North Korean Dictator Orders More Rocket Launches

It is the first formal acknowledgement by the South that the 55,000 North Korean workers at the Kaesong complex saw little of the $160 they were paid on average a month. The commission urged the Security Council to refer North Korea to the International Criminal Court over its human rights record.

China’s foreign ministry has urged the U.S. and North Korea to sit down with each other face-to-face and resolve their problems, as tension continues to climb on the Korean peninsula after the North’s latest rocket test.

While the Kaesong closure will hurt North Korea, it is not critical to that nation’s economy.

Asked about the zone’s shutdown, Chinese spokesman Hong said the peninsula was in a “complex and sensitive” phase.

However, North Korea’s recent provocations, analysts say, gave the conservative South Korean leader the justification she had been seeking to support increased military measures.

In images from around Asia last week, North Koreans celebrated the launch of a rocket condemned by many governments as a banned missile test, and in Hong Kong masked protesters threw bricks in street riots during Lunar New Year’s. The government cited “multiple channels” as its sources for these claims but did not divulge how it had arrived at the percentage.

Hours after the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea launched a rocket on Feb 7, the USA and ROK angered China and Russian Federation by deciding to start talks on deploying the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) system to the United States military base in the ROK.

“We are firmly opposed to the relevant country’s attempts to damage China’s strategic and security interests, with the nuclear issue as an excuse”, foreign ministry spokesman Hong Lei told a regular briefing.

“It is clear that the music has stopped for the Park Geun-hye administration and it shows the intention that it is no longer interested in doing any kind of dancing with the North Korean authorities”, said Bong Young-shik, a national security analyst with the Asan Institute for Policy Studies in Seoul. It also said the North is illegally freezing South Korean companies’ assets. The office is also believed to be part of the North’s agencies that fund the country’s missile and nuclear program.

According to the probe report, the Internet Protocol address used to send the emails was traced to China’s northeastern province of Liaoning bordering North Korea.

He added that 70% of the money was kept by Pyongyang while workers were given tickets to buy food and essential items, and local currency. “It’s hard to make any detailed determinations because the North’s budget structure and financial trends are not disclosed transparently and specifically likes ours”.