North and South Korea
Pyongyang reacts to US threats by withdrawing from non-proliferation treaty
By Peter Symonds, January 16, 2003
Despite all its talk of a diplomatic solution to tensions on the Korean peninsula, the Bush administration’s aggressive stance towards North Korea is rapidly leading to a full-blown confrontatio...
Bush sets course for confrontation with North Korea
By Peter Symonds, December 30, 2002
The Bush administration is preparing to escalate the current standoff over North Korea’s nuclear program into a full-blown confrontation, with reckless indifference to the potentially disastrous...
South Korean election reveals deep-seated hostility to Washington
By Peter Symonds, December 21, 2002
The results of the presidential election on December 19 has confirmed a growing resentment in South Korea over Washington’s aggressive stance toward North Korea and fears of military conflict on...
South Korean election dominated by debate over US alliance
By Peter Symonds, December 19, 2002
South Koreans cast their vote today in a presidential poll that has been dominated by growing public antagonism toward Washington. While debate has focused on the presence of 37,000 US troops in South...
US uses nuclear revelations to raise tensions on Korean peninsula
By Peter Symonds, October 31, 2002
Less than a fortnight ago, the Bush administration announced that North Korea had admitted, during bilateral talks in early October, to having established a uranium enrichment program in breach of int...
Pyongyang summit: North Korean prostration answered with more Japanese demands
By James Conachy, October 1, 2002
The September 17 summit between Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi and North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il in Pyongyang marks a significant step in the reassertion of Japan as a political and milit...
Noose tightens around North Korea following Yellow Sea naval battle
By James Conachy, July 11, 2002
The short but bloody naval battle on June 29 between North and South Korean warships in the Yellow Sea has been utilised by the Bush administration and the South Korean government to intensify the dip...
US-backed groups push North Korean asylum bids in China
By James Conachy, June 24, 2002
In the past three months, at least 10 groups of North Koreans have been secreted through northern China to make high-profile bids for political asylum at embassies and diplomatic missions in Beijing a...
South Korean unions scuttle power workers strike
By Terry Cook, April 6, 2002
Power union leaders in South Korea endorsed a deal brokered by the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions (KCTU) with the Kim Dae-jung government this week and directed more than 5,000 striking workers ...
War danger grows on Korean peninsula
By James Conachy, March 27, 2002
Tensions between the US and North Korea are at their worst since 1994, when the Clinton administration threatened military strikes if Pyongyang did not shut down its nuclear power plants. On January 2...
South Korean president threatens to sack striking power workers
By Terry Cook, March 25, 2002
Striking power workers in South Korea last weekend rejected a government ultimatum directing them to return to work by 9am today or face dismissal. The return-to-work order is part of further harsh me...
Unions isolate striking South Korean power workers
By Terry Cook, March 9, 2002
Power workers at five thermal-generating subsidiaries of the Korea Electric Power Corp (KEPCO) have been left isolated by the peak trade union bodies as the administration of President Kim Dae-jung in...
