North korea

• Amidst unsubstantiated rumors on Chinese social media that the leader of North Korea, Kim Jong-un, was assassinated Friday morning in Beijing, it is nonetheless a fact that more North Koreans are legally visiting China than ever before.
(International Business Times)
• Cash-starved North Korea has hired an American company to help it revive a shuttered luxury resort and attract tourists, a plan that has raised objections from Seoul.
(Bloomberg)
• (Updates with more from North Korean statement in eighth paragraph.) Feb. 3 (Bloomberg) -- South Korea's chief nuclear envoy is "optimistic" that inducements offered by the U.S.
(Businessweek)
• endured - not at the hands of the North Koreans who held him for 43 days after he crossed the frozen Tumen River into North Korea on Christmas Day, 2009, but about a South Korean report claiming to quote him on what he had endured.
(Asia Times)
• Jende Huang writes on Sino-NK about the illicit trade in crystal meth between North Korea and China. Curiously, China doesnt seem to be too keen in reprimanding the DPRK for the production and export of meth, or bingdu (冰毒) in Chinese.
(Shanghaiist)
• CAPITOL HILL: The U.S. relationship with China is not the top priority for the likely commander of Pacific Command. Instead, North Korea tops the list, followed by Americas ties with its Pacific allies. China, as a country, comes third.
(AOL Travel News)
• TUCSON- The Tucson missionary who illegally crossed into North Korea a few years ago to fight genocide and demand civil rights is now reportedly suing the country.
(msnbc.com)
• 2/8/2012 - WASHINGTON (AFRNS) -- Members of the Joint Prisoner of War/Missing in Action Accounting Command are preparing for their first mission to North Korea in seven years to search for remains of missing U.S.
(AF.mil)
• SEOUL — North Korea's Ryugyong Hotel ranks among the world's most remarkable — and mockable — buildings. It's taller than New York's Chrysler Building and wider at its base than an average city block.
(Washington Post)