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Cholera Outbreak in Haiti Following 2010 January Earthquake
The January 2010 earthquake on the Caribbean island of Haiti left vast swaths of the country devastated. VICE News reporter Sebastian Walker traveled to the Haitian capital Port-au-Prince in 2010 to cover the effects of the devastation caused by the earthquake but was compelled to extend his stay. During his stay a cholera outbreak caused […]
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Republic of Korea Successfully Launches Naro Space Rocket
South Korea successfully launched its first-ever space rocket, the Naro, according to Lee Ju-ho, minister of education, science and technology. The Korea Aerospace Research Institute announced the Korea Space Launch Vehicle-1 (KSLV-1) – or Naro – deployed its payload, the Science and Technology Satellite-2C and placed it into orbit above the Earth. South Korea’s 2009 and […]
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The Spectre of Juche: Is North Korea Capable of True Reform?
- January 15, 2013
- 2006
- 2010
- Asia
- Attack on Yeonpyeong Island
- caste system
- Cheonan
- Cheonanham Chimmol Sageon
- China
- Command Economy
- Communist
- concentration camp
- Confucian
- Confucian traditions
- Democratic People's Republic of Korea
- DPRK
- East Asia
- Economic reform
- Eternal President
- GNP
- Human Rights
- Juche
- Juche year 1
- Kim Il-sung
- Kim Jong-il
- Kim Jong-Un
- Kim regime
- Korean War
- kwan-li-so
- Mao
- March 26
- market economy
- Mass mobilization
- military first
- National Defence Commission
- Navi Pillay
- North Korea
- November 23
- nuclear test
- Nuclear Weapons
- Nuclear Weapons Development
- October 6
- parental leader
- patriarchy
- People's Republic of China
- PRC
- Pyongyang
- Red Dynasty
- reformist course
- Republic of Korea
- Ri Sol-ju
- ROK
- Russia
- self-reliance
- Sinking of Cheonan
- songbun
- Songun
- South Korea
- Soviet Union
- Stalinism
- Stalinist state
- Supreme Leader
- Supreme People's Assembly
- Suryong
- UN
- Unha 3
- Unha rocket
- UNHRC
- United Nations
- United Nations Human Rights Commission
- United States
- US
- USSR
- Worker's Party of Korea
- World War II
- Yeonpyeong Island
- 선군정치
- 연평도
- 조선로동당
- 천안함침몰사건
As his first year as Supreme Leader concludes, analysts have an overall mixed reaction to Kim Jong-un’s style of leadership. Promises of economic reform, innovations in propaganda that has made it more outward facing in nature, and the introduction of a first family with his marriage to Ri Sol-ju are just three of the highlights of the newest Kim’s first year. While the […]
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