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Change in N. Korea does not mean regime change: senior U.S. diplomat
North Korea should learn from Myanmar's opening and change course, a senior American diplomat said Wednesday, stressing Pyongyang can implement reforms without "regime change" as seen in the Southeast Asian nation. "The transformation in the (Myanmar) economy, the transformation in the lives of Burmese people, the opportunities that have opened and the scope of international cooperation has not come at the cost of a revolution," Assistant Secretary of State Daniel Russel said at a Foreign Press
Feb. 5, 2015
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Carter vows to use 'full range of capabilities' to defend against N.K. missiles
The nominee for the next U.S. secretary of defense vowed Wednesday to use the "full range of capabilities" to defend against North Korean ballistic missiles, saying they could pose a "direct threat" to the country. Ashton Carter made the pledge in a written answer submitted to the Senate Armed Services Committee for his confirmation hearing, saying he would deploy more ground-based missile interceptors in California and Alaska, regions that could fall within the North's missile ranges. Carter a
Feb. 5, 2015
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N. Korea calls for 'practical measures' to resume dialogue
North Korea called on South Korea on Wednesday to take "practical measures" to resume dialogue, criticizing Seoul for not having the will to break the prolonged deadlock in inter-Korean relations.The Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of Korea also blamed U.S. "interference" for the current stalemate, saying that it will not believe the South's will for dialogue if the current situation continues. "To talk about dialogue without taking practical measures is not an attitude to truly settle
Feb. 4, 2015
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N. Korea forecast to lack 107,000 tons of grain this year
North Korea is forecast to lack 107,000 tons of grain this year amid a chronic shortage of food, a U.N. report showed Wednesday. The country is estimated to need 5.49 million tons of grain, including food, feed and seeds, for the year from November 2014 to October 2015. With this it will be able to produce 5.08 million tons, according to the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization. After importing about 300,000 tons of grain, North Korea is still expected to lack 107,000 tons, which is more tha
Feb. 4, 2015
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North Korea strikes down U.S. talks, vows 'final doom'
North Korea on Wednesday ruled out resuming dialogue with the "gangster-like" United States, and vowed to respond to any U.S. aggression with nuclear strikes and cyber warfare. The bellicose statement from the country's top military body, the National Defence Commission, came after reported moves by Washington and Pyongyang to revive long-stalled six-nation talks on denuclearization. It also preceded the start in early March of annual joint U.S.-South Korea military exercises that always presa
Feb. 4, 2015
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N. Korea asks U.N. to revoke rights resolution
North Korea's foreign minister has formally requested the United Nations to revoke a 2014 resolution against the communist nation's human rights record, arguing it was based on falsified information. In a Jan. 2 letter to U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, Foreign Minister Ri Su-yong pointed out that Shin Dong-hyuk, a defector from the communist nation, admitted inaccuracies in his testimony to the U.N. investigators as to his experiences at prison camps there. Shin authored a book titled "Es
Feb. 4, 2015
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S. Korea, U.S. to hold annual defense session to deter N.K. threats
Defense and foreign affairs officials from South Korea and the United States will hold an annual defense exercise aimed at countering threats from North Korea's nuclear program and other weapons of mass destruction, a Pentagon official said Tuesday. About 40 officials will conduct the annual Extended Deterrence Policy Committee tabletop exercise on Feb. 11-13, at the Korea Institute for Defense Analyses, Seoul, said Lt. Col. Jeff Pool, a spokesman for the Defense Department. The goal is to exp
Feb. 4, 2015
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S. Korea, China discuss N.K. nuclear program
South Korea and China held talks in Beijing on Wednesday to discuss ways to resume the six-party talks aimed at persuading North Korea to give up its nuclear ambitions, a Seoul diplomat said. The one-day meeting between South Korea's chief nuclear envoy, Hwang Joon-kook, and his Chinese counterpart, Wu Dawei, came as behind-the-scenes diplomatic efforts by the United States and North Korea apparently failed to narrow gaps on how to restart the six-party talks. "(Hwang and Wu) exchanged views
Feb. 4, 2015
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N. Korea says it won't talk with 'gangster-like' U.S.
North Korea's top ruling organ on Wednesday declared a "retaliatory" campaign against the United States, threatening to use miniaturized nuclear weapons and cyber warfare means. The National Defense Commission stressed Pyongyang is not interested in talks with Washington, which it claims is bent on bringing down the communist regime. "Now that the gangster-like U.S. imperialists' military strategy towards the DPRK is inching close to the stage of igniting a war of aggression, the just countera
Feb. 4, 2015
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U.S. trying to 'stay ahead' of N. Korea's KN-08 missile threats: official
The United States is trying to strengthen missile defense capabilities to cope with threats from North Korea, especially the road-mobile, intercontinental ballistic missile KN-08, feared to be capable of reaching U.S. territory, a top American missile official said. "We're constantly aware of the threat's evolution, including the KN-O8," he said. "And we constantly monitor other technologies that may feed the KN-O8 ... And suffice it to say that we have effort underway to pace and stay ahead of
Feb. 4, 2015
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North Korean charm offensive: Peace for our time?
In 1938, then British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain returned from peace negotiations with Nazi Germany declaring that he had achieved “peace for our time.” This “peace” was to be accomplished at the price of giving Germany control over the Sudetenland of Czechoslovakia. Sadly, less than a year later, Adolf Hitler’s Germany invaded Poland when it would not surrender to German territorial demands. Germany had finally started a real war, World War II. Bruce W. BennettWhat Chamberlain appeared
Feb. 3, 2015
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Seoul, Beijing to discuss N.K., defense cooperation
The defense chiefs of South Korea and China are set to discuss North Korea’s nuclear program, peninsular and regional situations and ways to step up bilateral defense cooperation on Wednesday. Chang Wanquan arrived in Seoul on Tuesday for a three-day stay and is scheduled for talks with his counterpart Han Min-koo. They last met in 2013 in Brunei. He is the first Chinese defense minister to visit in about nine years. Kim Kwan-jin, Cheong Wa Dae’s national security chief and Han’s predecessor, tr
Feb. 3, 2015
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S. Korea, China to resume N. Korea nuclear talks
South Korea and China will resume talks this week on efforts to curb North Korea's nuclear weapons program, following reported moves by Washington and Pyongyang to revive a long-stalled six-nation denuclearization forum. Hwang Joon-kook, South Korea's chief delegate to the six-party talks, will meet his Chinese counterpart Wu Dawei in Beijing on Wednesday, Seoul's foreign ministry said. The two, picking up where they left off last October, will discuss ways to prevent further North Korean nucl
Feb. 3, 2015
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U.S. envoy urges N. Korea to drop nuclear program
The U.S. ambassador to South Korea called on North Korea Tuesday to change its stance on the nuclear issue, saying Washington remains open to talks with Pyongyang, lawmakers here said. In a breakfast meeting with a group of lawmakers from both ruling and opposition parties, Mark Lippert said North Korea cannot simultaneously pursue a nuclear weapons program and economic development and that the North should return to the multilateral denuclearization talks or face continued sanctions and isolat
Feb. 3, 2015
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N. Korea launches anti-money laundering body
North Korea has created a national committee on efforts to fight money laundering and terrorist financing, a senior Pyongyang official confirmed Tuesday. The communist nation's move came after it joined the Asia/Pacific Group on Money Laundering, the Asia-Pacific arm of the Financial Action Task Force under the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, last year. "The National Coordinating Committee is an organ to guide projects to prevent money laundering and financing of terrori
Feb. 3, 2015
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U.N. official: N. Korean human rights, cult of Kim can't coexist
A campaign within the United Nations to haul North Korean leader Kim Jong-un before an international court for crimes against humanity has touched off a defensive fury in Pyongyang, where it's being treated like a diplomatic declaration of war -- an aggressive act aimed not only at shutting down prison camps but also at removing Kim and dismantling his family's three-generation cult of personality. More paranoia? Actually, according to the U.N.'s point man on human rights in North Korea, that is
Feb. 3, 2015
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U.S. dialogue offer falls through due to N.K's insistence: source
The U.S. point man on North Korea had offered to meet with a top diplomat from the communist nation in a third country, but the proposed meeting did not materialize because the North insisted on a meeting in Pyongyang, a source said Monday.Amb. Sung Kim, special representative for North Korea policy, wanted to meet with North Korean First Vice Foreign Minister Kim Kye-gwan, the former chief nuclear negotiator, and conveyed a meeting proposal via the North's mission to the United Nations, the sou
Feb. 3, 2015
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[Herald Interview] ‘Seoul needs to take initiative on N.K. issues’
Seoul needs to take the initiative in addressing a range of pending North Korean issues as Washington is unlikely to take any bold steps, riled by Pyongyang’s provocative and unruly behavior including a recent hack into Sony Pictures, a U.S. scholar said.Stephan HaggardIn an interview with The Korea Herald, Stephan Haggard, North Korea expert at University of California, San Diego, urged Seoul to lift its economic sanctions against Pyongyang and promote commercial cross-border exchanges to bring
Feb. 2, 2015
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Korea urges N.K. to stop misusing defector case
South Korea called on North Korea Monday to discontinue misusing a recent confession by a famous North Korean defector and key witness to a U.N. probe that parts of his well-known story on the reclusive nation’s prison camps are inaccurate.Shin Dong-hyuk admitted last month that some of his testimony of torture and other tragic experiences at the North’s political prison camps, revealed in the book “Escape from Camp 14,” is incorrect. He said he spent most of his time in the North at a different
Feb. 2, 2015
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N.K. leader invites fighter pilots to his office
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un invited a group of elite fighter jet pilots to his office, according to Pyongyang’s media on Monday, amid his keen interest in beefing up the country’s air power.In a meeting with the 17 pilots on award leave following recent combat flight drills, Kim praised them for having “always kept themselves on a high alert to glorify their life like a star in the spirit of suicide attack, the priceless mental asset,” reported the Korean Central News Agency. It quoted Kim a
Feb. 2, 2015