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N. Korea's nationwide military drills loom next week
North Korea has started submarine drills and stepped up preparations for nationwide military exercises, which may be timed to coincide with annual joint drills by South Korea and the United States set to start next week, military sources said Wednesday.The latest move comes as Pyongyang has ratcheted up its hostile rhetoric against Seoul and Washington as the two allies last week launched a two-month field training exercise called Foal Eagle.Separately, joint forces will conduct computer-simulat
March 6, 2013
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Park, Abe pledge closer cooperation on North Korea
South Korean President Park Geun-hye and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe agreed Wednesday to work closely together on dealing with North Korea and to improve relations between their two countries, a presidential spokesperson said.The two leaders reached the agreement when Abe made a phone call to Park to congratulate her for being elected as South Korea's president, presidential spokeswoman Kim Haing said. Park expressed hope for "political leaders (in Japan) to make decisions" on issues rela
March 6, 2013
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U.S., China propose tough U.N. sanctions for N. Korea
A U.S.-China draft resolution aimed at reining in North Korea's nuclear and ballistic missile program would impose some of the strongest sanctions ever ordered by the United Nations, in a move certain to infuriate the regime and inflame tensions on the Korean Peninsula. The proposed resolution put forward by the United States and China _ North Korea's closest ally _ followed Pyongyang's third nuclear test on Feb. 12. It reflected the U.N. Security Council's growing anger over the country's defia
March 6, 2013
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N. Korea threatens to nullify Korean War truce agreement
Citing what it called U.S.-led international moves to punish it for its recent nuclear test, North Korea threatened Tuesday to nullify the 1953 armistice accord that ended the Korean War.The North also denounced joint South Korea-U.S. military exercises scheduled to start on next Monday, declaring that if the maneuvers will go ahead, it wil cut off direct phone link with South Korea at the inter-Korean border village of Panmunjom.North Korea is known for its harsh rhetoric but Tuesday's announce
March 5, 2013
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Calls grow for N.K. policy revamp
With a fresh round of sanctions in the offing in response to North Korea’s third nuclear test last month, calls are mounting for a brand new approach to halt its nuclear programs and pressure it back to the negotiating table. The U.N. Security Council has repeatedly leveled condemnation and economic sanctions over the years. But North Korea has defied all the pressure by exploding more fission devices and launching even more rockets, resulting in another resolution and penalties. As its renewed
March 5, 2013
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N.K. says it will cooperate if U.S. takes ‘right path’
North Korea will cooperate with the United States if the superpower takes the “right path”, the communist country’s mouthpiece newspaper said Tuesday, despite growing tensions between the two countries over Pyongyang’s nuclear test conducted last month.The Choson Sinbo, the Korean-language newspaper published in Japan, said it is not North Korea’s goal to cause the situation with the U.S. to erupt, referring to the North’s recent warnings of a showdown with the U.S.“Therefore, if the U.S. choose
March 5, 2013
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Seoul, Washington must take Rodman’s Pyongyang visit seriously: ex-U.S. envoy
South Korea and the United States should take a recent visit by flamboyant retired NBA star Dennis Rodman to North Korea “seriously” because it appears to signal a renewed engagement with both Seoul and Washington, a former U.S. ambassador to Seoul said Tuesday.In an interview with Yonhap News Agency in Seoul, Donald Gregg said a “call me” message from North Korea’s young leader Kim Jong-un to U.S. President Barack Obama, relayed by Rodman, is a “very powerful signal to engage with us.”Rodman, w
March 5, 2013
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N. Korea designates leader’s birthday as military holiday
North Korea is believed to have designated leader Kim Jong-un’s birthday as a kind of military holiday, along with other national anniversaries, according to state TV footage broadcast on Sunday.Kim’s birthday, Jan. 8, was marked as a “day for service members,” along with such national holidays as the birthdays of his father Kim Jong-il and his grandfather Kim Il-sung, according to footage showing a planning board at a military restaurant.The footage was part of a film documenting the leader’s v
March 5, 2013
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‘Political prisoners in N.K. reduced to 80,000-120,000’
North Korea may have reduced the number of political prisoners and closed one of its notorious political prison camps, a report in Seoul said, suggesting that the changes, however, do not mean improvement in the human rights conditions in the country.The report by the Korea Institute for National Unification in Seoul said, “A minimum of 80,000 to a maximum of 120,000 political prisoners are estimated to be detained in five political prisons.” The report said last year’s closure of the political
March 5, 2013
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Pirate Bay sets sail to North Korea?
After Google chairman Eric Schmidt and former NBA star Dennis Rodman, the notorious file-sharing site The Pirate Bay is claiming to be the latest unexpected visitor to Stalinist North Korea.In a posting on its website, the Pirate Bay, which was ejected from Sweden last week, claimed it had sought “virtual sanctuary” in North Korea, apparently at the personal invitation of leader Kim Jong-Un.“Today we can reveal that we have been invited by the leader of the republic of Korea, to fight our battle
March 5, 2013
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Seoul to build inter-Korean trust with humanitarian aid: nominee
South Korea plans to build inter-Korean trust by providing humanitarian aid to the impoverished communist country and by engaging in constructive dialogue, President Park Geun-hye’s unification minister nominee said Tuesday.Ryoo Kihl-jae, 54, said in a written reply forwarded to the parliament ahead of his confirmation hearing set for Wednesday that no preconditions will be set for providing aid, indicating that the new administration wants to engage Pyongyang in dialogue to resolve all outstand
March 5, 2013
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Curiosity rover out of safe mode, still recovering
NASA says the Curiosity rover is returning to normal after a computer problem limited its activities.The space agency said Monday that the car-size rover exited safe mode over the weekend. In safe mode, the rover suspends its science activities but is still in contact with Earth.Curiosity is now preparing to resume its science experiments _ perhaps by next week.Engineers still don't know what caused Curiosity's memory glitch.The rover was in the middle of analyzing powder from a rock it had rece
March 5, 2013
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White House dismisses N.K. leader's informal offer of phone talks with Obama
The White House scoffed Monday at reports that North Korea's young leader hopes for a phone conversation with President Barack Obama."The United States has direct channels of communications with the DPRK (North Korea)," White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said at a press briefing.Instead of spending money on celebrity sporting events to entertain his nation's elite, he stressed, the North Korean regime should focus on the well-being of its own people, who suffer from starvation and human righ
March 5, 2013
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Signs of N.K. provocations: Seoul
South Korea is keeping closer tabs on the possibility of North Korean provocations as its military is seen preparing for a large-scale exercise on its east coast and increasing frontline defense and submarine activities on its west.The rise in North Korean military activities came as the South and the U.S. have begun their annual war drills, which Pyongyang has condemned as a “rehearsal for an incursion to topple its regime.”The allied Foal Eagle field training exercise, which began on Friday, w
March 4, 2013
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Dennis Rodman: N. Korea leader wants Obama to call
North Korea's young leader has riled the U.S. with recent nuclear tests, but Kim Jong Un doesn't really want war with the superpower, just a call from President Barack Obama to chat about their shared love of basketball, according to unlikely diplomat Dennis Rodman, the ex-pro basketball star just back from an improbable visit to the reclusive communist country.“He loves basketball. ... I said Obama loves basketball. Let's start there” as a way to warm up relations between the U.S. and North Kor
March 4, 2013
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N. Korea seen preparing large drills in East Sea: official
North Korea has shown signs of gearing up to conduct a large-scale military drill in the East Sea this month, a senior Seoul official said Sunday, the latest demonstration of military power by the North following its nuclear test.The latest move comes as Pyongyang has ratcheted up its hostile rhetoric against Seoul and Washington as the two allies launched their annual joint drills on Friday, amid heightened tension following the North’s third nuclear test on Feb. 12. “We have detected movement
March 3, 2013
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U.S. gov't criticizes N.K. for Rodman distraction
WASHINGTON (Yonhap News) -- The U.S. government accused the North Korean leadership Friday of "wining and dining" former NBA star Dennis Rodman and the Harlem Globetrotters while many of its people are starving."Clearly, you've got the regime spending money to wine and dine foreign visitors when they should be feeding their own people,"Patrick Ventrell, acting deputy spokesman for the State Department, said at a press briefing.He was answering a question about Washington's view on Rodman's trip
March 2, 2013
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Korea, U.S. kick off annual military drills amid tension
South Korean and U.S. troops launched their annual joint drills on Friday, military officials said, amid heightened tension following North Korea's third nuclear test last month.The Key Resolve/Foal Eagle exercises come after North Korea warned the top U.S. commander in South Korea of "miserable destruction" if the American military goes ahead with the two-month-long joint drills.Earlier in the day, the allies started the Foal Eagle drills, which are field training exercises involving tens of th
March 1, 2013
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Korea's leader expresses 'expectation' for basketball exchange
After watching a basketball game with former NBA star Dennis Rodman in Pyongyang, North Korea's young leader Kim Jong-un expressed his "expectation" that a sports exchange with the United States could help promote "mutual understanding" between people of the two nations, the North's state media said Friday.On his third day visiting North Korea with New York-based VICE media company, Rodman watched a mixed basketball game with Kim between American players of the Harlem Globetrotters and North Kor
March 1, 2013
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N. Korean leader watches basketball game with former NBA player
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un watched a basketball game with a former National Basketball Association (NBA) player in Pyongyang, local-based foreign media sources said Thursday. Kim Jong-un, the first chairman of the National Defense Commission in North Korea, watched a basketball game between the Harlem Globetrotters and the North's U-18 squad with American Hall of Fame basketball player Dennis Rodman, according to Chinese state-run media Xinhua News Agency.A day earlier, Rodman practiced wit
Feb. 28, 2013