Chronic food shortage shows despite efforts by N. Korea to hide it Nov 9, 2008
NAMPO, North Korea - Along the sides of the road, people comb through the grass looking for edible weeds ... Mostly what they are seeing is a kind of collective apathy - the kind of listlessness shown by the people on the streets of Nampo ... Nampo is 25 miles southwest of the capital, on the Yellow Sea. (Boston Globe)
In North Korea, a port with no joy Oct 4, 2008
NAMPO, North Korea - A single small freighter waited in the West (or Yellow) Sea outside the locks to the entrance of the Daedong River behind the West Sea barrage, an eight-kilometer-long dam built in the 1980s to ease passage in and out of this critical port 60 kilometers southwest of the capital Pyongyang. "It's carrying rice," said a guide, gazing from the hill overlooking the locks. (Asia Times Online)
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North Korea to Widen Access for Aid Workers; US Ship Arrives Jul 1, 2008
After sailing for several weeks from the West Coast of the United States, the American-flagged motor ship Baltimore arrived in Nampo, the North s main port, on Sunday evening. On Monday, it began unloading half of its cargo of 37,000 tons of wheat, Mr. Risley said. (New York Times)
UN strikes food deal with N Korea Jul 1, 2008
After the deal was agreed, a US ship carrying aid arrived in the port of Nampo on Sunday. Half of its cargo of wheat will be unloaded there and the rest split between two other eastern ports, WFP said. (BBC News -- Asia-Pacific)
U.N. expands food aid to N.Korea; U.S. help arrives Jun 30, 2008
The WFP said the first U.S. ship carrying aid arrived on Sunday in Nampo, a port that serves Pyongyang, with a cargo of 37,000 tonnes of wheat. U.S. policy is not to use food as a weapon or a reward. (Yahoo News -- Top Stories)
US food aid arrives in North Korea Jun 30, 2008
It said a US-flagged ship arrived on Sunday in the western port of Nampo carrying 33,500 tonnes of wheat, the first instalment of 500,000 tonnes of food promised by Washington to the communist state earlier this year. Aid groups and analysts have warned that the North faces an acute food shortage this year due to serious floods last summer which hit harvests and rising international prices. (Sydney Morning Herald -- World)
U.S. ship arrives in N. Korea with food Jun 30, 2008
The U.S. ship, at the port of Nampo, carried the first installment of that total. The State Department announced the deal last month and said the 500,000 tons of aid would be distributed over the next year. (CNN -- World)
Shipment Of U.S. Food Aid Reaches N. Korea Jun 30, 2008
In this 2003 file photo released by World Food Program, food aid supplied by the U.S. is unloaded from a vessel at Nampo port, southwest of North Korea's capital of Pyongyang. A U.S. ship carrying thousands of tons of food aid arrived in North Korea after the impoverished nation agreed to open up to widely expanded international assistance, the U.N. food agency said June 30, 2008. (CBS News -- World)
S Korea ships anti-malaria supplies to DPRK Jun 27, 2008
KCDC, a disease control agency under the South Korean Health Ministry, said a ship carrying the supplies left Incheon, 40 kilometers west of the capital Seoul, earlier in the day and is expected to reach Nampo, DPRK's main sea port on the Yellow Sea, within the day. "The supplies are designed to help North Korea combat the spread of the malaria while at the same time reducing the likelihood of malaria-carrying mosquitoes from reaching South Korea," a health official said. (Xinhuanet, China)
* N Korea accuses Seoul of restarting propaganda war May 31, 2008
Yonhap news agency quoted a source as saying that leaflets criticizing North Korean leader Kim Jong-il and his family were scattered in Pyongyang and the nearby port Nampo on May 1. Lee Min-bok, a defector who heads the North Korean Christians Association, said his group sent leaflets on May 1 detailing the truth about Kim Jong-il and his family members. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
North Korea Makes First Personal Criticism of South Korean President Lee Apr 1, 2008
North Korea test-fired ``several'' short-range missiles from a vessel off Nampo into waters off its west coast on March 28 as part of a regular military exercise, South Korea said last week. It was North Korea's first missile test in nine months. (Bloomberg -- Asia)
North Korea test-fires missiles into sea Mar 29, 2008
It also was unclear where the tests took place, but North Korea declared a no-sailing zone off the coastal city of Nampo ... It also was unclear where the tests took place, but North Korea declared a no-sailing zone off the coastal city of Nampo. (Boston Globe)
White House: N. Korea Missile Tests 'Not Constructive' Mar 29, 2008
The country declared a no-sailing zone off the coastal city of Nampo and placed a military boat equipped with anti-ship missiles on standby, according to the news agency. The North regularly test fires missiles, and its long-range models are believed able to possibly reach as far as the western coast of the United States. (Fox News)
North Korea test-launches short-range missiles Mar 29, 2008
North Korea declared a no-sailing zone off the coastal city of Nampo and placed a military boat equipped with anti-ship missiles on standby, South Korea's Yonhap news agency reported. Yonhap reported that North Korea launched three ship-to-ship missiles at around 10:30 a.m. local time, citing unidentified government officials. (Sioux City Journal, IO)
* North Korea tests missiles in angry response to South Mar 29, 2008
The country declared a no-sailing zone off the coastal city of Nampo and placed a military boat equipped with anti-ship missiles on standby, the news agency said. The North regularly test fires missiles and its long-range models are believed able to reach as far as the western coast of the US. The country conducted its first-and-only nuclear bomb test in October 2006, but it is not known to have a weapon design able to fit inside a missile warhead. (Taipei Times, Taiwan)
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Friday, March 28, 2008. NKorea warns US against delays in resolving nuclear dispute amid missile test launch Posted: 28 March 2008 1139 hrs. (Channelnewsasia.com)
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NKorea to Receive Steel in Nuclear Deal Dec 9, 2007
The steel shipment, the first of several, will depart for the North Korean port of Nampo on Dec. 17, the Foreign Ministry official said on condition of anonymity, citing policy. North Korea has requested that half of the economic aid it has been promised be given in energy-related equipment - mostly steel products for renovating its outdated power plants. (Guardian Unlimited -- World)
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North Korea, South Korea Defense Ministers Discuss Security for Train Link Nov 27, 2007
They also agreed to begin building plants to manufacture blocks used in ship hulls in Anbyun in the first six months of 2008 and to upgrade existing ship maintenance plants in Nampo, both towns in North Korea. South Korea has the world's three largest shipbuilding companies. (Bloomberg -- Asia)
Kim, North Korean Leader, Knows Cooperation Is Key to Survival, Song Says Oct 29, 2007
They also agreed to seek joint projects to construct shipbuilding cooperatives in Anbyun and Nampo in North Korea, and to establish direct flights between Seoul and Mt. Paektu, a mountain on the border between North Korea and China. Song, 59, said he is ``guardedly optimistic'' that North and South Korea will unify in his lifetime. (Bloomberg -- Asia)
Korean leaders atbusiness end of summit Oct 5, 2007
In the economic and industrial fields, the most notable was the agreement to establish a "special area for peace and cooperation in West Sea" covering the Haeju area, near the inter-Korean border, and waters in surrounding areas, and to construct an inter-Korean joint shipbuilding complex in Nampo, near Pyongyang. The special West Sea area, for instance, will be designed to push forward undertakings, including the creation of a joint fishing zone, construction of a special economic zone,... (Asia Times Online)
Korean summit results exceed low expectations Oct 5, 2007
In addition, the South will construct a shipbuilding complex in Nampo, a town southwest of Pyongyang. "What South Korea needed to do this time was to demonstrate some practical achievements," said Koh Il-dong, an economist at the Korea Development Institute in Seoul. (International Herald Tribune)
Koreas to Expand Economic Cooperation Oct 4, 2007
South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun, right, shakes hands with a North Korean worker as Roh visits South Korea's run Pyeongwha Motor factory in Nampo, west of Pyongyang, North Korea, Thursday, Oct. 4, 2007 ... According to the joint declaration, North and South Korea also agreed to begin regular cargo train service between border points near Kaesong and to construct joint shipyards at two ports in the North, including one at Nampo near Pyongyang. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Business)
Koreas agree to expand economic cooperation at summit meeting Oct 4, 2007
According to the joint declaration, North and South Korea also agreed to begin regular cargo train service between border points near Kaesong and to construct joint shipyards at two ports in the North, including one at Nampo near Pyongyang. The two sides also agreed to promote cooperation in agriculture, health, medicine and the environment, repair a railroad and highway in the North and cooperate in the development of natural resources. (International Herald Tribune -- Sports)
South Korea's Roh heads to Pyongyang to meet Kim Oct 1, 2007
One is a proposal for a new economic zone, probably around the port of Nampo. Another is revision of the Northern Limit Line set by the UN Command in the Yellow Sea but challenged by North Korea in bloody battles in 1999 and 2002 demanding access for fishing boats in the crab-rich waters. (Christian Science Monitor -- World)
N.Korea calls Syria nuclear ties report "conspiracy" Sep 18, 2007
A Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman said on Tuesday its shipments of fuel oil were under way, with the first having arrived in the North Korean port of Nampo on Sunday. "China's oil aid plan is currently being put in place, and we hope it will be completed soon," Jiang Yu told a briefing. (Yahoo News -- Top Stories)
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NKorea set to get major investment pledges at summit - report Aug 10, 2007
The package proposal will probably include providing electricity, renovating the Kaesong-Pyongyang highway, upgrading Nampo port and setting up a fertiliser plant, the newspaper quoted unidentified officials as saying. President Roh Moo-Hyun will meet North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il on August 28-30 in Pyongyang in only the second-ever summit between the communist North and the capitalist South. (Forbes)
South Korea to Ship Oil to North Korea by July 14 (Update2) Jul 5, 2007
The two countries agreed on June 30 that all deliveries will be sent to North Korea's port cities of Sunbong and Nampo. Delivery will be completed within 20 days of the first shipment, the Unification Ministry has said. (Bloomberg)
* Seoul sending rice aid to North Korea Jul 1, 2007
The Vietnam-registered ship was to arrive today at the North's eastern Nampo port with 3,000 tonnes of rice -- the first batch of 400,000 tonnes promised by South Korea in April. The delivery was initially set to begin in late May, but it was put on hold as Seoul used the food aid as leverage to pressure Pyongyang to act on a February pledge to shut down its main reactor. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
N.Korea reactor closure date needs 6-way talks: IAEA Jun 30, 2007
The first shipment of 3,000 metric tons left the port of Gunsan bound for Nampo on the North's west coast, a port official said by telephone. South Korea is in two-day talks with the North on a separate shipment of heavy fuel oil under the six-party deal. (Yahoo News -- Top Stories)
UN inspectors arrive in N Korea Jun 27, 2007
South Korea's Unification Minister Lee Jae-joung announced that the first shipment of 3,000 tonnes of rice aid would leave for the North's port of Nampo on Saturday. Mr Hill believes the next few weeks are critical to progress. (Yahoo News -- North Korea)
(2nd LD) S. Korea to resume rice aid to N. Korea this week Jun 26, 2007
The first shipment weighing 3,000 tons will leave Gunsan Port on Saturday for North Korea's port of Nampo, South Korea resumed shipments of fertilizer and other emergency aid to the North in late March, but withheld the loan of 400,000 tons of rice as an inducement for North Korea to start nuclear dismantlement following the landmark agreement reached in the six-nation talks in February. Lee said North Korea is supposed to pay back US$152 million worth of loans over 20 years after a 10-year... (Yonhap News)
S Korea resumes food aid to North Jun 26, 2007
South Korea's Unification Minister Lee Jae-joung announced that the first shipment of 3,000 tonnes of rice aid would leave for the North's port of Nampo on Saturday. He said the entire shipment of 400,000 tonnes of food would take about six months to complete. (BBC News -- Asia-Pacific)
* Japan locates three N Korean factories producing narcotics Mar 18, 2007
The suspected factories -- in the eastern city of Wonsan, Chonjin in the northeast, and Nampo, southwest of Pyongyang -- are thought to be linked to the North Korean state, which uses government ships to smuggle the drugs out of the country, the Yomiuri said. The report named as a source Hiroto Yoshimura, vice director of Japan's National Police Agency, who testified at a closed-door session of the UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs in Vienna on Wednesday. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
Nuclear test flagrant challenge to Japan's readiness Jan 17, 2007
Members of the coalition apart from Japan are active on sea routes leading to such major ports in North Korea as Rajin, Wonsan and Nampo. The MSDF, because of the constitutional constraints under which this country is banned from the exercise of military force, cannot do more than fire blanks during vessel inspections. (News on Japan, Japan)
