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October 18, 2018 Social affairs

[Weekender] Keeping the mountain trails alive

Every autumn, a chunk of the population rushes to the mountains to enjoy the breathtaking hues of the fall foliage, but a number of environmentally unfriendly habits that they bring along have been p...

Unification Minister considers meeting with NK defectors amid controversy

South Korea’s unification minister is mulling a meeting with a North Korean defector group, a ministry official said Wednesday. The move is being seen as an effort to quell criticism over the ministe...

October 17, 2018
North Korea
[Breaking] Koreas agree to start railway, road work by Dec.

The two Koreas have agreed to break ground for the modernization of cross-border railways and roads in late November or early December, said a statement released by South Korea’s Unification Ministry...

October 15, 2018
North Korea
Koreas to hold high-level talks on Monday

The divided Koreas will hold high-level talks on Monday to discuss the implementation of the summit agreement their leaders reached last month in Pyongyang, South Korea’s Ministry of Unification said...

October 14, 2018
North Korea
Philip Morris to begin selling Korean-made heated tobacco unit

Philip Morris Korea Inc. said Thursday that it will begin selling its tobacco sticks, called Heets, produced at its factory in South Korea later this month. To this point, Philip Morris Korea import...

October 11, 2018
Industry
[Eye Plus] Autumn in full bloom

The crisp cool breeze of fall brings out the colors of nature. Cheorwon, Gangwon Province, is famous for the demilitarized zone that bisects the Korean Peninsula, and heavy snow in the winter, but a...

October 11, 2018
Travel
Kim Jong-un visits mausoleum of former NK leaders for party’s founding anniversary

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un visited the mausoleum of his father, Kim Jong-il, and grandfather Kim Il-sung on the occasion of the 73rd anniversary of the founding of the country’s ruling party, th...

October 11, 2018
North Korea
US, IAEA likely to inspect NK nuclear test site: experts

Personnel from the US and international organizations are among the most likely candidates for carrying out the inspection of a North Korean nuclear site proposed by Kim Jong-un during his meeting wi...

October 10, 2018
North Korea
Unification minister to visit US in November

South Korea‘s point man on inter-Korean affairs will visit the US next month to explain the current administration’s policy on North Korea and ease widespread skepticism over North Korea’s commitment...

October 9, 2018
North Korea
S. Korea proposes inter-Korean parliamentary meeting in Nov. in Pyongyang

South Korea has proposed holding a cross-border parliamentary meeting in November in Pyongyang and follow-up gathering next year in Seoul. The proposal was made by South Korean lawmakers who were pa...

October 8, 2018
North Korea
New DMZ observation deck to open on Oct. 22

A new observatory deck in the Demilitarized Zone that bisects the two Koreas will open to the public later this month, the city of Paju said Sunday. Dora Observatory, situated in Paju, Gyeonggi Prov...

October 7, 2018
North Korea
N. Korea, China, Russia to hold trilateral consultations on denuclearization

North Korean Vice Foreign Minister Choe Son-hui will hold rare trilateral consultations with her Chinese and Russian counterparts in Moscow on Tuesday, in what is viewed as an effort to reaffirm thei...

October 7, 2018
North Korea
S. Korean delegation visit Pyongyang for 11th anniversary of 2007 summit

A group of South Korean government officials, politicians and civic and religious leaders headed to North Korea on Thursday to participate in an event marking the 11th anniversary of the 2007 inter-K...

October 4, 2018
North Korea
China’s refined oil exports to NK surpassed 2,000 tons in August: VOA

China sold about 2,700 tons of refined oil to North Korea in August, triple the amount it exported to the neighboring country in July, Voice of America said Wednesday, citing the UN Security Council’...

October 3, 2018
North Korea
End-of-war declaration can’t be bargaining chip for denuclearization: KCNA

For North Korea an end-of-war declaration “can never be a bargaining chip” to get the country to denuclearize, and it will not hope for such a declaration if the US does not want it, according to the...

October 2, 2018
North Korea

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