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Parties condemn N.K. provocative acts
South Korea’s ruling and opposition parties alike called on North Korea to stop any provocative moves to escalate military tensions and damage the emerging mood for dialogue on Friday, a day before the 10th anniversary of a landmark denuclearization deal.Rep. Moon Jae-in, leader of the main opposition New politics Alliance for Democracy, speaks during the party`s Supreme Council meeting on Friday. (Yonhap)Moon Jae-in, leader of the main opposition New Politics Alliance for Democracy, stressed th
Sept. 18, 2015
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S. Koreans to visit NK soon to repair facilities for family reunions
The Unification Ministry said Friday it plans to again send a team of technicians to North Korea soon to repair facilities at Mount Kumgang for the upcoming reunions of families separated by the 1950-53 Korean War. A group of government officials and technicians returned to Seoul on Thursday from a two-day visit to the North after checking facilities there ahead of the family reunions slated for Oct. 20-26. "The outcome of the recent checks showed that there will be no major problems in procee
Sept. 18, 2015
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N. Korean nuclear envoys absent from China-hosted forum
North Korea's nuclear envoys appeared to be absent from a two-day forum hosted by a Chinese state-run think tank to discuss ways to restart long-stalled nuclear talks, a diplomatic source involved in the forum said Friday, in an apparent snub at China's latest push to resume the six-party talks. The forum, organized by the China Institute of International Studies (CIIS), is meant to mark the 10th anniversary of a landmark deal in which North Korea agreed to abandon its nuclear program in exch
Sept. 18, 2015
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Christian leaders of two Koreas to meet in Pyongyang
Christian leaders of South and North Korea will meet in Pyongyang next month to discuss how to bring peace to the Korean Peninsula and promote exchanges of churches, the South Korean organizer said Friday. Delegates from the World Council of Churches (WCC), a worldwide inter-church organization, and South Korea's National Council of Churches in Korea (NCCK) will make a seven-day trip to Pyongyang from Oct. 24, the NCCK said. They will hold an executive committee meeting of the "Ecumenical Fo
Sept. 18, 2015
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NK leader visits flood-hit city to encourage recovery efforts
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has visited the city of Rason on the North's northeast tip in a bid to encourage efforts to recover from a recent flood, Pyongyang's media said Friday. The North's leader went to Rason, on the border with China and Russia, just weeks after encouraging people to spur on recovery efforts before the North's key national anniversary in October, the Korean Central News Agency said. It did not specify the date of Kim's visit. Typhoon Goni soaked the northern part
Sept. 18, 2015
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U.S. vows to use 'all the tools at our disposal' to pressure N. Korea
The United States on Thursday vowed to do all it can to pressure North Korea to give up its nuclear program amid concern Pyongyang could conduct a nuclear or missile test "We do continue to look at and will aim to use all the tools at our disposal to make clear ... that North Korea has a choice to make. The onus, as I've said before, the onus is on them," State Department spokesman John Kirby said at a daily briefing. "They've got this choice to make to denuclearize and attain the peace and
Sept. 18, 2015
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DMZ film festival opens in Camp Greaves
An annual documentary film festival themed on "peace, life and communication" opened in Camp Greaves, the former U.S. military camp near the Demilitarized Zone, Thursday. The seventh edition of the DMZ International Documentary Film Festival will run until next Thursday, featuring 102 documentary films from 43 countries around the world, including 43 from South Korea. It will open with "I am Sun Mu," an 87-minute film by American photographer and filmmaker Adam Sjoberg, which follows the def
Sept. 17, 2015
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N. Korea calls launch rocket, nuke test 'sovereign right'
North Korea said Thursday it has the determination to launch a satellite and conduct a fourth nuclear test, vowing stern action against any move to infringe on what Pyongyang claims is its sovereign right.North Korea has recently raised its missile and nuclear threats, prompting South Korea and the United States to strongly warn the North against its possible provocations.North Korea's key propaganda website, Uriminjokkiri, rebuked Seoul and Washington for hampering the North's sovereign rights
Sept. 17, 2015
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S. Korea urges N. Korea to improve human rights record
South Korea called on North Korea on Thursday to stop its serious human rights violations after the North rebuked the South's parliament for working toward passing a bill to improve the dismal situation. North Korea's committee for the peaceful reunification slammed South Korea's ruling and opposition parties on Wednesday for seeking to pass the bill. The North called the South's move "an outrageous politically motivated provocation and undisguised declaration of confrontation." The Unificatio
Sept. 17, 2015
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China may have offered 500,000 tons of crude oil to NK this year: Seoul
China is presumed to have provided North Korea with around 500,000 tons of crude oil so far this year, a similar amount that Beijing offered to its traditional ally last year, despite their apparently strained ties, the Unification Ministry said Thursday. China supplies nearly all of the North's energy needs such as crude oil, diesel and jet fuel. But there have been no recorded oil shipments to Pyongyang since last year amid their frayed ties. The ministry dismissed speculation that China has
Sept. 17, 2015
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Kerry warns North Korea of 'severe consequences'
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry warned Wednesday that North Korea will face "severe consequences" if it forges ahead with irresponsible provocations, a day after Pyongyang apparently threatened a nuclear test."There will be severe consequences as we go forward if North Korea does not refrain from its irresponsible provocations that aggravate regional concerns, make the region less safe, and if it refuses to live up to its international obligations," Kerry said."Our position is clear: We will
Sept. 17, 2015
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Ex-U.S. envoy calls for unconditional resumption of N.K. nuclear talks
The United States and its partners should unconditionally resume the long-stalled six-party nuclear talks with North Korea, a former U.S. negotiator said, stressing that ignoring Pyongyang won't improve the situation.Joseph DeTrani, who served as deputy U.S. negotiator for the six-party talks, made the point in an article contributed to the Washington Times on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of a landmark 2005 denuclearization deal with the North."On the 10th anniversary of the Joint Statem
Sept. 17, 2015
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S. Korean nuclear envoy warns N.K. of tougher U.N.
North Korea will face additional U.N. Security Council sanctions further deepening its isolation if the regime forges ahead with a banned long-range rocket launch, South Korea's chief nuclear envoy said Wednesday.Special representative Hwang Joon-kook made the remark after talks with his U.S. counterpart, Amb. Sung Kim, in Washington, stressing that a satellite launch by the North, unlike those by other nations, constitutes a clear violation of U.N. resolutions."The right to peaceful use of spac
Sept. 17, 2015
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Seoul officials visit N. Korea to check reunion facilities
A team of working-level officials visited North Korea’s Mount Geumgangsan on Wednesday to survey the slated venue for the separated family reunions next month.Fourteen members including those from the Unification Ministry and Hyundai Asan traveled to the resort area for a two-day visit to check the facilities at Oegeumgang Hotel and Geumgangsan Hotel as well as the reunion center.The two Koreas earlier this week exchanged a preliminary list of candidates to take part in the reunion being arrange
Sept. 16, 2015
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N. Korea nuclear capabilities back under spotlight
North Korea’s evolving nuclear weapons capabilities have returned to the spotlight as it claimed Tuesday that its researchers have been pushing to improve the “quantity and quality” of its nuclear weapons to ensure deterrence against the U.S. Satellite imagery shows part of the Yongbyon nuclear complex north of Pyongyang, North Korea. (Yonhap)Analysts presume that the North has come a long way in developing nuclear warheads and their delivery means such as long-range rockets, through three nucle
Sept. 16, 2015
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U.S., China to forge cooperation on N. Korea, other hotspot issues
The United States and China will step up cooperation in addressing regional hotspot issues, including North Korea's nuclear weapons program, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said Wednesday, ahead of a state visit by Chinese President Xi Jinping to the U.S. Washington and Beijing remain at odds over a range of issues, such as China's increasingly assertive actions in the South China Sea, cyber hacking and human rights, but they have sounded upbeat on efforts to persuade North Korea to give up its
Sept. 16, 2015
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S. Korea's vice FM urges NK to give up nuke programs
South Korea's vice foreign minister has called on North Korea to give up its nuclear weapons program in a complete, verifiable and irreversible manner, the Foreign Ministry said Wednesday, amid growing speculation over the North's provocations."The international community should speak in a strong, clear, and united voice that North Korea's pursuit of a nuclear program cannot be tolerated," Vice Foreign Minister Cho Tae-yul said in his keynote speech on Tuesday for an annual meeting of the Intern
Sept. 16, 2015
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S. Korea vows stern actions against N. Korea's provocations
South Korea vowed on Wednesday to take "stern" actions if North Korea launches a long-range missile or conducts another nuclear test.The Unification Ministry said it is hard to predict whether the secretive North will go ahead with a rocket launch or a fourth nuclear test but stressed Seoul will respond resolutely to any provocation."North Korea's possible launch of a missile or conducting a nuke test are serious provocations and military threats. They are also a clear violation of the United Na
Sept. 16, 2015
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New nuke crisis looming on Sept. 19 deal anniversary
Flexing its nuclear muscles again, North Korea has moved further away from the Sept. 19 Joint Statement once hailed as a historic deal on ending its nuclear program.The 10th anniversary this week of signing the agreement is far from a celebratory mood.Another round of the nuclear crisis is instead descending on the region, where the national interests of South Korea, the United States, China, Japan and Russia go head-to-head, while, at the same time, the countries work together for peace and sta
Sept. 16, 2015
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N. Korea, China sign deal to build new bridge over Tumen River
North Korea and China have signed an agreement to build a new bridge over the Tumen River that runs between the two nations, Chinese officials said on Wednesday, in the latest sign that economic ties between Pyongyang and Beijing remain largely unaffected despite the North's nuclear and missile programs. The agreement was signed in Pyongyang on Tuesday by North Korean Deputy Foreign Minister Pak Myong-guk and the Chinese Ambassador to North Korea, Li Jinjun, the Chinese Embassy said in a stateme
Sept. 16, 2015