SEOUL, South Korea — “So you think you can discuss military issues without even having served?” Conservative lawmaker Han Gi-ho hurled that question at conscientious objector Lim Tae-hoon in a parliamentary hearing. “You didn’t even go!”
By Geoffrey Cain
PRI’s The World
Sep 22, 2014
SEOUL, South Korea — By North Korean standards, Yeonmi Park, 20, grew up in affluence, the daughter of a party loyalist who traded in gold and silver with Chinese customers.
By Geoffrey Cain
PRI’s The World
Sep 8, 2014
SEOUL, South Korea — North and South Korea have been divided for more than six decades, but on Monday Pope Francis moved his followers with a final prayer during Mass: It’s time to find a path to peace on the Korean peninsula, and to reject the “mindset of confrontation and suspicion” that plagues both sides.
By Geoffrey Cain
PRI’s The World
Aug 18, 2014
TOKYO, Japan — Few outsiders will ever get to witness Japan’s surreal state within a state, a network of businesses and schools that have sworn allegiance to North Korea.
By Geoffrey Cain
PRI’s The World
Jul 10, 2014
SEOUL, South Korea — North Koreans call it “pigeon torture.” After the authorities accused Jung Gwang Il of espionage, they locked him in a tiny underground cell at the Yodok concentration camp in central North Korea. It’s officially known as “kwanliso,” or “penal labor camp,” No. 15.
By Geoffrey Cain
PRI’s The World
Mar 29, 2013
GWANGJU, South Korea — It is a chilly day in Gwangju, the cradle of South Korea’s political left, and home to what was once a boisterous democracy movement that fought military rule in the 1970s and 1980s.
By Geoffrey Cain
PRI’s The World
Feb 25, 2013
Many Americans may remember peering at a famous satellite photograph of the two Koreas – prosperous South Korea lit up by cities and commerce, juxtaposed with the eerie black void of North Korea.
By Geoffrey Cain
The Christian Science Monitor
Feb 25, 2010
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