February 2012
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KOREA NEWSLINE: K-pop group, songwriter caught... →
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koreanewsline:
A K-pop singing group and songwriter are making news for all the wrong reasons. First up: Block B, which apologized Saturday for an embarrassing interview with Thailand’s RYT9. The group’s worst faux pas: appearing to make light of the devastating floods that ravaged Thailand last year, …
North Korea: Witness to Transformation | Food... →
Glad to see Haggard and Noland giving some more attention to forward looking agriculture policy.
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KOREA NEWSLINE: U.S., N. Korea to hold talks in... →
koreanewsline:
The U.S. State Department said Monday that Special Representative for North Korea Policy Glyn Davies will hold talks in Beijing Feb. 23 with North Korean First Vice Minister Kim Kye Gwan regarding the North’s nuclear program. It will be Washington’s first direct talks with Pyongyang since the…
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KOREA NEWSLINE: New York company to assist N.... →
koreanewsline:
North Korea has hired New York-based Korea Pyongyang Trading USA to reopen Mt. Kumgang to U.S. tourists, Bloomberg reports. Courtesy of the U.S. Justice Department’s Foreign Agents Registration Act website, read Korea Pyongyang’s certificate of incorporation and its July 2011…
Love it.
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KOREA NEWSLINE: The Economist: Blame chaebol for... →
koreanewsline:
The Economist notes that the unusually low price-to-earnings ratios of shares listed on the Korea Composite Stock Price Index is sometimes attributed to the risk of instability posed by North Korea. But the magazine argues that the so-called “Korea discount” is most likely the result of poor…
Don’t even get me started.
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A choice no country should have to make →
This is an interesting opinion piece on China.org.cn that claims that China’s “former close allies like the [sic] North Korea, Myanmar and Pakistan are opening up to the West.” The column says the following regarding North Korea:
The North Korea is the county which China assists the most. However, it no longer treats China as a close friend. Instead, it wants to build direct...
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China to deepen agricultural cooperation with U.S →
Remarks from China’s Agriculture Minister, Han Chengfu, on a visit to the United States with Chinese Vice-President Xi Jinping. Xi Jinping, who is widely believed to become China’s next president, also has a great interest in agriculture wrote his Phd Thesis at Qinghua University on rural economics.
After 30 years development, China-U.S. agricultural cooperation has laid a solid...
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New Seed Processing Substance Invented
Pyongyang, February 8 (KCNA) — The Agrobiology Research Institute under the Academy of Agricultural Science of Korea has invented a new variety of seed processing substance.
The substance, called “Chonggye 65”, contains phosphorus, potassium and rare-earth and bioactive elements.
It helps reduce the seed processing time, move up the flowering time of crops and raise their...
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North Korean A-ha accordionists 'destined for... →
A group of North Korean accordionists who took the internet by storm with their version of 80s pop tune Take On Me are destined for stardom, a Norwegian impresario says.
I am glad North Korean musicians are finally getting some of the attention they deserve. It is a shame that North Korean music (or music in North Korea) is rarely seen out of the context of other opinions and concerns about...
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Wrestling With Diplomacy in North Korea →
Rewind to April 1995, just one year after the death of Kim Il Sung, a nuclear crisis that nearly brought about war, and a time of biting economic hardship. After such a long period of mourning, probably the last thing you would have expected to see taking place would be an international wrestling tournament in Pyongyang, attended by the likes of boxing champion Muhammad Ali and World...
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Developing the DPRK Through Agriculture →
Randall Ireson on using agriculture to jump start the DPRK economy. In short, the technical knowledge and means are out there, but they require in-country market reforms (allowing farmer’s to sell their produce) and recognition by the DPRK’s neighbors of the importance of developing agriculture.
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KBO protests Baltimore Orioles' signing of S....
blah blah blah. This is so ridiculous. How many South Korean players actually play in the MLB? One! Choo Shin-Soo of the Indians. (There are more in the minors, see here, and here). If Korean baseball wants to start keeping home-grown talent, maybe they should consider changing the logos on their hats, which are for the most part atrocious. It would be nice to not have to relive the previous...
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“There is not love of life without despair about life.”
– Camus (via twofishareinatank)
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More Than One Dead Kitten: The Myth of Sisyphus by... →
gabi-thompson:
The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own weight. They had thought with some reason that there is no more dreadful punishment than futile and hopeless labor.
If one believes Homer, Sisyphus was the wisest…
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N.Korean Business Zones to Be Included in FTA with... →
The government apparently wants to include the Rajin-Sonbong and Hwanggumpyong special economic zones as external manufacturing regions in free trade talks with China, it emerged on Thursday. Seoul would give the same tariff benefits to products manufactured in the two areas that were given to goods made in the Kaesong Industrial Complex in the South Korea-ASEAN FTA that went into effect in...
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“The most fertile soil does not necessarily produce the most abundant harvest. It...”
– Thomas W. Higginson (via abundance-mine)