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Maybe Kim Jong Un’s uncle wasn’t ousted after all

SEOUL, South Korea — The news yesterday that Kim Jong Un purged his uncle and de facto number two leader of North Korea, Jang Sung Taek, has all the trappings you’d expect from a mysterious and ruthless dictatorship.

By Geoffrey Cain
PRI’s The World

Dec 4, 2013

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Obituary: Korea’s unification movement (1998-2013)

SEOUL, South Korea — Now that North Korea has recalled its workers from the Kaesong Industrial Zone — an area north of the DMZ where hundreds of South Korean managers oversee 51,000 North Korean laborers — it’s farewell to hope for a peaceful unification, at least for now.

By Geoffrey Cain
PRI’s The World

Apr 8, 2013

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North Korea severs military hotline to South

SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea has severed its last remaining military hotline to South Korea, citing the escalating tensions on the peninsula as its reason and causing yet more international worry over the possibility of a violent confrontation between the two states.

By Geoffrey Cain
PRI’s The World

Mar 27, 2013

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North Korea: All talk, no action?

SEOUL, South Korea — If North Korea decides to back up its words with action, what could it really do? Most experts agree a full-blown war or a nuclear attack on the peninsula is off the cards. But the two Koreas have dialed up the rhetoric over the past week, raising fears that Pyongyang could launch a quick but containable provocation against the South in the coming months.

By Geoffrey Cain
PRI’s The World

Mar 13, 2013

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