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The social investigation was conducted by Freedom House. The organization’s Freedom in the World report entitled Worst of the Worst: The World’s Most Repressive Societies 2009 enumerates the bottom 21 countries and territories with regards to repression of human freedom. Here are some of the worst of hell on earth: North Korea is the nadir of freedom [...]

North Korea has announced that it has begun the ‘last phase’ in the process of enriching uranium to build nuclear weapons. At the same time, the North Korean communist regime said it is also into the parallel process of extracting plutonium from the nuclear fuel rods stored at its Yongbyon reactor. The North Korean delegation at the UN in a letter [...]

The impact of the UN sanctions meted against North Korea after its last nuclear test in May has brought the communist regime to the point of using ‘smile diplomacy,’ a significantly huge shift from its erstwhile nuclear diplomacy and ballistic missile diplomacy a few months ago. Pyongyang seems to be diplomatic these days with its ‘series of [...]

North Korea takes a confident stance regarding its nuclear weapons program. According to the country’s state media, “Uranium enrichment tests have been successfully carried out and that process is in the concluding stage.” This brings yet another worry to anti-nuclearization critics of the communist regime. Now that ‘North Korea has entered [...]

Pyongyang has proven its nuclear doggedness. In spite of tremendous international criticism that puts North Korea in a pariah state, it has gone ahead to test nuclear and ballistic missile weapons. Add to that is its ‘nuclear technology proliferation to terrorist-supporting states,’ plus its mounting human-rights abuses. Those opposed to North [...]

The dividing line with China, which extends along 1.400 kilometers, it is one of those most watched of the world, but, also, one of the most permeable and capitalist, in spite of the thousands of soldiers parked in their proximities, due to the tremendous economical differences between both the sides. Smuggling of every type of goods, women’s [...]

A few weeks ago, rumors had it that Pyongyang was trying to import medical equipment for Kim Jong-il whose health was reportedly deteriorating rapidly. His doctors reportedly also asked to be provided with an emergency helicopter. At 67 years of age, Kim’s disease appeared to have been serious. A recent media image shows him to have greatly aged, [...]

Kim Jong Il or the “Great Leader” of North Korea has appointed his youngest son as the intelligence chief and the head of the country’s spy agency. This move would enable his son, Kim Jong Un to inherit the position of the “Great Leader” after Kim Jong Il. South Korea’s Dong-a Ilbo newspaper stated that Kim Jong Il the member of [...]

The youngest son of North Korean leader Kim Jong-il visited China secretly the last week as a special envoy of his father, and met the Chinese president, Hu Jintao. The report, which cited unidentified sources close to North Korea, came days after the UN Security Council adopt a resolution prohibiting the export of weapons to North Korean government, [...]

Former South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun plunged to his death off a ravine in what the police are now investigating as a suicide. He had left a short suicide note to his family. He was 62 years old. Roh was president of the country from 2003 until February 2008. Before his death, he was being implicated in a scandal involving an alleged case of bribery. On [...]