear warhead on a longer-range missile." 04-09 Essay - North Korea's Nuclear Capacity (Time - Karon) "Two weeks ago, North Korea vindicated Bush in spades, when the country's second most-powerful official told U.S. diplomat James Kelly that Pyongyang has, indeed, been running a secret nuclear weapons program, in violation of a 1994 agreement with the U.S." 12-02 Essay - North Korea's Nuclear Capacity (YellowTimes.org - Pulcifer) "The Bush administration has spun North Korea's admission of enriching uranium into an unexpected and ghastly act. For anyone familiar with the United States' dealings with North Korea, it is surprising Pyongyang hasn't made such a move earlier." 12-02 Essay - North Korea's Nuclear Capacity (YellowTimes.org) "North Korea's recent admission of enriching uranium for the purpose of creating a nuclear weapon may be an attempt to foil the U.S. strategy of keeping North Korea a public threat in order to facilitate the creation of the Theater Missile Defense (TMD) system." 12-02 Essay - North Korea's Strategy (BBC News - Foster-Carter) "As tensions mount over North Korea's nuclear threats, Korea expert Aidan Foster-Carter asks why the hermit state has chosen to ratchet up the pressure now, and what it hopes to gain." 1-03 North Korea (CIA) Provides maps, as well as information on the geography, climate, government, people, economy, and other basic information. 9-00 North Korea (CountryReports.org) Provides a profile by topic, including Economy, Defense, Geography, Government, People, National Anthem, Lyrics and Related Links. Provides a map and a flag. 6-02 North Korea (LonelyPlanet.com) Provides information on the history, culture, people, geography, and a map.

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