CHAN: Two conservative pro-democracy groups released 10 balloons laden with money and leaflets in Kimpo, South Korea today. One of the groups, Fighters For A Free North Korea, expects the balloons to catch the wind and land across the border into their cut-off communist neighbor. STORY: Each balloon carries envelopes that contain a message and either one US dollar or 10 yuan bill. Some of the messages are reports about North Korea's leader Kim Jong-il, whose ailing health has been reported about in many countries. The groups are also demanding that the North release people abducted from the South. The group already sent two sets of 100000 anti-North Korea leaflets into the North in October and earlier this month. In reaction North Korea threatened to reduce the South to rubble unless it stopped its civic groups from sending anti-Pyongyang literature into the communist state. While sending leaflets into North Korea is not illegal in South Korea, the ministry said authorities would try hard to stop the civic group members from doing so, angering the anti-North campaigners. [Kim Ho-nyeon, Unification Ministry]: "The related authorities, including our Unification Ministry, are aggressively working on it within legal boundaries, urging them not to send leaflets.” Relations between the two states have increasingly frayed since February when, after 10 years of left-leaning leaders, conservative President Lee Myung-bak took office. He's pledged to get tough with Pyongyang ...
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April 30, 2011 | Asia Society | New York City With Susan Choi, Kim Young-ha, and Bruce Fulton Co-sponsored by Asia Society and the Korean Cultural Service Authors attempt to crack the code to the cryptic, suspenseful world of acclaimed young South Korean novelist Kim Young-ha, author of Your Republic is Calling You, a taut political thriller that spans the course of a single day in the life of a North Korean spy suddenly called back by his handlers after decades of undercover life in South Korea. Kim is paired with another master of the 21st-century literary whodunit, Susan Choi, the award-winning novelist and author of A Person of Interest, who brings her distinctive lens to bear on the mysteries of the immigrant search for identity. Distinguished translator and editor, Bruce Fulton invites Kim and Choi to share their take on spies, cinema, and a bold new wave of Korean literature in translation. For more, visit www.pen.org
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Part 1: Dale Salwak is both a professor of English Literature at Citrus College in Southern California and a professional magician. He is known as "The Gentleman of Magic," and is skilled in the classics of magic. His elegant style has made him a favorite for many years in the finest clubs, showrooms and theaters throughout the world and has earned him the distinction of being the only American magician ever to have been invited to perform in North Korea. Join the US-Korea Institute at SAIS for a discussion with Dr. Dale Salwak about his time in North Korea.
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Part 2: Dale Salwak is both a professor of English Literature at Citrus College in Southern California and a professional magician. He is known as "The Gentleman of Magic," and is skilled in the classics of magic. His elegant style has made him a favorite for many years in the finest clubs, showrooms and theaters throughout the world and has earned him the distinction of being the only American magician ever to have been invited to perform in North Korea. Join the US-Korea Institute at SAIS for a discussion with Dr. Dale Salwak about his time in North Korea.
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thefilmarchive.org The North Korean Army launched the "Fatherland Liberation War" with a comprehensive air--land invasion using 231000 soldiers, who captured scheduled objectives and territory, among them Kaesong, Chuncheon, Uijeongbu, and Ongjin. Their forces included 274 T-34-85 tanks, some 150 Yak fighters, 110 attack bombers, 200 artillery pieces, 78 Yak trainers, and 35 reconnaissance aircraft. In addition to the invasion force, the North Korean KPA had 114 fighters, 78 bombers, 105 T-34-85 tanks, and some 30000 soldiers stationed in reserve in North Korea. Although each navy consisted of only several small warships, the North Korean and South Korean navies fought in the war as sea-borne artillery for their in-country armies. In contrast, the ROK Army defenders were vastly unprepared, and the political establishment in the south, while well aware of the threat to the north, were unable to convince American administrators of the reality of the threat. In South to the Naktong, North to the Yalu (1961), RE Appleman reports the ROK forces' low combat readiness as of 25 June 1950. The ROK Army had 98000 soldiers (65000 combat, 33000 support), no tanks (they had been requested from the US military, but requests were denied), and a 22--piece air force comprising 12 liaison-type and 10 AT6 advanced-trainer airplanes. There were no large foreign military garrisons in Korea at invasion time, but there were large US garrisons and air forces in Japan. Within days of the invasion ...
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Jeff Glor talks to Krys Lee - author of the short story collection, "Drifting House" - about her unique experience as part of a new wave of reverse immigration. Born in Seoul, South Korea, but raised in the US, Lee returned to the country of her heritage as an adult.
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Pyongyang, April 13 (KCNA) -- Statues of President Kim Il Sung and leader Kim Jong Il were successfully built on Mansu Hill. The statues portray smiling Kim Il Sung who indicates the way ahead with his hand held forward and smiling Kim Jong Il blessing Songun Korea prosperous morrow while looking far into its bright future in the new century. Large sculptures on both sides of the statues have been renovated on the highest level. The unveiling ceremony took place with splendor Friday. There were huge crowds of people from all walks of life, servicepersons, youth and students, 300 000 in all, on Mansu Hill and nearby streets. They were holding bouquets and balloons. Supreme leader of the Workers' Party of Korea and the people of the DPRK Kim Jong Un, first secretary of the WPK, first chairman of the National Defence Commission of the DPRK and supreme commander of the Korean People's Army, was present at the opening ceremony. Present there were senior party, state and army officials, chairpersons of friendly parties. Also on hand were delegates to the celebrations of the centenary of the birth of the President, creators, officials and employees of the Mansudae Art Studio, officials of the party, armed forces and power bodies, social organizations, ministries and national institutions, anti-Japanese revolutionary fighters, anti-Japanese patriotic martyrs, servicepersons of the Korean People's Army and the Korean People's Internal Security Forces (KPISF), officials in the ...
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Merging weather with the rocket's path
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The voice that you heard is not mine. haha that was my friend's voice calling MBLAQ!!
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A journalist's POV inside the country of N. Korea!
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Korean student at North Seattle Community College talks about her experiences with children in Vietnam war refugee camp in Cambodia.
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While considerable attention has been focused on following the actions of DPRK officials in Pyongyang, how well do we understand the mindset and culture of North Koreas ordinary citizens? BR Myers argues that we know more of North Koreas clandestine nuclear program than of the motivation behind it. We know more about Kim Jong Ils potential successors than about the unique worldview that North Korean citizens share. Drawing from decades of research on the countrys ideology and propaganda, Myers offers a new understanding of North Korean culture; using multimedia to tell the story of modern-day life in this closed society through its art, unique historic perspective, literature, film, and iconography. A specialist on North Korea, he is a contributing editor to The Atlantic Monthly and a frequent contributor to both NPR and The New York Times, as well as author of The Cleanest Race: How North Koreans See Themselves - And Why It Matters.
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A new video has surfaced that some claim shows a saucer-shaped UFO zooming past the window of a passenger airplane flying over Seoul, South Korea. In the video, the unidentified passenger is filming the otherwise uneventful view from the plane's window. Suddenly he makes a startled sound as the white saucer-like image comes into view. Later in the video, the purported UFO image is magnified. Ultimately, it looks more like an ivory colored bowler hat than a piece of futuristic flying technology. Is this just bad computer-generated imagery (CGI) and a cheap hoax from a prankster or a genuine unidentified object caught on film? [ Video: Palm-sized Star Trek tech may be closer than you think ] The same writer who speculates on the origin of this object also recently wrote about video taken from one of NASA's live video feeds. In that video, three objects in a triangle formation appear on screen about five minutes into the video. Someone from NASA chimes in to say the object is actually a piece of foil, aka space junk, and that its reflection is giving the appearance of three objects in a triangle formation.
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For licensing inquiries please contact Historic Films Archive (www.historicfilms.com / info@historicfilms.com) EXT, OLD QUARTERS OF UNITED NATIONS BUILDING, 1947 INTERIOR, UN HUGE WORLD MAP FILLS WALL BEHIND SPEAKERS AT FRONT OF ROOM. CU JOHN FOSTER DULLES, AMERICAN SPOKESMAN. SHOT OF SEOUL, ANCIENT CAPITOL OF KOREA. HUGE MOUNTAIN BEHIND CITY. NORTH KOREA. KOREAN WOMEN IN LINE FOR ELECTIONS. PEOPLE STAND IN LINE IN LONG WHITE CLOTHES WAIT TO PLACE VOTES. NEAR 38TH PARALLEL BIG FLAG HANGS. ELECTION PROCESS IN KOREA. PAPER VOTES. PARADE, MAN LEADS UNSEEN BAND, WAVES BATON. CU BACK OF WOMAN CARRYING BABY ON BACK HOLDS HER PAPER VOTE UP & PUTS IT BOX AERIAL OF OUTDOOR MEETING IN SOUTH KOREA. SOVIET KOREANS RALLY. INTERCUTS SPEAKER ON PODIUM. ELECTED REPRESENTATIVES MAKE SPEECH. AERIAL OVER BEAUTIFUL BEACH IN SOUTH KOREA. BOAT PASSES PENINSULA. BIG TRUCK IS LIFTED & MOVED ON DOCK. MONTAGE OF "GOOD WILL" GOODS BEING UNLOADED FROM BOATS. PEOPLE WALK ON PLANKS WITH LOAD OF SUPPLIES. UNLOADING RAILROAD ENGINE. MAN STANDS ON MACHINE & ROLLS TAR ONTO NEW STREET OX PULLS RAKE THROUGH WATER. MEN HARVESTING FOOD. FARMING IN THE FIELDS. MEN ON HUGE PILE OF HARVESTED GRAIN. IN NORTH KOREA, MEN IN SUITS WORK AT DESK. RED KOREA. ARTIST DRAWS UP PROPAGANDA IN NORTH KOREA. CU WORKING ON ART FOR A BOOK. BEAUTIFUL. NORTH KOREAN SCHOLARS SIT AT DESKS TRANSLATING MARXIST LITERATURE. CU MAN WRITING. CU BOOK WRITTEN IN KOREAN. BOOK PAGE WRITTEN IN RUSSIAN. LS, BUILDINGS IN MOSCOW. KREMLIN. CITADEL ...
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Communism 101 - Communist Literature
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