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North Korea wants UN staff cut, but UN says they're vital

UNITED NATIONS (AP) -- North Korea wants the number of UN international staff in the country reduced by the end of the year over what it claims is the politicization of aid by parties hostile to its ...

Sept 6, 2019
N. Korea’s state media slams S. Korea for deploying US stealth jets

North Korea’s state media lashed out at South Korea on Thursday for introducing F-35A fighter jets from the United States, saying it proves that Seoul has not given up its ambition to attack the Nort...

Sept 5, 2019
Trump seeks to entice NK to the table

US President Donald Trump said Wednesday that Washington is not looking for a leadership change in North Korea, amid failure to resume denuclearization talks. While answering a question from reporte...

Sept 5, 2019
China's top diplomat returns home after Pyongyang visit

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi has returned home after a three-day visit to Pyongyang but without meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, the North's state media reported Thursday. Wang arri...

Sept 5, 2019
Trump: US is not looking for regime change in NK

US President Donald Trump said Wednesday that the United States is not looking for regime change in North Korea, appearing to extend another invitation to Pyongyang to return to denuclearization talk...

Sept 5, 2019
North Korea tells United Nations to cut international aid staff - letter

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) -- North Korea has told the United Nations to cut the number of international staff it deploys in the country because the world body's programs have failed "due to the politi...

Sept 5, 2019
North Korean foreign minister will not attend UN gathering of world leaders

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) -- North Korean Foreign Minister Ri Yong Ho will not attend the annual gathering of world leaders at the United Nations later this month "due to his schedule," the country's ...

Sept 5, 2019
[Graphic News] 42% of N. Koreans likely to face food insecurity by 2029: USDA

Forty-two percent of North Korea’s population is expected to remain food insecure even 10 years later, a recent US Department of Agriculture report said, as the impoverished country grapples with wo...

Sept 4, 2019
N. Korea slams Japan over suspected plan to discharge radioactive water

North Korea's state media slammed Japan on Wednesday over its suspected plan to discharge radioactive water into the sea, saying it would be a criminal act that could bring about a nuclear calamity i...

Sept 4, 2019
S. Korea seeks global support for NK denuclearization, peace on Korean Peninsula

South Korea's vice defense minister on Wednesday held a series of bilateral talks with his counterparts from foreign countries and asked for their continued support for efforts to denuclearize North ...

Sept 4, 2019
Kim Jong-un stresses science and technology education

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un highlighted the importance of science and technology education, saying people educated abroad should be hired as university professors in the North, Pyongyang’s state ...

Sept 4, 2019
UN chief urges N. Korea to release all political prisoners

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has called on North Korea to release all political prisoners, accusing Pyongyang of a series of human rights abuses at prison camps, such as arbitrary arrests, b...

Sept 4, 2019
Crisis level of peninsula remains unchanged despite NK missiles: think tank

The crisis level of the Korean Peninsula remained unchanged last month despite a series of short-range projectile launches by North Korea, an international think tank said in a recent report. The In...

Sept 4, 2019
Nuke envoys of S. Korea, Russia hold talks on North Korea's denuclearization

The top nuclear envoys of South Korea and Russia held talks in Russia on Tuesday on North Korea's denuclearization and other peninsula issues, Seoul's foreign ministry said. Lee Do-hoon, special rep...

Sept 3, 2019
S. Korean diplomat holds working-level talks with US on NK issues

South Korea and the United States held working-level talks in Washington last week about the North Korean nuclear standoff and inter-Korean issues, the foreign ministry said Tuesday. Rhee Dong-yeol,...

Sept 3, 2019

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