Sentences with phrase «than north koreans»

VW Golf GTI a jack - of - all - trades This car makes fewer compromises than North Korean despot Kim Jong Un.

Not exact matches

South Korean cities in the province have fared better than their neighbors north of the DMZ, but they have struggled to diversify their economy beyond old coal mines, farming and fisheries.

«The Interview,» the Sony Pictures film about a fictional plot to assassinate North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, opened in more than 300 movie theaters across the United States on Christmas Day, drawing many sell - out audiences and statements by patrons that they were championing freedom of expression.

While these generations are connected through policy and the momentum of history, the current North Korean leader has more room to maneuver than his father and grandfather did.

Furthermore, what if watching South Korean dramas encourages people to leave North Korea rather than stay and try to change the government?

June 7, 2017: Less than a week after the United Nations passed a fresh round of North Korean sanctions, Kim's regime fires four land - to - ship missiles off its east coast.

Last year, more than 30,000 PCs at South Korean banks and broadcasting companies were hit by a similar attack that cybersecurity researchers widely believe was launched from North Korea.

South Korean statistics estimate the North has abducted more than 3,800 South Koreans since the armistice signing in 1953, and family members separated by the Peninsula's dividing line are still forbidden from being reunited.

Other than a few wildly far - fetched possibilities — North Korean agents running around Havana, or perhaps a secret team of Venezuelan spies subverting their own government's closest ally — that would seem to leave only Russia.

The most famous example is last year's WannaCry cyberattack, in which North Korean hackers used malicious software stolen from the National Security Agency to attack tens of thousands of people in more than 70 countries.

GANGNEUNG, South Korea Ice dance legends announced their retirement, a five - time Olympian pairs skater finally gained gold, and two North Koreans won hearts if not medals in an Olympics packed with more drama than usual even for figure skating.

Even Trump's January 2 tweet threatening North Korean leader Kim Jong Un that he has a «bigger» and «more powerful» nuclear button on his desk (there is no button) garnered nothing more than a shrug from global markets.

(CNN) US President Donald Trump's decision to meet with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un «was not a surprise in any way,» US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said Friday, less than a day after the top US diplomat said conditions were not yet ripe for negotiations with North Korea.

And few developments affirm that more than news that President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un plan to meet for talks this spring.

Nothing will concentrate the minds of North Korean leaders more than a Chinese oil embargo, argues William Rhodes, a former Citigroup executive and co-chair of the G30's steering committee on bank culture and governance.

By the time an armistice halted the Korean War in 1953, nearly 37,000 U.S. troops had been killed and more than 400,000 North Koreans soldiers were dead, according to the U.S Department of Defense.

LaTuya83 — Why are North Koreans more comparable in height to other East Asians than Europeans?

Citing current tension from the North Korean administration, Reiss - Andersen added: «We live in a world where the risk of nuclear weapons being used is greater than it has been for a long time.»

«Perhaps North Korean Christians know better than the rest of us, that it is not a change of government that will bring peace, but the entry of the Prince of Peace into our hearts.

Many governments which accuse North Korea have a less than perfect track record themselves, and they are willing to overlook despicable acts by their own allies, but even so the North Korean government is clearly evil.

With that understanding, a new negotiating strategy can be employed — one that should allow the North Korean regime to see a way of surviving without nuclear weapons, and that should be backed up by more powerful economic incentives and disincentives than before.

@Andrew Piliser: How are the North Korean people, other than the Kims and their clique, relevant?

On the other hand, estimates put the North Korean alleged H - bomb detonation in just six kilotons, a poorer result than the 2013 atomic test.

While Alexander's points are correct and certainly do not help the USA win North Korean sympathies, I think that more than an historical view the answer lies in the current situation:

Preparations are underway to bring senior North Korean representatives to the United States for talks with former American officials, the first such meeting in more than five years and a sign that Pyongyang sees a potential opening with the Trump administration.

For example, VISA did a better job than the older system in pinpointing the location of a prior North Korean nuclear test in 2013, Sudderth said.

By analyzing seismic wave data from monitoring stations around the region, seismologists concluded the North Korean blast had come from shallow depths, no more than a few kilometers within the mountain.

The country allotted a defense budget of more than $ 36 billion for 2017 to build a homegrown anti-missile system to deal with growing North Korean threats.

I think the Russians, North koreans, etc. are more interested in abusing their power than helping their people.

Obviously, starvation tends to produce stunted growth; this is why North Koreans are shorter than South Koreans.

PYONGYANGST - My Review of THE LOVERS AND THE DESPOT (3 Stars) Evoking more questions than answers, THE LOVERS AND THE DESPOT, a documentary by filmmakers Ross Adam and Robert Cannan details the stranger than fiction account of a prominent South Korean film director and his actress ex-wife who were kidnapped by North Korea during Kim Jong Il's reign and were forced to make over 17 movies for him.

In the face of taking some hefty cyber bullying, Sony cancelled the premier of the Seth Rogen and James Franco film following an epic doxing by what appear to be North Korean hackers supported by despot Kim Jong Un — whom «The Interview» roundly mocks and assassinates in more than just character.

But if the North Korean stuff was ultimately more of a means than an end, I had to appreciate the irony of Kim Jong - un bending Hollywood to his will, thus endowing him with the cinematic influence that his famously movie - obsessed father had always wanted and validating the daddy issues that Randall Park used to humanize the young dictator in The Interview.

South Korean director Soon - Mi Yoo's Songs from the North is less a documentary or travelogue than a poetic visual collage of North Korea.

I've seen worse movies than Sony's «The Interview,» starring James Franco and Seth Rogen as two bumblers enlisted by the CIA to assassinate North Korean leader Kim Jong - un.

This weekend, South Korean performers will head north for the first time in more than a decade.

Rather than being remembered as a fairly light - hearted comedy about an intercontinental hit job, the film is primarily associated with the infamous Sony hack that went down just prior to its release, which was seen as a retaliatory act by North Korean hackers and led to the film being pulled from most theaters.

Furthermore, Korean Air considers Alaska and Hawaii as a part of North America, rather than as separate territories as some programs do (especially for Hawaii).

Those five months in a leaky tent sparked an insatiable curiosity that has since carried him to more than 70 countries for countless interviews with tortured folk heroes, wily schemers, and North Korean skiers.

On top of that the north Koreans will go after Sony harder than ever if they release in that way.

Korean publisher Daum Games has sold more than 400,000 copies of its Black Desert Online MMO role - playing game after only a month on the market in Europe and North America.

Ancient Jewish law has much less relevance to modern US law than modern North Korean law does; and since that has two tenths of bugger all I guess about one tenth?

In part one entitled «North Korea Is Not Crazy,» we revealed that North Korean cyber actors are not crazy or irrational: they just have a wider operational scope than most other intelligence services.

Many private companies along with some of the largest governments in the world have stated that the North Korean hacking group is to blame for these attacks, and it seems more than likely.

For example, Chinese and Korean toddlers exhibited higher fearful, vigilant and anxious reactions than Australian, Canadian and Italian toddlers in novel stressful situations.7, 8 Chinese children also displayed more committed and internalized control or self - regulation on compliance and delay tasks than North American children in the early years.9, 10,11 Similarly, Cameroonian Nso toddlers displayed more regulated behaviors than Costa Rican toddlers who in turn were more regulated than Greek toddlers, as indicated by their compliance with maternal requests and prohibitions.12