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N. Korea slams US, other countries for seeking alternative to UN sanctions monitoring panel
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Korean labor force to shrink by 10 million by 2044: report
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S. Korea's working-age population to dip nearly 10m by 2044 amid low births
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UN deplores N. Korea rocket launch
UNITED NATIONS (AP)-The U.N. Security Council deplored North Korea's rocket launch on Friday, saying it violates two council resolutions but stopped short of imposing any new sanctions against the reclusive Asian nation. The U.N.'s most powerful body said in a brief press statement after a closed meeting that members agreed to continue consultations "on an appropriate response in accordance with i
April 14, 2012
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N. Korea supreme leader leads mass rally
PYONGYANG (AFP) -- North Korea's new leader Kim Jong-Un on Friday led a mass rally for his late father and grandfather following the country's failed rocket launch.The defiant launch drew condemnation from world leaders who described it as a "provocative" act that threatened regional security, despite Pyongyang insisting it was intended to put a satellite into orbit for peaceful purposes.But Jong-
April 13, 2012
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N.K. admits failure
North Korea admitted Friday that its Kwangmyongsong-3 satellite failed to enter orbit.“Scientists, technicians and experts are now looking into the cause of the failure,” the North’s official Korean Central News Agency said in a brief dispatch, without elaborating.It was the first time Pyongyang acknowledged failure in a long-range rocket launch.The announcement came more than four hours after North Korea went ahead with the launch of a long-range rocket early Friday morning, despite repeated wa
April 13, 2012
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Long silence in N.K. after rocket failure
PYONGYANG (AFP) ― News of North Korea’s abortive rocket launch was flashed around the world Friday but there were four long hours of silence before Pyongyang admitted the highly publicised attempt had failed.“The earth observation satellite failed to enter its preset orbit. Scientists, technicians and experts are now looking into the cause of the failure,” the KCNA official news agency finally said in a terse report.But there was still no word from officials on the ground for scores of foreign j
April 13, 2012
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N. Korea leader made chairman of defence commission
SEOUL, April 13, 2012 (AFP) - North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un was elected "first chairman" of the powerful National Defence Commission, apparently a new title, state media said Friday.His late father Kim Jong-Il was named "eternal" chairman of the commission, the country's top decision-making body, at an annual session of the North's rubber-stamp parliament, the official KCNA news agency said.The
April 13, 2012
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N.K. moves further toward isolation
Obama could face domestic political challenges over Pyongyang in election yearNorth Korea took a step further into international isolation on Friday morning after it blasted off a long-range rocket that apparently exploded shortly after lift-off.With the U.S. and its allies including South Korea seeking to refer it to the U.N. Security Council, Pyongyang is expected to face deteriorating ties with Washington and Seoul, and toughened international sanctions, analysts said.Calling the launch a “pr
April 13, 2012
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N. Korea admits rocket launch failure
U.N. Security Council immediately convenes in response to apparent missile testNorth Korea admitted Friday that its Kwangmyongsong-3 satellite failed to enter orbit after launch. “Scientists, technicians and experts are now looking into the cause of the failure,” the North’s official Korean Central News Agency said in a brief dispatch, without elaborating.The announcement came more than four hours after North Korea went ahead with the launch of a long-range rocket early Friday morning, despite r
April 13, 2012
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N. Korea shows Obama‘s foreign policy failure: Romney
The presumptive Republican nominee for president was quick Thursday to use North Korea’s rocket launch to attack his potential rival President Barack Obama.Mitt Romney, a former Massachusetts governor, also condemned “in the strongest possible terms” the North‘s act although it was unsuccessful.“Pyongyang’s action is another blatant violation of unanimous U.N. Security Council resolutions and demonstrates once again that Pyongyang is committed to developing long-range missiles with the potential
April 13, 2012
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UN Security Council to meet Friday after N.Korea launch
UNITED NATIONS (AFP) - The UN Security Council will meet in emergency session on Friday to discuss the situation in North Korea after Pyongyang launched a long-range rocket, a UN diplomat said Thursday.The diplomat told AFP the 15-member Council would meet "to decide its next step" following the launch, which the United States and several other nations have claimed is in fact a disguised missile t
April 13, 2012
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South Korea, neighbors on full alert over N.K. rocket
The South Korean government is on full alert to take quick and effective measures in response to an imminent rocket launch by North Korea, government officials said.“The government issued guidelines to strengthen office discipline to prevent any damage to South Korean citizens and to take quick measures in case North Korea launches a long-range missile,” a government official said.A U.S. official said Wednesday in Washington that the foreign ministers of the Group of Eight major economies will i
April 12, 2012
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U.S.-based musical group performing in N.K.
ATLANTA (AP) ― A musical group from the Atlanta area is traveling to North Korea for a series of performances during that country’s spring arts festival. Members of the 150-member Sons of Jubal chorus and orchestra will perform at the Spring Friendship Art Festival, which started Wednesday and runs through April 19. Global Resource Services, an Atlanta-based humanitarian group, is coordinating the cultural exchange. ``The theme of the festival is friendship, and with the conflict between our cou
April 12, 2012
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North Korea missile, nuclear scheme ‘in Kim Jong-Il’s will’
TOKYO (AFP) ― A top North Korean defector Thursday said he had obtained the last will and testament of Kim Jong-il, in which the late leader purportedly urges his nation to develop weapons of mass destruction.“Keep in mind that constantly developing and keeping nuclear (weapons), long-range missiles and biochemical weapons is the way to keep peace on the Korean peninsula, and never drop your guard,” the will said, according to Japanese weekly tabloid magazine Shukan Bunshun.The report comes as p
April 12, 2012
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N. Korea's Kim solidifies power with top party posts
North Korea was poised Thursday to send a rocket into space as the nation's young leader ascended to new top political posts strengthening his hold on power.There was no word early Thursday morning on the timing of the launch, which the North has said will take place sometime between Thursday and Monday. The launch, which the North says is for peaceful purposes, has raised international concern.Th
April 12, 2012
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Kim set to be anointed party chief
Celebrating the centenary of the late North Korea founder Kim Il-sung’s birth on Sunday, Pyongyang is holding a series of political events this week with a planned rocket launch between Thursday and Monday.As the first step, North Korea seems to have formally promoted Kim Jong-un to the reclusive state’s ruling party chief at the rare Workers’ Party conference on Wednesday, analysts said.The Workers’ Party is one of the two major political gatherings the North had announced it would hold in mid-
April 11, 2012
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N. Korea’s young leader named to new top party post
Celebrating the centenary of North Korean founder Kim Il-sung’s birth on Sunday, Pyongyang is holding a series of political events this week with a planned rocket launch between Thursday and Monday.As a first step, North Korea formally promoted Kim Jong-un to the top post of first secretary of the Workers’ Party at a rare conference on Wednesday.The North’s state-run Korean Central News Agency said Kim’s late father Kim Jong-il was also named “eternal general secretary” of the Workers’ Party. Th
April 11, 2012
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Kim Jong-un officially named first secretary of the Workers’ Party
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un was named to what appears to be a top post in the ruling Workers' Party at a special political conference Wednesday, while his late father was declared its ``eternal'' general secretary. North Korean leader Kim Jong-un inspects a military unit in this undated photo. (Yonhap News)The state-run Korean Central News Agency reported the first details from the secretive p
April 11, 2012
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Starts fueling rocket; launch possible anytime
By Kim Yoon-mi and news reportsNorth Korea is likely to launch its “satellite” rocket between Thursday and Monday, despite repeated warnings by the U.S. and its allies.Paek Chang-ho, head of the satellite control center of the Korean Committee of Space Technology, told reporters in Pyongyang that the North started fueling the rocket on Wednesday. He did not make it clear when the fueling would be complete but analysts said it could take eight hours. Unlike the Musudan-ri launching facility in th
April 11, 2012
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‘Nazi-style holocaust possible in N. Korea’s prison camps’
WASHINGTON (Yonhap News) ― Shin Dong-hyuk, born and raised in a North Korean concentration camp, on Tuesday appealed for the world to care more about the ongoing tragedy of political prisoners in the communist nation.He warned that a Holocaust-style slaughter could occur there any time if people outside continue to turn a deaf ear to the testimony of defectors.“There is a place I always visit whenever I come to Washington D.C. It’s the Holocaust Memorial Museum. Watching video footage, I imagine
April 11, 2012
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N. Korea missile tech a 'concern': U.S. commander
North Korea's increasingly sophisticated missile technology is a concern to Asia and the United States, the new U.S. Pacific commander said Wednesday ahead of Pyongyang's planned rocket launch."We have seen over time the North Koreans pursue increasingly sophisticated ballistic missile defense technologies," Admiral Samuel Locklear, the head of the U.S. Pacific Command based in Hawaii, said in Tok
April 11, 2012
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NK starts fueling rocket; launch possible anytime
North Korea is likely to launch its “satellite” rocket between Thursday and Monday, despite repeated warnings by the U.S. and its allies.Paek Chang-ho, head of the satellite control center of the Korean Committee of Space Technology, told reporters in Pyongyang that the North started fueling the rocket on Wednesday. He did not make it clear when the fueling would be complete but analysts said it could take eight hours. Unlike the Musudan-ri launching facility in the northeast of the peninsula, t
April 11, 2012