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GlobalAsia, December, 2023
Amid the bitter conflict in Gaza between Israel and Hamas, much attention has been paid to the 'Axis of Resistance' involving Iran and its numerous proxies including Hamas, Hezbollah, and allied forces in Syria, Yemen and elsewhere. But less attention has been given to the role North Korea has played in the Middle East, including supplying arms and knowhow on how to build the tunnels that have figured so greatly in the Gaza conflict.
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Asia Times, November 23, 2020
Pyongyang claims its Covid-19 response is the ‘envy’ of the world but refugees arriving in Thailand suggest otherwise
[read the article at www.atimes.com]
Asia Times, May 10, 2019
UN sanctions barring the employment of North Korean labor come into force in December but it’s unclear if Russia will really uphold the punitive measure
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Asia Times, April 27, 2019
Kim-Putin summit leveraged the two sides storied history and modern economic ties to put Moscow in the middle of denuclearization talks
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Asia Times, October 10, 2018
As US-China relations deteriorate on various fronts, the last thing Beijing wants is for North Korea to fall into Washington's sphere of influence
[read the article at www.atimes.com]
Asia Times, August 20, 2018
US and UN trade sanctions have failed to stem Pyongyang's money-making labor exports, where workers toil largely under the radar in China, Russia and beyond
[read the article at www.atimes.com]
Asia Times, August 20, 2018
Foreign registered firms with innocuous-sounding names help Pyongyang to dodge sanctions and generate badly needed foreign currency earnings
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Asia Times, July 10, 2018
Beijing appears to have leveraged its influence on Pyongyang to set back recent progress towards peace on the Korean Peninsula
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Asia Times, May 25, 2018
But televised spectacle does not mean underground site is unusable, and nuclear-testing program was likely complete anyway
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Asia Times, May 07, 2018
Beijing's desire for stability has played a bigger role than recognized in Kim Jong-un's volte-face decision to negotiate his nuclear position
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Asia Times, April 26, 2018
North Korean leader's widely cited April 20 speech, breathlessly misreported by various media, made no mention of unilaterally yielding his nuclear arsenal
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Asia Times, April 17, 2018
Denuclearization summit fits a pattern of past failed agreements and overlooks the Kim dynasty's long obsession with acquiring nuclear weapons
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Asia Times, February 8, 2018
Confidential UN report says Myanmar continues to take delivery of North Korean weapons in violation of UN sanctions and amid consistent official denials
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Asia Times, February 8, 2018
Shipping records show a steady stream of North Korean coal shipments to Vietnam's Cam Pha port, from where the fuel is likely re-exported in violation of UN sanctions
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Asia Times, April 19, 2017
Weaponry exports, including to Southeast Asia, have financially sustained Kim Jong-un's regime and nuclear program despite UN bans on such sales
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Asia Times, April 19, 2017
The assassination of Kim Jong-nam this year in Malaysia showed the long arm of Pyongyang's security services is as shadowy and deadly as ever
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Asia Times, April 19, 2017
It's widely speculated that Kim Jong-un does not command the same loyalty and respect among military leaders as his grandfather and father did
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Asia Times, March 20, 2017
As nuclear tensions escalate on the Korean peninsula Pyongyang's mobile chemical weapons would likely factor into any confrontation with America
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Asia Times, March 20, 2017
While China is often identified as North Korea's chief patron and protector, Southeast Asian nations also help to sustain the isolated regime
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The Irrawaddy, October 8, 2013
One doesn't have to look far to discover that the North Koreans have arrived in Yangon. And for the foreseeable future, kimchi is not likely to be the only thing that North Korea exports to Myanmar.
[read the article at www.irrawaddy.org]
NK News, September 23, 2013
Evidence of continued relations persists despite U.S. push for ties with Naypyidaw.
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NK News, September 24, 2013
Despite Rangoon bombing, the mutual needs of Burma and North Korea have linked the pariah states
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NK News, September 25, 2013
No longer a junta, the Burmese military retains grand ambitions.
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Democratic Voice of Burma, February 2, 2012
Any statements made by Burmese officials regarding the military's cooperation with foreign partners should be taken with a large pinch of salt.
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Asia Society, December 19, 2011
On the demise of Kim Jong Il
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Asia Times, March 4, 2011
The growing uncertainty among North Korea's trade partners in the middle east could explain why the country is now cementing ties with a client much closer to home: military-run Myanmar.
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Asia Times, March 2, 2011
Military-run Myanmar's growing weapons ambitions threaten to destabilize the region and make the Southeast Asian country a new global weapons proliferation hotspot.
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Asia Times, January 12, 2011
North Korea's succession plan may appear farcical, but its newly-developed deadly wares are no joke - nor is the fact that countries are willing to trade in military equipment with North Korea and Iran despite UN Security Council sanctions.
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Asia Times, June 3, 2010
Recent indications are that Pyongyang has sought willing trade partners outside of Asia and its new closest commercial ally appears to be Brazil.
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Far Eastern Economic Review, November, 2009
Bertil Lintner looks at North Korea's continuing ability to ship and trade weapons internationally despite tightening sanctions.
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Jane's Intelligence Review, September, 2009
The nature of military co-operation between North Korea and Myanmar has come under international scrutiny amid fears of nuclear proliferation activities. Bertil Lintner investigates the historical ties and extent of collaboration between the two pariah regimes.
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YaleGlobal, June 11, 2009
In this second part of the series on North Korea's clandestine economy, Bertil Lintner describes the demise of many North Korean-owned restaurants in Asia due to the economic crisis - restaurants which were operated as money-laundering fronts.
[read the article at yaleglobal.yale.edu]
YaleGlobal, June 09, 2009
Bertil Lintner reveals how North Korea has been secretly helping Burma - another pariah regime - to build an extensive tunnel network as emergency shelter and for other unknown purposes.
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Far Eastern Economic Review, December, 2007
Bertil Lintner reviews Exodus to North Korea: Shadows from Japan's Cold War by Tessa Morris-Suzuki.
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Asia Times, October 31, 2007
North Korean Premier Kim Yong-il is scheduled to pay a four-day visit to Cambodia in early November, underscoring the curious close relationship between one of the world's last communist dictatorships and one of Asia's most ancient monarchies.
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Asia Times, July 25, 2007
It has been known since the early 1990s that North Korea exports manpower to eastern Russian logging sites. But two remarkable incidents over the past years reveal that the foreign-currency-strapped nation also sends laborers to other, somewhat less expected places in the world.
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Far Eastern Economic Review, June, 2007
Bertil Lintner reports on the growing number of North Korean asylum seekers turning up in Thailand.
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Asia Times, May 9, 2007
A key step in the solution to the nuclear crisis on the Korean Peninsula may be in sight as the North Korean Foreign Ministry said on Monday that it is ready to shut down the nuclear reactor at Yongbyon as soon as its funds in a Macau bank have been released.
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Asia Times, April 24, 2007
The state of North Korea's information-technology (IT) industry has been a matter of conjecture ever since "Dear Leader" Kim Jong-il famously asked then-US secretary of state Madeleine Albright for her e-mail address during her visit to the country in October 2000.
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Asia Times, April 20, 2007
North Korea may in the end get its US$25 million, which has been frozen in a Macau bank since September 2005. But the United States and North Korea still have a long way to go before relations between the two countries can be normalized.
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Asia Times, January 18, 2007
While the West and Japan have targeted North Korea's overseas bank accounts to curtail its weapons program, Pyongyang has recently turned to more ingenious ways of maintaining its international businesses through substantial exports of gold, silver and other valuable metals.
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Asia Times, November 9, 2006
In mid-October, North Koreans Kim He-shim, Kim Su-ok, Lee He-yong and Lee Chol-yong crossed the Mekong River and landed somewhere near northernmost Thailand's river port of city of Chiang Saen. They were certainly not the first, nor the youngest, nor probably the last North Korean refugees to make the 5,000-kilometer-plus trip from North Korea to Thailand.
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Asia Times, October 10, 2006
North Korea's "Great Leader", Kim Il-sung, was obsessed with nuclear weapons even before the Democratic People's Republic of Korea was proclaimed on September 9, 1948. Bertil Lintner examines this ongoing obsession.
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Asia Times, August 18, 2006
While the rest of the world was anxiously following news about North Korea's recent missile tests, Kim Jong-il's second son and possible heir apparent, Kim Jong-chul, had his mind focused on entirely different matters. He was among the fans who followed British rock and blues guitarist Eric Clapton on his German tour, which took him to Frankfurt, Stuttgart, Leipzig and Berlin.
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Asia Times, July 19, 2006
Under perceived threats from the US, Myanmar and North Korea are strengthening their strategic ties in a military-to-military exchange that includes weapons sales, technology transfer and underground tunneling expertise.
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Asia Times, June 21, 2006
North Korea may be a poor country, but it has some of the most developed missile systems in the world. Not even years of near-economic collapse, famine and hunger have hampered the country's missile-development programs, which are meant both as a preemptive defense - to scare off potential attackers - and for export.
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Asia Times, May 26, 2006
North Korean capitalism is thriving - just not inside North Korea. Pyongyang has steadily established a string of legitimate and less legitimate front companies across East and Southeast Asia, aimed at earning the cash-strapped government badly needed hard currency. And, as Bertil Lintner finds out, business is booming.
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Far Eastern Economic Review, July 15, 2004
Ever wondered how North Korea organizes its stadium mass displays? The answer, in a word, is discipline.
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Far Eastern Economic Review, May 13, 2004
It's got shopping, advertising, trading companies and new
incentives to make profits. Despite North Korea's many problems, the
small changes seen in Pyongyang now could be the first steps towards a
market-oriented economy.
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Far Eastern Economic Review, November 20, 2003
Evidence of a blossoming military relationship between pariah regimes in Rangoon and Pyongyang is causing growing concern overseas.
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Far Eastern Economic Review, July 10, 2003
Grandiose creation myths prop up North Korea's communist dynasty. In Kim Jong Il's fabled past, much is hidden and the rest is made up--even his place of birth.
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Far Eastern Economic Review, June 12, 2003
Construction of rail links between the rival Koreas moves ahead slowly. But politics and economics hold up dreams of a link to Europe.
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YaleGlobal, May 05, 2003
With an estimated forty per cent of North Korea's foreign exchange earning coming from weapons sales-of which missile export is a major part-halting their sale is not only good for global stability but for curbing North Korea's nuclear program as well.
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Far Eastern Economic Review, April 10, 2003
Bertil Lintner reviews this true story of a group of "independent commandos" from Britain's Royal Marines who operated under United States command behind enemy lines in North Korea in the 1950s.
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Far Eastern Economic Review, March 27, 2003
A Japanese crackdown could test the loyalty of the resident Koreans who send millions of dollars every year to support North Korea.
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Far Eastern Economic Review, February 13, 2003
When Slovakian police raided a luxury apartment in Bratislava the occupants had fled. But a trove of documents left behind by the North Korean couple who lived there indicated that they were missile-trade agents for their country.
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Far Eastern Economic Review, February 13, 2003
Since 1982, the North Koreans have had their own bank in Austria's capital, Vienna. It's called the Golden Star Bank and is 100% owned by the Korea Daesong Bank, a state enterprise headquartered in Pyongyang. Bertil Lintner reports.
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Far Eastern Economic Review, October 25, 2001
As the global war against terrorism gains momentum, East Asia's most reclusive state faces some hard decisions: Will it continue to sell ballistic missiles, illegal arms and contraband or will it clean up its act?
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