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...Shorter “not-so-tall” buildings (roughly 25 storeys or less) can have a similar foundation which uses a shallower unconsolidated Pleistocene bearing stratum (Haeger Formation) where the base...
...If the reality of no sleep is bleak and scratchy, the big-screen version as experienced by police detective Hae-jun (Park Hae-il) is rarely less than gorgeous. Such is the magic of cinema....
...Decision to Leave is a tightly knotted thriller in which a Chinese femme-fatale widow (Tang Wei) runs rings around a besotted Busan detective (Park Hae-il)....
...“It is a business based on religion,” said Tak Ji-il, a professor at Busan Presbyterian University....
...They point to the case of Yi Han Yong, the nephew of Kim Jong Il — Kim Jong Un’s father — who defected in 1982....
...Under such circumstances, analysts have suggested that Choe Ryong Hae, a senior political figure and longtime ally of Kim Jong Il who has had recent responsibility for the country’s armed forces, could also...
...Lee Ji-ho’s name has been changed at the request of his parents...
...“The arrest rate is too low,” said Kang Chang-il, a legislator with the ruling Democratic party. “The possibility of retaliation is very high in domestic violence cases reported to the police.”...
...Speaking at the parade, Choe Ryong-hae, the country’s second-most powerful man, accused the US of “creating a war situation” on the Korean peninsula....
...Mr Kim oversaw the festivities on the Day of the Sun at Pyongyang’s main Kim Il Sung Square....
...The four North Korean suspects were named as Ri Ji Hyon, 33, Hong Song Hac, 34, O Jong Gil, 55, and Ri Jae Nam, 57....
...“The government is making all-out efforts to minimise damage and loss of consignors,” said Yoo Il-ho, finance minister....
...Mr Choe, son of a guerrilla comrade of North Korea’s first leader Kim Il Sung, was granted a host of lofty titles after Kim Jong Un took power four years ago....
...For Im Cheon Il, a diplomat, there has never been a better time to invite Russian children to spend their holidays at a North Korean youth camp....
...With speeches promising higher living standards, the world’s youngest national leader has broken with the dry style of his father Kim Jong Il, who stressed a “military first” agenda and never gave a public...
...Mr Jang’s rise to power began in the early 1970s when he married Kim Kyung Hui, daughter of North Korea’s then leader Kim Il Sung....
...Pyongyang state media said Choe Ryong-hae, vice-marshal of the Korean People's Army, had arrived in China as a "special envoy" of Mr Kim, North Korea's supreme leader....
...Mr Ri had already been subordinated to a civilian official, Choi Ryong-hae, in a move that weakened the grip of a group of elderly generals on the regime’s top positions....
...In April, overall control of the armed forces was given to Choi Ryong-hae, the official in charge of the general political bureau, which ensures ideological conformity in the military....
...Earlier this month Mr Kim ousted the army chief of staff, Ri Yong-ho – three months after subordinating him to Choi Ryong-hae, a political rather than military figure....
...Kim Jong-il, the former North Korean leader who died last December, had assigned Ri Yong-ho, a childhood friend, to mentor his son Kim Jong-eun as he prepared to take over the running of the country....
...The police this week delivered a comic book called Ji-yong goes time travelling to schoolchildren aged between 10 and 15....
...Mrs Song used to love cleaning the portraits of Kim Il-sung, North Korea’s founder, and Kim Jong-il, his son....
...Park Ji-won, a close aide to the late Kim, said the North’s delegation would carry a wreath from Kim Jong-il and visit for two days....
...The North has brought Kim Jong-woon forward and pledged loyalty,” Park Ji-won, a parliamentarian in South Korea’s National Intelligence Committee told a radio programme....
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