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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
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Kim says N.K. has miniaturised nuclear warheads
North Korea’s leader has claimed that his country has succeeded in miniaturizing nuclear warheads to fit on ballistic missiles, the country’s official media said Wednesday, once again boasting about the country’s military prowess amid rising inter-Korean tensions. North Korea' official KCNA news agency released this photo Wednesday showing its leader Kim Jong-un meeting nuclear scientists. (Yonhap)During his meeting with nuclear scientists and engineers, Kim Jong-un complimented them for develop
March 9, 2016
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North Korea says it has achieved 'standardization' of nuclear bomb
North Korea has made a nuclear bomb lighter and achieved its "standardization," the communist country's state television said Wednesday, in the latest claim that it has made strides in its weapons capabilities.The North's official Korean Central Television said Kim Jong-un made the remarks at a meeting with scientists and technicians, where he gave his guidance on the development of nuclear weapons."It is a very great warhead that is designed in a reasonable structure that enables an instantaneo
March 9, 2016
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U.N. panel's report shows North Korea skirted U.N. sanctions
A Singapore-based shipping firm used its account at a Bank of China branch to conceal North Korean payments to operate ships carrying arms and other goods on behalf of the regime in Pyongyang, a news report said Tuesday.Foreign Policy magazine cited a report from the U.N. panel of experts on sanctions on North Korea as saying that the firm, Chinpo Shipping, made some 605 payments valued at more than US$40 million on behalf of North Korean entities between April 2009 and July 2013.The firm also w
March 9, 2016
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U.S Air Force chief: N.K. yet to master technology to put nuclear warhead on long-range missile
North Korea is not believed to have mastered the technology to fit a nuclear warhead onto a long-range missile yet, U.S. Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Mark Welsh said.Welsh made the remark during a Pentagon briefing Monday, saying the commander of U.S. Northern Command "spends a lot of time worried about how we can be sure to take it out if they ever did develop the capability to combine a long-range missile with a warhead that was operable."Asked if the North has reached the stage, Welsh said,
March 9, 2016
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Denuclearization 'paramount goal,' 'focus' of any talks with N. Korea: State Department
Ending North Korea's nuclear programs remains the "paramount goal" of the U.S. policy on Pyongyang and will be the "focus" of any talks with the communist nation, the State Department said Tuesday.The statement clears up questions about the U.S. commitment to pursue denuclearization ahead of anything else, after spokesman John Kirby said last week the U.S. does not rule out the possibility of a "parallel process" by which it holds peace treaty talks with the North in tandem with denuclearization
March 9, 2016
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Denuclearization of Korean Peninsula top priority: U.S.
The United States said Tuesday that denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula is the highest priority in its North Korea policy and pressed the communist country to give up its nuclear programs. The close cooperation on Resolution 2270 adopted by the U.N.Security Council, imposing the strongest sanctions yet on Pyongyang, demonstrated that South Korea and the U.S. are in "firm agreement" on dealing with threats posed by the North, the U.S.Embassy said in a press release.Last week, the U.N. adopte
March 8, 2016
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Seoul to freeze trans-Korea project with Russia
South Korea said Tuesday it will pull out from a trilateral trans-Korea logistics project with Russia as it unveiled a new set of standalone sanctions chiefly targeting North Korea's financial and shipping networks. The decision on the Rajin-Khasan logistics project in particular reflects Seoul's toughening line against Pyongyang as it had been the key piece of President Park Geun-hye's much-trumpeted “Eurasia Initiative.” A coal truck is headed to Namyang, North Korea, after departing from the
March 8, 2016
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Seoul unveils own anti-Pyongyang sanctions
South Korea unveiled a slew of its own punitive measures against Pyongyang Tuesday, including blacklisting scores of North Koreans and entities suspected to be linked the North's weapons of mass destruction.The set of measures is a follow-up to newly-imposed United Nations Security Council sanctions in response to Pyongyang's nuclear test in January and long-range rocket launch last month, the Prime Minister's Office said."The government will cooperate with the international community to change
March 8, 2016
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EU, Japan draw up N.K. human rights resolution
The European Union and Japan have recently drawn up a draft resolution on North Korea's human rights abuses for submission later this month to a U.N. human rights panel, government sources said Tuesday.In the latest effort to shed light on the communist state's woeful human rights conditions, they would begin a process to review the resolution possibly next week before tabling it at the 13th session of the U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva, Switzerland. The council's latest session opened on F
March 8, 2016
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China won't accept N. Korea's pursuit of nuke weapons
China will not allow North Korea to continue its defiant pursuit of nuclear and missile programs, the country's foreign minister said Tuesday, as the U.N. Security Council adopted a new resolution targeting the North's nuclear ambitions. North Korea has been slapped with a fresh package of U.N. sanctions following its fourth nuclear test and launch of a long-range rocket, both of which violated previous U.N. resolutions. Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, however, reaffirmed that sanctions won't
March 8, 2016
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Chief nuclear envoy to visit U.S. for talks on North Korea
South Korea's chief nuclear envoy will visit Washington this week to discuss the allies' implementation of new U.N. and unilateral sanctions on North Korea, Seoul's Foreign Ministry said Tuesday.Kim Hong-kyun, special representative for Korean Peninsula peace and security affairs, will travel to Washington on Thursday to meet with his U.S. counterpart Ambassador Sung Kim, for talks on North Korea, ministry spokesman Cho June-hyuck said in a regular press briefing."The two sides will share assess
March 8, 2016
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China FM calls for talks on peace treaty, denuclearization of North Korea
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi on Tuesday renewed his calls for holding peace treaty talks with North Korea in tandem with discussions about the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula. Speaking to a press conference, Wang said the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula is the "firm goal" of the international community, but relevant countries should address the concerns of North Korea at the same time. Wang described his proposal for peace treaty talks with North Korea as "reasonable." Chin
March 8, 2016
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North Korea stole information from smartphones of South Korean officials: spy agency
North Korea has stolen information from the smartphones of South Korean officials, Seoul's spy agency said Tuesday, the latest in a series of cyberattacks against South Korea.North Korean hackers sent text messages to dozens of major South Korean officials to try to lure them into following links to malicious software, the National Intelligence Service said.The intelligence agency said about one out of five smartphones belonging to them was eventually infected with malware between late February
March 8, 2016
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Seoul imposes financial, shipping sanctions on North Korea
South Korea levied a fresh set of unilateral sanctions against North Korea on Tuesday, aimed at further squeezing Pyongyang’s financial and shipping networks and sources of foreign currency while tightening the global export control regimes. The government newly designated 30 North Korean and foreign organizations, and 40 individuals subject to an asset freeze and a ban on financial and property transactions with any South Korean entity, sharply expanding the existing blacklist to 34 groups and
March 8, 2016
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Seoul informs Russia of halt to trilateral project with Pyongyang
South Korea has informed Russia it is suspending a trilateral logistics project involving North Korea as part of unilateral sanctions on Pyongyang, government sources said Tuesday.The Rajin-Khasan project aims to bring Russian coal and other freight to the South via rail and sea links that connect Russia and the two Koreas. It is one of the few projects that Seoul has maintained with the North despite sanctions on most cross-border exchanges.On Monday, Seoul informed Moscow through diplomatic ch
March 8, 2016
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Thailand agrees to actively enforce N.K. sanctions
Thailand has agreed to "actively" enforce the newly adopted U.N. sanctions on North Korea, Seoul's Foreign Ministry said Tuesday, noting the Southeast Asian state has shared the need for pressuring Pyongyang to abandon its nuclear program.The agreement came as South Korea's First Vice Minister Lim Sung-nam and his Thai counterpart Apichart Chinwanno held a policy consultative meeting in Chiang Mai on Monday, during which they discussed bilateral cooperation in trade, infrastructure development a
March 8, 2016