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North Korean Leader Kim Jong-il Dies

North Korean Leader Kim Jong-il Dies

SEOUL, KOREA - North Korean leader Kim Jong-il, who ruled the communist nation with an iron fist while ceaselessly pursuing nuclear weapons programs, has died of a heart attack, state media said Monday. He was 69.Kim, who took over North Korea after his father and national founder Kim Il-sung died in 1994, "passed away from a great mental and physical strain" during a train ride at 8:30 a.m. on

Diplomat News | Korea IT Times (info@koreaittimes.com) | 2011-12-19 15:44 Read more

NK’s Top-Notch Science Education and Research Institute

NK’s Top-Notch Science Education and Research Institute

The University of Natural Science which is a North Korea's science education university is located in Eunjunggu in Pyongyang. It used to be in Pyeongseong-si with the National Academy of Science, where the university is affiliated to, but it was moved to Pyongyang to benefit scientists as a citizen of Pyongyang. The National Academy of Science is North Korea's best scientific research complex. Eve

Diplomat News | Choi Sung | 2011-08-22 10:07 Read more

Kim Chek Institute of Technology: North Korea’s Science Technology and Engineering Hub

Kim Chek Institute of Technology: North Korea’s Science Technology and Engineering Hub

Located near the Daedong River in Pyongyang, the Kim Chek Institute of Technology occupies about 400,000 square meters. As the top educational institute for science technology and engineering in North Korea with 13,000 students and 3,000 staff, the Institute cultivates high-level specialists in the technology and engineering fields.Admission to this university requires good grades in the prelimi

Diplomat News | Choi Sung (sstar@nsu.ac.kr) | 2011-07-06 17:53 Read more

Kim Ilseong University: North Korea’s Highest and Biggest Educational Institution

Kim Ilseong University: North Korea’s Highest and Biggest Educational Institution

SEOUL, KOREA — Kim Ilseong University is a national university founded October 1, 1946 in Pyongyang to commemorate the head of the state Kim Ilseong, Located in Daeseong district within Pyeongyang city, the university is also called 'Kim Dae (as in Daehak, university in Korean)', or 'Jonghapdae' (from the full name Kim Ilseong Jonghap Daehak)'. It was the Resolution Number 40 made by Limsi People'

Diplomat News | Choi Sung (sstar@nsu.ac.kr) | 2011-06-13 09:41 Read more

North Korea Opens an Internet Shopping Mall for the Rest of the World

North Korea Opens an Internet Shopping Mall for the Rest of the World

SEOUL, KOREA — North Korea has recently opened its first online shopping mall where around 100 products including agricultural products and building materials are sold. Chunrima, the country's official economy news website (http://www.dprk-economy.com/en/Shop/index.php), added an 'e-shop' page to display and sell, in Korean, English, and Chinese, a wide range of products from food and pharmaceutic

Diplomat News | Choi Sung (sstar@nsu.ac.kr) | 2011-05-03 11:22 Read more

Narae - Electronic Payment Card for Foreign Travellers in North Korea

Narae - Electronic Payment Card for Foreign Travellers in North Korea

North Korea too is beginning to get a hold of credit cards. Normally, foreign travelers in North Korea make payments with US dollars or euros, and until recently, they could not use credit cards that charge in US dollars. American credit card service companies such as VISA and MasterCard explained that it is very difficult to operate in North Korea due to economic sanctions on the country and its

Diplomat News | Choi Sung (sstar@nsu.ac.kr) | 2011-04-08 12:12 Read more

North Korea Needs to Set Up Practical IT Training and Certification Systems

North Korea Needs to Set Up Practical IT Training and Certification Systems

By Choi Sung, Professor of computer science at Namseoul University(sstar@nsu.ac.kr) Inter-Korean private-level cooperation in the IT sector had been very brisk, but it has significantly slowed down owing to political issues. In particular, inter-Korean exchanges in the IT sector, which is deemed the least political, are believed to have bigger knock-on effects than those in any other sector.

Diplomat News | Korea IT Times | 2010-04-02 15:47 Read more