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No date – al Qaeda has been counterfeiting US currency abroad, Counterfeit bills coming out of North Korea and produced by means of complex and expensive printing methods.

15 May 1397 – Sejong the great, Korean king, was born. He died in 1450. (Wikipedia 15 May 2015).

1860s – Korea and Russia since the 1860s, when China ceded southern Siberia to Russia. So Korea became a neighbour to Russia. (The great cold war. Gordon S Barress (c)2009 US).

1895 – The assassination of the Empress of Korea by Yakuza of Japan. (The history of organized crime. David Southwell ©2006).

1895-1910 – In 1910 Japan annexed the Korean peninsula, the Kempeitai was a brutal occupation. Japans interest in Korea began in 1895. Japan’s control of Korean ports to be open to Japanese trade. The Kempeitai murdered the Emperors wife Empress Myeongseong, Queen Min, who had sought the assistance of the Russians in 1895. (Japans Gestapo. Mark Felton ©2009 UK).

8 Oct 1895 – Assassins team led by major Niiro, Operation Fox Hunt. Royal palace at Kyungbok where they killed the Korean household guards. A Russian military advisor working at the palace, Aleksey Seredin Sabatin saw the attack. Women were raped. The empress was raped too. The rapes were hidden from the Japanese and Koreans for decades. (Japans Gestapo. Mark Felton ©2009 UK).

1907 – The Japanese Kempeitai first overseas in Korea in 1907. After a victory over Czarist Russia in the Russia Japanese war of 1904-1905. (Japans Gestapo. Mark Felton ©2009 UK).

1930s – 1945 - Tour to shed light on World War Two sex slavery. Korea times. The “comfort stations” system was set up and run by the Japanese from the 1930s until the end of the World War Two 1945. Asian and other women from 12 to 32 years of age were kidnapped, trafficked and raped, forced into sex slavery for the military. (25 June 2014. Korea Times).

1938-88 – 1938 when Byung chul Lee set up Samsung general stores to export Korean fish, veges and fruit to Manchuria and Beijing, following the Japanese occupation, Korean war. (The emerging market century. ©2007 Antoine van Agtmael).

1945 – Korea was jointly occupied by Soviet and American forces at the end of World War Two. Korea was part of the Japanese empire since 1910, when the Japanese resistance collapsed in summer 1945. The red army, found the way open into North Korea. The way was also open in South Korea for American troops. The 38^th parallel divided Korea. (The cold war. ©2005 Gaddis).

August 1948 – Following Democratic elections President Syngman Rhee was installed in South Korea, which became the Republic of Korea, PCK, Three weeks later the Soviets occupied North and proclaimed it the Peoples Democratic Republic of Korea under Kim II Sung.

1949-June 1950 – To face the Soviet military threat NATO was formed in 1949. Outbreak of the Koran war in June 1950. (German politics. Peter Pulzer. ©1995 US).

1950 – George Blake, British KGB agent was appointed consul general in Seoul Korea, just before the Korean war. During the fighting he went to North Korea for three years, partly held by the Chinese communists. On his return to the UK he went into the field as a MI6, SIS officer from 1953-61, while he worked for the KGB.

1950 – By the beginning of 1950 the situation along the 38^th parallel had become serious, with frequent outbreaks of fighting. At the same time North Korean guerrillas carried out about 30 attacks inside South Korea. Kim II Sung paid two visits to Moscow where he met with Soviet leader Joseph Stalin and Chinese leader Mao Tse Tung.

1950s – Experiments. Cyril Cunningham the air ministry’s Brainwashing and Interrogation Unit worked for A19, to see what the Soviets were doing in Korea. He visited Porter Down, British drug tests. (Brainwash. Dominic Streatfeild. ©2006 UK).

1950s and 60s – Throughout the 1950s and 60s the US focused its military attention on the Korean and Indochina wars.

1950-61 – Korea and the Cold war, into the US in 1959. Robert Jay Lifton, who was in the US Air force in 1950, POWs in Korea. 1961 a study of brainwashing. North Koreans used on POWs. (Brainwash. Dominic Streatfield. ©2006 UK).

12 Jan 1950 - Stalin’s green light to Kim II Sung, Stalin had started the Korean war by authorizing the North Korean invasion. (The cold war. ©2005 Gaddis).

June 1950 – The Korean war broke out. Civil Air Transport CAT was charterd by the UN for “Opeation Booklift”. (Air America. Christopher Robins (c)1979 UK.

June 1950 – Stalin authorized the use of Soviet fighter planes, manned by Soviet pilots over Korea, where they encountered American fighters, flown by American pilots. This was the only time the US Soviet shootout happened during the cold war. (The cold war. ©2005 Gaddis).

June 1950 –Colonel Donald Nichols US Intel. Syngnam Rhee South Korea. 1,800 political prisoners. Two big bull dozers, a ditch grave, trucks loaded with prisoners, hands tied, shot in the head and pushed into the grave. Police state in South Korea. (The hidden hand. Richard J Aldrich ©2001 UK).

June 1950-1951 – Korean war, SIS station in Seoul was run by George Blake, it was based at the British embassy. But Blake’s main target was the Soviet Union. Soviets trained the north Koreans. In 1951 Major Ellery Anderson led para’s dropped teams in to destroy north Korean trains, deep inside northern tunnels, and the wreckage was hard to clear. (The hidden hand. Richard J Aldrich ©2001 UK).

June 1950-July 1954 – UN service medal Korea 1951 for service on behalf of the UN in Korea, June 1950-July 1954. (Ancestry. May June 2007 p35).

25 June 1950 – Outbreak of the Korean war on 25 June 1950. Communist China entered the Korean war in 1951. Numerous Soviet advisors were busy assisting the North Korean forces. Soviet and American pilots over flew each other in the skies of east Asia (GCHQ. Richard J Aldrich. ©2010 UK).

25 June 1950 – North Korea invaded South Korea. Stalin’s green light to Kim II Sung. North Korea directly bordered on China and the Soviet union. (The cold war. ©2005 Gaddis).

25 June 1950 – Korea, the first overt military assault across an international boundary, since the end of World War Two. (We know now. John Lewis Gaddis ©1997 US).

25 June 1950 – Korean war, the UK and US main focus was Russian traffic. NSA history says there was no one working on North Korea at this time. (GCHQ. Richard J Aldrich ©2010 UK).

July-Oct 1950 – The US interrogation teams working under Operation BLUEBIRD, went to interrogate Korean POWs. (Brainwash. Dominic Streatfeild. ©2006 UK p52).

Early December 1950 – Saw China come to the aid of the North Koreans.

12 April 1951 – The worlds biggest jet air battle to date when 115 US AF fighters of the UN forces with 32 super fortress bombers, engaged 80 Russian MIG 15 jet fighters and destroyed or damaged 46, at small loss to themselves.

May 1951 – Nerve gas, what were they doing in Korea? Research on the use and misuse of drugs. (Brainwash. Dominic Streatfeild. ©2006 UK).

1952 – I F Stone. The hidden history of the Korean war. New York press.

13 Jan 1952 – Pilots Kenneth L Enoch and John S Quinn of the 3^rd US Airforce bomb group were shot down over North Korea. On 16 May 1952 Chinese interrogations. (Brainwash. Dominic Streatfeild. ©2006 UK).

May 1952 – A mobile seismic station called project Rockpile was established in Korea.

8 July 1952 – Feb 1953, Colonel Frank H Schwable, chief of staff of US marines. He had been shot down on 8 July 1952. (Brainwash. Dominic Streatfeild. ©2006 UK).

1953 – The UK joint Intel committee, the evasion, escape and prisoner of war, to debate what happened to the Korean POWs. SIS, MI6. (Brainwash. Dominic Streatfield. ©2006 UK).

1953 – The cold war. The Korean war ended on 27 July 1953, a nerve agent called VX, in 1957 producing VX. Psychochemical warfare. The CIA and LSD. Agent orange and the Vietnam war. Psychological warfare and hypnosis murders. (Operation Paperclip. Annie Jacobsen ©2014 US).

1953 – There were 70,000 Soviet pilots and gunners in North Korea. Many of the MIG-15 fighters which were attacking with Chinese marking, were actually flown by Soviet pilots. (The great cold war. Gordon S Barresss ©2009 US).

1953 – The A19 project. Korean POW's. Return of POW's. “Operation Big Switch” interrogation reports 1953-54. “Operation Little Switch”. Also “Operation Big Swap” and “Operation Little Swap” and “Operation Glory”.

1953 – North Korea war orphans. 27 Aug 2014. Cold war in 1953 the North Korean government sent 1,200 orphans to Poland.

1953 – In June 1953, Soviet brainwashing scare. In the west experiments with drugs and other experiments. (The hidden hand. Richard J Aldrich ©2001 UK).

1953-60 – 24 Feb 1953 Russia and POWs Korea. A Royal marine Andrew Condron remained in China. He retuned to the UK in 1960. (Brainwash. Dominic Streatfield ©2006 UK).

April 1953 – George Blake was posted to Korea, he was capture and jailed until April 1953, then he went to Berlin for M16. Communism which brainwashed him in a North Korean prison camp. He went to Cambridge UK and was a Communist anyway. (Too secret too long. Chapman Pincher. ©1984 US).

June 1953 – The Soviet brainwashing scare. The west and experiments with drugs and other tests. (The hidden hand. Richard J Aldrich ©2001 UK).

July 1953 - Only after Stalin’s death did his successors approve a cease fire, July 1953. (The cold war. ©2005 Gaddis).

July 1953 – Armistice July 1953, the war had left the peninsula devastated, with no clear victory for the either side. 36,568 Americans died in combat, 600,000 Chinese troops and over 2 million Korean civilians and military personal had died, during the 3 years of fighting. (Cold war. ©2005 Gaddis).

27 July 1953 – An American F-86F Sabre pilot shot down a civilian Aeroflot 11-12 airliner killing 21 people on board. The debris came down in China. (GCHQ. Richard J Aldrich ©2010 UK).

1955 – Reps of the North Korean academy of sciences attended a nuclear energy conference in Moscow. In 1956 Kim II Sung’s regime signed a deal on nuclear research with the Soviets and North Korean scientists began arriving at the Dubna nuclear research institute for training. In 1959 a second agreement on nuclear cooperation was signed with the Soviet Union, while a first agreement was reached with China. In late 1964 Kim sent a delegation to China wanting Chinese assistance in developing nuclear weapons. In 1965 Moscow sold North Korea a 2 to 4 megawatt research reactor built near the Kuryung river in the vicinity of Yongbyon, 60 miles northeast of Pyongyang. Placed under IAEA safeguards. Soviet and North Korean scientists also set up a nuclear research center at the site. (Spying on the bomb. JT Richelson ©2006).

July 1955 - Reps of the North Korean academy of sciences attended a nuclear energy conference in Moscow. (Spying on the bomb. ©2006 JT Richelson).

1956 - Kim II Sung’s regime signed a deal on nuclear research with the Soviets. North Korean scientists began arriving at the Dubna nuclear research institute for training. (Spying on the bomb. ©2006 JT Richelson).

August 1956-July 1957 – The 1^st battalion Royal Sussex regiment was stationed in Korea after the end of hostilities. (Family history. August 2009 p10).

1959 - A second agreement on nuclear cooperation was signed with the Soviet Union, while a first agreement was reached with China. (Spying on the bomb. ©2006 JT Richelson).

1960 – Trumbull Higgins. Korea and the fall of MacArthur. Oxford uni press.

1960 – Han In Suk, after the Korean war, studied physics at Moscow university, returning to Pyongyang in 1960 and publishing papers on nuclear physics. (Spying on the bomb. (c)2006 JT Richelson).

1961 – One of the British POWs taken in the Korean war was George Blake, MI6 head of station in Seoul, SIS, KGB. In 1961 Blake was sent to 42 years in prison. (Brainwash. Dominic Streatfeild ©2006 UK).

16 May 1961 – Park Chang Lee led a coup to overthrow the second republic of south Korea. (Wikipedia 16 May 2015).

1964 – South Korea joined the Vietnam war. Wikipedia.

Late 1964 - Kim sent a delegation to China, wanting Chinese assistance in developing nuclear weapons. (Spying on the bomb. ©2006 JT Richelson).

1965 - Moscow sold North Korea a 2 to 4 megawatt research reactor, built near the Kuryung river, in the vicinity of Yong-byon, 60 miles northeast of Pyongyang, and placed under IAEA safeguards. Soviet and North Korean scientists also set up a nuclear research center at the site. (Spying on the bomb ©2006 JT Richelson).

1968 – USS Pueblo, an unarmed signal intelligence reconnaissance ship, was seized by North Korea in 1968. The 82 crew were held for 11 months and suffered terrible treatment. (Americas wars. (c)2003 Huchthausen).

Jan 1968 – The USS Pueblo, a small NSA spy ship was captured by North Korea. (GCHQ Richard J Aldrich ©2010 UK).

1969 - Samsung electronics was set up in 1969 and merged with Samsung semi conductors in 1988 to become a key part of a Korean conglomorate. (The emerging market century. ©2007 Antoine van Agtmael).

15 April 1969 – North Korea shot down an unarmed EC-121 electronic surveillance plane, with the loss of all 30 crew members. (The ends of power. R Haldeman ©1978).

1973 – Koran Yakuza, gambling and sex slavery. Brothels. Korean President Kim Dae Jung was kidnapped by Yakuza in 1973. Ethnic Koreans in Japan. Sex tourism, slavery of Koran women and girls, drugs, smuggling, extortion and corruption. (The history of organized crime. David Southwell ©2006).

1975 – Kim tried again to get China to provide aid to a North Korean nuclear weapons program in 1974. Then in the late 1970s Kim instructed the ministry of nuclear weapons program, which included the rapid expansion of the Yongbyon facilities. Heading the program was Lee Sung Ki, doctorate in engineering from Kyoto imperial university in pre war Japan. He served as dean of Seoul’s national university college of engineering and developed Vinalon a synthetic fibre made from coal. During the Korean war he defected from the south to the north, where he became primary scientific advisor, other key members of the early work Korean nuclear weapons effort included Do Sang Rok and Han In Suk. (Spying on the bomb. ©2006 JT Richelson).

Nov 1976 – Canada sold nuclear reactors to South Korea and Argentina at the Canadian state corporation, expenses of ten million dollars in connection with these nuclear sales, part of them paid into bank accounts in Switzerland and Liechtenstein. There were clearly prospects for bribery to boost nuclear sales.

1978 – The boat “Anoa” formerly called the “Choryo Mau” was salvaged from the Wellington harbour in New Zealand. A former Korean fishing boat, which was used by Mr Asia for drug smuggling in 1978. (Mr Asia ©2010 Aust J Shepherd).

26 Oct 1978 – Detection of a third underground tunnel, made by North Korea to attack South Korea. Wikipedia.

Sept 1982 – In the early 1980’s in a step towards developing nuclear weapons. North Korea began work on a 20 to 30 megawatt rector in the Yongbyon area near the Soviet supplied reactor. The graphite moderated, gas cooled reactor was well suited to be producing plutonium, requiring neither enriched uranium or heavy water. By Sept 1982 construction began on the new reactors nuclear core and the nuclear control building. By the end of 1984 the reactors cylindrical smokestack could be seen and other buildings were near completion. (Spying on the bomb ©2006 JT Richelson).

Sept 1983 – The Soviets shot down a civilian Korean airlines flight. A stockpile of plutonium for a nuclear bomb.

2 Sept 1983 – The Monitor archives. Alaska dispatch news. Shootdown of Korean Air flight KAL007. Dan Murphy. Christian Science monitor 23 July 2014.

11 Sept 1983 – A Korean airlines plane was shot down and 269 people were killed.

9 Oct 1983 – North Korean hit squad agents blew up a delegation from South Korea in Rangoon Burma, killing 21 people and injuring 48.

Nov 1983 – Grenada signed a secret military pact with North Korea, whose interests in the Caribbean were unclear. By 9 Nov 1983 15 North Koreans were returned to their country from Grenada. (American wars. ©2003 P Huchthausen).

1986 – Advisors from North Korea were thought to be in Libya. (Americas wars ©2003 Huchthausen).

1986 – Reactor operations began in the Yongbyon area near the Soviet supplied reactor. (Spying on the bomb ©2006 JT Richelson).

14 Sept 1986 – Kimpo airport bombing. North Korean agents detonated an explosive device at Seoul’s Kimpo airport killing 5 people and injuring 29 others.

29 Nov 1987 – Downing of airliner. North Korean agents planted a bomb on Korean airlines flight 858, which then crashed into the Indian ocean.

1990 – Carter J Eckert. Korea old and new history. Wikipedia.

1990 – Bruce Cummings. The origins of the Korean war 1947-50. Princeton uni press.

1991 – By 1991 North Korea had nuclear activities spread out across its territory. Uranium was being mined at two locations. Hungnam in the south and along the sea of Japan at Pyongsan in the far south. Pyongsan may also have been the home to a uranium enrichment facility. Apparently the sole site for uranium refining was Kusong in the west which had a daily capacity of 660 poundso f uranium ore. Nuclear research activities were conducted in three locations. Kimch’eak located on the east coast, in Pyongybon and at Yongbyon. Yongbyon, Yong-Dong territory to its west 55 miles north of Pyongyang. Renamed the center of research activities. O.1 megawatt critical assembly, the Soviet supplied research reactor had been upgraded to 8 megawatts and a 30 megawatt reactor. (Spying on the bomb ©2006 Richelson).

1994 – Chen Jian. China’s road to the Korean war. The making of the Sino American confrontation. New York Columbia uni press.

1995 – Inside Hanoi’s secret , Solving the MIA mystery. Malcolm McConnell. Secret medical experiments conducted on American POWs in Korea. Google books.

1995 – William Stueck. The Korean war an international history. Princeton uni press.

1995 – Keith Howard. Stories of the Korean comfort women. New York Cassells.

1995 – Agency for national security planning. ANSP was the successor agency to South Korea’s Central intel agency KCIA. (Espionage (c)1995 E Volkman).

1995 – Shu Guang Zhang. Mao’s military romanticism. China and the Korean war 1950 to 1953. Lawrence uni press of Kansas.

1996 – Eijoh report. Kim Ung Yong. Japans invasion of Korea, from diplomatic accounts.

1 Oct 1996 – The assassination of South Korean consul in Vladivostok Russia. Assailants attacked and killed a South Korean consul, near his residence. No one claimed responsibility. But South Korea said the attack was professional by North Koreans.

10 Dec 1996 – Paranoia and threat of cold war. The Soviet pilot who shot down a Korean airliner in 1983 convinced the plane was on a spying mission. Michael Gorde. The Guardian UK.

1997-98 – North Korea’s Kumchanguri site, 25 miles northeast of Yongbyom, tunnels and digging for a huge underground complex involving 15,000 workers digging into the mountain. (Spying on the bomb ©206 Richelson).

17 June 1997 – 60 orphans starved to death says Unicef official North Korea. Conor O’Clery. The Irish Times Dublin.

1999 – Baghdad tried to smuggle banned ballistic missile technology from North Korea. Saddam signed a secret 1999 contract with Kim Jong Ji to buy upgraded technology from the long range No-Dong missile. The Iraqi’s handed over $US10 million in advance then waited for delivery. (Chch press NZ Sunday Times 6 Oct 2003).

7 Feb 1999 – North Korea Daily Socialist ideology. BBC London UK. Master of Socialist society. Socialist system.

14 March 2000 – South Korea, six members of a Socialist group were arrested. BBC London UK. International Socialism IS group.

April 2000 – The US imposed sanctions on North Korea’s Ch’angguag Shinyong company for selling missile tech to Syria. (Bill Gates. China, North Korea hit with sanctions. Washington Times 28 June 2001).

29 June 2000 – North Korea Socialist industrial. BBC London UK. Pyongyang 1956 DPRK.

Aug 2000 to Sept 2001 – The CIA said that Syria continues to work towards developing and producing a solid propellant rocket motor capability. North Korea and Russia continue to provide equipment and assistance for Syria’s liquid propellant missile program. The CIA also said that Syria continues towards building liquid fueled Scud-C missiles with assistance from North Korea. (Anthony H Cordesman. Weapons of mass destruction in the Middle East. Centre for strategic and int studies 15 April 2003).

21 Aug 2000 – North Korean party. Socialist planned economy. BBC London UK. Socialist economy.

24 Feb 2001 – North Korean radio Socialist policies. BBC London UK. Socialist red flag in the 21^st.

2002 – William Stueck, rethinking the Korean war. A new diplomatic and military history. Princeton uni press.

18 May 2002 – North Korea opium. Weekend Australian Canberra ACT.

Oct 2002 – North Korea first admitted having a covert program to enrich uranium for nuclear weapons. In Dec it expelled IAEA inspectors. In Feb it restarted a nuclear reactor at Yongbyon facility beginning the process necessary for nuclear weapons production.

1 May 2003 – Fears drug trail leads to North Korea. Darren Gooder. Shane Green.Tokyo. Sydney Morning Herald NSW.

14 Oct 2003 – South Koreans implicated in Russian Mafia crab smuggling operation. BBC London. Russian Mafia bank accounts. Japanese Mafia Yakuza now in Korea.

3 March 2004 – China, politburo member Wang Zhaoguo vistis Socialist. BBC London UK. Kim Il Sung Socialist youth league.

15 Oct 2004 – South Korean daily reports, North Korea expands opium farms and sells drugs via China. BBC London.

2005 – The history of Korea. Chun gil Kim. Google books.

2005 – Two US investigators involved in operations “Royal chain” and “Smoking dragon” netted $4 million in 'supernotes' from North Korea. Forged US dollars. (The end of money. David Wolman (c)2012 US).

10 June 2005 – Socialist principles. Economic management. North Korean Daily. BBC London UK.

2 July 2005 – North Korean paper says army embody Socialism. BBC London UK. The peoples army PNA and Socialist patriotism.

25 Sept 2005 – South Korea lawmaker urges tougher law against trade in narcotics ingredients. BBC London.

31 Oct 2005 – North Korean party Socialist. BBC London UK.

2006 – MKULTRA was funded by the CIA. Events in Korea. Brainwashing. Leonard Rubenstein article in the New York Times. Soldiers in Korea and torture. (Brainwash. Dominic Streatfield ©2006 UK).

1 Jan 2006 – North Korean Socialists. BBC London UK. Organ of Kim Ill Sung Socialist youth league.

3 August 2006 – The Taepodong-2 is the product of joint efforts with Tehran coinciding with Iran’s development of the Shehab-5 and 6, possibly design and technology from China, which has arms trade with Iran. The North is building a missile command base, 50km north of the DMZ, for as many as 30 mobile launch pads for the shorter range scud type Huasong missiles that can hit military and industrial targets deep in the south. (Reuters).

3 August 2006 – With the deployment of Rodong and SSN-6 missiles and the aim to deploy the Taepodong-2, North Korea is constructing new silos on the east coast and on the border with China. (Reuters).

3 August 2006 – Pyonyang has allegedly sold a total of 500 scuds to Iran, Libya, Syria, Egypt and Yemen. A small number of scuds to Vietnam and Sudan. 50 to 100 Rodong missiles to Iran, Pakistan and Libya. A scud missile could fetch $2 million US. A Rodong missile $4 million US, a Taepodog-2 $20 million US dollars. (Channel news Asia).

6 August 2006 – North Korean experts were bought into Lebanon in the guise of domestic servants by Iranian diplomats, and by staff of Iranian reps and officers in Lebanon. Hezbollah has managed to build a tunnel 25km.

11 Sept 2006 – North Korea planning A-bomb test.

9 Oct 2006 – Shots fired along the Korean border. Nuclear concerns.

12 Oct 2006 – Trader nabbed for smuggling nuke material 15 tons of potassium bifluoride to a middle eastern country.

16 Oct 2006 – Japanese police official warns of possible terror attacks by North Korea. North Korea will test H-bomb.

1 Nov 2006 – North Korea has a network of secret nuclear villages, secret towns with thousands of guarded residents, whose job is to develop nuclear weapons.,

4 Nov 2006 – Recently Daniel and Humberto Ortega of Nicaragua paid official state visits to North Korea seeking assistance and formal relations.

9 Nov 2006 – Seoul says North may have plutonium for 7 bombs.

19 Nov 2006 – Former Iraq weapons inspector, North Korea will perfect nuclear bombs.

29 Nov 2006 – Seoul South Korea sending non combat peacekeeping troops to Lebanon. North Korea China talks, six party talks, Japanese in Beijing, US Christopher Hill meetings, restarting the disarmament talks. North Korean negotiator Kim. (9645khz VOA 1.40 NZ local time).

8 Jan 2007 – North Korean paper Socialist economic power. BBC London UK. Powerful Socialist state.

19 Jan 2007 – North Koreas second highest leader, President Kim Yong Nam of the supreme peoples assembly, met with Iranian vice foreign minister Mahdi Safari for friendly talks. (Geopolitical diary).

12 June 2007 – North Korea Socialist patriotism. BBC London UK. Pyongyang.

4 Sept 2007 – North Korea Kim Il Sung thesis on Socialist education (propaganda). BBC London UK. Juche.

17 Oct 2007 – North Korean website. US CIA spy on Socialists. BBC London UK. Spying on Socialists since 1950. Socialists.

7 Nov 2007 – North Koran website, role in Socialist economy. BBC London UK. Socialist politics.

11 Feb 2009 – North Korean Socialists. BBC London UK. Socialist state system.

12 Aug 2009 – South Korea says drugs by foreigners tripled in 2008. BBC London Heroin and cocaine.

25 Sept 2009 – Richard Read. South Korean company to buy Eugene Hynix plant. Hire 1,000. Oregonian US.

18 Nov 2009 – South Korea to put paedophiles details online. ABC Sydney. The identity of paedophiles are to go on the internet. (Comfort children).

2010 – Luxembourg links, laddering was used as an excuse to harbour North Korean money. (Nicholas Shaxson. Treasure islands (c)2011 UK).

4 Sept 2010 – North Korean party organ Socialist patriotism. BBC London UK. Pyongyang Socialist North Korea.

27 Dec 2010 – North Korean party organ Socialist conditions. 38^th anniversary of the Socialist country. Socialist system DPRK Korean workers party.

16 Nov 2011 – Korea urges Japan to agree to talks on wartime sex slaves. Arirang global TV National Korea.

2012 – From war waif to ideal immigrant. The cold war transformation of the Korean orphan. Arissa H Oh. Journal of American ethnic history.

9 Sept 2012 – North Korea Socialist nature of country. BBC London UK. Socialist state DPRK.

27 Nov 2012 – North Korean leader wants a stop to anti-Socialist activities. BBC London UK. Kim Jong Un, the Socialist system.

20 Nov 2013 – North Korean paper ideology Socialist. BBC London UK. Socialist party power. Armed with Socialist ideas.

4 July 2014 – South Korean lawmakers adopt two anti-Japan resolutions. Global post. The 1993 statement has been deemed an official apology for Japans force of Asian and other women, mainly Korean and Chinese, into sex slavery.

15 Aug 2014 – Opium growing near North Korean border floods China. BBC London. Opium fields Hoeryong. Trafficking North Korean opium into northeast China Liaoning.

16 Sept 2014 – Foreigners Socialist North Korean, State run news agency. BBC London UK. Socialist North Korean power.

31 Oct 2014 – Ministry blasted for neglect of sex slavery websites. The Korea Herald. Claire Lee. 50 survivors in South Korea.

20 Nov 2014 – Putin backs closer ties with North Korea. Thomas Grove. Stuff.co.nz. UN report, torture, starvation and abuse of human rights.

17 Dec 2014 – US Congressman here on sex slavery mission. The Korea Times news Seoul.

28 Dec 2014 – Seoul and Tokyo to discuss sex slavery. The Korea Times news Seoul.

2015 – On 6 Feb 2002 in testimony before the US senate select committee on intel CIA Director George Tenet said North Korea is exporting ballistic missiles and missile components to countries like Iran, Libya, Syria and Egypt. Tenet said North Korea could have a ballistic missile that could reach the US by 2015, and that North Korea has enough plutonium for one or two nuclear bombs. North Korea is using the profits from its missile exports to further develop its missiles and covertly develop WMD. (James Risen. A nation challenged. The threats, al Qaeda still able to strike US. Head of CIA says New York Times 7 Feb 2002). (AP countries, groups and others that are considered risks to US security. St Petersberg Times 7 Feb 2002).

5 Jan 2015 – Book experiences of comfort women published. The Korea Times Seoul. Accounts from 12 victims of sex slavery by the Japanese military before and during world war two, was published. Kim Se-Jeong, the book is also available online. At least 200,000 women were raped into sex slavery in brothels.

26 Jan 2015 – Adoption and adoptees. Aljazeera. Started in 1950, hundreds of thousands of Korean babies were adopted by the US, Sweden, Australia and other countries.

11 Feb 2015 – 100 car pile up in South Korea. Two people dead and 65 injured. TVNZ.

5 March 2015 – WTMA. US General warns that North Korean missiles are a threat to the US. CNN.

31 July 2015 – Wall Sreet Journal. South Korean tycoon consolidates power from behind bars. Twitter.