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Monthly Archives: June 2010

Looking Back At Female North Korean Operatives

» by June 8th, 2010 at 7:31 am » Comments (21)

Considering there has been yet another arrest of yet another spy working for North Korea, this time within the ROK Army, I thought it would be interesting to look ...more »

Help Identifying A South Korean Movie

» by June 8th, 2010 at 2:08 am » Comments (2)

Can anyone help identify this movie for this reader: I've been trying to find the title or some hint or trace of this movie for quite some time, hopefully you ...more »

Andrew Salmon On Why the Two Koreas Are So Hostile

» by June 7th, 2010 at 10:08 pm » Comments (1)

A ROK Drop favorite Andrew Salmon has a good North-South Korea relations 101 article posted over on the CNN website for those of you just beginning to follow affairs on ...more »

Kim Jong-nam Grants Short Interview to South Korean Media

» by June 7th, 2010 at 5:04 pm » Comments (15)

Nothing really of interest came out of this short interview with Kim Jong-il's oldest son, Kim Jong-nam other than the fact that he has horrible fashion taste, not that I ...more »

Picture of the Day: Chinese Dancers In Seoul

» by June 7th, 2010 at 1:00 pm » Comments (24)

[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="500" caption="Chinese performers dance at the opening ceremony of the 23rd Korea World Travel Fair at COEX in Seoul on Thursday. /Newsis "][/caption] Does anyone know what type ...more »

Kim Jong-il Announces Changes During Rare Session of North Korean Parliament

» by June 7th, 2010 at 7:14 am » Comments (4)

This is interesting, first a powerful member of the North Korean regime elite dies in a car accident and now Kim Jong-il attends a rare session of parliament and announces ...more »

Was the Death of Ri Je-gang Part of A North Korean Power Struggle?

» by June 7th, 2010 at 3:14 am » Comments (6)

Just with everything else in the secretive North Korea, it is hard to tell if there really is any larger political motivations behind this: A powerful North Korean official has suddenly ...more »

ROK Drop Weekly Linklets – June 6, 2010

» by June 6th, 2010 at 3:36 pm » Comments (6)

The Koreas: Congrats to The Korean for his recent marriage. It is good to see the plagiarism incident with The Telegraph and One Free Korea has been worked out. Should the US make ...more »

Picture of the Day: North Korea Eyes the World Cup

» by June 6th, 2010 at 12:48 pm » Comments (8)

[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="450" caption="North Korean official w/ the national football team in Johannesburg, courtesy Chosun Ilbo "][/caption] Via Adam Cathcart. more »

ROK Army General Arrested For Being A North Korean Spy

» by June 6th, 2010 at 10:59 am » Comments (17)

I'm not surprised in the least by this news: A two-star Army general is in custody on suspicion of leaking military secrets to North Korea. The man is the first ...more »

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