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  • Kim Jong-un on 'luxury yacht' in North Korea Kim Jong-un on 'luxury yacht' in North Korea

    SEOUL, South Korea - North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has used a luxury boat to tour the country's east coast amid indications that the 90-feet-long yacht may have been smuggled into the country in defiance of UN sanctions that bans importing of luxury items to the impoverished country. A website that tracks events in the reclusive state said the yacht, a Princess 95MY made by British-based ...

  • N. Korea threatens to kill human scum who revealed Kim Jongs distribution of Hitlers Mein Kampf to officials

    North Korea has threatened to kill 'human scum' defectors after they published a report that leader Kim Jong-un distributed copies of Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf to officials on his birthday. The report, from a news website run by North Korean defectors, said that senior officials were given the book as a gift in January. According to the BBC, news portal New Focus International had written the ...

  • North Korea willing to restart six-party nuclear talks

    North Korea is willing to restart nuclear talks with international partners, China's foreign ministry has said. North Korean officials said they wanted to peacefully resolve the nuclear issue, the ministry's website said. On Sunday, Pyongyang offered to hold high-level talks on regional peace with the US, although it has reneged on deals several times in the past. The comments from North ...

  • US Japan South Korea urge meaningful denuclearisation

    The US, Japan and South Korea Wednesday called for "meaningful" steps on denuclearisation by Pyongyang in exchange for better ties with them, Xinhua reported. After their envoys concluded a trilateral meeting here on issues related to North Korea, the three countries said: "We agreed a path is open for the DPRK (North Korea) toward improved relations with the United States, Japan and the ROK ...

  • China holds talks with North Korea

    China and North Korea Wednesday held a "strategic dialogue" on denuclearisation on the Korean Peninsula. Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Zhang Yesui met his North Korean counterpart Kim Kye Gwan, and told him that it was in the interest of all parties concerned to realise denuclearisation on the peninsula, safeguard its peace and stability and resolve all relevant issues through dialogue and ...

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Child's Play [DVD]

Child's Play [DVD]

Given the increasingly campy nature of the Childs Play franchise, it was an interesting trip revisiting the one that started it all, which came out during the heyday of the 1980s horror boom. Most of the horror films at that time were of the slasher variety, which meant that Chi ... ...

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  • Seoul calls for toughening conditions to resume any talks with DPRK

    SEOUL, June 20 (Itar-Tass) - Head of the South Korean delegation Cho Tae-yong, who is currently in Washington, called for toughening preconditions to start any talks with the DPRK, Yonhap News Agency reported on Thursday. Commenting on the meeting with the American and Japanese colleagues, Glyn Davies and Shinsuke Sugiyama, Cho Tae-yong said "tougher measures", which had been ...

  • Denuclearized North Korea was Kim Jong Ils dying wish says diplomat

    North Korean leaders Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il wanted to banish nuclear weapons from the Korean peninsula, Pyongyang claims, as it seeks to secure international ...

  • North Korea to invest $1 mln in Russia’s Primorsky territory agriculture

    VLADIVOSTOK, June 20 (Itar-Tass) - Democratic People’s Republic of Korea plans investing $ 1 mln in the agricultural sector of Russia’s Far-Eastern Primorsky /Maritime/ territory, and in particular in the processing of coy and corn. Also, the North Korean side is interested in the setting up of joint cattle farms, North Korea’s Consul General in Vladivostok Rim Chun Il said ...

  • S. Korea DPRK agree to hold government meeting

    The head of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) 's delegation Kim Song-Hye (C) walks with other DPRK delegates as they cross the border separating South Korea and the DPRK at the truce village of Panmunjom on June 9, ...

  • North Korea on brink of producing plutonium think tank

    North Korea may be just one or two months away from restarting a reactor to produce plutonium, potentially allowing the regime to ramp up its nuclear weapons program, a think tank said Monday. New commercial satellite imagery shows North Korea is making "important progress" in activating the five-megawatt gas-graphite reactor, which had been mothballed since 2007 under a deal with ...

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