Second Trump-Kim summit set for Feb 27-28 in Vietnam – Nikkei Asian Review
SINGAPORE -- U.S. President Donald Trump announced that he would hold a second summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Vietnam on Feb. 27-28. "Our hostages have come…
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Shifting US policy leaves Asian allies at sea – Nikkei Asian Review
SINGAPORE -- China has long bristled at the U.S. Navy’s “freedom of navigation operations” in the South China Sea, which challenge Beijing’s territorial claims in the disputed waters. So when…
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North Korea’s museum outpost in Angkor – Nikkei Asian Review/RTÉ World Report
SIEM REAP -- For an art production house based in North Korea, whose usual stock-in-trade is nationalist-communist propaganda, constructing a museum in Cambodia to celebrate the grandeur of the Khmer…
Spotlight on security camera footage in Kim Jong Nam murder trial – RTÉ World Report
SHAH ALAM -- More than a month into the murder trial in one of the most brazen, cunning and perplexing assassinations seen in a long time, defence lawyer Gooi Soon…
After brazen poisoning of North Korean leader’s half brother, trial unfolds in Malaysian courtroom – Los Angeles Times
SHAH ALAM -- The two defendants appeared in court with scarves wrapped around their heads, partially obscuring their faces. One of the young women spoke animatedly, hands awhirl as she…
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Asia ponders whether Trump will walk the talk – Nikkei Asian Review/FT
JAKARTA -- After the most divisive election campaign in decades, tens of thousands of Americans have protested and rioted against the winner in cities across the country, prompting international concerns…
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DMZ: Road trip to the world’s most heavily armed border – CNNGo
PANMUNJEOM -- “Many South Koreans don't think so much about the North,” said *So Yeon, a North Korean defector now working for the Seoul-based Panmunjom Travel Centre. Every morning she…
Finding cannibals: filling the North Korea news gap – PBS Mediashift
SEOUL -- "I am always worried about security for those who report information to us from inside," said Byoung-Keun, a North Korean working in Seoul as a journalist for The…
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Logs on the railroad – Asia Times
SEOUL - “I was smuggled over the Yalu River into China”, recalls *So Yeon, a woman from Chongjin, a city in the now-decrepit industrial zone of northern North Korea.
Nuclear Matter – The Irrawaddy
http://www.irrawaddy.org/article.php?art_id=20170 New revelations about North Korea’s nuclear weapons program could have implications for Burma, after US scientist Siegfried Hecker revealed over the weekend that he been shown “more than 2,000…