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S. Korea, Japan, China agree to create new financing facility against regional crises
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From fake prostitution ring to nonexistent robber, prank calls hamper police
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Top prosecutor orders speedy investigation into first lady's alleged acceptance of luxury handbag
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40 flights canceled on Jeju Island due to bad weather
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S. Korea on alert for NK provocation
South Korea is on the alert for possible military provocation by North Korea ahead of the communist ruling party’s foundation day next Monday. According to Seoul officials, the South’s military is on stand-by for a show of force by Pyongyang – an underground nuclear test or a missile launch is seen as most likely -- to mark the Oct. 10 anniversary. The hermit kingdom has a history of marking ceremonious occasions with prominent military actions. Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Lee Sun-jin and ot
Oct. 7, 2016
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NK media's use of belligerent rhetoric hits 3-year high: data
The use of belligerent rhetoric by North Korea's state media hit a three-year high this year as the North heightened its nuclear and missile provocations, a Pyongyang monitoring website showed Friday.North Korea's threat index came in at 0.4 as of Thursday, which means reports containing aggressive words accounted for 40 percent of all North Korean media reportings, according to KCNA Watcher, which monitors North Korea's official media reports.The latest index marked the highest level since 2013
Oct. 7, 2016
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Presidential office says it is keeping close tabs on N.K. military activities
South Korea's presidential office Cheong Wa Dae said Friday it is keeping close tabs on North Korea's military movements, amid speculation that Pyongyang would engage in yet another provocation to mark a set of anniversary events slated for next week.Seoul officials and North Korea experts have warned of the possibility that the communist regime could conduct another nuclear test or test-fire a long-range ballistic missile to mark the 10th anniversary of its first nuke test on Sunday and the 71t
Oct. 7, 2016
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N. Korea shows increased activity at nuclear test site: 38 North
North Korea is showing increased activity at its nuclear test site in what could be part of preparations for a new test, a US website monitoring the North said Thursday, amid concern the regime could undertake provocations to mark a key anniversary next week.Commercial satellite imagery taken on Oct. 1 of the Punggye-ri underground test site in the country's northeast "indicates continuing activity at all three tunnel complexes that could be used to conduct a nuclear test," the website 38 North
Oct. 7, 2016
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China scholars, policy makers begin talking about supporting surgical strike on NK: Chinese professor
Chinese scholars and policymakers have begun talking about supporting surgical strikes on North Korea and removal of leader Kim Jong-un from power as a policy option, a Chinese professor said Thursday.Zhe Sun, China initiative director of Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs, made the remark during a security forum in Washington, saying debates are under way among Chinese opinion leaders about how to deal with the North."Some Chinese scholars and policy makers began t
Oct. 7, 2016
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North Korea boasts nuclear attack capabilities
North Korea claimed Thursday that it is capable of launching a nuclear attack as South Korea and the European Union have agreed to explore all possible means to get Pyongyang to give up its nuclear programs.North Korea "has now soared as a nuclear power possessed of powerful nuclear attack capabilities," an unidentified spokesman of the North's Foreign Ministry said in an English-language statement carried by the official Korean Central News Agency."The US will sooner or later face a shuddering
Oct. 7, 2016
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NK exploitation of slave labor estimated at $975m a year: report
The North Korean regime plunders at least $975 million yearly from its people by systematically operating plants, companies and construction projects without paying decent salaries, constituting slave labor, a civic group said Wednesday.Seoul-based Open North Korea unveiled a report based on findings from 18 defectors who had been mobilized to work at construction sites, factories and other locations run by the regime or military. Under a system called “dolgyeokdae,” or “storm troopers,” authori
Oct. 5, 2016
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Ranking NK official stationed in Beijing seeks asylum: source
A ranking North Korean official stationed at North Korea's mission in Beijing has recently defected, possibly seeking to move to South Korea, a source familiar with Pyongyang's affairs said Wednesday.An official belonging to the North's health ministry disappeared with his family in late September, according to the source, who declined to be identified.He is known to be in charge of providing medical supplies to a clinic in Pyongyang which caters to North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and his family
Oct. 5, 2016
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NK says UN agencies to provide aid after massive floods
Two United Nations agencies have decided to provide emergency aid to North Korea after the latest floods that struck the reclusive country's northeastern region, Pyongyang's state media said Wednesday.The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs and the UN International Children's Emergency Fund decided to offer assistance to North Korea to help in the recovery effort in North Hamgyong Province, the Korean Central News Agency said.Heavy rains hit North Korea's northeast
Oct. 5, 2016
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Rare survey of N. Korean residents shows animosity toward regime's anti-market activities
North Koreans feel the most animosity toward the regime when it cracks down on their efforts to eke out a living through market and entrepreneurial activities, a rare survey of North Koreans living in the communist nation has found, according to a US think tank Tuesday.The Center for Strategic and International Studies said it commissioned the survey of 36 people as part of its "Beyond Parallel" project on North Korea. The participants were from various provinces across the North, aged between 2
Oct. 5, 2016
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Seoul buys more Taurus missiles amid Pyongyang nuke threats
South Korea plans to buy more Taurus air-to-surface missiles that can strike North Korea's nuclear and missile facilities, military officials said Tuesday. "The military has recently decided to acquire 90 more Taurus missiles to further beef up its anti-nuclear and anti-missile capabilities. The process to purchase the additional missiles is underway," a defense ministry official told Yonhap News Agency. This photo, taken on Aug. 9, 2016, shows a Taurus missile (the center missile among the th
Oct. 4, 2016
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Bulgaria under fire for ignoring North Korea's illicit real-estate
North Korea has been generating hard currency through illicit real-estate dealings in Bulgaria, diplomatic sources said, raising calls for Sofia to intervene amid global efforts to choke off sources of revenue for Pyongyang's nuclear and missile programs.Sources said that Pyongyang's embassy in the East European state, has lent part of its office buildings in Sofia to two business entities that specialize in wedding ceremonies and information technology.This photo, taken on Oct. 2, shows the No
Oct. 4, 2016
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NK provocation expected around US election: US experts
North Korea may carry out another provocative action around the time of the upcoming US presidential election in November, warned the US’ former point man on the communist state. Victor Cha, former director for Asian Affairs in the White House’s National Security Council and currently senior adviser to the US-based Center for Strategic and International Studies, wrote in a CSIS study he co-authored with other experts that a major nuclear or missile test “would be a way (for North Korea) of tryin
Oct. 4, 2016
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NK human rights law can apply to N. Koreans staying in 3rd countries: official
North Koreans staying temporarily in third countries such as overseas workers are subject to South Korea's new law aimed at improving the North's human rights situation, a government official said Tuesday.The law which took effect last month will be applicable to such North Koreans, making it possible for Seoul to conduct investigations into such people, said the official at Seoul's unification ministry. (Yonhap)Article 3 of the law only stipulated that North Koreans are defined as those who liv
Oct. 4, 2016
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US House resolution urges investigation into N. Korea's involvement in college student's disappearance
The US House of Representatives has adopted a resolution urging the government to look into the possibility of North Korea's involvement in the unexplained disappearance of an American citizen from China more than a decade ago.David Sneddon, a college student from Utah, disappeared in China in 2004. Recent media reports have alleged that he is living in the North Korean capital of Pyongyang after being kidnapped to teach English to current North Korean leader Kim Jong-un.But the State Department
Oct. 4, 2016
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US scholars differ over solution to NK nuclear quagmire
North Korea’s fifth nuclear test has kindled a fresh round of debates around Washington, with former administration officials and academics differing over how to rein in the Kim Jong-un regime’s relentless development of weapons of mass destruction. As Pyongyang appears to be near the “nuclear threshold,” some scholars raised the need to restart talks, citing the constraints of international sanctions in thwarting the communist state’s military ambition given its deeply isolated economy and Chin
Oct. 3, 2016
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PM vows to deter NK nukes in National Foundation Day speech
Prime Minister Hwang Kyo-ah said on Monday that South Korea is making an all-out effort to deter North Korea's nuclear provocations while calling for resolving the North Korean nuclear problem to open an era of true peace on the Korean Peninsula.Speaking at a ceremony marking National Foundation Day in Seoul, Hwang said South Korea has strengthened its consensus on disallowing the North's nuclear program together with the United States, Japan, the European Union, China and Russia, among others.
Oct. 3, 2016
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US experts call for direct talks with N. Korea to negotiate nuclear freeze
The United States should hold direct talks with North Korea to negotiate a freeze on the communist nation's nuclear and missile programs first before seeking to dismantle them, US experts said Sunday.Jane Harman, a former congresswoman who now heads the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, made the case in a joint article with Wilson's Korea expert James Person, arguing that sanctions cannot force the North to end its nuclear program."Insanity is doing the same thing over and over a
Oct. 3, 2016
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No discussions between South Korea, US about preemptive strike on North Korea: Amb. Ahn
South Korea has had no discussions whatsoever with the United States about a preemptive strike on North Korea, Seoul's ambassador to Washington said.Amb. Ahn Ho-young made the remark during a parliamentary audit of his embassy on Saturday as talk of removing North Korea's nuclear facilities through a military strike has surfaced in the US in the wake of Pyongyang's fifth nuclear test."We've had no such discussions at least here in Washington," Ahn said during the audit held at the embassy. "We'v
Oct. 3, 2016
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Rice prices stabilizing in N. Korea flood hit areas: report
Rice prices are stabilizing in flood ravaged areas of North Korea, after they soared following problems with distribution, a media report said Sunday.Citing a report by Japanese media outlet Asia Press, U.S.-based media Radio Free Asia (RFA) reported that a kilogram of rice in Musan, North Hamgyong Province, was selling for 4,300 North Korean won, with the same amount of corn trading for 1,300 won. This is down from 8,000 won for rice and 2,000 won for corn traded in the same county earlier in t
Oct. 2, 2016