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N.K. says South Korea “not qualified” to discuss armistice
North Korea on Wednesday dismissed South Korea’s claim that the armistice agreement remains valid, arguing that the South is not qualified to discuss the matter.“The (South Korean) puppets that worked as a tool for America and drove the Korean Peninsula to the brink of war should not be shamelessly discussing the current problem,” the Rodong Sinmun, the daily of the North’s ruling Workers’ Party, said. “Furthermore, the South Korean puppets are not even the directly involved party in the armisti
March 13, 2013
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N. Korea fielding mobile ICBM: U.S. intelligence chief
North Korea seems to have taken "initial steps" to deploy mobile long-range missiles, the head of the U.S. intelligence community said Tuesday, as the unpredictable communist nation churns out military threats."Last April it displayed what appears to be a rogue mobile intercontinental ballistic missile," James Clapper, director of National Intelligence, said at a Senate hearing on national security challenges. "We believe North Korea has already taken initial steps towards fielding this system,
March 13, 2013
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History shows N. K.'s pattern: wait, then attack
Recent Korean history reveals a sobering possibility: It may only be a matter of time before North Korea launches a sudden, deadly attack on the South. And perhaps more unsettling, Seoul has vowed that this time, it will respond with an even stronger blow.Humiliated by past attacks, South Korea has promised _ as recently as Tuesday _ to hit back hard at the next assault from the North, opening up the prospect that a skirmish could turn into a wider war.Lost in the headline-making North Korean bl
March 12, 2013
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North blasts S. Korea-U.S. drills; no signs of imminent provocation
Tension continued to escalate on Tuesday as North Korea intensified threats against South Korea and the U.S. warning of “catastrophic consequences.”The regime has cut off an emergency hotline with the South and declared the end of nonaggression pacts, in protest of joint military drills of the two allies.Pyongyang’s official media carried a statement from the Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of the Fatherland, blasting Seoul and Washington for staging “the most dangerous drills for a nuc
March 12, 2013
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U.S. slaps sanctions on N.K. bank, officials
WASHINGTON (AFP) ― The United States on Monday slapped sanctions on North Korea’s primary foreign exchange bank and four senior officials, upping the pressure on Pyongyang to abandon its nuclear program.The new U.S. measures came as South Korea and the United States launched joint drills involving thousands of troops, defying the North’s apocalyptic threat to repudiate the 60-year-old Korean War armistice in retaliation.The start of the two-week “Key Resolve” exercise fuels already escalating te
March 12, 2013
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U.N. monitor accuses N.K. of crimes against humanity
GENEVA (AFP) ― A U.N. human rights monitor on Monday accused North Korea of committing a string of crimes against humanity, laying out a litany of abuses before the world body’s top rights forum.“The violations in the DPRK have reached a critical mass,” Marzuki Darusman told the U.N. Human Rights Council, using the acronym of the country’s official name, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.Darusman said that he had identified nine areas of key concern, among them depriving the population o
March 12, 2013
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N.K. raising tension among its citizens
Amid growing jitters over the peace on the Korean Peninsula due to the cutoff of the inter-Korean hotline by the North, the isolated country is intentionally ratcheting up tension among its citizens, according the country’s media that is monitored here. However, North Korea analysts here said the North’s current attitude appears to be less strained compared with the incidents in March 1993, when the country declared “a quasi-state of war,” four days before it seceded from the Treaty on the Non-P
March 12, 2013
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Rodman ‘planning vacation’ with N. Korea’s Kim
WASHINGTON (AFP) ― The odd couple is getting odder: first, Dennis Rodman and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un took in a hoops game side-by-side. Now they’re planning a holiday together. The retired and flamboyant 51-year-old Rodman, who announced the vacation plan Monday, became the most high-profile American to meet Kim, doing so during a recent trip to Pyongyang which came against a backdrop of increased North Korean saber-rattling on the peninsula. While officials in Washington have played dow
March 12, 2013
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S. Korea braces for North's cyber attacks
South Korea has stepped up surveillance in cyberspace to counter possible provocations by North Korea as tension runs high amid the communist country's threats of a nuclear war, the communications watchdog said Tuesday.Following Pyongyang's nuclear test last month, Seoul has issued the fourth-highest level of cyber alert and has been conducting 24-hour monitoring of the state telecommunications network, according to the Korea Communications Commission.South Korea's cyber alert system consists of
March 12, 2013
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S. Korea warns N. Korea not to scrap Korean War armistice
South Korea's foreign ministry said Tuesday that an Armistice Agreement that ended the 1950-53 Korean War remains valid, despite the North's threats to scrap the cease-fire deal. "The terms of the Armistice Agreement cannot be unilaterally invalid or terminated," foreign ministry spokesman Cho Tai-young said, demanding North Korea withdraw the threats. North Korea said early this week that the armistice was "completely invalid," in response to tougher U.N. sanctions against the North's third nuc
March 12, 2013
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N.K. leader visits front-line units near western sea border
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un paid visits to front-line military units near the western sea border on Monday, calling for troops to throw all enemies into a "cauldron," break their "waists" and cut their "windpipes."The visit to the Wolnae Islet Defense Detachment and a long-range artillery sub-unit of KPA Unit 641 near the South's western border island of Baengnyeong came as South Korean and U.S. forces kicked off annual military drills that Pyongyang denounces as a rehearsal for invasion."A
March 12, 2013
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N. Korea severs communication hotline with S. Korea
North Korea severed the inter-Korean communication hotline that runs through the truce village of Panmunjom following its threat to do so last week, South Korea's unification ministry said Monday.The ministry said the North seems to have disconnected the emergency link set up to ensure prompt two-way communication to deal with any sudden developments along the demilitarized zone that separates the two Koreas. It said attempts to contact the North by telephone at 9 a.m. failed.Pyongyang warned la
March 11, 2013
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S. Korea imposes additional sanctions on North
South Korea imposed additional sanctions against North Korea following the United Nations Security Council's toughened regulations to punish the North's Feb. 12 nuclear test, the finance ministry said Sunday.According to the Ministry of Strategy and Finance, South Korea put three additional North Korean officials and two entities on the blacklist, including officials from a North-based trade firm and a banker.South Korean citizens and companies making financial transactions with people and firms
March 10, 2013
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N. Korea threatens all-out war ahead of S. Korea-U.S. military drill
North Korea drummed up threats of an all-out nuclear war with South Korea and the U.S. on Sunday, one day ahead of the two allies‘ planned joint military drill which the communist country denounces as targeting the North. “Our front-line military groups, the army, the navy and the air force, the anti-aircraft units and the strategic rocket units, who have entered the final all-out war stage, are awaiting the final order to strike,” North Korea’s Rodong Sinmun, the most widely circulated daily pu
March 10, 2013
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N. Korea slams U.N. resolution, vows nuclear buildup
Flaring up already heightened tension on the Korean Peninsula, North Korea slammed tougher sanctions against its nuclear test and continued ramping up war rhetoric on Saturday.An unidentified spokesman for the North‘s foreign ministry denounced the U.N. Security Council’s toughened sanctions to punish the North‘s third nuclear test, calling them “clear proof” that the U.N. is “abused” by the United States that aims to bring down the Pyongyang regime “by disarming and suffocating it economically.
March 10, 2013
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Sanctions against N. Korea not 'fundamental'
Sanctions against North Korea over its nuclear programme are not "the fundamental way" to resolve the crisis, China's foreign minister said Saturday, days after the UN tightened measures against Pyongyang.China is the North's sole major ally and by far its biggest trading partner, including being its primary energy supplier. It voted Thursday for the UN resolution that stiffened restrictions on North Korea's financial dealings, notably its suspect "bulk cash" transfers, and blocked imports of so
March 9, 2013
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N. Korea slams U.N. resolution, vows nuclear buildup
Flaring up already heightened tension on the Korean Peninsula, North Korea slammed tougher sanctions against its nuclear test and continued ramping up war rhetoric on Saturday.An unidentified spokesman for the North's foreign ministry denounced the U.N. Security Council's toughened sanctions to punish the North's third nuclear test, calling them "clear proof" that the U.N. is "abused" by the United States that aims to bring down the Pyongyang regime "by disarming and suffocating it economically.
March 9, 2013
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UN sanctions may play into North Korean propaganda
Seven years of U.N. sanctions against North Korea have done nothing to derail Pyongyang's drive for a nuclear weapon capable of hitting the United States. They may have even bolstered the Kim family by giving their propaganda maestros ammunition to whip up anti-U.S. sentiment and direct attention away from government failures.In the wake of fresh U.N. sanctions leveled at North Korea on Thursday for its latest nuclear test, the question is: Will this time be different?Since 2006, North Korea has
March 9, 2013
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U.S. ‘fully capable’ of defending against North Korea threat
WASHINGTON (AFP) ― The U.S. said Thursday it was “fully capable” of defending itself and its allies against any North Korean missile strike, after Pyongyang threatened to launch a nuclear attack.The U.S. military could deal with any such attack, U.S. officials said, repeating earlier warnings that North Korea would gain nothing by provocations, while stressing they took its threats seriously.“I can tell you that the United States is fully capable of defending against any North Korean ballistic m
March 8, 2013
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Kim visits military unit that shelled Yeonpyeong
With tensions surging on the Korean peninsula, North Korean leader Kim Jong-un talked of “all-out war” as he toured a frontline unit that shelled the South in 2010, state media said Friday.Visiting two islands close to the disputed maritime border with South Korea on Thursday, Kim said the North’s military was “fully ready to fight a Korean style all-out war,” the Korean Central News Agency said.The tour coincided with an outpouring of vitriol from Pyongyang over U.N. sanctions imposed for its n
March 8, 2013