Shin Jong-dae, professor at the University of North Korean Studies in Seoul, said the launches were likely a means of drawing attention from the international community.
An engineering graduate of the prestigious Seoul National University, Yun joined Samsung Electronics straight out of college 35 years ago.
Nam joined LG right out of Seoul National University, the country's best school, in 1976.
But the announcement made this week by Woo Suk Hwang, of Seoul National University in South Korea, and his colleagues, is serious.
"North Korea intends to show off its missile capability and continuously raise tensions on the Korean peninsula, " said Yang Moo-jin, a professor at the University of North Korean Studies in Seoul.
"Therapeutic cloning has tremendous, tremendous healing potential, but we have to open so many doors before human trials, " lead researcher Hwang Woo-suk of Seoul National University said in a telephone interview.
From almost 40% a decade ago, it fell to 27% in 2008, according to a recent paper by Soyoung Kim of Seoul National University, as well as Jong-Wha Lee and Cyn-Young Park of the Asian Development Bank.
Shin Jong-dae, a professor at the University of North Korean Studies in Seoul, said the launches were likely an effort to draw attention of the international community, particularly the U.S. "North Korea is an expert at crisis diplomacy, or crisis marketing, " Mr. Shin said.
That's according to Kyung-Min Kim, a professor of political science and diplomacy at Hanyang University in Seoul who in 1992 became the first foreigner to study at the Japanese Institute of Defense Studies.
Hwang Sang-min, a professor of psychology at Yonsei University in Seoul, argues that Korean society's strong focus on appearances having the right education, job or perceived level of success is a big factor in the high suicide rate.
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"The point they're trying to make is the leadership is pretty stable, " said Choi Jong-kun, professor of international relations at Yonsei University in Seoul.
Hwang apologized publicly in January 2006 after a panel of scientists from Seoul National University found he had not derived human stem cells from eggs, as he claimed.
"For North Korea, Bae is a bargaining chip in dealing with the US, " Koh Yu-hwan, a professor of North Korean Studies at Dongguk University in Seoul told Associated Press news agency.
The relative stabilization of the North Korean economy "formed a background for a backlash against the market-oriented institutions and activities that were grudgingly tolerated for a period of time, " wrote Andrei Lankov, a professor of North Korean history at Kookmin University in Seoul, in a study released this week.
The research was conducted by Woo Suk Hwang , a professor at Seoul National University, and Gerald Schatten of the University of Pittsburgh, and the results are published in the current issue of Science.
Work on the machine was carried out by researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University in the US, and Seoul National University in South Korea.
That tough stance, while worrying to some, is likely to be a kind of "pre-emptive rhetorical deterrence", according to analysts such as John Delury, a professor of International Studies at Seoul's Yonsei University.
Researchers at Sungkyunkwan University in Seoul, South Korea, have developed a novel method of turning sound into electricity, and the technology could soon be used to charge our mobile phones with nothing more than the power of the human voice, reports the Telegraph.
On Monday morning, the President will deliver remarks at Hankuk University in Seoul on his ongoing commitment to our continued efforts to stop the spread of nuclear weapons.
In the final report produced on Tuesday by Seoul National University, they did indicate that Hwang was on to something with the creation of human blastocytes, early embryos, but what he had done had been quite unstable.
Jungmin Lee, an economist at Sogang University in Seoul who has studied Olympic judging, suggests a fix beyond the scoring system: increasing the number of judges.
RNL-Bio began its cloning work in cooperation with Seoul National University in Korea, where Hwang Woo-suk, the controversial professor later found guilty of scientific fraud, produced the first cloned dog, Snuppy.
To do so, researchers at Seoul National University injected the DNA from the 11 gene donors--males and females from the ages of 2 to 56--into 185 eggs donated by 18 women.
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