I caught the yesterday's North Korea gulag story that wave could travel through most of the Western media, so here is the new BBC link to this report by a Hannara Party lawmaker of 154,000 political prisoners locked up in an archipelago of at least six camps across the DPRK (Yonhap story here). Other than that, it's a slow news day. Like as if all the major news outlets — and not just the Korean ones — decided to take Saturday and Sunday off. And that's why I'm leading with a Kim Yuna sports story.
- In Paris, Kim Yuna leads at Grand Prix figure skating series opener of the 2009-2010 season (Yonhap, Korea Times)
- Government says classified information on dangerous chemicals stolen by hackers who broke into South Korean army computer network in a move that could have been orchestrated by North Korea (Yonhap, Korea Times)
- Seven-year-old boy is the nation's eighteenth H1N1 fatality (Yonhap, Korea Times)
- Government report says more working women are quitting jobs to take care of their children (Korea Herald)
- Koreans detained in foreign countries tops 1000 (Korea Times)
- Chinese premier Wen Jiabao declined to sign DPRK aid bill worth billions of dollars because of lack of clear statement on Pyongyang’s willingness to return to six-nation nuclear disarmament talks (WSJ)
- Lotte to pay $635 million to buy Chinese supermarket Times to facilitate expansion into China (WSJ)
- Beverly the Beaver, the celebrated Tennessee rodent noted for carving jack-o-lanterns, killed and eaten by hillbillies in tragic roadkill mishap
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