The IRE Resource Center is a major research library containing more than 23,250 investigative stories — both print and broadcast. These stories are searchable online or by contacting the Resource Center directly (573-882-3364 or rescntr@ire.org) where a researcher can help you pinpoint what you need. Browse or search the tipsheet section of our library below. Stories are not available for download but can be easily ordered by contacting the Resource Center:
Search results for "North Korea" ...
-
Jenkins Photo Proof of Kidnapping?
The web report address the practice in North Korea of kidnapping citizens of other Asian nations and holding them against their will in North Korea. The story focuses on the case of a Thai woman.
Tags: North Korea; espionage; Thailand; Anocha Panjoy; Kidnapping; Robert Jenkins
-
Nuclear Terror
The CNN Presents Team went to Pakistan, Korea, Hong Kong Macau, Russia, and across the US for this report, talking to current and former intelligence officials, government sources, and scholars in this field. These experts pointed CNN to three countries they feared cold be the source of nuclear material for terrorists: Russia, Pakistan, and North Korea.
Tags: nuclear terrorism; nuclear weapons; nuclear war; dirty bomb
-
Gulag Nation
This story chronicles the systematic human rights abuses at North Korean prisons, also called gulags. The author spoke with survivors and ex-prison workers who illustrate a horrific story of abuse and torture. Kim Jong Il and his regime deny that the camps exist, and up until very recently most other countries have ignored them.
Tags: torture; prisoners; North Korea; dictator
-
Weapons of Mass Destruction
Lewis Simons and Lynn Johnson travel around the world to give weapons of mass destruction a human face. They visit with survivors of Hiroshima, bio-weapon scientists from Russia and government officials in Iran. The piece attempts to quantify and qualify the threat of a biological, chemical or nuclear attack on the United States but the authors conclude it's practically impossible.
Tags: weapons of mass destruction; biological; chemical; nuclear; Russia; United States; terrorism; military; Iran; Iraq; Syria; Pakistan; India; Israel; Egypt; China; North Korea; Soviet Union; Hiroshima; death; anthrax; plague; smallpox; fear; panic; destruction
-
Clear and present danger
The Washington Post Magazine describes the disastrous epidemics that can ensue, if smallpox is ever used as a biological weapon. The story reveals that smallpox is known as a highly contageous ancient scourge, which "has killed countless millions." The article focuses on the expert knowledge of Ken Alibek, former second-in-command manager of Biopreparat, the Soviet Union's vast biological weapons program. "Bioterrrism experts now believe the smallox virus exists in clandestine biowarfare laboratories in at least three, and possibly more, countries," the magazine reports. The article depicts the symptoms of the deadly disease, and warns about the unbelievable speed that infection can spread with.
Tags: Biopreparat; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; World Health Organization; defense; research; Russia; Iraq; North Korea; variola; immunization; pox; epidemics
-
Visit to a Small Planet
"North Koreans worship their dead dictator, Kim Il Sung, and his son the reigning Kim Jong Il, despite the surreal nightmare of famine, isolation, repression, and nuclear peril the dynasty has spawned. In Pyongyang, the author wonders whether mass delusion is the only thing that keeps a people sane."
-
No title (id: 9411)
Morning News Tribune (Tacoma, Wash.) looks at the POW-MIA issue and reveals how the U.S. Government knowingly abandoned hundreds of U.S. POWs in the Soviet Union after World War II, Korea, the Cold War and Vietnam; also reveals that Americans were left in China, North Korea and Southeast Asia, 1992.
Tags: WA Sauter CAJ
-
No title (id: 8204)
CNN Special Assignment (Atlanta) reports on the shipment of long-range Scud-C missiles to Syria by North Korea, which are capable of striking any point within Israel; also finds that Iran and Libya are being supplied with the missiles and that Iran is in the process of a large arms buildup, March 1991.
Tags: TAPE
-
Wars in the 1990s: Growing Firepower in the Third World.
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists tracks the proliferation of weapons in Third World countries; there is a growing risk that military encounters among these nations could cause massive destruction and escalate into nuclear war, May 1990.
Tags: Israel Libya North Korea Pakistan Saudi Arabia South Africa South Korea Syria Taiwan Turkey