Blaze was brief but elderly patients were overcome by smoke and unable to escape, making the toll worse, say police A fire at a rural South Korean hospital for chronically ill elderly patients killed 21 people and injured eight in the second major fire this week as the country continues to mourn victims of a ferry disaster last month. The blaze early on Wednesday at the hospital in the south-western...
Man reportedly put to death after being caught phoning South Korea, according to testimony from inside the highly secretive state. Daily NK reports The death sentence has been imposed upon at least one person caught making phone contact with South Korea from a location near the Chinese-North Korean border, Daily NK has learned via detailed testimony from a source in the region. At the beginning of...
South Korean naval ship on patrol near disputed maritime boundary in Yellow Sea was not hit in incident North Korea fired into disputed waters near a South Korean warship on Thursday, a South Korean military officer has said. The officer said North Korea fired artillery towards a naval ship engaged in a routine patrol mission near the countries' disputed maritime boundary in the Yellow Sea. The South...
Facebook users in the EU, Colombia, South Korea, Indonesia, New Zealand and Brazil will all be able to broadcast their status as voters Facebook is rolling out its "I'm a voter" feature worldwide, after the app's success in the Indian elections in early May. More than four million Indian voters clicked the button, registering that they had voted during the country's parliamentary elections,...
Park Guen-hye uses a televised address to announce emergency services shake-up and takes the blame for tragedy South Korea's president said on Monday that she will disband the coastguard in the aftermath of last month's ferry disaster which left more than 300 people dead or missing. The coast guard has been under growing public criticism over its alleged poor search and rescue work after the ferry...
An unknown number of people died when a building under construction collapsed in Pyongyang North Korean officials have offered a rare public apology for the collapse of an apartment building under construction in Pyongyang, which a South Korean official said might have killed hundreds of people. The news of the collapse in the secretive countrys capital was reported on Sunday morning by the Norths...
Death of Hyon Song-wol, supposedly the former girlfriend of Kim Jong-un, was reported in Japan and South Korea A North Korean singer said to be leader Kim Jong-un's former girlfriend and rumoured to have been executed last year has appeared on state television, apparently alive and well. Pyongyang's state TV showed Hyon Song-wol, the head of a band known as Moranbong, delivering a speech at a national...
Four are accused of leaving sinking Sewol ship while telling passengers to stay where they were The captain and three other crew members of the ferry that sank off South Korea last month have been indicted on charges of manslaughter through gross negligence, Yonhap news agency reported. Lee Joon-Seok, the captain of the Sewol ferry, plus two navigators and a chief engineer could receive the death sentence...
In addition to carbonated beverages and Big Macs, McDonalds spreads low wages, abusive conditions and union-busting. Now workers across the world are learning how to fight back, together In 1996, Thomas Friedman put forward a grand theory of capitalism, economic development and foreign relations: "No two countries that both have a McDonald's have ever fought a war against each other." (He...
South Korean electronics firm apologises but does not admit chemicals in its factories caused disease Samsung Electronics has apologised and promised compensation to chip factory workers who suffered cancers linked to chemical exposure, a rare win for families and activists seven years after the death of a 23-year-old employee from leukemia galvanised a movement to hold the company to account. Samsung...
A seven-storey building has started to tilt alarmingly while still under construction in South Korea. Construction of the combined residential and commercial building began in August 2013 and it was due to be complete by the end of May 2014 Continue reading... ...
Regime has changed tactics in fight to preserve 'ideological purity', Pyongyang source tells Daily NK At least 100 Pyongyang citizens have been internally exiled to remote mountainous areas after searches revealed they had viewed or were in possession of South Korean video content or other recorded materials, a Pyongyang-based source told Daily NK . According to the source, crackdowns on filmed content...
Pyongyang attacks US for what it says is a blindly backed conspiracy devised by 'political prostitute' Park Geun-hye North Korea has accused the US and South Korea of fabricating the results of an investigation that concluded Pyongyang had sent surveillance drones to spy on key South Korean installations in March. A spokesman for North Korea's military attacked the US for what it said was a blindly...
State newspaper says country is justified in using all available means to protect itself from challenges by US and South North Korea has renewed its threat to conduct a nuclear test amid heightened concern that the state may be on the path to building a nuclear arsenal. The repressive regime's official newspaper, Rodong Sinmun, said the country was justified in using all available means to protect...
Beijing's contingency plans for the fall of Kim Jong-un have apparently been leaked to the media. What does this mean for Pyongyang's relations with its only major ally? When Japanese media reported that it had been leaked copies of China's contingency plans for the collapse of North Korea, some more excitable reports suggested that it could soon be "all over" for Kim Jong-un 's regime....
North Korea's crackdown on imports from the South leaves the capital short of its favourite snack, reports Daily NK Long popular with the people of North Korea , South Korean Choco Pies have disappeared without a trace from the markets of the capital, a Pyongyang-based source tells Daily NK . "Because of recent crackdowns, Choco Pies from the neighborhood below [South Korea] are hard to come...
Kim Han-sik, president of Chonghaejin Marine Co, accused of knowing before it sank that the Sewol was overloaded with cargo South Korean authorities say they have detained the head of the company that owns the Sewol ferry, which sank in April, over an allegation of cargo overloading. Yang Jung-jin, a senior prosecutor, said Kim Han-sik, president of Chonghaejin Marine Co, was allegedly aware the Sewol...
Three captured aircraft were programmed to cross border, fly over military bases and return, defence ministry claims Three drones that crashed in South Korea had onboard flight programming that showed they were launched from North Korea and were meant to return after flying over military installations, the defence ministry in Seoul has said. South Korean and US officials jointly examined the three...
He was one of Kim Jong-il's favourite propaganda poets until he defected from the secretive state in 2004. Now, Jang is one of Pyongyang's most vocal critics Jang Jin-Sung was 28 years-old when he first met Kim Jong-il . That rare audience with North Koreas late Supreme Leader in 1999 should have been the proudest day of his life. Instead, it was a catalyst for his eventual defection - one of the...
Innocent friendships, community and simple ways of life are just a few things North Koreans miss about home, they tell NK News Although many defectors feel they had no choice but to leave North Korea , its important to remember that the DPRK was once the place they called home in some cases for several decades or more. And while the South Korean government invests substantial resources in helping...