South Korea and the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) decided to form a joint inspection team to survey industrial complexes in China and Vietnam next month, as an effort to find an international model to help develop the inter-Korean Kaesong park.
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Visiting Chinese Defense Minister Liang Guanglie yesterday met Kim Jong-il, top leader of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK).
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Chinese Defense Minister Liang Guanglie met his Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) counterpart Kim Yong Chun here on Tuesday, exchanging views on bilateral relations and ties between the armed forces of the two countries.
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General Secretary Kim Jong Il visited the state guest house for Wen Jiabao, member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and premier of the State Council of the People’s Republic of China, on an official goodwill visit to the DPRK and received him on Monday.
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Op 23 januari 2009 ontving Kim Jong Il, algemeen secretaris van de Partij van de Arbeid van Korea, een delegatie van de Chinese Communistische Partij (CCP). Deze ontmoeting gebeurde in het kader van het jaar van de vriendschap tussen de Volksrepubliek China en de Democratische Volksrepubliek Korea (Noord-Korea). De regelmatige ontmoetingen tussen beide socialistische landen laten toe de nauwe banden met elkaar te versterken.
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Kim Jong Il, top leader of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), met with Wang Jiarui, head of the International Department of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, in Pyongyang Friday, to discuss bilateral ties and the DPRK’s efforts of denuclearization.
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Fresh from hosting a 17-day Olympic spectacular, Chinese President Hu Jintao arrived in South Korea on Monday for talks set to focus on trade and North Korea’s nuclear disarmament.
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The third summit meeting between President Lee Myung-bak and his Chinese counterpart Hu Jintao, held in Seoul Monday, marked a new milestone in bilateral relations, as the leaders agreed on specific action plans to follow up on their countries’ strategic cooperative partnership and reconfirmed their commitment to the peaceful settlement of the North Korean nuclear weapons dispute.
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China has unfrozen some North Korean accounts in a Macau bank that have been suspected of being linked to money laundering and other financial irregularities, Yonhap News Agency and KBS reported, quoting a Beijing-based diplomatic source yesterday.
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By announcing that it would return to the negotiation table and address the major powers’ concerns about its nuclear programme, North Korea may have scored an unlikely but impressive diplomatic victory.
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On October 19, Foreign Ministry Spokesman Liu Jianchao held a regular press conference. Some extracts, classified by subjects.
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Chinese President Hu Jintao and President Roh Moo-hyun of the Republic of Korea (ROK) held talks in Beijing on Friday morning, reaching "important" consensus on the Korean Peninsula nuclear issue.
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On the afternoon of October 12, Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesman Liu Jianchao held a regular press conference. Some extracts, classified by subjects.
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Michael Klare is er rotsvast van overtuigd dat olie een beslissende factor is van de Amerikaanse politiek in het Midden-Oosten en in de rest van de wereld. Hier interesseert hij zich in de bredere context die de militaire strategie van de Verenigde Staten bepaalt. Hij besluit dat in een wereld waar de énige potentiële militaire dreiging uitgaat van de Amerikaanse superioriteit, de énige logische uitleg voor een voortdurende stijging van de militaire budgetten van de Verenigde Staten, hun inspanningen om hun kernwapenarsenaal uit te breiden én de spreiding van hun nucleaire hegemonie tot in de ruimte, kan samengevat worden in één woord: CHINA.
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[Interview] Top Chinese government think tank scholar outlines Seoul’s options
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John Feffer took time out of his busy schedule to meet with me at the conference room of the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington D.C., July 8. He started work just last month as the co-director of the insightful on-line journal Foreign Policy in Focus, in addition to his work as Director of the Global Affairs Program at the International Relations Center.
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South Korea and Japan squabbled publicly yesterday about how to deal with North Korea over its missile tests, undermining special envoy Christopher Hill’s attempts to get the front-line nations dealing with Pyongyang to speak "with one voice".
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China en de Democratische Volks Republiek Korea (DVRK) zullen binnenkort concrete afspraken maken over de gezamenlijke winning van aardolie in de Gele Zee, aldus de verklaring vorige dinsdag in Beijing van Liu Jianchao, woordvoerder van het Chinese Ministerie van Buitenlandse zaken.
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China and the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) will make detailed arrangements on joint development of oil resources at sea area bordering the two countries.
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Van 10 tot 18 januari 2006 bracht de hoogste leider van Noord-Korea Kim Jong Il een zeer opmerkelijk « niet officieel » bezoek aan China.
Zoals sommige al opmerkten, deed de reisweg van Kim (waaronder Wuhan, Guangzhou, Zhuhai et Shenzhen) denken aan het fameuze bezoek van Deng Xiaoping aan het zuiden in januari en februari 1992 (met bezoek aan Wuchang, Shenzhen, Zhuhai et Sjanghai) dat het engagement van Beijing onderstreepte voor de economische hervormingen in de post-Tiananmen periode.
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China et de Democratische Volksrepubliek van Korea (DVRK) ondertekenden in Pjongjang het culturele uitwisselingsakkoord voor de periode 2006-2008.
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Michael Klare, dont les écrits font irrésistiblement état du pétrole comme d’un facteur décisif de la politique américaine au Moyen-Orient et dans le monde, s’intéresse ici à la dynamique plus large qui détermine la stratégie militaire des États-Unis. Sa conclusion est que, dans un monde où il n’y a qu’une menace militaire potentielle sur la supériorité américaine, la seule explication logique de la hausse continue du budget militaire des États-Unis, et de leurs efforts en vue d’élargir leur arsenal atomique et d’étendre leur hégémonie nucléaire à l’espace, peut être résumée en un seul mot : Chine.
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Michael Klare, who has written compellingly on oil as a driving factor in US policy in the Middle East and globally, here turns his gaze toward yet larger dynamics driving US military strategy. He concludes that in a world in which there is only one potential military threat to US primacy, the single logical explanation for the continued growth of the US military budget, its drive to expand its nuclear arsenal and to extend its nuclear hegemony to outer space, can be summed up in one word: China.
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A U.S. Senator’s report in 1975 emphasized the necessity of reducing the U.S. forces stationed in South Korea in a way to get closer to China, according to diplomatic documents declassified in Seoul on Thursday.
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U.S. financial sanctions against North Korea have had a negative impact on six-nation talks on the North Korean nuclear issue, Chinese Foreign Ministry representative Liu Jianchao said at a briefing on Tuesday.
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North Korea’s economy would have posted minus growth if it had not been for its rapidly growing trade with China, the South Korean central bank’s research unit said Monday.
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U.S.-led financial sanctions against North Korea can hardly bear fruit without China’s participation and will only make the closed economy further depend on its robust neighbor, South Korean officials said Monday.
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Chinese semimonthly Ban Yue Tan recently carried an article by Ren Libo, a reporter stationed in Pyongyang, which believes the recent visit to China by Kim Jong Il, top leader of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), carries an "opening up" message.
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"China and North Korea depend on one another like lips and teeth. The two form an alliance of steel opposed to hegemony. General Secretary Kim Jong-il is our brother-in-arms, a comrade and a brother."
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Kim Jong Il, general secretary of the Workers’ Party of Korea and chairman of the National Defence Commission of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, paid an unofficial visit to the People’s Republic of China from January 10 to 18 at the invitation of Hu Jintao, general secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and president of the People’s Republic of China.
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China’s State Councilor Tang Jiaxuan has stressed the need for close cooperation between China and North Korea in the energy field, the North’s media said Sunday.
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South Korea and China shared concerns over the possibility that U.S. financial sanctions against North Korea would have a negative effect on the progress of six-party talks to denuclearize the North, according to officials on Monday.
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A 2006-2007 plan for scientific and technological exchanges between the DPRK Bureau of Earthquake and the Chinese State Seismological Bureau was signed in Beijing on Nov. 25.
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Op de vrije markten van Pjongjang, die praktisch ontoegankelijk zijn voor de meeste door de gehanteerde prijzen, zijn het merendeel van de consumptiegoederen van Chinese herkomst.
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Leider Kim Jong Il heeft de openingsceremonie van het Glasbedrijf van de vriendschap in Tae-an vereerd met zijn aanwezigheid.
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Chinese President Hu Jintao’s visit to Pyongyang was "successful" and "fruitful", a senior official of the Communist Party of China (CPC) said here Sunday.
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Hu Jintao, president of the People’s Republic of China, left here on Sunday by a special plane after successfully concluding his visit to the DPRK at the invitation of Kim Jong Il, chairman of the National Defence Commission of the DPRK.
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Het bezoek van de Chinese president Hu Jintao aan Pjongjang wordt door een hoge verantwoordelijke van de Chinese Communistische partij (PCC) omschreven als "met succes bekroond" en "vruchtbaar".
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Hu Jintao, on visit to the DPRK, visited the Taean Friendship Glass Factory on Saturday. Kim Jong Il, general secretary of the Workers’ Party of Korea and chairman of the National Defence Commission of the DPRK, went there together with him.
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Hu Jintao, general secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) and president of China, held talks with Kim Jong Il, top leader of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), on Friday afternoon in Pyongyang.
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Hu Jintao, general secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and president of the People’s Republic of China, Friday made public a written speech on his arrival in Pyongyang.
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Hu Jintao, general secretariat of the Communist Party of China and president of the People’s Republic of China made an official visit to the DPRK, at the invitation of Kim Jong Il, general secretary of the Workers’ Party of Korea and chairman of the National Defence Commission of the DPRK.
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On October 6, 1949, China and Democratic People’s Republic of Korea established diplomatic relations, so Korea became one of the first groups of countries having diplomatic relations with new China.
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Hu Jintao, secretaris generaal van het CC van de Communistische Partij van China en president van de Volksrepubliek China brengt een bezoek aan de DVRK van 28 tot 30 oktober, op uitnodiging van Kim Jong Il, secretaris generaal van de Partij van de Arbeid van Korea en voorzitter van de Nationale Defensie Commissie van de DVRK.
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Fifty-five years have passed since the Chinese People’s Volunteers entered the Korean War (1950-1953) on October 25, 1950. The Party and the government of China dispatched their fine sons and daughters to the Korean front under the banner of resisting America and aiding Korea, safeguarding the home and defending the motherland though the People’s Republic of China was one year old.
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Hu Jintao, general secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and president of the People’s Republic of China, will pay an official goodwill visit to the DPRK from Oct. 28 to 30 at the invitation of Kim Jong Il, general secretary of the Workers’ Party of Korea and chairman of the National Defence Commission of the DPRK.
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Visiting Vice-Premier Wu Yi will attend celebrations for the 60th anniversary of the ruling Workers’ Party of Korea today, the highlight of her four-day trip to the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK).
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The Taean Friendship Glass Factory was commissioned on the eve of the 60th founding anniversary of the Workers’ Party of Korea. Built with grant-in-aid from the Chinese party and government, the factory is symbolic of the DPRK-China friendship that has grown strong generation after generation.
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Kim Jong-il, top leader of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) and visiting Chinese Vice-premier Wu Yi here on Sunday attended the completion ceremony of a glass factory built with Chinese aid.
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The Pyongyang Bicycle Joint Venture Factory has been commissioned. The factory, a joint venture by the DPRK Committee for Promotion of External Economic Cooperation and the Tianjin, China, Digital Trade Company, Ltd., will produce various kinds of bicycles of good quality for the convenience of the Korean people’s living.
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The Pyongyang electric Appliances Joint Venture Company was commissioned Thursday. The company is a joint venture of the DPRK Card Watt-hour Meter Assembling Factory and the Chinese Beijing Fu Xing Xiao Cheng Electronic Technology Stock Co., Ltd.
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De jaarlijkse handel van China met Zuid-Korea zal 100 miljard U$ bereiken volgens Bo Xilai, de Chinese minister van handel.
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The Flower Bud Art Troupe (Kkotpongori Art Troupe) from Yanbian of Korean Autonomous Prefecture in Jilin Province, China, has been performing at Culture Hall of Kwangwoon University in Seoul from Sunday through Friday.
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China’s annual trade with the Republic of Korea (ROK) is expected to top $US100 billion, according to Bo Xilai, China’s commercial minister.
He told the Forum on Economic Cooperation between China and and Korea in 2005 here on June 17 that bilateral trade between the two countries, though starting late, has been developing fast during the past 13 years.
Statistics show that the value of bilateral trade grew by 17 times to $US90 billion in 2004, from $US5 billion US dollars 13 years ago.
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China would be pleased to see that the US and North Korea hold direct talks.
Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesman Liu Jianchao says China would be pleased to see that the US and North Korea hold direct talks. He says the early resumption of the six-party talks depends on the joint efforts of all parties concerned, but would be aided if the US and North Korea would agree to return to negotiations.
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The Musan-Nanping Bridge that links Musan County, North Hamgyong Province of Korea, to Helong City, Jilin Province of China, has been completed.
The building of the bridge which will add shine to the history of DPRK-China friendship will help toward boosting friendship between the two peoples.
Participating in the ceremony for the completion of the bridge held on April 19 were officials concerned, working people in Musan County, builders and Chinese guests including the mayor of the Helong (...)
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De Chinese minister van buitenlandse zaken, Li Zhaoxing, heeft zijn twijfels geuit vorige zondag over de betrouwbaarheid van de Amerikaanse inlichtingen over het kernprogramma van Noord-Korea. Hij verklaarde dat de Verenigde Staten beter face-to-face met Noord-Korea zouden discussiëren om uit de impasse te geraken.
De voorstellen van Mr. Li kwamen er tijdens een lange persconferentie naar aanleiding van de jaarlijkse legislatieve vergadering in China en zijn een dubbele kaakslag voor de (...)
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Pak Pong Ju, premier of the DPRK Cabinet, on an official goodwill visit to China met and had a friendly talk with Han Zheng, mayor of the Shanghai Municipal People’s Government, on Mar. 24.
That day Pak Pong Ju visited different places of Shanghai including the Memorial Hall of the First Congress of the Communist Party of China.
Pak Pong Ju returned home on Sunday after winding up his six day-long official goodwill visit to the People’s Republic of China at the invitation of Premier of (...)
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Premier of the DPRK Cabinet Pak Pong Ju arrived in Beijing Tuesday morning to pay an official goodwill visit to the People’s Republic of China.
Pak Pong Ju was accompanied by Vice-Premier Ro Tu Chol, Chairman of the State Planning Commission Kim Kwang Rin, Minister of Foreign Trade Rim Kyong Man, Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs Kim Hyong Jun, Vice-Minister of Agriculture Kim Hyok Jin, Vice-Minister of Chemical Industry Han Sung Jun.
The premier and his party were greeted at the airport by (...)
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The construction of the Taean Friendship Glass Factory is progressing apace as a token of friendship between the peoples of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea and China.
The construction of the main production buildings including melting and foundry grounds has been carried out at 85 percent with the assembling of steel structures and auxiliary projects at 65 percent with the completion of the concrete tamping of the sand-selecting process building and the industrial water-purifying (...)
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The Chinese foreign minister, Li Zhaoxing, expressed doubt on Sunday about the quality of American intelligence on North Korea’s nuclear program and said the United States would have to talk to North Korea one-on-one to resolve the standoff.
Mr. Li’s assessment, made at an extended news conference during China’s annual legislative meeting, amounted to a double slap at the United States. Washington has repeatedly sounded the alarm about North Korea’s nuclear efforts and has pressed China, (...)
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Comments by North Korean National Defence Commission Chairman Kim Jong Il to Chinese Communist Party international liaison department Wang Jiarui, in Pyongyang to convince the North to attend the six-party talks, confirm two things. The first is that the North Korean foreign ministry statement of February 10, which said it would not be participating in the talks and that it possesses nuclear weapons, was made with negotiations in mind. The other is that there will be no breakthrough in the (...)
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Kim Jong Il, general secretary of the Workers’ Party of Korea and chairman of the National Defence Commission of the DPRK, Monday received Wang Jiarui, head of the International Liaison Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China on a visit to the DPRK.
Kang Sok Ju, first vice-minister of Foreign Affairs, was present on the occasion.
Wang Jiarui conveyed to Kim Jong Il a verbal message from Hu Jintao, general secretary of the CC., CPC and president of the People’s (...)
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Kim Jong-il, top leader of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), said Monday that Pyongyang is ready to resume the six-party talks at any time if conditions are met.
Kim made the remarks when he met with visiting Chinese senior official Wang Jiarui. The DPRK’s stance on a nuclear-free Korean Peninsula and peaceful settlement of the issue through dialogue remain unchanged, Kim told Wang, head of the International Department of CPC Central Committee. Kim said that the DPRK (...)
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The State Meteorological Bureau of China donated equipment for weather news service and observation to the Hydro-Meteorological Service of the DPRK according to a voluntary cooperation plan of the World Meteorological Organization.
A presentation ceremony was held at the service on Tuesday. It was attended by Director Ko Il Hun and other officials of the service, Chinese Ambassador to the DPRK Wu Donghe and staff members of the embassy. The ambassador referred to the Sino-DPRK friendly (...)
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North Korea will host its biggest-ever international trade expo in May this year in a move signaling the communist country wants to nudge open the doors of its struggling economy, Beijing officials said Friday.
A bulletin published by China’s official Xinhua news agency quoted officials as saying Pyongyang hoped more than 300 companies from Europe and the United States will participate in the four-day trade fair, which is scheduled to begin in the North Korean capital on May 16.
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De handel van Noord-Korea met China heeft de voorbije 10 maanden van het jaar de 1,01 miljard dollar bereikt, wat gelijk staat met een jaarlijkse stijging van 40,3%, meldt de (Zuid)Koreaanse Vereniging voor Internationale Handel.
Het is het tweede jaar op rij dat beide landen de kaap van 1 miljard dollar overschrijden, volgens de statistieken die de vereniging van China heeft verkregen.
Het handelsvolume tussen beide communistische landen en bondgenoten is de laatste vijf jaar enorm (...)
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North Korea’s trade with China amounted to $1.01 billion in the first 10 months this year, up 40.3 percent on an annual basis, the Korea International Trade Association in Seoul said Wednesday.
It is the second consecutive year for the two countries to surpass the $1-billion-mark, according to statistics the association recently obtained from China.
The trade volume between the communist allies increased over the past five years as it marked $1.02 billion last year, $738 million in 2002, (...)
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De grote Franse autoconstructeur Renault heeft dinsdag in Seoel aangekondigd dat hij de komende drie jaar 570 miljoen U$ wil investeren in Zuid-Korea de komende drie jaren in het kader van een expansieplan voor Azië en in bijzonder voor China.
" De investering voor de komende drie jaren zal 600 miljard won (573miljoen U$), of 200 miljard won per jaar bedragen," zei de voorzitter-directeurgeneraal van Renault, Louis Schweitzer, tijdens een persconferentie ter gelegenheid van de lancering van (...)
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Mensenrechtenactivisten of slavenhandelaars?
Sommige zogenaamde "mensenrechtenactivisten" verdienen hun boterham op de kap van Noord-koreaanse vluchtelingen en hun klanten zijn meer bepaald de buitenlandse inlichtingendiensten, NGO’s en persagentschappen.
Lee Gui-ok (35 jaar) is een vluchteling uit Noord-Korea. Hij maakte deel uit van de groep die de Canadese ambassade in Beijing is binnengedrongen op 29 september 2004, maar verliet de groep net ervoor. In een recent interview geeft Lee (...)
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De uitvoer van antracietkolen uit Noord-Korea zijn verdubbeld in de loop van de eerste 9 maanden van dit jaar, zo meldt KOTRA (Agentschap ter promotie van commerciële uitwisseling van Zuid-Korea). KOTRA preciseert dat dit waarschijnlijk het resultaat is van de grote energieschaarste die China doormaakt.
Volgens Chinese bronnen heeft Noord-Korea 1,18 miljoen ton antraciet geleverd aan China, meer dan het dubbele in dezelfde periode in 2003. Van januari tot september 2004 heeft Noord-Korea (...)
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127 bedrijven van Yanbian hebben een licentie bekomen voor internationale handel. Ongeveer 40 onder hen hebben activiteiten in de Koreaanse economische vrijhandelszones van Sonbong en Nijin, in voedingsproducten, sigaretten, textielconfectie.
De confectiebedrijven alleen al geven werk aan 20.000 Noord-Koreanen. Andere bedrijven zijn geassocieerd in joint-ventures in sectoren als transport, houtbewerking, visserijproducten, landbouwontwikkeling, restaurants, handel en toerisme.
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U.S. forces stationed in South Korea have contingency plans to intervene in regional conflicts, including disputes involving China and North Korea, according to a classified document released by Rep. Roh Hoe-chan of the Democratic Labor Party on Tuesday.
Roh claimed that the U.S. Forces Korea’s (USFK) "high-level" scenario includes involvement in disputes between China and other regional powers in Northeast Asia, military intervention in conflicts between China and Taiwan and the use of (...)
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French auto giant Renault SA said it will invest some 570 million dollars in South Korea over the next three years as part of its global strategy to become a key player in Asia, notably China.
Renault chairman Louis Schweitzer announced the investment plan at the launch here of a new sedan, the SM7, made by Renault Samsung Motors, the group’s South Korean affiliate. "The investment for the next three years will be 600 billion won (573 million dollars), or 200 billion won a year," (...)
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VS-troepen in Zuid-Korea hebben plannen om tussen te komen in regionale conflicten, meningsverschillen tussen China en Zuid-Korea inbegrepen. Dat staat in een geklasseerd document, vrijgegeven door afgevaardigde Roh Hoe-chan van de Democratische Partij van de Arbeid.
Roh verklaarde dat de U.S. Forces Korea (USFK) over scenario’s beschikken om zich te mengen in conflicten tussen China en andere regionale machten in Noordoost Azië, om militaire interventies te doen bij conflicten tussen (...)
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The recent appointment of Victor Cha as Asia Director in the National Security Council portends a more aggressive approach towards North Korea during President Bush’s second term. Long an advisor to the Administration, as Asia Director, Cha will hold responsibility for developing U.S. policy towards North Korea, and it will be he who maps out the approach to the Democratic Republic of Korea (DPRK - North Korea) in the coming months.
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Het handelsvolume tussen Noord-Korea en China bedraagt 886 miljoen $ tijdens de eerste 9 maanden van dit jaar, wat een stijging is met 40,5%, vergeleken met vorig jaar, meldt het ministerie van Hereniging (van Zuid-Korea).
Met de stijgende handel tussen beide landen bereikt het handelsoverschot van Pjongjang met Beijing 22,8%, meer dan vorige jaar, die neerkomt op 539 miljoen $, verduidelijkt een woordvoerder van het ministerie nog. De uitvoer naar China bedraagt 347 miljoen $, een (...)
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Commerciële verantwoordelijken van de provinciale regering melden dat de investeringen in Noord-Korea door Chinese maatschappijen die in Jilin gevestigd, in stijgende lijn gaan, vooral sinds augustus.
Dit fenomeen volgt de groeiende bereidheid vanwege Noord-Korea om joint ventures te aanvaarden met buitenlandse bedrijven, verduidelijken de verantwoordelijken. Zij zien die bereidheid in de beslissing van Pjongjang om de toeristische zone van Mt. Kumgang verder uit te breiden naar zones zoals (...)
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North Korea’s anthracite coal exports doubled in the first nine months of this year, a report by the Korea Trade-Investment Promotion Agency (KOTRA) said Tuesday. The trade promotion body said the increase is probably related to the acute energy shortage facing China.
It said that data collected from Chinese sources indicated 1.18 million tons of anthracite were shipped from North Korea to China, more than twice the amount for the same period in 2003. From January through September of last (...)
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North Korea’s trade volume with China totaled $886 million in the first nine months of this year, up 40.5 percent from a year earlier, the Ministry of Unification [from South Korea] reported Wednesday.
With soaring trade between the two countries, Pyongyang’s trade surplus with Beijing jumped 22.8 percent over the same period last year to $539 million, a ministry official said. Exports with China reached $347 million, up 81.1 percent from a year earlier.
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China’s Fujian Province sent economic delegations to North Korea twice this year, on Aug. 30 and Nov. 2, to discuss joint venture projects worth about US$11.7 million.
As follow-up measures, detailed negotiations are under way for the construction of two factories, one for coal briquettes and the other for plastic products, according to business sources in the province.
For the coal briquette factory project, China would provide 20 15-ton trucks, three forklifts and 100 tons of diesel fuel (...)
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Currently, 127 companies in Yanbian are licensed to conduct external trade. About 40 have already moved into North Korea’s Sonbong and Najin Development Districts, establishing food, cigarette and garment factories.
The garment factories alone are employing 20,000 North Koreans. In addition, many other companies are pursuing joint ventures in transportation, wood processing, cultivation of marine products, agricultural development, restaurants, trade and tourism.
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It is time the government takes an integrated and rational approach, one that it makes perfectly clear.
To begin with, there must be clear discernment of the nature of people who have left the North and the organizations that help them. The suffering of those who have been able to endure their hunger and crossed over the border into China must not be ignored, but we should be cool-headed about the groups that encourage them to enter foreign diplomatic missions as a means to get them to (...)
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Investments in North Korea by Chinese companies based in Jilin Province have been growing, particularly and remarkably since August, according to trade officials of the provincial government.
The trend is related to North Korea’s increasing willingness to accept joint ventures with foreigners, the officials said. They noted that the willingness was well manifested in Pyongyang’s decision to expand the Mt. Kumgang tourism district to cover such places as Tongchon County and Wonsan City.
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De economische hervormingen die sinds zomer 2002 in Noord-Korea hun ingang vinden, hebben de lonen 30 x doen stijgen en het leven van de mensen erg veranderd vergeleken met de beginjaren 90.
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The DPRK delegation headed by President of the Presidium of the Supreme People’s Assembly Kim Yong Nam visited Tianjin Municipality today.
The DPRK delegation visited the Zhou Enlai and Deng Yingchao Memorial in Tianjin on the morning of October 20.
On the same day, the members of the delegation went round the new residential quarters, the flyover, etc. personally visited by leader Kim Jong Il in April, being briefed on the construction of daily developing Tianjin.
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President Hu meets with Kim Yong Nam, president of the Presidium of Supreme People’s Assembly of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing Oct. 19, 2004.
China is ready to strengthen the friendly, good-neighborly and cooperative relations with the Democratic People’s Republic Korea (DPRK), Chinese President Hu Jintao said Tuesday. Hu made the remarks during a meeting with Kim Yong Nam, president of the Presidium of Supreme People’s (...)
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A delegation of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea led by Kim Yong Nam, president of the Presidium of the Supreme People’s Assembly, pay an official goodwill visit to the People’s Republic of China at an invitation of the National People’s Congress.
The DPRK delegation to China mark the 55th anniversary of the establishment of DPRK-China diplomatic relations. Kim Yong Nam was accompanied by members of the delegation Ri Ju O, minister of Light Industry, Kim Yong Il, vice-minister of (...)
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Talks were held between Kim Yong Nam, president of the Presidium of the DPRK Supreme People’s Assembly, and Wu Bangguo, chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress of the People’s Republic of China, at the Great Hall of the People Monday.
The DPRK side noted with high appreciation that the new collective leadership of China headed by Hu Jintao was attaching great importance to the development of the DPRK-China friendly relations and clarified once again the stand of (...)
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The DPRK delegation, on visit to China visited the Zhong Guancun Scientific and Technological Complex in Beijing Monday afternoon.
Being briefed on the fact that as China’s centre for scientific and technological researches this complex has contributed to the development of up-to-date science and technology and training able scientists and technicians, they acquainted themselves with the achievements made by it in researches into information science and technology.
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De Chinese ambassadeur in de DVRK,Wu Donghe en enkele stafleden van de Chinese ambassade hebben donderdag een handje toegestoken bij de rijstoogst op de DVRK-Chinese Vriendschapscoöperatieve Thaekam,in het Sunan-district, Pjongjang.
Tijdens de pauzes hadden ze hartelijke gesprekken met de boeren. De ambassadeur was zeer verheugd om te kunnen helpen op de boerderij, op het heuglijke moment van de viering van de 59e verjaardag van de stichting van de Partij van de Arbeid van Korea. Hij (...)
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A spokesman for the DPRK Foreign Ministry Saturday comments the U.S. deployment of Aegis destroyers equipped with an ultra-modern missile interceptor system in the East Sea of Korea.
The U.S. officially announced that Aegis destroyers belonging to the U.S. 7th Fleet were deployed in the sea and they began performing their operational duty. This is part of the arms buildup stepped up by it in real earnest in the Korean peninsula.
The U.S. is justifying this move, asserting that the (...)
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Chinese Ambassador to the DPRK Wu Donghe and staff members of the Chinese embassy here Thursday went to the DPRK-China Friendship Thaekam Cooperative Farm in Sunan District, Pyongyang to help its members in rice harvesting.
During break they conversed with farmers, deepening the friendship. The ambassador said they were pleased to give helping hands to the farm at a time when the 59th founding anniversary of the Workers’ Party of Korea was being significantly marked. He wished the (...)
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Economic reforms that started in North Korea in summer 2002 brought a 30-times increase in wages for the country’s residents and drastically changed their lifestyle if compared to the beginning of 1990s, when the state provided its people with a bowl of rice, 100-won wages, free medical service, kindergartens for children, apartments and education.
By Larisa Zabrovskaya, professor of political sciences for the Far Eastern National University
Along with a noticeable increase in the wages (...)
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In an interview with news agency reporters on Tuesday, Chinese Foreign Minister Li Zhaoxing said that "exceptional, mutual distrust" between the United States and North Korea was a major new complication in trying to arrange new six-party negotiations on the North’s nuclear programs.
The Chinese minister also cast doubt on North Korea’s claim that it has boosted its nuclear weapons capability and expressed skepticism about reports that Pyongyang may be preparing a new missile test.
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An agreement on cooperation in the hydrological work of the Rivers Amrok and Tuman between the Hydro-Meteorological Service of the DPRK and the Ministry of Water Resources of China was signed in Pyongyang today.
The agreement was inked by Ko Il Hun, director of the Hydro-Meteorological Service of the DPRK and E Jingping, vice-minister of Water Resources of China who is heading a delegation of the Chinese Ministry of Water Resources.
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China has emerged as South Korea’s biggest trade partner this year, replacing the United States, a trade agency said Wednesday.
South Korea’s trade with China totaled US$43.89 billion from January to July, compared with its trade of $40.2 billion with the world’s largest economy, the Korea Trade-Investment Promotion Agency (KOTRA) said.
(Yonhap, September 22)
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China is de belangrijkste handelspartner geworden van Zuid-Korea en verdringt aldus de Verenigde Staten van die eerste plaats, meldt het commercieel agentschap vorige woensdag.
De handel van Zuid-Korea met China bedraagt 43,89 miljard dollar in de periode januari - juli. Even vergelijken: het handelsvolume tussen Zuid-Korea en de eerste grootmacht ter wereld(de VS) bedroeg 40,2 miljard, aldus nog het Agentschap ter Promotie van Handel en Investeringen(KOTRA).
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De laatste tijd zijn de investeringen door Chinese bedrijven aanzienlijk toegenomen.
Zopas heeft de groep Zhongshi 50 miljoen yuan (5 miljoen euro) geïnvesteerd in de supermarkt Jeil in Noord-Korea en de voorzitter van het bedrijf heeft 300 handelaars van zijn geboortestad Wenzhou aangemoedigd om in Noord-Korea te investeren.
Vele andere Chinese bedrijven zijn al lang voor de groep Zhongshi actief in Noord-Korea. De joint-venture tussen China en Noord-Korea, Chenshi Siongmao Computer Co, (...)
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South Korea’s unemployment rate was unchanged in August at a three-year high as sliding domestic demand and slowing export growth curbed hiring.
The seasonally adjusted jobless rate held at July’s 3.6 percent level, the National Statistical Office said. The rate hasn’t been higher since August 2001, when it was 3.7 percent.
"The jobless rate may rise in coming months unless domestic demand picks up and companies become eager to recruit," said Kim Seng Hyun, an economist at Shinyoung (...)
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China is seeking stronger cooperative links with the Democratic Republic of Korea (DPRK), a senior Chinese official said Saturday in Pyongyang.
Li Changchun, a member of the Political Bureau Standing Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, said China and the DPRK should continue to strengthen cooperation to carry forward the traditional Sino-DPRK friendship. Speaking following a meeting with Kim Yong Nam, president of the Presidium of the DPRK Supreme People’s (...)
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A Chinese delegation led by Li Changchun, member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China made a visit to DPRK, at the invitation of the Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea and the DPRK government.
The DPRK and China are the neighbors with a river in between and the two peoples have long deepened the friendly relations. The two peoples have shared life and death, sweets and bitters in the struggle for national freedom and independence and liberation of their (...)
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A North-South academic conference to commemorate the addition of Koguryo tombs and murals as a United Nations World Heritage Site will be held at Mount Geumgang in North Korea today and tomorrow.
This is the first such meeting of the two Koreas on the ancient kingdom, which occupied much of present-day North Korea and parts of Manchuria. The meeting is sponsored by the North-South Historians’ Council with assistance by the JoongAng Ilbo and the North-South Academic Exchange Council.
The (...)
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Julie Sa zal misschien de economische verantwoordelijke worden voor een speciale vrijhandelszone in Noord-Korea.
Julie Sa zal misschien de economische verantwoordelijke worden voor een speciale vrijhandelszone in Noord-Korea. Zij heeft niet alleen de Amerikaanse nationaliteit maar ze is pratikerend gelovige en republikeinsgezind - kenmerken die nu niet onmiddellijk in goede aarde vallen door het ultracommunistische regime van Pjongjang. Deze Amerikaanse dame van Chinese oorsprong is (...)
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De traditionele vriendschap tussen Korea en China, die door bergen en rivieren met elkaar verbonden zijn, groeit nog steeds met de tijd. Uiting daarvan vinden we in de bouw van de Taean Vriendschap Glasfabriek.
Naar aanleiding van het bezoek in oktober 2003, van een Chinese regeringsdelegatie olv. Wu Bangguo, voorzitter van het Nationale Volkscongres, heeft de Chinese regering beslist om, volledig gratis, een glasfabriek te bouwen in ons land. De nieuwe centrale regering van China hecht (...)
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Traditional friendship between Korea and China connected by mountains and rivers is developing further with the passage of time. This is manifest in the construction of the Taean Friendship Glass Factory.
On the occasion of the visit to the DPRK of a Chinese state government delegation headed by Wu Bangguo, Chairman of the National People’s Congress, in October 2003, the Chinese government decided to build a glass factory gratis in our country. The new central leadership of China has (...)
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A friendly football match between the Amnokgang women’s football team of the DPRK and the visiting selected women’s youth football team of China was held at Kim Il Sung Stadium on Wednesday. Forward Sin Kum Ok of the Amnokgang team netted a goal at 24 minutes in the latter half, ending the game in favor of the host.
Earlier, there was a match between the Chinese team and the April 25 women’s football team in which the Korean girls defeated the Chinese team 1:4. The Chinese team will have (...)
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The 18th Pyongyang International Invitational Table-Tennis Tournament opened on 26th of August, with an opening ceremony in the Table-Tennis Gymnasium in Chongchun Street.
Present there were Jong In Chol, vice-chairman of the Physical Culture and Sports Guidance Commission, Kim Yu Ho, chairman of the DPRK Table-Tennis Association, and officials concerned. Sports teams of Singapore, Uzbekistan, China, Jilin Province of China, and teams A and B of the DPRK entered the gymnasium.
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Children from different countries including Russia, China, Mongolia and Tanzania are camping at the Songdowon International Children’s Camp in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.
The camp authorities have arranged their camping to suit their mental peculiarities and look after their life with deep care.
The campers are enjoying sea bathing, boating, diving, water sliding, various kinds of amusements and sports games and the like. They are also sightseeing in the East Sea of Korea (...)
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Recently, investment into North Korea by Chinese companies has increased dramatically.
Not long before, the Zhongshi Group invested 50 million yuan (5 million euro) into the Jeil Department Store in North Korea and the company’s president launched to manage it with 300 traders from his hometown of Wenzhou, which triggered further investments into North Korea.
Chinese companies had done well in North Korea before the Zhongshi Group launched its business within the country. A joint venture (...)
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The Foreign Ministry of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea analyses the recent allurement and abduction of many northerners abroad to South Korea.
Recently the South Korean authorities, at the U.S. instigation and under its command, took away hundreds of northerners, mainly women and children, to South Korea in groups after alluring them to Vietnam. As a matter of fact, most of the northerners whom they described as "defectors from the north" are those who fell victim to the (...)
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A reception was sponsored by the Korean Committee for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries and the DPRK-China Friendship Association on the occasion of the 43rd anniversary of concluding the DPRK-China treaty of friendship, cooperation and mutual aid.
Minister of Public Health Kim Su Hak, chairman of the DPRK-China Friendship Association said:
"Since President Kim Il Sung, together with Zhou Enlai, former Chinese prime minister, signed the historic DPRK-China treaty of friendship, (...)
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De eerstesteenlegging had plaats op de fabrieksterreinen met gepast ceremonieel.
De Taean Vriendschap Glasfabriek, een geschenk aan de DVRK vanwege de regering van de Chinese Volksrepubliek, zal opgebouwd worden op een terrein van ongeveer 293,000 m² en met de modernste machines en technieken. Het wordt een van de grootste symbolen van de vriendschap tussen de DVRK en China en het bedrijf zal in grote mate bijdragen tot een verbetering van de levensstandaard van de Koreaanse bevolking.
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The 28th Session of the World Heritage Committee of UNESCO yesterday agreed to inscribe the capital cities and tombs of the ancient Koguryo Kingdom of China onto its world heritage list.
The selection committee also agreed to put the Complex of the Koguryo Tombs which is inside the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) on the heritage list. The Koguryo Kingdom once expanded to the Korean Peninsula.
To better protect the vanished civilization, the committee recommended future (...)
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The ground-breaking ceremony of the factory was held on the spot.
The Taean Friendship Glass Factory, a donation to the DPRK from the government of the People’s Republic of China, will rise. The factory with a total area of 293,000 square meters will be built at the highest level of modernization. It will stand as one of the biggest symbols of the DPRK-China friendship as it will greatly contribute to the improvement of the standard of people’s living in the DPRK. Jo Yun Hui, (...)
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Dancers perform to celebrate the opening of the third Tumen River Area International Investment & Business Forum in Yanji, northeast China’s Jilin Province, September 02, 2002. More than 4,000 participants from China, Japan, Russia and South Korea etc. will attend the three-day forum.
(Xinhua, June 30, 2004)
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Vice Marshal of the Korean People’s Army (KPA) Kim Il Chol, minister of the People’s Armed Forces, met a delegation of the border guards of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army led by Lieut. General Li Yu, assistant to the chief of the General Staff of the army.
(KCNA, June 28,2004)
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On October 19, 1950, the Chinese People’s Volunteers entered the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, starting the great War of Resisting U.S. Aggression and Aiding Korea. Shown here are the valiant, courageous Volunteers crossing the Yalu River in winter 1950.
(China Daily, June 25, 2004)
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The DPRK turns out hundreds of tons of Koryo Sindoksan spring water every day.
The Koryo Sindoksan Spring Water Factory depends on the Kosanbong General Trading Company.
The factory, located in Ryonggang County, South Phyongan Province, has modern production processes including 75 cubic meter-settling tanks, sand and activated charcoal filters, 1, 0.5and 0.2-micrometer filters and ultraviolet sterilizer. The Sindoksan spring water, thoroughly free from germs, keeps its inherent taste for (...)
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A regular international bus service between Pyongyang and Dandong, China, has started.
The first batch of buses left Changgwangsan Hotel in Pyongyang for Dandong at 8 a.m. on June 21.
From June 22, buses will leave Pyongyang and Dandong simultaneously. The bus service is available every day except Saturday and Sunday. The buses offer necessary service and comfort to travelers.
The bus line is operated by the Korea Ulrim Transportation Joint Venture Company and the Dandong, China, (...)
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Een regelmatige internationale busdienst tussen Pyongyang and Dandong, in China, is van start gegaan.
De eerste reeks bussen naar Dandong, vertrokken op 21 juni om 8 uur ‘s morgens aan het Changgwangsan Hotel in Pyongyang.
Vanaf 22 juni, zullen de bussen gelijktijdig in Pyongyang en Dandong vertrekken. De busdienst is elke dag, uitgezonderd zaterdag en zondag, beschikbaar. In de bussen zijn de nodige diensten en comfort voor de reizigers aanwezig.
De busdienst wordt uitgebaat door de (...)
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The Chinese news media, “Xin Shang Bao” reported that North Korea would hold a "consultation meeting for trade investment" to attract foreign investment in November, 2004, Pyongyang.
During the period of the event, the participating overseas investment companies may be given chances to consult with the related North Korean agencies, as well as, to inspect NK’s investment sites and factory facilities.
As the North Korea-China exchange has been increased, bilateral business (...)
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Export and import posted a growth of 5.5% and 5.9%, respectively.
In 2003, North Korea’s foreign trade approached US$2.391 billion mark, up 5.8% from the year before. Exports for the same year totaled $777 million, thus posting a 5.5% growth from a year earlier and representing five straight years of growth since 1999. The import volume of the year topped $1.614 billion, up 5.9% over the preceding year. The trade deficit of the year amounted to $837 million, a slight fall from the $790 (...)
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The two countries are improving the bilateral relations in political, economic, cultural and all other fields. It is clearly evidenced by the Chinese government’s decision to offer a glass factory to the DPRK.
The government decided to donate a modern glass factory to the DPRK when the Chinese state delegation led by Wu Bangguo, chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress, visited the DPRK in October 2003.
This encourages the Korean people in their efforts to (...)
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The South Korean government strongly protested on Thursday statements made by 8th U.S. Army commander Lt. Gen. Charles Campbell during a Tuesday press conference. Campbell talked of being able to insert USFK anywhere in the world, having Korea-U.S. allied forces engage in international humanitarian operations and conducting peacekeeping missions in Northeast Asia.
The government issued its protests because Campbell’s statements, which dealt with topics of a sensitive nature to Korean (...)
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Results of further investigation into the explosion of wagons that occurred on April 22 say that the damage is unexpectedly gaining in scope. Horrible is human and material loss within the radius of 4 km including Pukjung Workers’ District as well as Ryongchon Township.
More than 30 public, industrial and commercial buildings including Ryongchon Primary School with a total floor space of 3,250 square metres, the House of Culture with a total floor space of 2,800 square metres and houses (...)
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De eerste hulpgoederen uit China zijn zondagnamiddag aangekomen in Sinuiju, een grensstadje met de DVRK.
De goederen omvatten 2 000 tapijten, 300 tenten, voedselhulp en ander hulpmateriaal. Ze worden vervoerd in 11 vrachtwagens en plechtig overgedragen aan de Noord-koreaanse autoriteiten.
Het gaat om een eerste lading noodhulp die de DVRK ontvangt van een buitenlandse regering. De Chinese regering heeft zaterdag noodhulp aangeboden voor een totaal bedrag van 10 millions yuan (ongeveer 1,2 (...)
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Kim Jong Il, general secretary of the Workers’ Party of Korea and chairman of the National Defence Commission of the DPRK, paid an unofficial visit to the People’s Republic of China from April 19 to 21 at the invitation of Hu Jintao, general secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and president of the People’s Republic of China.
(KCNA, April 22, (...)
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Voorlopig verslag van de ‘October 2003 National Lawyers Guild/American Association of Jurists Delegation’ naar de Democratische Volksrepubliek Korea.
1. De delegatie en haar doelstelling Op uitnodiging van de Koreaanse Democratische Vereniging van Advocaten (KDLA) reisden op 29 September 2003 vier advocaten van de ‘National Lawyers Guild of the United States’, Prof. Peter Erlinder van de ‘William Mitchell School of Law’ in St. Paul, Minnesota, Neil Berman, advocaat te Boston, (...)
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Dat de spanning tussen de VS en Noord-Korea toeneemt, is alleen te wijten aan Amerikaanse provocaties. Waarom vindt de regering Bush het nodig zo te handelen?
Bush maakt een eind aan de handdruk tussen noord en zuid. Met zijn tank vernielt hij een rijstveld terwijl een Amerikaanse soldaat een oude boer slaat met zijn geweer (waar gebeurd feit). De VS bezetten het zuiden van Korea sinds het einde van de Tweede Wereldoorlog. Ze wilden absoluut verhinderen dat het land zich zou bevrijden (...)
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Religieuze ngo’s schieten als paddestoelen uit de grond in het Noord-Oosten van China. Dit barre grensgebied met Noord-Korea wordt een uitvalsbasis voor de overwerping van het Noord-Koreaanse regime.
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The South and North Korea agreed to restore the damaged section of the Kyongui Railroad Line linking Seoul and Shinuiju, a North Korean city bordering China, for inter-Korean railroad operation in the two Koreas’ high-level officials talks held Sunday through Monday in Seoul. The basic agreement for the coveted project was reached earlier between President Kim Dae-jung and North Korean leader Kim Jong-il during the first-ever summit in Pyongyang last June.
The railroad project is considered (...)
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South Korea and North Korea have agreed to re-establish a rail link that has been broken for half a century. The inter-Korean rail link, while symbolic, also lays the groundwork for overland transportation links from East Asia to Europe via Russia and China. While this promises economic growth and integration in the region, it may also spur increased competition between Russia and China, as they vie for a greater share of the Eurasian shipping.
South and North Korea agreed to re-connect a (...)
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