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N.K. leader orders more nuke tests, readiness for nuclear attacks
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has ordered his officials to get ready to carry out nuclear attacks and conduct more nuclear tests, the North's state media said Friday, raising tensions on the divided peninsula.The North's leader stressed the need to further develop nuclear weapons and diversify the means for delivering nuke warheads so as to "make nuclear strikes at the enemies from anywhere on the ground, in the air, at sea and underwater," the North's Korean Central News Agency said."He gave
March 11, 2016
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Inter-Korean ties barely hang by a thread
Relations between the two Koreas appear to be hanging by a thread as Pyongyang declared plans to abolish all bilateral exchange projects, confiscate all South Korean assets left in the North and stage military actions. The announcement was made Thursday by the Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of the Fatherland in charge of cross-border affairs, which took issue with the South’s unilateral pullout from a joint factory park in the North Korean border city of Gaeseong last month and the hal
March 10, 2016
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North Korea unlikely to have thermonuclear arms: U.K. institute
North Korea’s claim to have miniaturized a nuclear weapon to fit a ballistic missile is likely to be false, a London-based defense information provider said Wednesday.The communist country had revealed a photo of its leader Kim Jong-un inspecting a silver sphere -- believed to be the device in question -- in front of the state’s KH-08 long-range missile. Kim directly stated that his engineers had succeeded in miniaturizing the nuclear warheads. (Yonhap)But Karl Dewey, a senior analyst at IHS Jan
March 10, 2016
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N. Korea to liquidate Southern assets
North Korea on Thursday announced it would nullify all inter-Korea relations and dispose of all assets left behind by South Korean companies, dealing yet another blow to already precarious inter-Korea relations.The announcement came two days after Seoul declared a set of unilateral sanctions on the communist country, after the U.N. passed what officials have called the strongest sanctions in decades last week. The joint inter-Korean factory complex in Gaeseong, North Korea is seen in this photo
March 10, 2016
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Hong Kong bans N. Korean freighter under U.N. sanctions
Hong Kong has banned a North Korean freighter, which is blacklisted by new U.N. sanctions over the North's latest nuclear test and rocket launch, from berthing at its port, a source with knowledge of the matter said Thursday. The North Korean freighter Gold Star 3 arrived at the Hong Kong port on Wednesday to get fuel and supplies for its crew, but Hong Kong authorities did not allow the ship to dock at the port, the source said on the condition of anonymity. The ship is among 31 vessels operate
March 10, 2016
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Seoul reviewing whether to OK TB medication aid to Pyongyang
South Korea said Thursday it is reviewing whether to approve a charity group's request to send tuberculosis medication to North Korea amid its latest move to slap tighter sanctions on the North.The EugeneBell Foundation Korea, the South Korean unit of the EugeneBell Foundation, has requested the Unification Ministry to approve its plan to ship medication to the impoverished nation. It said lives of some 1,500 patients in North Korea are at risk due to a lack of medical aid.On Tuesday, Seoul unve
March 10, 2016
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Pyongyang slams Seoul's approval of N. Korea human rights bill
North Korea on Thursday denounced the human rights bill passed by South Korea's parliament, claiming that it will further aggravate inter-Korean relations.Calling the bill an "unprecedentedly confrontational evil law," North Korea's main newspaper the Rodong Sinmun claimed the bill will further fuel distrust and confrontation between the two Koreas and also annihilate any bit of chance to improve inter-Korean relations.On March 2, South Korea's National Assembly approved the bill on North Korean
March 10, 2016
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N. Korea unlikely to have thermonuclear weapon: UK institute
North Korea’s claim to have miniaturized a nuclear weapon to fit a ballistic missile is likely to be false, a London-based defense information provider said Wednesday.The communist country had revealed a photo of its leader Kim Jong-un inspecting a silver sphere -- believed to be the device in question -- in front of the state’s KH-08 long-range missile. Kim had directly stated that his engineers succeeded in miniaturizing the nuclear warheads.But Karl Dewey, a senior analyst at IHS Jane’s said
March 10, 2016
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Pyongyang to nullify inter-Korean projects, liquidate Seoul‘s assets
North Korea said Thursday it will nullify all cross-border agreements on economic cooperation and liquidate South Korean assets in the country in response to Seoul's latest sanctions. "From this moment, we will view all agreements which the two Koreas have made on economic cooperation and exchanges as invalid," said a spokesman at the committee for handling inter-Korean affairs.The North also said that it will sell off all assets by South Korean companies in North Korea, pointing to the South's
March 10, 2016
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China notifies Beijing airport of N. Koreans blacklisted by U.N.
Chinese authorities have notified Beijing Capital International Airport of a list of North Korean individuals who are blacklisted by new U.N. sanctions for their involvement in the North's weapons program, a source with knowledge of the issue said Thursday. The list of 16 North Korean individuals was added to the U.N. sanctions blacklist after the U.N. Security Council adopted a new resolution following the North's fourth nuclear test and rocket launch this year. "The list was delivered to the i
March 10, 2016
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Chief nuclear envoy heads to U.S. for talks on N. Korea
South Korea's chief nuclear envoy left for Washington on Thursday to coordinate the allies' response to North Korea's nuclear and missile programs in the wake of new sanctions on Pyongyang.Kim Hong-kyun, special representative for Korean Peninsula peace and security affairs, will visit Washington for three days to hold a series of meetings with U.S. officials on ways to cope with North Korea's security threats."We will focus our discussions on our overall approach to changing North Korea's behav
March 10, 2016
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N. Korea restarts IRT nuclear research reactor to possibly make tritium for weapons
North Korea is believed to have restarted a small research reactor at its Yongbyon nuclear complex in a possible attempt to make tritium, a key ingredient for hydrogen bombs, a U.S. research institute claimed Wednesday.The Institute for Science and International Security cited two unidentified sources as saying that the Soviet-built IRT-2000 reactor is believed to be running on indigenously produced highly enriched uranium as fuel.The reactor, which first went into operation in 1965, is differen
March 10, 2016
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Cambodia supports N.K. denuclearization, pledges to enforce U.N. sanctions
Cambodia has reaffirmed its opposition to North Korea's possession of nuclear arms and pledged to "faithfully" enforce newly adopted U.N. sanctions on the isolated regime, South Korea's Foreign Ministry said Thursday.First Vice Foreign Minister Lim Sung-nam and Long Visalo, secretary of state at Cambodia's Foreign Ministry, held a bilateral joint committee meeting in Cambodia on Wednesday to discuss cooperation in diplomacy, trade, business, rural development and other areas.The senior-level mee
March 10, 2016
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U.S. says it's closely monitoring situation after N. Korea fires missiles
The United States is closely monitoring the situation on the Korean Peninsula, the Defense Department said Thursday, after North Korea fired two short-range missiles into the East Sea."We have seen the reports. We are closely monitoring the situation," Cmdr. Bill Urban, a Pentagon spokesman, told Yonhap News Agency without elaborating. According to South Korea's Joint Chief of Staff, the two missiles were fired around 5:20 a.m. Thursday morning from North Hwanghae Province and hit waters northea
March 10, 2016
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U.S. says N.K. miniaturization claims unproven, but it‘s prepared for worst
The United States has not seen North Korea demonstrate its nuclear warhead miniaturization capabilities, but takes threats from Pyongyang seriously and is prepared for the worst, officials said Wednesday.Pentagon officials made the remarks after North Korea released photos of what it claims was a miniaturized nuclear warhead, with leader Kim Jong-un claiming that the country succeeded in making nuclear bombs small enough to fit on ballistic missiles."We are aware of the report out of North Korea
March 10, 2016
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North Korea to liquidate South assets in joint projects
North Korea said Thursday it would dispose of all assets left behind by South Korean firms involved in two now-shuttered joint projects, further raising already elevated tensions on the divided Korean peninsula.A North Korean missile fired in May 2015. Yonhap"We will completely liquidate all assets of South Korean firms and related institutions left behind in our region," the Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of Korea said in statement carried by the North's official KCNA news agency.The
March 10, 2016
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North Korean ships play hide and seek
As the international community, including China, sets about sanctioning North Korean vessels in line with a U.N. resolution, North Korea is seen scurrying to counter the movement by deactivating identification devices on its ships and banishing them from the map. China plans to bar North Korean boats currently docked at its harbors from returning to their home ports starting Thursday, Japan’s Sankei Shimbun daily reported Wednesday, citing traders traversing between the two nations. On top of an
March 9, 2016
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Calls for peace treaty talks pose dilemma to Seoul
Growing calls for a peace treaty with North Korea are posing a tricky policy dilemma for South Korea as it moves to put more pressure on Pyongyang to give up its nukes amid calls by Beijing for talks, experts here said Wednesday.The decades-old issue of forging a peace treaty to formally end the 1950-53 Korean War resurfaced last month as China proposed a "dual-track" approach whereby peace treaty talks with the North would proceed simultaneously with denuclearization negotiations.The proposal w
March 9, 2016
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China appears to have implemented new U.N. sanctions on N. Korea
China appears to have already implemented new U.N. sanctions on North Korea, with daily shipments of bilateral trade in their border area declining by as much as 30 percent, a diplomatic source with knowledge of North Korea-China relations said Wednesday.China, North Korea's diplomatic and economic lifeline, backed new U.N. sanctions to punish the North for conducting its fourth nuclear test and launch of a long-range rocket this year.The new U.N. sanctions, which require all countries to inspec
March 9, 2016
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Seoul to continue providing humanitarian aid to Pyongyang
South Korea said Wednesday that it will continue to provide humanitarian assistance to North Korea despite its fresh sanctions aimed at punishing the North for its nuke and missile programs.On Tuesday, Seoul unveiled a set of unilateral punitive actions against the North following tougher United Nations Security Council sanctions over Pyongyang's latest nuclear test and long-range rocket launch.The Ministry of Unification said that there is no change in its principle that Seoul will continue to
March 9, 2016