June 6, 2008

North Korea watchers in Seoul probe source of Kim Jong-Il assassination rumors

South Korean intelligence officials are investigating the origin of rumors about the death of North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il, which had swirled through financial districts in Seoul and Tokyo. An Internet news site in Seoul, Hankook News, reported that Kim had been assassinated outside Pyongyang on May 26, citing unidentified military sources in North Korea and in China. (FULL STORY)
A scene from the new film, 'Crossing', which North Korean defectors say accurately depicts conditions in their homeland. DailyNK.com

Despite new Beijing-Taipei 'love-in', the devil is still in the details

Apart from the Sichuan earthquake and the Summer Olympics, the diplomatic cocktail circuit in Beijing is abuzz with this question: how long will the cross-Straits honeymoon last now that the photogenic, non-independence-seeking Ma Ying-jeou has replaced “splittist” trouble-maker Chen Shui-bian as Taiwan president? (FULL STORY)
Taiwan's ruling Nationalist Party Chairman Wu Poh-hsiung, left, is greeted by Chinese President Hu Jintao in Beijing on May 28.      AP/Greg Baker
Laptop copied during U.S. Commerce secretary's Beijing trip; Dept. computers later hacked
Realignment of U.S. forces from Hawaii to Guam on schedule
   
Film about a N. Korean defector's family mesmerizes S. Koreans
China slams U.S.-Seoul ties as Cold War 'relic'
Senior Chinese officers admit military motives for satellite shoot down
Rice presses China to act 'if something is wrong' with North Korea

Unexpected karma: Taiwan's earthquake aid warms ties with Mainland / Moscow's contribution to East Asia energy woes: More problems / Japan postal denationalization moves ahead / EADS promises Indian production in exchange for mega contract / Vietnam overheating fast
Exiting envoy hails improved U.S.-Japan military ties, Obama's 'meaningful speeches'
China anti-terror measures for Olympics include removing doors to public toilets
Leaflets sent North from South Korea touch raw nerves in Pyongyang
PLA's 'historic missions' in the new century: Prop up the dictatorship

 
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