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Uganda halts military exchange with N. Korea
Uganda has told North Korea that it won't renew its military contracts with the communist nation, a government source said Thursday, carrying out its pledge to sever their military ties.Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni made the pledge during a summit meeting with South Korean President Park Geun-hye last month in what was seen as a diplomatic victory for Seoul.South Korea hopes that deepening the North's isolation from the international community will force the regime in Pyongyang to abandon it
June 9, 2016
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N.K. to hold major parliamentary meeting in late June
North Korea plans to convene a major parliamentary meeting in late June, the North's state media said Thursday, amid the possibility that the country's leader Kim Jong-un could take another title to further solidify his grip on power.The Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly has decided to hold the fourth session of the 13th assembly on June 29, according to the Korean Central News Agency.The SPA, the legislative body of the reclusive country, rubber stamps decisions by more powerful organi
June 9, 2016
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U.S. views N.K. with 'great concern' amid reports of reprocessing: State Department
The United States views North Korea's actions with "great concern," the State Department said Wednesday, following reports that the communist nation has begun reprocessing spent nuclear fuel to harvest plutonium.A senior State Department official was quoted by Reuters as saying Tuesday that the North took spent fuel from the 5-megawatt reactor at its Yongbyon nuclear complex and took it to the reprocessing facility to produce the element that can be used for nuclear weapons."We have been very cl
June 9, 2016
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China tells N. Korea it wants denuclearization of Korean Peninsula
China told a North Korean delegation last week that it wants to realize the goal of denuclearizing the Korean Peninsula, South Korea's top nuclear envoy said Wednesday after meeting with his Chinese counterpart. Kim Hong-kyun, South Korea's Special Representative for Korean Peninsula Peace and Security Affairs, made the remarks after holding talks with Wu Dawei earlier in the day, during which the Chinese official briefed Kim on last week's visit by a top North Korean official, Ri Su-yong, to Be
June 9, 2016
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1 killed, several injured during construction of N.K. power plant
One North Korean woman was killed and several others injured while working in freezing cold weather on the construction site of a power plant, Pyongyang's state media said Wednesday.The North's main newspaper Rodong Sinmun reported that a female nurse died as she tried to stop equipment from slipping at the construction site of the Paektusan Hero Youth Power Station near the border with China. It did not elaborate or provide details regarding the nurse's identity.The paper also said several work
June 8, 2016
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China urges dialogue as N. Korea apparently restarts atomic bomb fuel plant
China on Wednesday called for the relevant countries to resume dialogue with North Korea as the U.N. nuclear watchdog warned that the North appears to have restarted its main nuclear bomb fuel plant. If the warning by the International Atomic Energy Agency is correct, it would be the latest move by North Korea in expanding its nuclear weapons program, despite tightened international sanctions. When asked about the IAEA warning, China's foreign ministry spokesman Hong Lei replied that China is co
June 8, 2016
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Seoul police say N. Korea behind series of cyberattacks
South Korean police said Wednesday that North Korea was behind three separate cyberattacks carried out earlier this year, claiming the reclusive country sent a large number of malware-tainted emails by disguising the senders.Between January and February, North Korea sent a large number of emails to South Koreans, including local journalists, defectors and North Korea experts, said the National Police Agency, wrapping up their months-long investigation.In late January, a link to a video clip, edi
June 8, 2016
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N. Korea ranks near bottom among countries in internet connection speed: report
North Korea ranks 134th of the world's 170 countries in terms of internet connection speed, a U.S.-based media report said Wednesday.According to the Voice of America (VOA), North Korea's internet speed remained at 2.0 Mbps, a mere one-thirteenth of South Korea, which has the fastest Internet connectivity speed at 26.7 Mbps.The media report is based on the fourth quarter report of 2015 by Akamai, a cloud services provider that helps deliver content online. The service provider publishes its "Sta
June 8, 2016
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Korean bizmen seek gov't approval to visit Gaeseong industrial park
A group of South Korean businessmen asked the government Wednesday to approve their visit to the now-shuttered joint industrial park in North Korea to check their factories.Twenty-three businessmen made the request to visit the Gaeseong Industrial Complex in the North's border city of the same name, saying they needed to check their facilities ahead of the summer rainy season.On Feb. 10, South Korea shut down the factory zone, some 50 kilometers northwest of Seoul, in response to the North's fou
June 8, 2016
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S. Korea, EU agree to keep pressure on N. Korea
South Korea and the European Union agreed to keep pressure on the North Korean regime to force it to abandon its nuclear weapons program, officials said Wednesday.The consensus came during a meeting between Kim Hong-kyun, South Korea's special representative for Korean Peninsula Peace and Security Affairs, and Alain Le Roy, secretary-general of the European External Action Service, at the EU headquarters on Tuesday, according to South Korean diplomats here.North Korea has come under growing pres
June 8, 2016
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N. Korean fishing vessel sent back after crossing inter-Korean border
A North Korean fishing vessel was sent back home after it accidentally crossed the inter-Korean sea border early Wednesday, South Korea's military said.The vessel was reported by a South Korean fishing boat around 3:40 a.m. some 21 kilometers south of the Northern Limit Line, the de facto maritime border, in the East Sea, according to the Joint Chiefs of Staff."A Navy ship was dispatched to the scene to search the boat, and found it had a problem with its navigation and (the crew) had no intenti
June 8, 2016
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N. Korea has begun nuclear reprocessing for plutonium production: report
North Korea has begun reprocessing spent nuclear fuel to produce plutonium that can be used for nuclear weapons, a senior U.S. State Department official was quoted as saying Tuesday."They take the spent fuel from the 5 megawatt reactor at Yongbyon and let it cool and then take it to the reprocessing facility, and that's where they've obtained the plutonium for their previous nuclear tests. So they are repeating that process," Reuters quoted the unidentified official as saying. "That's what they'
June 8, 2016
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U.S. freezes more than $40,000 of blacklisted N. Korean officials
The U.S. Treasury Department has frozen more than $40,000 held by blacklisted North Korean officials in recent years, South Korean officials said Tuesday, in the latest sign of pressure on North Korea over its nuclear program.The Treasury Department froze $40,800 in a total of nine cases from May 2014 to April 2015, the officials said. The U.S.authorities found out the North Korean funds, which were exposed as financial transactions involving U.S. dollars going through the U.S. financial system.
June 7, 2016
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N. Korea vows to develop more nuclear weapons
North Korea pledged Tuesday to develop more nuclear weapons as its existing arsenal has helped raise the country's strategic leverage in dealing with external relations, the North's state media said.North Korea plans to actively pursue diplomatic policy commensurate with its enhanced global status which has been earned thanks to its nuclear weapons program, according to Rodong Sinmun, the North's main newspaper.The country has conducted four nuclear tests since 2006 with outside observers believ
June 7, 2016
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Korean bizmen's move to visit joint industrial park not proper: Seoul
South Korea said Tuesday it does not believe it is proper for local firms that ran factories at a joint industrial park in North Korea to visit the factory zone amid a tough sanctions regime imposed on Pyongyang.On Feb. 10, Seoul shut down the Kaesong Industrial Complex in the North's border city of the same name after the North's fourth nuclear test and long-range rocket launch earlier in the year.South Korean firms that ran factories there said they hope to visit the North to check their facil
June 7, 2016
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Minjoo head urges China to expand efforts to curb N.K. nukes
Kim Chong-in, the interim leader of South Korea's main opposition Minjoo Party of Korea, urged China to expand efforts to roll out more effective measures to curb Pyongyang's nuclear ambitions.During his meeting with Chinese Ambassador to South Korea Qiu Guohong, the lawmaker said despite the international sanctions against the North, Beijing still maintains certain economic ties with Pyongyang, adding such exchanges will limit the effectiveness of global economic pressure."China, which holds si
June 7, 2016
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N.K. party officials visit Vietnam, Laos amid int'l sanctions regime
North Korean party officials have visited Vietnam and Laos, the North's state media said Tuesday, apparently as part of the North's diplomatic effort to break the international sanctions regime.The delegation, led by Choe Thae-bok, a vice chairman of the ruling party's central committee, arrived in Vientiane on Monday after visiting Vietnam for talks with the communist party's officials, according to the Korean Central News Agency.Choe held talks with Nguyen Phu Trong, general secretary of the C
June 7, 2016
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U.S. to focus on ensuring China implements sanctions on N. Korea: White House official
The United States will talk to China to make sure that it carries out sanctions on North Korea, including the latest "money laundering concern" designation, before assessing Chinese cooperation, a senior White House official said Monday.Deputy National Security Advisor Ben Rhodes made the remark during a discussion at an annual meeting of the Arms Control Association, in response to a question how long the U.S. will wait before blacklisting Chinese banks for doing business with Pyongyang under t
June 7, 2016
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IAEA: N. Korea could have started nuclear reprocessing
North Korea could have started reprocessing spent nuclear fuel to harvest plutonium for nuclear weapons, the International Atomic Energy Agency said Monday."The DPRK (North Korea) resumed the activities of five megawatt reactors or enrichment or reprocessing," IAEA Director General Yukiya Amano said at a press briefing in Vienna, referring to facilities at the North's Yongbyon nuclear complex."However, as we do not have inspectors on the ground, we are only observing through satellite imagery. W
June 7, 2016
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N. Korea blasts Kenneth Bae's criticism of its ruling ideology
North Korean on Monday blasted a former Korean-American detainee who spent two years in its prison for criticizing the country's ruling ideology. The state-run Internet propaganda site Meari said Bae's speeches made at his recent book release events in South Korea and the United States defamed the country by calling the juche idea and Kim Il Sungism the pillars that support the repressive regime in power. Both juche or self-reliance, and Kim Il Sungism, named after the founder of the countr
June 6, 2016