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  USATODAY.com - Report: North Korean floods killed 549   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
The floods, which were spawned by heavy rains in mid-July, also destroyed nearly 4,500 homes and damaged more than 3,000 others, according to the report by the Choson Sinbo newspaper, which is published by a pro-North Korean association linked to the Pyongyang regime.
Choson Sinbo sometimes acts as an unofficial mouthpiece for the reclusive, communist North.
The death toll figure would represent a sharp increase from the official tally of 154 dead and 127 missing from the floods, according to the United Nations.
www.usatoday.com /weather/storms/2006-08-07-north-korea-floods_x.htm   (460 words)

  
 Welcome To Korea Now !!!-Politics & Policy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Most experts on North Korean affairs were skeptical about the North's moves toward full-blown reforms, but a clue to finding out the answer came in an article carried in Choson Sinbo, the newspaper published by the pro-Pyongyang General Association of Korean Residents in Japan.
Under the new economic management system, according to the Choson Sinbo article, the state evaluates the achievements of economic or business concerns on the basis of their earnings, which will be connected directly with payments to their laborers.
The Choson Sinbo stressed that North Korea's efforts to improve its economic management system are being conducted based on socialist principles.
kn.koreaherald.co.kr /SITE/data/html_dir/2002/08/10/200208100004.asp   (856 words)

  
 Choson Sinbo - newspaper in Korea (North) - Korea (North) media list at Mondo Times
Choson Sinbo - newspaper in Korea (North) - Korea (North) media list at Mondo Times
Choson Sinbo is a Korea (North) newspaper covering news: general.
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www.mondotimes.com /1/world/kp/203/all/11749   (63 words)

  
 FOXNews.com - Dog Meat Popular With N. Korean Women - Celebrity Gossip | Entertainment News | Arts And Entertainment
North Korea is believed to have a greater variety of dishes with dog meat, known in the North as"sweet meat."South Korean gourmets who have tried the delicacy in the North, say Northern dishes taste better.
"Sweet meat has various vitamins, including Vitamin A and B and is good for digestion problems and fatigue,"the Choson Sinbo newspaper said on its Web site seen in Seoul.
The paper quoted a cook at a dog meat restaurant in the North's capital, Pyongyang, as saying an increasing number of women are visiting the restaurant.
www.foxnews.com /wires/2006Aug09/0,4670,NKoreaDogMeat,00.html   (290 words)

  
 NORTH KOREA THIS WEEK NO. 428 (December 21, 2006)*** NEWS IN BRIEF (Part 2)
The Choson Sinbo, organ of the General Association of Korean Residents in Japan, said on its Internet site, "The relations between DPRK (North Korea) and China entered a new stage of development as the Chinese President Hu Jintao visited DPRK in October last year."
The North has no intention of surrendering its nuclear deterrent "at least for now" under current conditions, the Choson Sinbo, organ of the General Association of Korean Residents, said in a dispatch from Beijing posted on its Internet site.
The report came one day after the North's chief nuclear negotiator, Kim Kye-gwan, reportedly demanded the focus of the six-way talks be shifted to the "mutual disarmament" of nuclear weapons in both his country and the United States.
news.tradingcharts.com /futures/1/3/87270631.html   (1016 words)

  
 ANDONGKIM.COM - 'Comfort Woman' Recalls Traumatic Past
A pro-Pyongyang newspaper in Japan opened old wounds Wednesday when it printed the gruesome recollections of a North Korean former “comfort woman” pressed into sexual slavery by the Japanese Imperial Army.
The story of 83-year-old Park Yong-sim in the Choson Sinbo, the mouthpiece of the General Association of Korean Residents in Japan, included claims that the Japanese occupiers killed a Korean girl who refused to do as she was told, boiled her in a cauldron and fed her to other comfort women as meat soup.
The Choson Sinbo said she was taken to several brothels in China until liberation, when she returned home with the help of a Chinese person.
www.andongkim.com /articles/2005/04/comfortwomanrecallspast.htm   (353 words)

  
 deseretnews.com | Floods in North Korea left 54,700 dead or missing, aid group says
North Korea's official media have reported that "hundreds" were killed in the floods, without giving specific numbers.
Choson Sinbo, a newspaper published by a pro-North Korean association linked to the North, said this month that the floods killed at least 549 people and left 295 others missing.
Officials with South Korea's Red Cross and Unification Ministry, North Korea's economic cooperation office in Beijing and other agencies could not immediately be reached for comment Wednesday.
deseretnews.com /dn/view/0,1249,645193779,00.html   (373 words)

  
 NoisyRoom.net » Blog Archive » Activity Detected at North Korean Test Site
A mouthpiece for North Korean propaganda said today that Pyongyang is not bluffing in its pledge to carry out the nuclear test, the Associated Press reported.
“The nuclear test statement was announced on the premise of action,” according to the Choson Sinbo newspaper.
Choson Sinbo is not an official component of the North Korean media system, but is believed to carry the government’s message, AP reported.
noisyroom.net /blog/?p=10729   (792 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
The Choson Sinbo said that as of July 17 that 549 people were killed, 295 went missing and 3,043 were injured in the storms.
The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies said last Friday that flooding in the second week of July had killed 151 people and left 29 missing.
"Heavy rains fell in parts of (North Korea) between July 14 and 16 and caused major damage," Choson Sinbo said in a report posted on its Web site (www.korea-np.co.jp).
today.reuters.com /News/CrisesArticle.aspx?storyId=SEO340785   (456 words)

  
 NORTH KOREA IN THE CYBERSPACE
In contrast, the KCNA and the Choson Sinbo internet sites are profoundly different in terms of language style and interpretation of materials.
The Choson Sinbo publications on the internet differ significantly from the KCNA ones in its moderate language (both English and Korean) and its strong desire to win over foreign investors' to North Korea.
Time and money is spent by Choson Sinbo aimed at convincing internet readers that DPRK is heading towards possible compromise and economic integration with the world community.
www.kimsoft.com /1997/dprk-int.htm   (4304 words)

  
 KOREA: Pro-North Korea Paper Condemns Bush, UCLA International Institute
Many experts believed it was stalling for time ahead of the presidential polls in the hope that Democratic challenger John Kerry would be elected and adopt a softer line to negotiations.
On Friday, however, the Choson Sinbo ruled out a resumption of negotiations, saying Pyongyang will never give up its nuclear programs ``as long as the Bush administration keeps its hostile policy toward North Korea.’’
Han Song-ryol, deputy chief of Pyongyang’s mission to the United Nations, also said he did not see any hope for a breakthrough in the standoff during Bush’s second term.
www.isop.ucla.edu /article.asp?parentid=16573   (377 words)

  
 N. Korea Claims It Captured U.S. Submersible - News
A pro-North Korean newspaper in Japan reported that the small vessel was captured during a reconnaissance mission in waters off North Korea's eastern city of Hamhung.
On the newspaper's Web site, Choson Sinbo, is a picture purported to be of the fl torpedo-shaped U.S. vessel.
A military spokesman in South Korea said, "We have nothing unaccounted for and there is no way for us to verify that this is a U.S. vessel."
www.nbc30.com /news/9638706/detail.html   (270 words)

  
 cbs2chicago.com - Paper: North Korea Won't Rule Out Nuclear Tests
Pyongyang claims to have nuclear weapons but hasn't performed any known test.
"We can't say for sure that North Korea will not conduct a nuclear test as part of strengthening its self-defense," said Choson Sinbo, a newspaper published in Japan by a pro-North Korean association linked to the Pyongyang regime.
"We can't say for sure that North Korea will not conduct a nuclear test as part of strengthening its self-defense," said Choson Sinbo, a newspaper published in Japan by a pro-North Korean association.
cbs2chicago.com /topstories/local_story_238130805.html   (645 words)

  
 BakuTODAY.net - NKorea warns of 'counter-measures' against US financial sanctions
The warning came as a pro-Pyongyang newspaper said North Korea -- which claims to have nuclear weapons -- might carry out a nuclear test unless the United States stops its attempt to "stifle and destroy" the communist state.
"We can't say for sure that the DPRK (North Korea) will not conduct nuclear testing to bolster its self-defence capability," the Choson Sinbo said in an editorial.
South Korea has stepped up monitoring of North Korea's nuclear activities amid news reports that Pyongyang may be preparing for an underground nuclear bomb test.
www.bakutoday.net /view.php?d=25661   (636 words)

  
 Japan, US Step Up Efforts to Prevent North Korean Nuclear Test
They are Pyongyang's closest allies on the Security Council.
A pro-North Korean newspaper published in Japan, Choson Sinbo, said Thursday Pyongyang's plan to test a nuclear weapon is not a bluff.
The paper said North Korea's proposed nuclear tests are not avoidable unless Washington settles what it calls "hostile relations" with Pyongyang.
voanews.com /english/2006-10-05-voa65.cfm   (324 words)

  
 NKorea calls China, Russia unreliable; Seoul prepares response for possible nuke test
North Korea claims to have nuclear weapons but has not performed any known test.
"We can't say for sure that North Korea will not conduct a nuclear test as part of strengthening its self-defense," Choson Sinbo, a newspaper published in Japan by a pro-North Korean association linked to the Pyongyang regime, said Saturday.
In Seoul, meanwhile, a senior official at the Unification Ministry said Sunday that 272 manuals are in place to cope with a crisis erupting on the Korean Peninsula, including a potential nuclear test by the North.
www.prisonplanet.com /articles/August2006/270806NKorea.htm   (557 words)

  
 Upgrading the network   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
The newspaper is published in Tokyo by Choson Sinbo, a publishing house with close links to the pro-Pyongyang General Association of Korean Residents in Japan, and is aimed at English-speaking readers around the world.
The online edition of the newspaper has been updated monthly since the final run of the print edition, but it will likely be updated more regularly in the future, said Choe Kwan Ik, managing editor of Choson Sinbo.
The staff will be able to take advantage of the immediacy of Web publishing and provide more frequent updates, he said.
www.cio.com /blog_view.html?CID=21688   (1197 words)

  
 N.Korean Mouthpiece Says Free Electricity not Enough   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Though North Korean authorities did not make it public, the Stalinist country’s leader Kim Jong-il is also said to have given Roh good marks in his June 17 meeting with Unification Minister Chung Dong-young.
In November the government blocked public access to the Choson Sinbo website but keeps reading it to get an idea of North Korea's position.
Friday’s article can thus be seen as the North's first reaction to the South Korean proposal.
www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1448528/posts   (879 words)

  
 Spinwatch - Blocked N.Korean propaganda sites accessible again
A government official said as of Thursday, 10 sites were accessible including the websites of the National Democratic Front of South Korea, Minjok Tongshin and World Korea Network.
"Uriminzokkiri", a propaganda site reportedly run by the North Korean authorities themselves, the website of the pro-Pyongyang General Association of Korean Residents in Japan (generally known by the abbreviation Chongryeon in Korean), or the website of that organization's mouthpiece, the Choson Sinbo remain inaccessible.
A government official said Thursday, "I understand the government didn't take any separate measures to remove the blocks...
www.spinwatch.org /content/view/1584/9   (332 words)

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