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Former N. Korean leader Kim Jong-il's widow purged: RFA
Former North Korean leader Kim Jong-il's widow appears to have been purged by the Kim Jong-un regime, the U.S.-based Radio Free Asia said Tuesday, citing multiple sources familiar with the reclusive country.A Chinese businessman, fresh from his recent visit to Pyongyang, told the RFA that Kim Ok, 52, the fourth wife of the deceased leader, was sent to a political prison camp within a year of her step-son taking power. The incumbent leader inherited the country following the sudden death of his f
July 26, 2016
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Regional security forum to kick off with NK nuke likely to dominate agenda
Top diplomats from nearly 30 Asia-Pacific countries and regional powers will meet Tuesday to discuss regional security issues such as North Korea's nuclear weapons program. The ASEAN Regional Forum, the largest regional security gathering, will be attended by foreign ministers from the 10 members of the Association of Northeast Asian Nations and top officials from other parts of Asia, North America, Europe and Oceania.The ARF is a rare international occasion attended by the North along with all
July 26, 2016
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N. Korea's Air Koryo seems to be operating regular Pyongyang-Jinan route: VOA
North Korea's national carrier Air Koryo appears to have opened a regular flight service between Pyongyang and China's eastern city of Jinan for what seemed to be the transport of Chinese tourists, a Washington-based news media report said Tuesday.According to Voice of America, the North Korean flag carrier recently launched regular flights between the two cities twice a week, raising speculations the North Korean jet may be transporting Chinese tourists to the reclusive country.VOA said that Ai
July 26, 2016
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Seoul to set up N. Korean human rights foundation
South Korea will establish a foundation in September to better study human rights situations in North Korea and develop related policies, the unification ministry said Monday.The government plans to inject about 25 billion won ($22 million) annually into the 50-member foundation under the North Korean Human Rights Act, which is set to take effect Sept. 4 and designed to improve human rights abuses in the reclusive country, according to the ministry in charge of Seoul's Pyongyang policy.A group o
July 25, 2016
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U.N. Security Council unlikely to issue statement condemning N.K. missile launches
The U.N. Security Council appears unlikely to issue a statement condemning North Korea's latest ballistic missile launches, spurring speculation that China may be uncooperative in anger over a decision to deploy the THAAD missile defense system in South Korea.Right after the North launched three ballistic missiles last Tuesday, the U.S. government said it will "raise our concerns at the U.N. to bolster international resolve in holding the DPRK accountable for these provocative actions." The DPRK
July 25, 2016
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[Herald Interview] Activist-turned-scholar urges action on N.K. abductees
On April 29, 1992, South Korea’s top intelligence agency arrested dozens of activists for plotting to overthrow the government by building underground socialist organizations. The authorities described the groups as the biggest antistate entity ever established in the country’s modern history. One of those arrested was Baik Tae-ung, who served as leader of the South Korean Socialist Coalition of Workers or “Sanomaeng” in Korean. Despite the plea that he was exercising the right to political free
July 22, 2016
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N. Korea's Air Koryo airplane makes emergency landing in China due
An airplane of North Korea's flag carrier Air Koryo made an emergency landing in the Chinese city of Shenyang on Friday due to fire, a Chinese report said.The flight en route from Pyongyang to Beijing "made a forced landing in China's northeastern city of Shenyang because the plane caught fire," said Xinhua News Agency, citing a passenger on board.Referring to flight tracking websites, Japan's Kyodo News later added that the Tupolev Tu-204 plane "diverted shortly after crossing over the border b
July 22, 2016
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Gov't bolsters countermeasures to deter N.K. cyberattacks
South Korea is beefing up its governmentwide countermeasures to prevent possible cyberattacks by North Korea, officials said Friday.The Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning said the number of cyberattacks by North Korea more than doubled in the first half of this year. The cyberattacks "are judged as a part of North Korean provocations to trigger public anxiety" in South Korea, the ministry said. Last month, South Korean police said North Korea hacked into more than 140,000 computers at
July 22, 2016
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Gov't bolsters countermeasures to deter N.K. cyberattacks
South Korea is beefing up its governmentwide countermeasures to prevent possible cyberattacks by North Korea, officials said Friday.The Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning said the number of cyberattacks by North Korea more than doubled in the first half of this year. The cyberattacks "are judged as a part of North Korean provocations to trigger public anxiety" in South Korea, the ministry said. Last month, South Korean police said North Korea hacked into more than 140,000 computers at
July 22, 2016
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N. Korea's economy shrank 1.1% in 2015: BOK
North Korea's economy is estimated to have contracted 1.1 percent last year amid negative growth in most industries, South Korea's central bank announced Friday.The Bank of Korea has issued an annual report on the estimated gross domestic product of one of the world's most secretive nations.It said the communist country's GDP shrank 1.1 percent in 2015 from a year earlier, the first negative growth since 2010.The bank cited a drop in crop and mining output by 0.8 percent and 2.6 percent, respect
July 22, 2016
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One North Korean missile exploded in initial stage of latest launch
One of the three ballistic missiles recently test-fired by North Korea likely exploded in the air during its initial stage of flight due to some sort of malfunction, military officials familiar with the matter said Friday.According to military sources, one of the three missiles blew up at an altitude of less than 30 kilometers, though two others flew 500-600 km from Hwangju, south of Pyongyang, across the communist country before hitting the East Sea early this week."Pyongyang's claim to have us
July 22, 2016
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Activist group sends anti-Pyongyang leaflets
A civic group comprised of North Korean defectors on Friday said it sent anti-Pyongyang leaflets via balloons across the inter-Korean border earlier this week, amid escalating military tensions in the Korean Peninsula.The Fighters for Free North Korea said it sent some 300,000 leaflets from Gimpo, just west of Seoul, on Thursday, criticizing the North's test-firing of the Musudan intermediate-range ballistic missile and the launch of short-rage Scuds. It said 10 members of the U.S.-based civic g
July 22, 2016
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S. Korea seeks to highlight N. Korea's nuke threats at regional security meeting
South Korea will make a strong push to highlight the threats that North Korea's nuclear ambitions are posing both to the Asian region and the global community as a whole during the upcoming regional security meeting, observers and government officials said Friday.Top diplomats from 27 Asia-Pacific countries and the European Union are scheduled to meet in Vientiane for a series of talks led by the Association of Southeast Asian Nations starting this weekend. South Korea's Foreign Minister Yun Byu
July 22, 2016
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U.S. institute claims discovery of secret N. Korean uranium facility
A U.S. research institute on Thursday said it has located a suspected secret nuclear facility that North Korea used in the early stages of its uranium enrichment program."Recent information suggests that an early centrifuge research and development facility was located at the Panghyon Aircraft Plant, at or near the Panghyon Air Base, which is located about 45 kilometers west of the Yongbyon nuclear site," the Institute for Science and International Studies said in a report. "This is a preliminar
July 22, 2016
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UNSC discusses how to respond to NK's back-to-back missile tests
South Korea said Thursday that the U.N. Security Council is discussing comprehensive measures against the recent back-to-back missile tests by North Korea, apparently dismissing speculation that China might be hampering its swift action.On July 9, the North fired off a submarine-launched ballistic missile off its east coast but it exploded in midair.Pyongyang also test-fired three missiles on Tuesday in an apparent protest against a joint decision by Seoul and Washington to deploy an advanced mi
July 21, 2016
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External construction complete for new submarine assembly hall in N. Korea: 38 North
External construction of a submarine assembly hall at North Korea's main submarine port is now complete in a project that would enable Pyongyang to build much larger ballistic missile submarines, a U.S. monitoring website said Wednesday.The website 38 North, dedicated to monitoring and analyzing the communist nation, released the assessment based on satellite imagery of the North's Shinpo Shipyard, the homeport of North Korea's Gorae-class ballistic missile submarine program.The imagery was take
July 21, 2016
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U.S. Defense Department brushes off N. Korea's threat
The U.S. Defense Department on Wednesday brushed off North Korea's threat that its latest missile launches were part of an exercise to preemptively strike American troops in South Korea, urging Pyongyang to refrain from raising tensions.The North fired two short-range Scuds and one Rodong missile into the East Sea on Tuesday in the latest in a series of banned ballistic missile launches, a show of force seen as designed to show it can strike the U.S. THAAD missile defense system to be deployed i
July 21, 2016
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N.K. says missile test aimed at ports, airfields in the South
North Korea said Wednesday that Tuesday’s launch of three missiles was aimed at boosting its capabilities to strike South Korean ports and airfields, in an apparent bid to ratchet up its protest against the Seoul-Washington plan to dispatch advanced U.S. antimissile assets here. The firing of one Rodong and two Scud missiles was seen as a show of force targeting the allies’ recent announcement of their deployment decision. Seongju, North Gyeongsang Province, was picked as the location for the Te
July 20, 2016
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Gov't condemns N. Korea's resumption of encrypted number broadcasting
South Korea's government on Wednesday condemned North Korea's resumption of encrypted number broadcasting, a method used in the past to send orders to its spies operating in the country. The Ministry of Unification expressed "deep regret" over the North's latest provocation. Pyongyang on Friday resumed the broadcasting after a 16-year-long hiatus following Seoul's decision a week earlier to deploy an advanced U.S. antimissile system in South Korea by the end of 2017. "We can't speak conclusively
July 20, 2016
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S. Korea faces challenge in reflecting its stance on N. Korea in ARF statement: source
South Korea is expected to face challenges in reflecting its stance on North Korea and its nuclear ambitions in a chairman's statement to be issued at the end of the upcoming regional security meeting, given the chair country's close ties to the communist country, a government source said Wednesday.Top diplomats from 27 Asia-Pacific countries and the European Union will meet in Vientiane, the capital of Laos, and hold a series of meetings led by the Association of Southeast Asian Nations over th
July 20, 2016