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Park Geun-Hye In Between Seoul, Moscow and Washington

Many Korean rulers, both from the North and the South, have been called ‘puppet’. But this propagandistic term can be applied neither to Kim Ir-sen, who had always been a very tough partner for Moscow...

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North Korean Hackers or South Korean Disorderliness?

As it turned out, mysterious ‘DPRK combat hackers’ delivered a new strike: South Korea accused North Korea in hacker attacks on the computer systems of its NPPs, accomplished at the end of 2014. As it...

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On Deployment of the American ABM System Elements in South Korea

According to the South-Korean mass media reports, despite previous denials by the RK government of this fact, the US military acknowledged that they had already selected and inspected the locations,...

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New Controversy Surrounding Kaesong Hi-Tech Industrial Park

Many a time we have analyzed the Kaesong aspect of the inter-Korean cooperation, whether that be myths that it is the principle supplier of the North Korean currency, its yet another ‘complete closure’...

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A new Round in the Anti-corruption Drive in South Korea

The South Korean government approved ratification of a new anti-corruption law passed by parliament on March 24, 2015, already informally been dubbed the “Kim Young-ran Act” after its author, the...

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More Undercover Pastors Arrested in DPRK

As a number of news agencies from Reuters to KCNA informed, on March 26 a press conference with participating representatives of local and foreign media and diplomatic corps was held in the People’s...

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Fight against corruption in South Korea and resignation of Prime Minister

Let us follow up on the subject that we touched upon earlier, since the events, causing a scandal in South Korea, are rapidly developing and has already led to the resignation of Prime Minister Lee...

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The cancellation of Park Geun-hye’s visit to the 70th celebration of WWII...

So “she will not be coming” The Foreign Minister of the Republic of Korea said on April 11 that Seoul will be represented by a special representative of the South Korean President. It is still being...

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Elaborating on the issue of “North Korean hackers”

Fight against North Korean cyber threats benefited from a series of significant events. First and foremost, the Sony pictures documents that were leaked, stolen by hackers in November 2014 in...

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A South Korean Series or Following Our Publications

As usual, we track news on hot topics that were the focus in our previous publications. A possible escalation against the background of US-South Korean manoeuvres. In a nutshell, all has been done...

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Crucified Boy, Boiled Babies and Stone Fish Law

Observing a simultaneous waging of several information wars, the author of the article often wonders why it happens that obvious fabrications are spread in the media. His conspiracy-addicted mind...

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South Korea: A Different Kind of Coup Attempt

Usually, speaking about a political struggle in the Republic of Korea, we pay attention to either the suppression of the opposition forces or attempts of President Park Geun-hye to strengthen her...

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DPRK and the Progress in Addressing Iran’s Nuclear Problem

On July 14, the lengthy negotiations between Iran and the “six world powers” culminated in signing an agreement on the Iran’s nuclear program. The result of the 13-year negotiations is the abandonment...

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Are We Waiting for a Missile in October?

Recently, a number of media sources have been discussing the news that “North Korea has erected a huge launching pad to launch ballistic missiles.” The original text of South Korean origin stated that,...

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Got Enmeshed in Own Fabrications about North Korea?

According to opportunistic propagandists from the Republic of Korea, the “crazy bloody tyrant” Kim Jong-un became notorious for a number of outrageous crimes. Here are some of them. His first alleged...

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Non-DPRK Hackers, or Another Scandal in the Korean Intelligence Service

Some time ago, the author of this article and some of his colleagues, including foreign ones, began receiving strange letters, with attachments representing rather clumsy attempts to hack mailboxes or...

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Biological Weapons on the Korean Peninsula?

On July 12, 2015, the North Korean permanent representative to the UN accused the U.S. of the intention to use biological weapons against the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) in case a war...

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On the Recent Explosion in the Demilitarized Zone and Aggravation of...

On August 4, 2015, an incident occurred to the south of the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ), which divides the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea and the South Korea along the 38th parallel. According to...

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The New “Steps Towards Democracy” in South Korea

On July 15 2015, the police of the Republic of Korea in Seoul raided the office and residence of members of the civil movement, “Korean Alliance”, (in Korea – the association for independent...

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Will a New Korean War be Fought Over Loudspeakers?

A new round of inter-Korean crisis has been largely portrayed in the international media in comic book fashion. It was reported that “Kim Jong Un issued an order to launch an attack,” and “Pyongyang...

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