SEOUL, South Korea — On Tuesday, bad-boy retired basketball player Dennis Rodman landed in North Korea for a second meeting with his unusual buddy, Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un.
By Geoffrey Cain
PRI’s The World
Sep 4, 2013
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By Geoffrey Cain
PRI’s The World
Sep 1, 2013
SEOUL, South Korea — If you’re a film buff, you may have heard of a Korean-made summer blockbuster that, strangely, hasn’t reached American shores quite yet.
By Geoffrey Cain
PRI’s The World
Aug 22, 2013
SEOUL, South Korea — Ask an informed American about North Korea, and you may hear that it’s a land of suffering where hard laborers toil in prison camps and children survive on tree bark. Its crackpot dictator, Kim Jong Un, runs an army of goose-stepping minions, slinging garish war threats at his sworn enemies, the United States, Japan and South Korea.
By Geoffrey Cain
PRI’s The World
Aug 21, 2013
SEOUL, South Korea — As if tensions in Asia weren’t bad enough, right wingers in Japan and South Korea are now trading insults over which country is worse.
By Geoffrey Cain
PRI’s The World
Aug 16, 2013
SEOUL, South Korea — Nearly 25,000 North Koreans have fled their homeland to South Korea, escaping the repression and poverty of the world’s most militarized nation.
By Geoffrey Cain
Anchor Daily News
Aug 8, 2013
SEOUL, South Korea — Although the Korea-US Free Trade Agreement (KORUS FTA) has been in effect for little more than a year, it is already drawing vehement condemnation from both sides of the Pacific.
By Geoffrey Cain
PRI’s The World
Aug 7, 2013
Update: In early December, 2013 South Korean intelligence reported that General Jang Sung-taek was removed from power. If true, this would be the Kim Jong Un’s boldest leadership shakeup yet.
By Geoffrey Cain
PRI’s The World
Aug 1, 2013
SEOUL, South Korea — This week, North Korea is celebrating. An auspicious date approaches. Saturday marks the 60th anniversary of the armistice that halted the Korean War of 1950 to 1953.
By Geoffrey Cain
PRI’s The World
Jul 26, 2013
SEOUL, South Korea — Kim Cheol Woong belonged to North Korea’s coddled elite. Then in 2001 he was accused of treachery. His crime: playing a Richard Clayderman piece on his piano.
By Geoffrey Cain
PRI’s The World
Jul 24, 2013
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