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Exports to US reach all-time high, widen gap with China
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[New faces of Assembly] Architect behind ‘audacious initiative’ believes in denuclearized North Korea
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Seoul Metro to seek legal action against malicious complaints
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Opposition-led Assembly unilaterally passes bill to probe Marine's death
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N.K. human rights conditions little improved: monitor
Despite global monitoring efforts led by the U.N., the human rights situation in North Korea appears to have barely improved, a Seoul-based think tank said Monday, pointing to unabated torture, public executions and political oppression. The Database Center for North Korean Human Rights unveiled its findings after analyzing 52,735 cases included in its archive according to nine areas specified in the U.N. Commission of Inquiry report, seeking to find any development over the two years following
April 18, 2016
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Seoul: N.K. might conduct underground nuke test
The Defense Ministry said Monday that North Korea’s next provocation was likely to involve an underground nuclear warhead test in the near future.“We are closely watching the situation with the possibility of North Korea carrying out an underground nuclear test given the present circumstances,” said ministry spokesman Moon Sang-gyun during a regular press briefing.It will be Pyongyang’s fifth nuclear test, and the first since U.N. Security Council’s strongest-ever sanctions against the previous
April 18, 2016
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Three Nobel prize winners to visit North Korea in late April: VOA
Three Nobel laureates will visit North Korea late this month on a rare mission to engage the communist country through science and technology, a media report said Monday.During their April 30 to May 6 trip, the Nobel prize winners will give lectures and hold seminars at the North's three most prestigious schools -- Kim Il-sung University, Kimchaek University of Technology and Pyongyang University of Science and Technology, according to the Washington-based Voice of America.VOA made the report in
April 18, 2016
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China not yet invited to North Korea's rare party congress
China and other communist nations have not yet been invited to North Korea's rare party congress in early May, a diplomatic source with knowledge of the matter said Monday, amid signs that Pyongyang may conduct its fifth nuclear test ahead of the May congress. North Korea is set to hold the Workers' Party Congress early next month during which the North's leader Kim Jong-un is expected to trumpet his policy of simultaneously pursuing economic development and nuclear weapons. China, North Korea's
April 18, 2016
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Vice FM warns N. Korea's pursuit of nuclear arms will be self-destructive
South Korea's vice foreign minister warned North Korea on Monday that its efforts to sustain itself by focusing on its nuclear weapons program and exploiting its people will prove to be "futile and self-destructive." During a special lecture at a gathering of world journalists in Seoul, First Vice Foreign Minister Lim Sung-nam also said that the leadership in Pyongyang must be pressed "much harder" until it renounces its nuclear ambitions."It is time to make the North Korean regime clearly rea
April 18, 2016
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South Korea, U.S., Japan to hold high-level talks on North Korea
South Korea, the United States and Japan are set to hold high-level talks this week as tensions persist over North Korea's nuclear and missile programs with indications of an imminent atomic weapons test.On Tuesday, South Korean Vice Foreign Minister Lim Sung-nam is scheduled to meet with his U.S. and Japanese counterparts in Seoul to discuss their response to North Korea's continued provocations following its fourth nuclear test in January and long-range rocket launch in February.North Korea ha
April 18, 2016
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South Korea rejects North Korea's claim that Seoul 'kidnapped' North Korean workers
South Korea's unification ministry on Monday rejected North Korea's claim that Seoul has enticed and abducted North Koreans who worked at a restaurant in China.North Korea's committee on inter-Korean affairs urged South Korea Sunday to repatriate the North Koreans, arguing that Seoul had carried out a plot to kidnap them to rally conservative voters for its general elections last week.A group of 13 North Koreans who used to work at a North Korea-run restaurant in the Chinese eastern port city of
April 18, 2016
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North Korea might conduct underground nuke test: defense ministry
North Korea may conduct an underground nuclear warhead test when it detonates another atomic device, the defense ministry's spokesman said Monday.The remarks by spokesman Moon Sang-gyun were in response to a media inquiry on whether North Korea's fifth nuclear test would involve a nuclear warhead.A nuclear warhead test could involve either the underground detonation of a missile-capable nuclear device or a warhead detonation without the use of nuclear materials, Moon said in a regular press brie
April 18, 2016
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Park: South Korea detects signs of preparations for nuclear test in North Korea
President Park Geun-hye said Monday that South Korea has detected signs of North Korea preparing for a fifth nuclear test.We are in a situation, in which we don't know whether North Korea could stage any provocation to avoid isolation and consolidate its internal unity," Park said in a regular meeting with her top aides at Cheong Wa Dae, South Korea's presidential office.She also said signs of "preparations for a fifth nuclear test have been detected."Park's comments came more than a month after
April 18, 2016
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N.K. probably can fit nuke warhead on its existing missiles: think tank head
North Korea appears to be capable of fitting a nuclear warhead on some of its existing short- and medium-range missiles, spawning concerns about advances in the country's missile development, the head of a state-run think tank said Monday.Washington assesses that the North may succeed in developing an intercontinental ballistic missile that can fly as far as the U.S. mainland by 2020, according to Choi Jin-wook, president at the Korea Institute for National Unification. "From the technical persp
April 18, 2016
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N.K. diplomat denounces Trump's nuclear armament suggestion as 'totally absurd'
A senior North Korean diplomat criticized U.S. Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump for suggesting South Korea and Japan arm themselves with nuclear weapons, calling the idea "totally absurd and illogical."Ri Jong-ryul, a former ambassador to Indonesia who currently serves as deputy-director general of the Institute of International Studies in Pyongyang, made the remark in an interview with CNN, arguing that Trump's suggestion reflects the U.S.' "hostile policy" toward the North."Do
April 18, 2016
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N. Korea threatens 'revenge' on Cheong Wa Dae if defectors are not sent back
North Korea on Sunday called for the repatriation of North Koreans who defected from a North Korean-run restaurant in China to South Korea earlier this month, threatening that it will take "retaliative actions" on South Korea's presidential office Cheong Wa Dae if the demand is not met.The demand by North Korea's Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of Korea is the latest in the country's repeated calls for repatriation after the 13 North Koreans fled to South Korea in early April.North Kore
April 17, 2016
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N.K. nuke test concerns grow as work continues
Work appears to be continuing at North Korea’s nuclear site, Seoul’s military officials said Sunday, prompting speculation that the communist state is counting down to a fresh underground blast to celebrate the birthday of its late founding father and a forthcoming party congress. The South Korean military has in recent weeks been bolstering surveillance as they had detected a sharp rise in the movement of labor, vehicles and other equipment in and out of the Punggye nuclear site in the country’
April 17, 2016
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China may not defend N. Korea if nuke tensions spin out of control: experts
China is unlikely to protect its only treaty ally, North Korea, if tensions over the North's nuclear weapons program spin out of control, Chinese experts told a Hong Kong newspaper Sunday. North Korea was slapped with tougher international sanctions early last month over its fourth nuclear test in January and long-range rocket launch about a month later. While chiding North Korea over its nuclear program, China's ruling Communist Party has been trying to preserve its traditional friendship with
April 17, 2016
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Seoul officials say busy movements at N. Korea's nuke site indicate imminent detonation
South Korea has recently detected a sharp increase in vehicle and human activities at North Korea's Punggye-ri nuclear test site and concluded the country is likely to carry out an additional nuclear test before early May, officials said Sunday."Compared to last month, the frequency of vehicle, workforce and equipment movements increased two- to threefold recently" at the nuclear test site in the country's northeast, multiple government sources said."Related officials concluded that it is a conv
April 17, 2016
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N. Korea blames U.S. for its nuclear weapons development
North Korea claimed Saturday that its nuclear weapons development is an "inevitable self-defensive option" in response to what it called the United States' nuclear threats. The communist country has long argued that it must defend itself with nuclear weapons in the face of a possible U.S.-led invasion, citing the annual South Korea-U.S. military exercises that are currently under way. Seoul and Washington insist the drills are purely defensive in nature."The DPRK's access to nuclear weapons is n
April 16, 2016
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U.N. Security Council strongly condemns N. Korea's missile launch
The U.N. Security Council on Friday condemned North Korea's failed missile launch, saying it represents "a clear violation" of a series of U.N. resolutions banning the communist nation from any ballistic activity."The members of the Security Council strongly condemned the firing of a ballistic missile by the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) on April 15," the council said in a press statement."Although the DPRK's ballistic missile launch was a failure, this attempt constituted a clear
April 16, 2016
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Satellite imagery shows strong signs of N. Korea's nuclear reprocessing: 38 North
Recent satellite imagery shows strong indications that North Korea has already begun or is set to start reprocessing spent nuclear fuel to harvest plutonium for nuclear weapons, the website 38 North said.The April 11 imagery showed a loaded railroad flatcar at the Radiochemical Laboratory reprocessing plant, a key signature that was observed only on a few rare occasions in the early 2000s when Pyongyang reprocessed nuclear fuel to extract plutonium, 38 North said.The flatcar is loaded with what
April 16, 2016
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N.K.’s latest missile launch failed: Seoul
North Korea fired what appears to be a medium-range ballistic missile Musudan on Friday morning, but it was confirmed to have failed by the South Korean military. According to the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the botched launch took place around 5:30 a.m. toward the East Sea. “A single missile is presumed to have been launched. We are keeping a close eye on the situation in case of an additional launch,” a JCS official said. “I understand South Korea and the U.S. jointly detected (the launch).”The mis
April 15, 2016
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U.S. detects N. Korea's failed missile launch: Pentagon
The United States detected North Korea's failed missile launch and confirmed the latest action did not pose any threat to North America, the Defense Department said."U.S. Strategic Command (USSTRATCOM) systems detected and tracked what we assess was a failed North Korean missile launch at3:33 p.m. CDT (central daylight time)," the Pentagon said in a statement. "According to North American Aerospace Defense Command, the missile launched from North Korea did not pose a threat to North America.""Th
April 15, 2016