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May 24, 2019 North Korea

Unification minister hopes better inter-Korean ties lead to resumption of nuclear talks

Unification Minister Kim Yeon-chul said Friday that he will work hard to advance inter-Korean relations so as to resume the stalled denuclearization talks between the United States and North Korea."We will do our best to steadily improve inter-Korean relations in a way that will lead to the resumption of North Korea-US talks at an early date," Kim said at a forum in Seoul. "Despite the lull since the Hanoi summit, North Korea and the US still maintain the principle of resolving th

US closely watching for N. Korea’s possible financial sanction violations

US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said President Donald Trump has firm willingness to implement sanctions against North Korea, in another signal that the country will not pursue sanctions relief in order to resume nuclear talks. “The president is determined that we continue our efforts to enforce both the UN sanctions and the US sanctions against North Korea,” he said at the US House Committee on Financial Services on Tuesday. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin testifies before the House Commi

May 24, 2019
North Korea
US would seek for UNSC measures if N. Korea fires missiles again: news report

Although the United States has played down recent launches of short-range missiles by North Korea, it will seek substantive action if the communist regime fires again.A Japanese news outlet reported late Tuesday that the US has warned that if North Korea launches a short-range ballistic missile again, it will demand further measures to be taken by the United Nations Security Council.According to Japan’s Kyodo News Agency, the US told Japan and permanent members of the UNSC that it will “not over

May 23, 2019
North Korea
US, North Korea square off over seized trade ship

The US State Department on Wednesday reaffirmed that UN sanctions against North Korea will remain in place, after Pyongyang publicly criticized Washington’s “extreme hostile policy” regarding the seizure of its cargo ship, escalating tensions between the two countries amid stalled nuclear talks. In a rare press conference at the UN in New York on Tuesday, North Korea’s UN Ambassador Kim Song demanded immediate return of the country’s second-largest cargo ship, the Wise Honest, and warned the US

May 23, 2019
North Korea
N. Korea's top envoy to UN repeats calls for US return of seized cargo ship

North Korea's top envoy to the United Nations on Tuesday redoubled calls for the United States to quickly return a North Korean cargo ship seized on suspicion of violating international sanctions.Kim Song, the North's permanent representative at the UN, also said that Pyongyang will "sharply watch every move of the US" while stressing that the US should think about the consequences the seizure could have on future developments. North Korean Ambassador to the United Nations Kim Song attends a pre

May 22, 2019
North Korea
Minister: N. Korea food aid program will abide by humanitarian principles

Unification Minister Kim Yeon-chul said Tuesday that the government’s plans to send food assistance to North Korea will adhere to humanitarian principles and pledged to separate the action from wider political goals. “Providing humanitarian aid is (a matter of) humanitarian principles, no more, no less. The international community’s universal consensus is that humanitarian aid should be separated from politics,” Kim told reporters in his first media briefing since he took office April 8. Unifica

May 22, 2019
North Korea
‘US should accept incremental approach to North Korea nuclear issue’

The US should revise its strategy of pressuring North Korea to give up all its nuclear weapons before offering any sanctions relief, said a veteran diplomat, in order to avoid repeating diplomatic events that have ended in failure over the past two decades. “The US needs to take an incremental approach to resolve North Korea’s denuclearization issues. Demanding it to relinquish its entire nuclear arsenal first seems to be another repetition of the history of failure that begun (to be) attempted

May 22, 2019
North Korea
60 pct of female N. Korean defectors in China trafficked into sex trade: report

About 60 percent of female North Korean defectors in China are believed to be trafficked for sexual exploitation, a London-based civic group said in a report, urging South Korea and China to take action to protect the women and girls. Of the victims, nearly half were forced into prostitution, over 30 percent were sold into forced marriages and another 15 percent were pressed into cybersex from 2015 to 2018, Korea Future Initiative said in the report, citing rescuers based in China. (Yonhap)Title

May 21, 2019
North Korea
NK raises pressure on Seoul while receiving aid from China

North Korea continued its criticism of South Korea on Monday, calling on Seoul to reject interference from foreign powers and taking issue with a meeting of a Seoul-Washington working group. Meanwhile, Chinese data showed that Pyongyang received aid from Beijing last year despite UN Security Council resolutions. (Yonhap)A North Korean propaganda outlet on Monday accused the South Korean government of fueling discord by working with the US, focusing on a recent meeting of a Seoul-Washington work

May 21, 2019
North Korea
[Feature] Moon faces daunting task to revive stalled nuke talks

After 2 years of peace efforts, tension back on Korean Peninsula with NK-US tug-of-war

May 20, 2019
North Korea
Pro-NK media presses US to drop demand for Pyongyang to forgo nukes first

A pro-North Korea newspaper in Japan urged the United States on Saturday to retract its position that Pyongyang should forgo nuclear arms first before rewards are given, in an apparent call for flexibility to resume nuclear talks between the two sides.The Chosun Sinbo also warned that diplomacy with Pyongyang could come to naught if the US fails to meet the year-end deadline that North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has set for Washington to come up with the "right methodology" for the stalled negoti

May 18, 2019
North Korea
NK sends letter to UN chief, calls US seizure of ship 'sovereignty-infringing' act

North Korea's top envoy to the United Nations has sent a letter to UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to criticize the United States' recent seizure of its cargo ship suspected of violating international sanctions, Pyongyang's state media said Saturday.In the letter sent Friday, Kim Song called the seizure an "unlawful, outrageous and sovereignty-infringing" act, which he said indicated the US is "indeed a gangster country," according to the North's official Korean Central News Agency.The US

May 18, 2019
North Korea
NK media calls for all-out efforts to bolster grain production

North Korea's media on Saturday called for all-out efforts to bolster grain production while blaming "hostile forces" for its food shortages apparently aggravated by global sanctions, as well as droughts and floods.The Rodong Sinmun, the newspaper of the North's ruling Workers' Party, made the call a day after South Korea decided to donate US$8 million to international agencies for humanitarian aid projects in the impoverished state."Today, hostile forces that do not want to see us become strong

May 18, 2019
North Korea
Unification minister meets with Christian pastors over aid to N. Korea

Unification Minister Kim Yeon-chul met with Christian pastors from major churches Friday to exchange views on humanitarian assistance to North Korea.The meeting came as North Korea is suffering food shortages, having apparently been hit by global sanctions and years of unfavorable weather conditions.The participants raised the need for the government to push for humanitarian assistance to Pyongyang as North Koreans are facing a food crisis at a time when inter-Korean ties remain strained, accord

May 17, 2019
North Korea
S. Korea decides to donate $8ml for NK aid projects, allow biz people to visit Kaesong complex

South Korea decided Friday to donate $8 million to international agencies for aid projects in North Korea and allow a group of businesspeople to visit a shuttered joint industrial complex in the communist nation. The decisions came as Seoul has been trying to keep the peace process with the North alive despite the North's firing of missiles and projectiles earlier this month. Seoul is also formulating plans to send food aid to the impoverished North. "The government decided to approve the bus

May 17, 2019
North Korea

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