First North Korea demanded their $25 million in tainted funds frozen by U.S. treasury sanctions in Banco Delta Asia (BDA) be “unfrozen” before moving forward with the 13 February agreement. The U.S. agreed to this in a sidebar deal, though those funds are not included in the actual Six-Party agreements.
However, once the funds were actually [...]
Update: Monitoring equipment saved for a rainy day:
“A delegation of the [IAEA] confirmed during its visit to North Korea’s nuclear facilities last week that the monitoring cameras, computers and many other devices used until its inspectors were expelled in 2002 had remained intact there, an IAEA official said Monday.
The equipment was covered with dust but [...]
Update: According to Yonhap, the range of the SRBM tested in 27 June was ~100 km, which fits the description of a KN-02, but could be a different missile as well.
Original post: USFK Commander Gen. BB Bell has made headlines over his comments about North Korea’s 27 June short-range ballistic missile (SRBM) test:
North Korea’s recent [...]
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Gizmodo has an excellent array of Kim Jong-il photos; In Which We Provoke Kim Jong Il in 77 Offensive and Hilarious Ways. Some are sure to become often used classics.
- #Missed it on the 30th as I was working late, but it's now been four years since DPRK Studies has been in blog format.
- #From the Japan Times: "Yasushi Chimura and his wife, Fukie, abducted by North Korea in 1978 but repatriated in 2002, expressed relief Friday that their children [now ages 27, 25, and 21] are adapting smoothly to Japanese life as they marked the fifth anniversary of their arrival in Japan."
- #Via the NYT: "Former President Roh Moo-hyun of South Korea, who had been under criminal investigation for corruption, died on Saturday from a fall while hiking on a hill near his retirement home... it was unclear whether the fall was accidental or whether Mr. Roh had committed suicide ... Roh left a will, indicating that the death might have been a suicide." While the man never should have been president, it's sad to see what likely was a suicide.
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