http://www.mail.com/people/14568-kim-jong-il.html Mail.com - the best personalized free web-based Email en en http://sec-s.uicdn.com/mail.com/2.23/img/mailcom_logo_rss.png http://www.mail.com/people/14568-kim-jong-il.html http://www.mail.com/news/world/1852874-tremors-gases-will-best-proof-nk-nuke-test.html SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — With North Korea appearing set to detonate an atomic device, the U.N. agency that detected two previous tests says it is prepared to confirm an explosion when it takes place. But experts say it might be difficult to establish whether the blast is nuclear in nature. The best indication of a test will be seismic tremors and gases r... Wed, 30 Jan 2013 03:31:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1852874-tremors-gases-will-best-proof-nk-nuke-test.html 2013-01-30T03:31:00Z http://www.mail.com/business/economy/1848668-north-korean-leader-vows-strong-action.html SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un convened top security and foreign affairs officials and ordered them to take "substantial and high-profile important state measures," state media said Sunday, fueling speculation that he plans to push forward with a threat to explode a nuclear device in defiance of the United Nations. The meeting o... Sun, 27 Jan 2013 09:25:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/business/economy/1848668-north-korean-leader-vows-strong-action.html 2013-01-27T09:25:00Z http://www.mail.com/business/economy/1848758-japan-launches-2-intelligence-satellites.html TOKYO (AP) — Japan launched two intelligence satellites into orbit on Sunday amid growing concerns that North Korea is planning to test more rockets of its own and possibly conduct a nuclear test. Officials say the launch Sunday of the domestically produced HII-A rocket went smoothly and the satellites — an operational radar satellite and an experimental ... Sun, 27 Jan 2013 06:05:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/business/economy/1848758-japan-launches-2-intelligence-satellites.html 2013-01-27T06:05:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1846902-images-nkorea-ready-nuke-test.html WASHINGTON (AP) — Recent satellite photos show North Korea could be almost ready to carry out its threat to conduct a nuclear test, a U.S. research institute said Friday. The images of the Punggye-ri site, where nuclear tests were conducted in 2006 and 2009, reveal that over the past month, roads have been kept clear of snow and that North Koreans may hav... Fri, 25 Jan 2013 21:34:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1846902-images-nkorea-ready-nuke-test.html 2013-01-25T21:34:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1845312-whats-threat-north-korean-rhetoric-reality.html TOKYO (AP) — According to its official statements, North Korea is ready to go to the brink. But how serious are Pyongyang's threats? This week, new U.N. sanctions punishing the North's successful December rocket launch have elicited a furious response from Pyongyang: strong hints that a third nuclear test is coming, along with bigger and better long-range... Fri, 25 Jan 2013 17:50:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1845312-whats-threat-north-korean-rhetoric-reality.html 2013-01-25T17:50:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1842328-envoy-skoreas-park-open-to-dialogue-with-nkorea.html SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea's new president will not tolerate North Korean provocations but will continue to push for dialogue with Pyongyang, a special envoy to President-elect Park Geun-hye said just hours after the North's top governing body declared it would continue atomic tests and rocket launches. Park is strongly urging North Korea to re... Fri, 25 Jan 2013 05:53:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1842328-envoy-skoreas-park-open-to-dialogue-with-nkorea.html 2013-01-25T05:53:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1844088-absent-omnipresent-chavez-powerful-symbol.html CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — While Venezuela's sick president recuperates from surgery behind closed doors in Cuba, at home he is more visible than ever. Iconic images of his eyes look out from murals lining the streets of Caracas, his portrait appears on T-shirts sported by followers, and on television he can be heard booming "I am a nation!" Though still a... Fri, 25 Jan 2013 02:25:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1844088-absent-omnipresent-chavez-powerful-symbol.html 2013-01-25T02:25:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1843990-us-nkorea-nuke-test-plan-provocative.html WASHINGTON (AP) — North Korea's plan to conduct a third nuclear test is "needlessly provocative" and will only increase its isolation, the White House said Thursday, as the U.S. expanded its financial sanctions against the north Asian country. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said he's seen no outward sign that North Korea will follow through soon on its pl... Thu, 24 Jan 2013 19:05:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1843990-us-nkorea-nuke-test-plan-provocative.html 2013-01-24T19:05:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1839596-launch-sanctions-nukes-nkorea-repeat-cycle.html SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea's nuclear agitations follow a well-worn route. It starts with a long-range rocket launch. The United Nations punishes the act with sanctions. And Pyongyang responds by conducting a nuclear test. It happened in 2006, and again in 2009. With the U.N. leveling new sanctions, the world is about to find out whether North K... Wed, 23 Jan 2013 10:25:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1839596-launch-sanctions-nukes-nkorea-repeat-cycle.html 2013-01-23T10:25:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1839256-un-acts-nkorea-vows-nuclear-deterrence.html SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea swiftly lashed out against the U.N. Security Council's condemnation of its December launch of a long-range rocket, saying Wednesday that it will strengthen its military defenses — including its nuclear weaponry — in response. The defiant statement from North Korea's Foreign Ministry was issued hours after the Security... Wed, 23 Jan 2013 02:50:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1839256-un-acts-nkorea-vows-nuclear-deterrence.html 2013-01-23T02:50:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1837784-un-condemns-north-koreas-rocket-launch.html UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. Security Council on Tuesday unanimously approved a resolution condemning North Korea's rocket launch in December and imposing new sanctions on Pyongyang's space agency. The multi-stage rocket launch is considered part of a covert program to develop ballistic missiles that can carry nuclear warheads. The council reiterated it... Wed, 23 Jan 2013 02:18:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1837784-un-condemns-north-koreas-rocket-launch.html 2013-01-23T02:18:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1819274-un-urges-focus-north-korea-human-rights-record.html GENEVA (AP) — The U.N.'s top human rights official said Monday that as many as 200,000 people are being held in North Korean political prison camps rife with torture, rape and slave labor, and that some of the abuses may amount to crimes against humanity. For that reason, said Navi Pillay, the world body's high commissioner for human rights, nations must ... Tue, 15 Jan 2013 03:42:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1819274-un-urges-focus-north-korea-human-rights-record.html 2013-01-15T03:42:00Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1810764-schmidt-joins-elite-to-glimpse-net-nkorea.html SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Google chairman Eric Schmidt's glimpse of the Web being used at a top university in Pyongyang makes him part of a tiny elite that has seen the Internet in North Korea. His four day visit to the North was a golden propaganda opportunity for North Korean officials striving to give one of the world's most closed societies a modern, ... Thu, 10 Jan 2013 09:48:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1810764-schmidt-joins-elite-to-glimpse-net-nkorea.html 2013-01-10T09:48:00Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1524444-google-exec-nkoreans-using-internet.html PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) — Students at North Korea's premier university showed Google's executive chairman how they look for information online: They Google it. But surfing the Internet that way is the privilege of only a very few in North Korea, whose authoritarian government imposes strict limits on access to the World Wide Web. Google's Eric Schmidt... Tue, 08 Jan 2013 23:39:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1524444-google-exec-nkoreans-using-internet.html 2013-01-08T23:39:00Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1801076-analysis-us-irked-google-chiefs-nkorea-plans.html WASHINGTON (AP) — Google chief Eric Schmidt's plan to visit North Korea has put the Obama administration in the awkward position of opposing a champion of Internet freedom who's decided to engage with one of the most intensely censored countries. The administration is wary for a reason. It fears that Schmidt's trip could give a boost to North Korea's youn... Sat, 05 Jan 2013 14:29:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1801076-analysis-us-irked-google-chiefs-nkorea-plans.html 2013-01-05T14:29:00Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1797334-google-chairman-heading-to-north-korea.html SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — When he lands in North Korea, even Google's executive chairman will likely have to relinquish his smartphone, leaving him disconnected from the global information network he helped build. Eric Schmidt is a staunch advocate of global Internet access and the power of Internet connectivity in lifting people out of poverty and politi... Thu, 03 Jan 2013 18:58:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1797334-google-chairman-heading-to-north-korea.html 2013-01-03T18:58:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1797154-video-fuels-rumor-nkorean-leaders-wife-birth.html SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The seemingly pregnant belly sported by the wife of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in mid-December appeared to be gone by New Year's Day. That's sent South Korean media into a frenzy of speculation that there's a new baby in the ruling Kim dynasty. Video broadcast Dec. 17 showed Ri Sol Ju wearing a billowing black dress that cov... Thu, 03 Jan 2013 08:52:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1797154-video-fuels-rumor-nkorean-leaders-wife-birth.html 2013-01-03T08:52:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1793832-nkoreas-kim-wants-better-living-standards-arms.html SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on Tuesday called for improving the economy and living standards of his impoverished nation with the same urgency that scientists showed in successfully testing a long-range rocket recently. Kim's first New Year's speech, delivered on state TV, was peppered with rhetoric, with calls for boosting th... Tue, 01 Jan 2013 15:37:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1793832-nkoreas-kim-wants-better-living-standards-arms.html 2013-01-01T15:37:00Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1793408-north-korea-cracks-knowledge-smugglers.html HUNCHUN, China (AP) — The warning came from Kim Jong Un, the North Korean ruler who sees his isolated nation, just across the border from this busy Chinese trading town, as under siege. The attack, he said, must be stopped. "We must extend the fight against the enemy's ideological and cultural infiltration," Kim said in an October speech at the headquarte... Mon, 31 Dec 2012 17:48:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1793408-north-korea-cracks-knowledge-smugglers.html 2012-12-31T17:48:00Z http://www.mail.com/business/economy/1790946-north-koreas-caste-system-faces-power-wealth.html SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — For more than a half-century, a mysterious caste system has shadowed the life of every North Korean. It can decide whether they will live in the gated compounds of the minuscule elite, or in mountain villages where farmers hack at rocky soil with handmade tools. It can help determine what hospital will take them if they fall sick, whether they go to... Sat, 29 Dec 2012 19:26:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/business/economy/1790946-north-koreas-caste-system-faces-power-wealth.html 2012-12-29T19:26:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1789256-ap-exclusive-photos-nkorea-nuclear-readiness.html SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea has repaired flood damage at its nuclear test facility and could conduct a quick atomic explosion if it chose, though water streaming out of a test tunnel may cause problems, analysis of recent satellite photos indicates. Washington and others are bracing for the possibility that if punished for a successful long-rang... Fri, 28 Dec 2012 04:16:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1789256-ap-exclusive-photos-nkorea-nuclear-readiness.html 2012-12-28T04:16:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1781094-nkorea-detained-us-citizen.html PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) — North Korea said Friday that an American citizen has been detained after confessing to unspecified crimes, confirming news reports about his arrest at a time when Pyongyang is facing criticism from Washington for launching a long-range rocket last week. The American was identified as Pae Jun Ho in a brief dispatch issued by t... Sat, 22 Dec 2012 03:11:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1781094-nkorea-detained-us-citizen.html 2012-12-22T03:11:00Z http://www.mail.com/business/markets/1773754-skoreas-president-elect-faces-nkorea-uncertainty.html SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Park Geun-hye promises to reach out to North Korea with more humanitarian aid and deeper engagement after she moves into South Korea's presidential Blue House on Feb. 25. Pyongyang, however, may be in no mood to talk anytime soon. Park's declarations ahead of Wednesday's election that she will soften five years of hard-line polic... Thu, 20 Dec 2012 09:55:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/business/markets/1773754-skoreas-president-elect-faces-nkorea-uncertainty.html 2012-12-20T09:55:00Z http://www.mail.com/business/economy/1771052-dictator-father-looms-skoreas-president.html SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — When Park Geun-hye last lived in the presidential Blue House more than 30 years ago, she was a young, stand-in first lady, serving after the assassination of her mother and before the killing of her dictator father. After defeating Moon Jae-in in elections Wednesday, she will return to her childhood home as the first female presi... Wed, 19 Dec 2012 14:23:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/business/economy/1771052-dictator-father-looms-skoreas-president.html 2012-12-19T14:23:00Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1773308-nkorea-buyers-despite-rocket-success.html SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — By successfully firing a rocket that put a satellite in space, North Korea let the far-flung buyers of its missiles know that it is still open for business. But Pyongyang will find that customers are hard to come by as old friends drift away and international sanctions lock down its sales. North Korea's satellite and nuclear prog... Tue, 18 Dec 2012 06:15:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1773308-nkorea-buyers-despite-rocket-success.html 2012-12-18T06:15:00Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1773194-crippled-nkorean-probe-orbit-years.html TOKYO (AP) — A North Korean satellite launched into space last week appears to be malfunctioning but could remain in orbit for several years, a leading expert in the United States said Tuesday. North Korea says the satellite is working. U.S. officials have said it is tumbling in orbit, but even so, its successful launch into space marks a milestone in the... Tue, 18 Dec 2012 05:17:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1773194-crippled-nkorean-probe-orbit-years.html 2012-12-18T05:17:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1769402-n-korea-displays-kim-jong-il-year-death.html PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) — North Korea unveiled the embalmed body of Kim Jong Il, still in his trademark khaki jumpsuit, on the anniversary of his death Monday as mourning mixed with pride over a recent satellite launch that was a long-held goal of the late authoritarian leader. Kim lies in state a few floors below his father, national founder Kim Il S... Tue, 18 Dec 2012 02:35:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1769402-n-korea-displays-kim-jong-il-year-death.html 2012-12-18T02:35:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1770964-north-koreans-mourn-kim-jong-il-1-year.html PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) — North Koreans stopped in their tracks at midday to silently honor former ruler Kim Jong Il, whose death one year ago Monday swept his 20-something son to power. The son, Kim Jong Un, led top military and government officials in reopening the sprawling mausoleum where his father's body now lies in state near that of his grandf... Mon, 17 Dec 2012 04:15:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1770964-north-koreans-mourn-kim-jong-il-1-year.html 2012-12-17T04:15:00Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1763144-nkorea-rocket-launch-young-leader-gambler.html PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) — A triumphant North Korea staged a mass rally of soldiers and civilians Friday to glorify the country's young ruler, who took a big gamble this week in sending a satellite into orbit in defiance of international warnings. Wednesday's rocket launch came just eight months after a similar attempt ended in an embarrassing public f... Fri, 14 Dec 2012 15:04:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1763144-nkorea-rocket-launch-young-leader-gambler.html 2012-12-14T15:04:00Z