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1. News - Asia - KOREAN PENINSULA

   UN sets up commission of inquiry into rights abuses by North Korea

   Posted Mar 22nd 2013, 12:00am by AFP

   ... News Asia US-North Korea Okinawa US Navy base Guam KCNA B-52 North Korea nuclear test Agence France-Presse in Seoul Latest blast of rhetoric prompted by US use of nuclear-capable B-52 bombers and submarines in joint drills with S Korea The UN yesterday set up a commission of inquiry into human-rights violations in North Korea, saying some "may amount to crimes against ...

   http://www.scmp.com/news/asia/article/1196558/un-sets-commission-inquiry-rights-abuses-north-korea
2. News - Asia - NORTH KOREA

   North Korea threatens US bases in Okinawa, Guam as 'within range'

   Posted Mar 21st 2013, 10:25am by AFP

   ... News Asia US-North Korea Okinawa US Navy base Guam KCNA B-52 North Korea nuclear test Agence France-Presse in Seoul The North Korean army on Thursday threatened a possible strike against US military bases in Japan, in response to the use of nuclear-armed US B-52 bombers in joint military drills with South Korea. The threat came a day after Pyongyang condemned the B-52 flights ...

   http://www.scmp.com/news/asia/article/1196110/north-korea-threatens-us-bases-okinawa-guam-within-target
3. News - Asia - NORTH KOREA

   North Korea military meeting hints at 'imminent' nuclear test

   Posted Feb 03rd 2013, 02:42pm by AFP

   ... Military Commission meeting, attended by the heads of the army, the National Defence Commission and the strategic rocket force, the official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reported. The meeting ...

   http://www.scmp.com/news/asia/article/1142466/north-korea-military-meeting-hints-nuclear-test
4. News - Asia

   N. Korea leader inspects military as tensions high

   Posted Feb 23rd 2013, 11:55am by Agence France Presse in Seoul

   ... their strongholds of aggression,” he was quoted as saying by KCNA. The state news agency did not to give the date of the visit but it was believed Kim’s latest trip was on Friday. KCNA said on Friday Kim ...

   http://www.scmp.com/news/asia/article/1156928/n-korea-leader-inspects-military-tensions-high
5. News - Asia - NORTH KOREA

   North Korea says jailed American Kenneth Bae not a 'bargaining chip'

   Posted May 05th 2013, 05:21pm by AFP

   ... bargaining chip. This is a ridiculous and wrong guess," a foreign ministry spokesman told the official KCNA news agency. "The DPRK has no plan to invite anyone of the US as regards ...

   http://www.scmp.com/news/asia/article/1230671/north-korea-says-no-plan-use-american-bargaining-chip
6. Comment - Insight & Opinion - WHO SAID IT?

   Who said it?

   Posted Feb 27th 2013, 12:00am

   ... Comment Insight & Opinion Chen Ziming Kim Jong-un Robert Shapiro Manhattan People have put a lot of hope in the new leadership … and they are not so patient with Xi Political analyst Chen Ziming on the anti-graft drive by Xi Jinping   Feasting his eyes at the 'enemy positions' in flames, [Kim Jong-un] was satisfied KCNA report on the North Korean leader's ...

   http://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/1159285/who-said-it
7. News - Asia - NORTH KOREA

   North Korea leader monitors live-fire drill simulating ‘actual war’

   Posted Feb 26th 2013, 10:20am by AFP

   ... positions’, their roar rocking heaven and earth, and all of them were enveloped in flames,” the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) said. “Feasting his eyes at the ‘enemy positions’ in flames, [Kim] was satisfied,” the official agency added. KCNA gave no precise time or location for the drill, but its announcement followed Monday’s presidential inauguration in the South, at which new leader Park ...

   http://www.scmp.com/news/asia/article/1158883/north-korea-leader-monitors-live-fire-drill-simulating-actual-war
8. News - Asia - NORTH KOREA

   Is this a glimpse of North Korea’s military plans to attack the US?

   Posted Mar 29th 2013, 04:29pm by Agence France Presse

   ... by the official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA), both showed leader Kim Jong-Un sitting at a desk in what looked like a dedicated military operations room. The photos accompanied a KCNA report ...

   http://www.scmp.com/news/asia/article/1202552/glimpse-north-koreas-military-plans-attack-us
9. News - Asia - KOREAN RELATIONS

   North Korea dismisses South’s dialogue offer on Kaesong

   Posted Apr 14th 2013, 03:33pm by AFP

   ... Reunification of Korea said in an interview with the state media KCNA. The official cited the South’s ongoing joint military drill with its ally, the United States, and a call for the North to give up ...

   http://www.scmp.com/news/asia/article/1214471/north-korea-dismisses-souths-dialogue-offer-kaesong
10. News - Asia - DIPLOMACY

    US 'fully committed' to defend Japan against North Korea

    Posted Apr 14th 2013, 01:51pm by AFP

    ... in the cross-hairs of our revolutionary army and if Japan makes a slightest move, the spark of war will touch Japan first KCNA “Japan is always in the cross-hairs of our revolutionary army and if Japan makes a slightest move, the spark of war will touch Japan first,” KCNA said in a commentary. The Asian leg of Kerry’s 10-day tour has seen him move through Seoul and Beijing, with Washington keen to press ...

    http://www.scmp.com/news/asia/article/1214433/us-state-secretary-john-kerry-lands-japan-push-rein-north-korea

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