North Korea May Allow Limited Internet Use From 2009, Chosun Ilbo Reports Aug 7, 2008
North Korea will develop a high-speed Internet service network by laying optical cables between Pyongyang and Hamhung on the east coast of the peninsula and extending it to Chongjin and Sinuiju on China's border in the northwest, the newspaper cited Kim Sang Myung, head of North Korea Intellectuals Solidarity, as saying. Kim was a professor of computer engineering at the Communist University before he defected in 2004, according to the report. (Bloomberg -- Japan)
German woman hopes to see long-lost North Korean husband again Aug 24, 2007
After years without word of her husband's fate, Renate was informed earlier this year by the German Red Cross and Foreign Ministry that 73-year-old Ok Gun was alive in the North Korean city of Hamhung with a new family. "I always realized he would have a family in North Korea -- why should he live alone?" Renate told reporters Thursday. (Sioux City Journal, IO)
After 46 years, couple hope to meet again in N Korea Aug 24, 2007
More than 45 years later, she has learned that her husband is still alive in North Korea, retired from his job at a chemical factory and living with his family in the north-eastern city of Hamhung ... Since 1961 Ms Hong has never been so close to her husband as she was this week when she visited Seoul, about 250 miles from Hamhung. (Guardian Unlimited -- World)
North Korea Fires Missiles as Part of Routine Exercises, South Korea Says May 27, 2007
Hamhung, the capital of Hamgyong-Namdo, is 185 kilometers northeast of Pyongyang and 1,228 kilometers west-northwest of Tokyo. The Chinese-built Silkworm is an anti-ship cruise missile mounted on a mobile launcher and usually deployed for coastal defense, according to Jane's Information Group. (Bloomberg -- Japan)
