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NORTH KOREA

Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics / ANALYSIS
Apr 20, 2013
Young Kim pushing harder than ever
How provocative has the United States been to North Korea?
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 18, 2013
Blame Western 'demonists' for Pyongyang's belligerence
Demonists never sleep. They concoct fantasies almost daily over a North Korea that almost certainly only wants to protect itself from the threat of U.S. attack.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Apr 16, 2013
Yeonpyeong attack raised South Korea's resolve
North Korea's fatal artillery attack on the border island of Yeonpyeong over two years ago uprooted old wooden houses from their foundations. One shell punctured the concrete side of a soccer stadium, another struck a rooftop oil tank. Residents rushed to underground bunkers, and when they emerged hours...
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Voices / VIEWS FROM THE STREET
Apr 16, 2013
Tokyo: Do you have a message for young North Korean leader Kim Jong Un?
Get a hobby. Play less Battleships. Kim should take up something else, such as darts. He really needs to show his generals who is boss, and needs to be a little more refined in how he demonstrates his power.
ASIA PACIFIC / ANALYSIS
Apr 15, 2013
Online, Chinese heap scorn on North Korea
The views posted on Chinese Internet sites about the diplomatic faceoff with long-term ally North Korea have been anything but diplomatic.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Media / BIG IN JAPAN
Apr 14, 2013
Tabloids sharpen claws for North Korea's 'X-Day'
Three months before the present crisis on the Korean peninsula, Shukan Jitsuwa (Jan. 24) ran an uncharacteristically astute article predicting that in addition to potential for armed conflict with China over the disputed Senkaku Islands, North Korea, under its inexperienced young leader Kim Jong Un, posed a serious threat to Japan.
ASIA PACIFIC
Apr 14, 2013
South Korea police thwart activists' planned launch of leaflets
Seoul AFP-JIJI
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 13, 2013
Here's what should be done when North Korea goes south
Predictions of North Korean famine come every year, but indeed the last five to 10 years have seen modest, but undeniable, economic improvement.
JAPAN
Apr 11, 2013
Yokohama errs, tweets launch alert
The Yokohama Municipal Government mistakenly alerted its Twitter followers Wednesday morning that North Korea had launched a missile, only to apologize 20 minutes later for the error.
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 11, 2013
Pyongyang-Tehran military ties test nuclear nonproliferation regime
Circumstantial evidence and a growing number of reports suggest that North Korea and Iran are sharing advances in nuclear and missile technology.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Apr 10, 2013
North Korea's U.S. diplomatic channel fades
Han Song Ryol, the North Korean diplomat who serves as his country's principal liaison with the United States, has spent the better part of the past two decades exploring the prospects for a normalized bilateral relationship with Washington.
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 10, 2013
Why South Korea has already won
Pop stars, bourgeois lifestyle commentary and funny videos often seem to interest young South Koreans more than the latest provocation by the North.
JAPAN
Apr 9, 2013
PAC-3 batteries deployed as North Korea threatens missile launch
The Defense Ministry has deployed Patriot PAC-3 antimissile air defense units to three Self-Defense Forces installations, in Tokyo and Chiba, to defend against possible North Korean missile strikes, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga said Tuesday.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Apr 8, 2013
After days of escalating threats, China makes veiled criticism of ally North Korea
Responding to regional worries over North Korea's bellicose threats, China on Sunday expressed concern and what appeared to be veiled criticism of its longtime ally.
ASIA PACIFIC
Apr 8, 2013
With latest tensions, Seoul puts North at arm's length
Despite years of tensions, a majority of South Koreans have long clung to a cautiously optimistic vision for their peninsula's future. Even if North and South Korea weren't one day unified, the thinking went, the countries would at least be connected by joint business ventures and rail lines, with some...
EDITORIALS
Apr 5, 2013
North Korea's provocations
International community members must deepen cooperation and watch their behavior as long as North Korea keeps baiting them with war drums.
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 3, 2013
Defusing the North Korean crisis
Asia-Pacific allies and security partners of the U.S. are scrutinizing every move made by Washington as North Korea threatens to strike South Korea.
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 2, 2013
Finding a way out of the Pyongyang imbroglio
It is probably a good idea to regard the latest bombast of threats from North Korea as as the antics of an angry child hurling the rattle out of the crib in hopes of getting parents to pay more attention.
Japan Times
WORLD / ANALYSIS
Mar 31, 2013
U.S. takes lead on missile defense
The United States has quietly taken on the huge task of trying to organize regional ballistic missile defense networks, not only among NATO countries, but also in East Asia and the Middle East.
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 27, 2013
Reasons why Beijing won't push Pyongyang
One reason Beijing is loath to squeeze Pyongyang is that a nuclear North Korea is seen as complicating U.S. security calculations more than China's.

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