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S. Korea and U.S. beef up monitoring and surveillance on N. Korea
South Korea and the United States' military have stepped up their monitoring and surveillance of North Korea amid speculation of a possible provocation by Pyongyang in the coming days. A military official in Seoul told Yonhap News Agency on Sunday that there is no sign of any imminent provocation, but that some act...
2017-10-08 15:33:30 KST -
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N. Korean embassies go all out to scramble for cash: NYT
It appears North Korea is still managing to find ways around the tough international sanctions, and maintain an influx of revenue. According to a New York Times report, some 40 embassies of the hermit kingdom are used for an array of profit-making ventures. While the regime has been skilled at ensuring such activ...
2017-10-08 14:05:48 KST -
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U.S. President Trump on North Korea: 'Only one thing will work'
President Trump says 25 years of agreements with North Korea have failed, and only one thing will work in dealing with the regime. On Saturday, Trump tweeted that previous administrations had talked to Pyongyang, but agreements were violated and US negotiators were made fool of. Later in the day, the President...
2017-10-08 14:05:48 KST -
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North Korea may test long-range missile soon: Russian lawmaker
North Korea is reportedly preparing to test a long-range missile. This according to a Russian lawmaker, who returned from a visit to Pyongyang this week. Russian news agency RIA Novosti cited Anton Morozov, a member of the Russian lower house of parliament's international affairs committee, as saying North Korea i...
2017-10-07 14:45:58 KST -
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S. Korea monitoring N. Korea for potential provocations amid key anniversaries: Official
No clear signs yet, but South Korea remains on guard. That's the word out of the presidential office in Seoul amid fears North Korea might conduct a provocation ahead of the founding anniversary of its ruling party. There are two key days to keep an eye on. Firstly, Sunday marks exactly 20 years since late former ...
2017-10-07 14:45:50 KST -
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Russian lawmaker says North Korea may test long-range missile
Our top story this afternoon North Korea is reportedly planning to test a missile, which the regime believes can reach the west coast of the United States. This is according to a Russian lawmaker, who was just in Pyongyang. Russian news agency RIA Novosti quotes Anton Morozov, a member of the Russian lower house ...
2017-10-07 09:24:00 KST -
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Seoul says N. Korea should not infringe property rights of S. Korean companies within Kaesong complex
South Korea says Pyongyang should not infringe on the property rights of South Korean companies that had been doing business at the now-closed Kaesong industrial complex, where most firms left behind facilities and equipment. The remarks from Seoul come after Pyongyang indicated that it may have resumed operatio...
2017-10-07 09:03:48 KST -
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N. Korea claims rights to ownership of inter-Korean complex
The inter-Korean industrial complex in Kaesong has resumed operations, according to Pyongyang's state-run propaganda website. Uriminzokkiri announced the factories will run more actively, amid speculation the regime re-started production using South Korean equipment left behind at the site. It claims other c...
2017-10-06 12:16:42 KST -
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U.S. senators call for N. Korea to be listed as state sponsor of terrorism
A dozen U.S. senators have sent a letter to the State Department asking that North Korea be added back to Washington's list of state terrorism sponsors, The move is partly driven by the parents of Otto Warmbier, an American college student who died after being detained by the rogue state for over a year. Not...
2017-10-06 10:37:47 KST -
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N. Korean nuke attack on Seoul, Tokyo could take more than 2 million lives: 38 North
More than 2 million people could die should Pyongyang launch nuclear attacks on the capitals of South Korea and Japan. That's according to Michael J. Zagurek Junior who shared his analysis of such a scenario through a report released via 38 North. His calculations were based on the assumption that the nuclear warhe...
2017-10-05 16:05:48 KST -
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Putin personally told about N. Korea's nuclear arms capability in 2001 by Kim Jong-il
Russian President Vladimir Putin claims he has been aware of North Korea's nuclear arms capability as far back as the year 2001. According to media reports Putin said he was informed of Pyongyang's nuclear arsenal during his short visit to North Korea in 2001 four years before the regime officially claimed it had nu...
2017-10-05 12:15:31 KST -
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North Korea diplomat to meet ex-U.S. officials at Moscow conference: Report
A senior North Korean diplomat is expected to meet former American government officials on the sidelines of an international conference in Moscow later this month. Radio Free Asia reports that Choe Son-hui, Pyongyang's North America bureau chief, will be attending the 2017 Moscow Nonproliferation Conference which s...
2017-10-05 09:10:29 KST
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