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Aug 23, 2017 North Korea

Moon urges S. Korea's active role in efforts to denuclearize N. Korea

By Yonhap

President Moon Jae-in on Wednesday called for South Korea's greater role in diplomacy to denuclearize North Korea and directed the government to step up efforts to improve relations with the communist state."Our foreign policy is facing various challenges. And the largest challenges and threats of all, of course, are the North Korean nuclear and missile issues," the president said in a policy meeting with officials from the foreign and unification ministries."Establishing peace on the Korean Pen

Kim Jong-un’s orders for more ICBMs raise alarms

By Jung Min-kyung

Concerns are rising that North Korea may be planning more missile provocations over reports Pyongyang has ordered the production of intercontinental ballistic missile components to be increased.According to Pyongyang’s state media, North Korean leader Kim Jong-un placed more orders for solid-fuel rocket engines and warhead tips for ICBMs during his visit to a state chemicals institute. North Korean leader Kim Jong-un visits the Chemical Material Institute of the Academy of Defense Science in th

Today
North Korea
Moon urges full defense readiness against N. Korean provocations

By Yonhap

President Moon Jae-in on Wednesday called on his country's military and allied US forces here to be fully ready to counter any possible provocations from communist North Korea, partly reiterating the defensive nature of their ongoing joint exercise here."Thanks to you, all our people can live their daily lives, and we deeply trust and take pride in your sacrifice to the nation," the president said during a visit to the wartime command center earlier in the day, according to his spokesman Park So

Aug 23, 2017
North Korea
Drug trafficking hits major cities in North Korea: report

By Kim Min-joo

North Korea faces growing problems linked to drug trafficking, Japanese news media reported Wednesday. According to the Mainichi Shimbun newspaper, about 500 people were apprehended in the month of May last year for drug trafficking in an unidentified North Korean city and nearby areas. (Yonhap)The reclusive regime’s crackdown suggests drug trafficking, which initially emerged along its Chinese border, is now spreading across other major cities. The Japanese daily based its report on a lecture

Today
North Korea
Kim Jong-Un starting to respect US: Trump

By AFP

US President Donald Trump said Tuesday his aggressive rhetoric towards North Korea was beginning to bear fruit and that Kim Jong-Un had started to "respect" the United States. "Some people said it was too strong. It's not strong enough," he told a gathering of thousands of supporters at a campaign style rally in Phoenix, Arizona. "But Kim Jong-Un, I respect the fact that I believe he is starting to respect us. I respect that fact very much." (Yonhap)"And maybe, probably not, but maybe something

Aug 23, 2017
North Korea
Body of presumed N. Korean found in Yellow Sea

By Yonhap

South Korea's military found a dead body presumed to be that of a North Korean citizen in waters near the western front-line island earlier this month, Seoul's unification ministry said Wednesday.The body of a woman believed to be in her 40s was retrieved on Aug. 11 in waters off Yeonpyeong Island, according to the Ministry of Unification. Baik Tae-hyun (Yonhap)"The government decided to repatriate the body to North Korea as a probe showed that she is presumed to be a North Korean citizen," Baik

Aug 23, 2017
North Korea
N. Korea launches new intl. marathon event for Oct.: tour agency

By Yonhap

Pyongyang, the capital of North Korea, plans to launch a new annual international marathon in October this year in addition to an existing one held in April, a tour agency said, as the North is struggling to earn more foreign currency in the face of mounting international sanctions.Uri Tours, which operates from the United States and China with a specialty in North Korean travel, said on its website, seen on Wednesday, that foreign runners are invited to sign up for the new Pyongyang marathon sl

Aug 23, 2017
North Korea
Cheong Wa Dae dismisses possible reopening of Kaesong complex in N. Korea

By Yonhap

South Korea is not considering reopening the joint industrial park in North Korea's Kaesong, at least for now, the presidential office Cheong Wa Dae said Wednesday, dismissing news reports that suggested the possibility."We want to clarify the issue because it may send a wrong message not only to our people but also those in other countries," a Cheong Wa Dae official told reporters.The reports followed a Monday meeting between South Korean President Moon Jae-in and a group of US lawmakers, inclu

Aug 23, 2017
North Korea
Tillerson renews offer to talk with N. Korea

By Yonhap

WASHINGTON -- US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said Tuesday he is pleased North Korea has refrained from provocations and hopes it is a signal of the regime's willingness to hold talks "sometime in the near future."Tillerson took time out of a press briefing on the US strategy for Afghanistan to acknowledge that North Korea has exercised restraint since the UN Security Council imposed new sanctions on the regime early this month."I want to take note of that. I want to acknowledge it," he said

Aug 23, 2017
North Korea
US sanctions China, Russia entities, individuals over N. Korea's nuclear program

By Yonhap

WASHINGTON -- The United States on Tuesday announced new sanctions on 16 entities and individuals, mainly from China and Russia, for their alleged ties to North Korea's nuclear weapons program.The designations complement a recent UN Security Council resolution sanctioning North Korea for its two intercontinental ballistic missile tests in July.They are all based in China and Russia with the exception of one individual from North Korea, one Namibian company under North Korean control, one Namibia

Aug 23, 2017
North Korea
North Korea won't give up its nukes: N. Korean diplomat

By Yonhap

ROME -- North Korea said it won't cease developing nuclear weapons and intercontinental missiles as they were "justifiable" choices for self-defense, a North Korean envoy said on Tuesday. North Korea leader Kim Jong-un. Yonhap "The measures taken by the DPRK to strengthen its nuclear deterrence and develop intercontinental rockets is justifiable and a legitimate option for self-defense in the face of such apparent and real threats,” North Korean diplomat Ju Yong-chol said at the United Nati

Aug 22, 2017
North Korea
Diplomacy is 'stronger, powerful' to resolve standoff with NK: US Pacific Commander

By Yeo Jun-suk

The top US military commander in the Asia-Pacific region said Tuesday that the diplomatic approach is the “stronger and more powerful” means to resolve the standoff with North Korea, adding such efforts should be backed by credible military capability. “Diplomatic maneuver has to be applied first and diplomacy is stronger, effective and more powerful if it is backed by credible military power,” said Adm. Harry Harris, commander of the US Pacific Command, during a press conference at Osan Air Bas

Aug 23, 2017
North Korea
‘Preventive war against NK will make matters worse’: US senator

By Jung Min-kyung

A senior US senator said Tuesday that the United States will closely cooperate with South Korea to bring North Korea back to the negotiating table and ruled out a preventive war as a way to solve the issues surrounding the Korean Peninsula. “The US can only peacefully resolve the threat of a nuclear North Korea by pursuing a bold realistic strategy in close concert with allies in (South) Korea and Japan,” US Sen. Edward J. Markey, a Democrat from Massachusetts and ranking member of the Senate Su

Aug 23, 2017
North Korea
Diplomacy is 'stronger, more powerful' in standoff with NK: US Pacific commander

By Yeo Jun-suk

The top US military commander in the Asia-Pacific region said Tuesday that the diplomatic approach is the “stronger and more powerful” means to resolve the standoff with North Korea, adding such efforts should be backed by credible military capability. “Diplomatic maneuver has to be applied first and diplomacy is stronger, effective and more powerful if it is backed by credible military power,” said Adm. Harry Harris, commander of the US Pacific Command, during a press conference at Osan Air Bas

Aug 23, 2017
North Korea
US House speaker worries NK might sell nuclear-tipped missile to terrorists

By Yonhap

WASHINGTON -- US House Speaker Paul Ryan said Monday that he worries most about North Korea selling a nuclear-tipped long-range missile to terrorists.The Republican congressman from Wisconsin told an audience at CNN's Town Hall that that is the reason the North Korea issue is serious."Having North Korea with nuclear-tipped warheads that can strike the United States is not a good thing to have for this country," he said. "But it's not just that they would launch a missile to the United States. Wh

Aug 22, 2017
North Korea

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