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S. Korea voices regret over N. Korea's flak against Park
South Korea expressed regret Friday that North Korea has blamed President Park Geun-hye for warning against the North's provocation during her summit with China's leader. The North's message was released Thursday as Park held a summit with her Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, on Wednesday in Beijing, where they warned Pyongyang against taking any action that could escalate tensions on the Korean Peninsula. She expressed gratitude to Xi for the constructive role Beijing has played in defusing te
Sept. 4, 2015
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NK leader inspects machinery factory in border city
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has inspected a machinery factory in a northwestern border city, the North's official media said Friday. Kim visited the factory that produces measuring instruments in Sinuiju, where he expressed his appreciation for machinery developers' efforts to produce the goods with indigenous technology, according to the Korean Central News Agency. It did not specify the date of Kim's inspection, but given the pattern of KCNA's reports on Kim's public activity, he is pres
Sept. 4, 2015
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N. Korea rebukes Park for warning against NK provocation
North Korea blamed President Park Geun-hye on Thursday for warning against the North's provocation during her summit with China's leader, saying inter-Korean ties can return to confrontation at any time. The North's message came as Park held a summit with her Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping on Wednesday in Beijing where they warned Pyongyang against taking any action that could escalate tensions on the Korean Peninsula. She expressed gratitude to Xi for the constructive role Beijing has played
Sept. 3, 2015
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U.N. rapporteur on N.K. human rights to visit S. Korea next week
The U.N. special rapporteur on North Korea's human rights situation will visit South Korea next week to assess the impact of recent developments in inter-Korean ties on the North Korean people's human rights, according to the U.N. human rights office in Seoul. Marzuki Darusman plans to visit South Korea on Sunday for a five-day stay and meet with government officials, civil society actors and other interested parties here, the office said in a statement on its website. It will be the independe
Sept. 3, 2015
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Economic revival appears to be behind N. Korea's push for dialogue with S. Korea: U.S. expert
North Korea is believed to have used the latest military standoff with South Korea to get inter-Korean talks started so as to win economic cooperation and investment necessary to rebuild its broken economy, a U.S. expert said Wednesday.The military standoff, which began with the explosion of landmines secretly planned by the North and led later to an exchange of artillery fire across the border, was defused with a peace agreement reached after days of marathon negotiations first proposed by Pyon
Sept. 3, 2015
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Border island residents call for pullout of loudspeakers
By Shin Hyon-heeResidents of a border island in the West Sea have turned in a petition calling for the removal of loudspeakers installed there for anti-Pyongyang broadcasts that sparked a recent exchange of fire between the two Koreas, military officials said Wednesday. The appeal was made Monday to the Defense Ministry by about 100 people living on Gyodong Island in Ganghwa County, Incheon, located just south of the Northern Limit Line, the skirmish-prone maritime border with North Korea. “They
Sept. 2, 2015
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Seoul-Beijing summit highlights N.K. isolation
President Park Geun-hye’s trip to China this week further underscored Pyongyang’s deepening isolation and estrangement from Beijing, drawing keen attention to how the communist regime would seek to address its diplomatic impasse. North Korean leader Kim Jong-un presides over a recent party meeting. (Yonhap)Park and her Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping held a summit for the sixth time Wednesday with a focus on joint efforts to address North Korea’s nuclear ambitions and provocations, reaffirming pr
Sept. 2, 2015
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N. Korea's Choe Ryong-hae leaves for Beijing to attend military parade: report
A close aide to North Korean leader Kim Jong-un left for Beijing on Wednesday to attend a military parade marking the end of World War II, a news report said. Choe Ryong-hae, a member of the Politburo Presidium and the secretary of the Central Committee of North Korea's ruling Workers' Party, departed for Beijing at around noon, Japan's Kyodo news agency reported from Pyongyang. The planned visit by Choe to China comes as political ties between Pyongyang and Beijing remain strained over Nort
Sept. 2, 2015
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N. Korean drone flew across DMZ amid August tension: source
A North Korean surveillance drone flew over a South Korean military outpost without interruption, just hours before the two Koreas kicked off talks on easing military tensions in late August, defense sources said Wednesday. The unmanned aerial vehicle, measured slightly longer than 3 meters, crossed the demilitarized zone, which bisects the peninsula, and flew above the compound along the central part of the four-kilometer-wide military buffer, the sources said. The flight took place about two
Sept. 2, 2015
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N Korea urges S. Korea not to dampen inter-Korean ties
North Korea on Wednesday urged South Korea to refrain from making comments that could dampen inter-Korean ties following the two Koreas' landmark deal, warning that Seoul's attitude could push the hard-won conciliatory mood to return to confrontation. Just one week before the North's warning, South and North Korea reached a landmark agreement to ease military tension on the Korean Peninsula and resume the reunion of families separated by the 1950-53 Korean War, raising hopes for better ties. T
Sept. 2, 2015
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S. Korea, China hold talks on N. Korea ahead of summit
The chief nuclear envoys from South Korea and China held talks on Tuesday on ways to resolve a long-running standoff over North Korea's nuclear weapons program, officials said Tuesday, a day before President Park Geun-hye and Chinese President Xi Jinping hold a summit in Beijing. South Korea's chief nuclear envoy, Hwang Joon-kook, arrived in Beijing earlier in the day and held talks with his Chinese counterpart, Wu Dawei. Hwang said the Tuesday meeting was aimed at fine-tuning the North Korean n
Sept. 1, 2015
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Park touts inter-Korean deal as unification step
President Park Geun-hye on Tuesday touted a recent breakthrough between the two Koreas, saying its thorough implementation starting with a fresh round of reunions of separated families would bring the peninsula closer to lasting peace and eventually a unification.The sides are scheduled for a working-level meeting on Sept. 7 at the border village of Panmunjeom to arrange the family reunions, following their three-day high-level talks that ended last Tuesday. “If we safeguard the hard-won agreeme
Sept. 1, 2015
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Park says Koreas can move toward peace, unification
President Park Geun-hye said Tuesday that South and North Korea can move toward peace and unification if they honor a recent deal that defused tensions.The deal reached last week between the two Koreas after days of marathon negotiations set the stage for inter-Korean dialogue and reunions of families separated since the 1950-53 Korean War.President Park Geun-hye (Yonhap)The two Koreas are set to hold Red Cross talks on Sept. 7 to arrange the reunions around Chuseok, a major holiday that is cele
Sept. 1, 2015
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Korean Red Cross begins checking fate of separated families in S. Korea
The Korean Red Cross said Tuesday it has kicked off the process to confirm the fate of more than 66,000 South Korean family members who were separated by the 1950-53 Korean War and are known to be alive in a bid to prepare for an upcoming family reunion event. The Korean Red Cross said that it has begun a 15-day project to contact separated family members who are believed to be alive and ask whether they will agree to exchange a list of separated family members with the North. More than 129,60
Sept. 1, 2015
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S. Korea, U.S. seek China's constructive role on N. Korea
Top South Korean and U.S. diplomats have agreed that China's "constructive" role is of importance for peace and security on the Korean Peninsula, the Foreign Ministry said Tuesday.Foreign Minister Yun Byung-se held 30-minute talks with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on the sidelines of the Conference on Global Leadership in the Arctic held in Anchorage, Alaska, on Monday (local time).Their meeting, the third this year, came amid concerns over the impact of President Park Geun-hye's trip to C
Sept. 1, 2015
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S. Korea, U.S. reaffirm close coordination on N. Korea
South Korean Foreign Minister Yun Byung-se and U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry reaffirmed Monday that the two countries will continue to coordinate closely on North Korea, the State Department said. The two top diplomats met in Anchorage, Alaska, on the sidelines of the Conference on Global Leadership in the Arctic that the U.S. hosted to focus world attention on climate change affecting the polar region and discuss ways to curb it. "They had a productive discussion on plans for Republic of
Sept. 1, 2015
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N. Korea likely to use provocations unless economic aid comes from S. Korea: U.S. expert
Provocations will continue to be a part of North Korea's strategy for dealing with South Korea despite the recent conciliatory mood created between the two sides after they defused a military standoff, a U.S. expert said Monday. Ken Gause, a senior analyst on Korea at CNA Corp., made the forecast in a just-released paper titled "North Korea's provocations and escalation calculus," saying the dynamics of Pyongyang's decision-making on provocations have not changed dramatically since Kim Jong-un
Sept. 1, 2015
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Unification minister not to attend Russia forum
Seoul's point man on North Korea will not attend an upcoming forum in Russia as Pyongyang has not indicated its willingness to hold talks there, government officials said Monday. Unification Minister Hong Yong-pyo was considering attending the Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok this week but dropped the plan as North Korea has not confirmed the participation of its foreign trade minister, Ri Ryong-nam, in a trilateral session also involving Russia, one official said on condition of anonymit
Aug. 31, 2015
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Koreas to discuss ways on holding separated family reunion on regular basis
The Unification Ministry said Monday that next week South and North Korea plan to discuss ways to hold reunions of families separated by the 1950-53 Korean War on a regular basis. In a landmark deal, the two Koreas agreed last week to resume the much-anticipated reunions of separated families on the occasion of Korea's fall harvest holiday slated for September. The family reunions have not been held since early 2014. Officials from the two Korea's Red Cross are scheduled to have working-level
Aug. 31, 2015
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Cross-border tensions fade
Cross-border tensions further abated over the weekend as North Korea accepted the South’s offer to hold bilateral Red Cross talks on Sept. 7 to arrange the reunions of separated families, with each military seen readjusting their readiness posture to a precrisis level.The DMZ train traveling along the border areas comes to a halt at Daemari Station in Cheolwon, Gangwon Province, on Sunday. Its operations had been stopped for some time due to cross-border tensions. (Yonhap)On Saturday, a day afte
Aug. 30, 2015