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Nothing to see here, move along: Yonhap news agency says that North Korea has fired two short-range missiles off its east coast. Yonhap quoted an unidentified South Korean government official as saying that the North test-fired the missiles on Monday afternoon…The report came hours after South Korea proposed two sets of working-level talks with North […]

American journalists Laura Ling and Euna Lee have landed in California after former president Bill Clinton’s meeting in North Korea with Kim Jong Il. I’m glad they are home. I’ll leave you with this passage from the wire report preceding their arrival: Their expected arrival was a jubilant conclusion to a more than four-month ordeal […]

Because they can: South Korea says North Korea has fired a fourth missile off its eastern coast. The Joint Chiefs of Staff says three missiles were fired early Saturday and the fourth at about noon. The launches come two days after North Korea fired four short-range missiles. Yonhap says they’re Scuds. Did President Obama’s phone […]

Good morning, people. How about some missile tests with your coffee: North Korea test-fired two short-range missiles on Thursday, further stoking tension in the region that was already high due to Pyongyang’s nuclear test and threats to boost its nuclear arsenal in response to U.N. sanctions. North Korea fired two surface-to-ship missiles off its east […]

News from North Korea: The youngest son of North Korea’s authoritarian leader has been given the title of “Brilliant Comrade,” a newspaper reported Friday, a sign the communist regime is preparing to name him as successor to the ailing Kim Jong Il. The report came shortly before the U.N. Security Council approved tough new sanctions […]

Please pick up the red courtesy phone (Photoshop credit: Redhotphones.com) I blogged back in March about the plight of Laura Ling and Euna Lee, two American journalists working for Al Gore’s Current TV who were seized by NoKo soldiers after crossing the border illegally into the country from China while on assignment. The Yonhap news […]

Please pick up the red courtesy phone (Photoshop credit: Redhotphones.com) Joe Biden said our unseasoned Dear Leader would soon be tested. The time is here and now. North Korea tonight has abandoned a 1953 ceasefire and is preparing the peninsula for war in the wake of South Korea’s decision to side with an anti-proliferation coalition […]

Another North Korean missile launch… North Korea launched another missile into the Sea of Japan early Wednesday, South Korea’s Yonhap news agency reported, citing an official at Seoul’s presidential office. The action marked the third straight day the nation has tested missiles and came as members of the U.N. Security Council met to discuss a […]

In response to North Korea’s willful violation of a toothless U.N. Security Council resolution, the panel quickly passed…yet another toothless U.N. Security Council resolution. It is Monty Python’s world, and we are all just living in it. Fetch the comfy chair! We all know the answer, but William A. Jacobson has an excellent post asking […]

Gird your loins, as they say: North Korea staged a “successful” underground nuclear test, the communist state’s official media said. The North “successfully conducted another underground nuclear test on May 25 as part of its measures aimed at strengthening its self-defence nuclear deterrent in every way,” the Korean Central News Agency said. The test will […]