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S. Korea's nuke envoy meets British delegation over N. Korea

South Korea's top nuclear envoy had a meeting here Thursday with Jonathan Nicholas Powell, a former senior British official who just finished a trip to North Korea, according to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.Powell met with Ri Su-yong, vice chairman of the Workers' Party of Korea and director of the communist party's international affairs department while on a visit to Pyongyang from Saturday to Tuesday as the head of a British delegation. Ri is in charge of the North's diplomatic affairs. Pow

Int'l charity bodies visit N. Korea over humanitarian aid

The German Caritas Association and other international charity bodies have recently visited North Korea to expand their humanitarian assistance projects in the North's poverty-stricken rural areas, Radio Free Asia said Wednesday.According to the radio broadcast, officials of Germany's Caritas visited two of 10 greenhouses now under construction in the North with financial support from the German association.(Yonhap)The German association, which has been involved in the cultivation of vegetables

Today
North Korea
S. Korea to provide W3.2b for cross-border family reunions

South Korea will tap into a state fund to help cover the costs to reunite families separated by the 1950-53 Korean War, scheduled for next month, the Ministry of Unification said Wednesday. Following a series of panel meetings held from July 11-16, the Seoul government decided to offer about 3.2 billion won ($2.83 million) to cover costs for the Aug. 20-26 reunions, according to the ministry. Event preparations will receive support of about 2 billion won, while 1 billion won will go to repairin

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North Korea
Unified Korean team to face S. Koreans at int'l ping pong event

DAEJEON -- A unified Korean mixed doubles team will take on a South Korean tandem at an international table tennis competition here this week.Choe Il (North Korea) and Yoo Eun-chong (South Korea) will play the third-seeded South Korean duo of Lee Sang-su and Jeon Ji-hee in Thursday's round of 16 match at the International Table Tennis Federation World Tour Platinum Korea Open in Daejeon, 160 kilometers south of Seoul. (Yonhap)Choe and Yoo defeated Alvaro Robles and Galia Dvorak of Spain 3-2 (8-1

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North Korea
Trump: No time limit on N. Korea's denuclearization

WASHINGTON -- US President Donald Trump said Tuesday that there is "no time limit" on dismantling North Korea's nuclear weapons program, appearing to take a step back from earlier demands for immediate denuclearization.Trump's remarks came a month after his historic summit with Kim Jong-un, during which the North Korean leader committed to work toward the "complete denuclearization" of the Korean Peninsula in exchange for security guarantees from the United States."We have no time limit. We have

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North Korea
N. Korea to return remains of up to 55 Americans killed in Korean War: report

North Korea has agreed to return up to 55 sets of remains believed to be of American soldiers killed during the Korean War, a report said Tuesday.Citing an anonymous United States official, Stars & Stripes, a US military newspaper, also said North Korea has agreed to allow the United States to fly these remains out of the country next week.According to the report, these details emerged after US and North Korean officials held working-level talks on Monday in the truce village of Panmunjom. (Yonh

Jul 17, 2018
North Korea
S. Korea’s military intelligence agency allegedly orchestrated defection of NK waitresses

　South Korea’s military intelligence organization orchestrated the defection of North Korean waitresses from a restaurant in China in 2016, a local news agency has reported, disputing the restaurant manager’s claim their defection to South Korea was led by the country’s top spy agency.　According to Yonhap News Agency on Tuesday, a source familiar with the issue said the defection was initially led by the Defense Intelligence Command, whose agents convinced the manager to leave with the 12 waitr

Jul 17, 2018
North Korea
S. Korea to bolster legal support for inter-Korean businesses

South Korea plans to revise a law to bolster ties with North Korea and protect local businesses involved in inter-Korean economic projects, the Ministry of Unification said Tuesday.The revision would require the government’s bans or restrictions on economic projects with North Korea to be subject to a Cabinet review. It would also help normalize the operations of companies if they suffer damages from the government’s unilateral decisions. Kaesong Industrial Complex (Yonhap)“Procedures for a Cab

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North Korea
S. Korea investigates alleged N. Korean coal trans-shipped to its ports

The Foreign Ministry said Tuesday it is looking into cases in which North Korean coal was allegedly shipped to South Korea via Russia last year in violation of United Nations sanctions. 　According to an annual UN sanctions committee report summited by a panel of experts, North Korean coal shipped to the Russian port of Kholmsk was unloaded at docks and reloaded onto two vessels that took it to South Korean ports of Incheon and Pohang in October.　North Korean coal was transported from the North’s

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North Korea
N. Korean leader tours construction sites, chides officials for incompetence

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un harshly criticized officials for their incompetence during a recent inspection of the construction sites in the country's northeastern region, its state media reported Tuesday.During the "field guidance" at a hydroelectric power station under construction in Orangchon of North Hamgyong Province, Kim lashed out at workers and officials for failing to complete the construction for nearly 20 years, according to the Korean Central News Agency.Kim ascribed the procrast

Jul 17, 2018
North Korea
[Newsmaker] Military intelligence agency behind NK restaurant workers' defection: source

South Korea's military intelligence agency masterminded the controversial defection of a dozen North Korean restaurant workers based in China, an informed source said Tuesday.The Defense Intelligence Command, affiliated with the defense ministry, led the 2014 operation supported by the National Intelligence Service, according to the source privy to North Korea issues.The 12 waitresses working at the Ryugyong Korean Restaurant in Ningpo, a city in the Chinese province of Zhejiang, defected to the

Jul 17, 2018
North Korea
Koreas to continue peacemaking mood by sending unified teams to 2018 Asian Games

South Korea and North Korea will try to continue their peacemaking mood through sport by sending joint teams to the 2018 Asian Games in Indonesia. The Koreas agreed to field joint teams in three sports -- basketball, canoeing, and rowing -- at this year's Jakarta-Palembang Asian Games, which will be held from Aug. 18 to Sept. 2. They will join forces in the women's five-on-five basketball; men's and women's dragon boat, a canoe discipline; and the lightweight coxless men's four, lightweight men'

Jul 17, 2018
North Korea
N. Korea to issue special pardons for prisoners to mark 70th founding anniversary

North Korea will issue special pardons for prisoners to mark the 70th anniversary of the regime, North Korean state media said Monday, which experts see as Kim Jong-un’s effort to bolster domestic solidarity amid a shift in political atmosphere following last month’s US-North Korea summit. “The DPRK will grant amnesty to those who have been convicted of crimes against the state and people on the occasion of the 70th founding anniversary of the DPRK,” the Korean Central News Agency said, referrin

Jul 17, 2018
North Korea
US, N. Korea to resume search for remains from Korean War

The US and North Korea have agreed to resume the search for the remains of US soldiers killed during the Korean War, with working-level meetings to begin on Monday, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said. The agreement came at a general-level meeting between the two sides on Sunday at the border village of Panmunjom, which Pompeo said was “productive and cooperative and resulted in firm commitments” in a statement. (Yonhap)“Working level meetings between US and North Korean officials will begin

Jul 16, 2018
North Korea
Trump touts meeting with Kim, halt in nuclear testing

WASHINGTON -- US President Donald Trump on Sunday defended his diplomatic efforts with North Korea, saying his meeting with leader Kim Jong-un was "a good thing" and the regime's halting of nuclear and ballistic missile tests was a "wonderful" fact.In an interview with CBS, Trump was speaking about his upcoming summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin and how he has low expectations for the outcome.(Yonhap)"I think it's a good thing to meet. I do believe in meetings," he said in an excerpt o

Jul 16, 2018
North Korea

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