Citations:North Korea

English citations of North Korea

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• 1945 September 14 [1945 September 12], “North Korean Leader Slain in Reign of Terror”, in Chicago Daily Tribune‎^[1], volume CIV, number 221, page 3, column 5:

  A Korean Communist selected as a vice chairman of the government for north Korea in the Russian occupied zone was assassinated as he was leaving a conference with Col. Gen. Chistjakoff, commander of the soviet 25th army, a Korean refugee said today.

• 1948 March 9 [1948 March 8], “U.N. Officials Fight Korea Voting Plan”, in The Washington Post‎^[2], number 26,199, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 4, column 2:

  The Little Assembly directed the commission to hold elections "wherever possible" which means, in effect, the United States-occupied zone. Russia, occupying North Korea, has boycotted the commission completely.

• 1950 June 26, Alex H. Washburn, “Korea — Sound of War”, in Hope Star‎^[3], volume 51, number 214, Hope, Ark., page 1, column 1:

  The armed forces of North Korea, which borders on and is allied with Russian Manchuria, marched into the U. S.-sponsored South Korea Republic over the week-end — and the chips are down for American prestige throughout the Far East.

• 1957, Chung-cheng (Kai-shek) Chiang, Soviet Russia in China: A Summing-up at Seventy‎^[4], New York: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 336–337:

  Chinese Communist armed forces have since remained in occupation of North Korea following the conclusion of the truce agreement.

• 1963, Dwight Eisenhower, Mandate for Change 1953-1956‎^[5], Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 174:

  On the fifth day after the first attack it was obvious that the ROK Army, with United States air and sea support alone, could not drive back the invaders. That day President Truman announced that he had instituted an embargo on all United States exports to North Korea, a naval blockade of the entire Korean coast, Air Force bombing missions against North Korean military targets, and the use of "certain supporting ground units."

• 1971, Lyndon Johnson, “The Last Year: Headlines and History”, in The Vantage Point‎^[6], Holt, Reinhart & Winston, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 533:

  The USS Pueblo, a highly sophisticated electronics intelligence ship, had been cruising off the coast of North Korea, gathering data from the mainland. Between 10:52 P.M. of January 22 and 12:32 A.M. of the 23rd, Washington time, the Pueblo was challenged and then surrounded by a flotilla comprised of a North Korean submarine chaser and three patrol boats, and was finally boarded by an armed party, while Communist jet fighters circled overhead. The Pueblo reported that the boarding took place approximately fifteen and a half nautical miles from the nearest land under North Korean jurisdiction, well outside the twelve-mile territorial limit claimed by North Korea.

• 1985, H. Edward Kim, “Land and People”, in Facts about Korea‎^[7], 18th Revised edition, Seoul: Hollym Corporation, →OCLC, page 22:

  A few species such as bat, shrew, striped hamster and muskrat are found only in North Korea. Also only in North Korea are tiger, lynx, two species of deer, Manchurian weasel and northern pika in the plateau regions of Paektusan.

• 1992, Richard Nixon, “The Pacific Triangle”, in Seize the Moment‎^[8], Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 189:

  Gorbachev played a skillful diplomatic game in Asia. While enhancing Soviet relations with South Korea—moving from no ties to full diplomatic relations in only three years— he continued to back North Korea, though slapping its leader on the wrist for its nuclear program. While Soviet trade with South Korea will rise from $85 million in 1985 to an estimated $1 billion in 1995, Moscow continued to provide $1 billion in aid to North Korea and to equip the 1.1 million troops in its armed forces with Soviet weapons.

• 2013, Al Gore, “Power in the Balance”, in The Future: Six Drivers of Global Change‎^[9], New York: Random House, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 137:

  If North Korea were to gain the credible ability to threaten a nuclear attack against Japan, the pressure on Japan to develop its own arsenal would be intense in spite of Japan’s historic experience and opposition to nuclear weapons.

• 2013 April 9, Andrei Lankov, “Stay Cool. Call North Korea’s Bluff.”, in New York Times‎^[10]:

  A closer look at North Korean history reveals what Pyongyang’s leaders really want their near-farcical belligerence to achieve — a reminder to the world that North Korea exists, and an impression abroad that its leaders are irrational and unpredictable.

• 2022 September 7, 5:25 from the start, in Trump Tried to Pay Lawyer with a Horse, Also Stole Material on Foreign Nation's Nuclear Capabilities‎^[11] (Comedy), spoken by Jimmy Fallon, The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, archived from the original on 08 September 2022:

  Well, some news from overseas: according to a new report, Russia is now buying military supplies from North Korea. Yep, Russia's asking North Korea for help. Uh, tell us you're losing the war without telling us you're losing the war.

• 2023 January 27, Julian Ryall, “North Korea teetering on the brink of a humanitarian crisis”, in DW News‎^[12], archived from the original on 27 January 2023‎^[13]:

  North Korea is currently experiencing a dire food crisis, with analysts warning the present situation could deteriorate into a similar humanitarian disaster seen during the four-year famine in the mid-1990s — referred to as the "Arduous March" by the regime — which led to the deaths of millions of people.

• 2023 August 18, Gavin Blair, “Kim Jong-un at typhoon-hit farms as North Korea rebuked over starvation”, in The Times‎^[14], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 18 August 2023:

  Some 200 hectares of rice paddies in Kangwon Province are reported to have been flooded by tropical storm Khanun, which swept across North Korea last week after battering Japan’s Okinawa.

• 2023 September 14, “North Korea set to end years-long sporting isolation at Asian Games”, in France 24‎^[15], archived from the original on 14 September 2023‎^[16]:

  North Korea has traditionally been especially strong in weightlifting, dominating the event at the Jakarta Asian Games in 2018 with eight golds.

• 2023 October 7, “‘Unprecedented’ freight rail cars on North Korea’s border with Russia: satellite images”, in EFE‎^[17], archived from the original on 08 October 2023‎^[18]:

  Satellite images show an “unprecedented” number of freight railcars on the border between Russia and North Korea following a summit between the countries’ leaders in which they discussed military cooperation.