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S. Korea, France agree on strong sanctions against N. Korea

PARIS/SEOUL -- The foreign ministers of South Korea and France held talks Monday during which they agreed on strong sanctions that would lead North Korea to talks on denuclearization. South Korean Foreign Minister Kang Kyung-wha and her French counterpart Jean-Yves Le Drian also agreed that North Korea's nuclear and missile programs are one of the top threats for the global community. Kang said at a press conference that North Korea's repeated provocations and advances in its nuclear capability

Trump says ‘totally prepared’ for military action; North nixes six-party talks

US President Donald Trump on Sunday renewed the possibility of military action against North Korea, while the North‘s senior diplomat refused to return to long-stalled six-nation talks for denuclearization unless the US’ attitude changes. US President Donald Trump (AP-Yonhap)Trump said he is “totally prepared” to use military force against the rogue regime if necessary, in an interview with Fox News on Sunday. The remark follows a series of bellicose rhetoric between the US president and Pyongy

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S. Korea probing NK defector couple's possible escape to Pyongyang

South Korea is looking into the whereabouts of a North Korean defector couple amid speculation that they may have voluntarily returned to North Korea via China, Seoul's unification ministry said Monday.A local cable TV channel reported Sunday that the 30-something defector couple could not be reached after they left for China in mid-October."As they fell out of touch after leaving for China, authorities are investigating the case," Baik Tae-hyun, ministry spokesman, told a regular press briefing

Oct 23, 2017
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US focused on using diplomatic, economic pressure against N. Korea’s nuke program

The United States is focused on diplomatic and economic pressure to denuclearize North Korea, the acting US ambassador to South Korea said Monday, reaffirming the US commitment to its security alliance with Seoul."Together we and the Republic of Korea are facing the most acute threat which is North Korea, and the threats posed by North Korea's unlawful ballistic missile and nuclear programs are grave," Marc Knapper, acting US ambassador to South Korea, said in a speech to the first ROK-US Joint

Oct 23, 2017
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Sweden urges N. Korea repay 43-yr-old debts: report

Sweden has said North Korea is not responding to demands for the repayment of debts it has owed for more than 40 years, Voice of America reported Monday.Citing the 2016 annual report compiled by the Swedish Export Credit Agency, VOA's Korean Service said North Korea's debts to Sweden currently amount to SEK 2.7 billion (around $330 million) and account for 45 percent of the entire debt owed by 16 countries to Sweden.The report also said that among the debtors, only North Korea has never implemen

Oct 23, 2017
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Ex-US president Carter wants to go to N. Korea for Trump: report

WASHINGTON -- Former US president Jimmy Carter is willing to go to North Korea to broker negotiations over its nuclear weapons program, the New York Times reported Sunday.In an interview at his home in Georgia, the 93-year-old Democrat said he made his intention known to President Donald Trump's national security adviser, H.R. McMaster, but has so far received a negative response."I would go, yes," Carter told the Times. "I told him (McMaster) that I was available if they ever need me."The forme

Oct 23, 2017
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Trump: US 'totally prepared' for N. Korea threat

WASHINGTON -- US President Donald Trump said his country is "totally prepared" to respond to North Korea in the wake of its nuclear and ballistic missile threats.In an interview aired Sunday on Fox News, Trump made clear that he would use military action against Pyongyang if necessary."You would be shocked to see how totally prepared we are if we need to be," he said. "Would it be nice not to do that? The answer is yes."Tensions reached new levels in recent months as Trump and North Korean leade

Oct 23, 2017
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Ex-CIA director says nuclear war with N. Korea unlikely

WASHINGTON -- The United States is unlikely to go to nuclear war with North Korea despite the recent escalation in tensions, a former director of the Central Intelligence Agency said Sunday.David Petraeus, who served in the Barack Obama administration from 2011-2012, said he thinks US President Donald Trump has been using tough rhetoric with North Korea to get the attention of the leadership in China, not in Pyongyang."This is about getting President Xi's attention ... so that China will really

Oct 23, 2017
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North Korea may be mass producing biological weapons: report

North Korea may be mass producing biological weapons in a research lab that studies agricultural chemicals, Pyongyang Bio-Technical Institute, a US media outlet reported Saturday, citing an academic report.Radio Free Asia cited a report released by Belfer Center of Harvard University’s Kennedy School in October, which says the communist state already has biological weapons and its industrial facilities are able to produce such weapons. This photo shows Kim Jong-un looking around the Pyongyang B

Oct 23, 2017
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NK will not resume six party talks without change in US policies

North Korea will not return to the six party talks unless issues with the US are resolved, a high level North Korean diplomat said Saturday. According to reports citing participants of the Moscow Nonproliferation Conference, North Korean Foreign Ministry’s Director General of North America Affairs Choi Sun-hee said that Pyongyang will not return to six party talks, and that the country will only negotiate with the US. North Korean Foreign Ministry’s Director General of North America Affairs Choi

Oct 23, 2017
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Pyongyang won‘t return to six-party talks until change in Washington’s attitude: NK diplomat

MOSCOW -- A North Korean diplomat has said that Pyongyang will not return to multilateral talks until it resolves issues with the United States, a source said Sunday. Choe Son-hui, director-general of the North American department of North Korea's foreign ministry, made the remark during a session at an international forum on nonproliferation in Moscow on Saturday, according to the source who attended the event.The current crisis on the Korean Peninsula is due to the United States' hostile poli

Oct 22, 2017
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Seoul‘s top diplomat says NK quickly approaching completion of nuke armament

South Korea's top diplomat has said North Korea is quickly reaching the stage of possessing complete nuclear capabilities, as she visited Europe to seek international cooperation on the issue. In an interview with Yonhap News Agency in Brussels on Saturday, Foreign Minister Kang Kyung-wha also said North Korea is prepared to carry out additional provocations at any time. "Parts of its tunnel have been destroyed after the North conducted the sixth nuclear test, but it has more than one of them so

Oct 22, 2017
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N. Korea's top university to admit more foreign students

Kim Il Sung University, North Korea's most prestigious seat of higher learning, plans to open its doors wider to foreign students by expanding major studies available for them, a pro-Pyongyang newspaper published in Japan said Saturday.According to the Choson Sinbo, international students will be allowed to major in various economics and social science studies, including philosophy, law and history, in addition to literature, at Kim Il Sung University, starting next year. (Yonhap)At present, abo

Oct 21, 2017
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Trump visit to DMZ could provoke N. Korea: US expert

North Korea could feel threatened if U.S. President Donald Trump visits the demilitarized zone on the inter-Korean border next month, a U.S. expert said Friday.Trump could include a trip to the buffer zone dividing South and North Korea when he visits Seoul from Nov. 7-8, according to news reports. There are concerns it could provoke Pyongyang amid high tensions over its nuclear weapons and ballistic missile programs.(Yonhap)“They’re seeing almost everything as a threat,” Sue Mi Terry, a former

Oct 21, 2017
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S. Korea does not have the right to talk about visits to Kaesong: NK

North Korea said Friday that South Korea is not entitled to permit its nationals to visit the inter-Korean complex in the North’s border city of Kaesong, amid signs of a unilateral resumption of its operation by the North. Meanwhile, Seoul’s Unification Ministry deferred a plan to deliver to the North the visitation request of a group of businessmen who ran factories at Kaesong industrial park. (Yonhap)“South Korea does not have the right, reason, nor honor to talk about the issues surrounding

Oct 21, 2017
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