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Aide to Japanese PM returns from North Korea
TOKYO (AFP) - An aide to Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe returned home from a trip to North Korea on Saturday but declined to shed any light on the reason for his mysterious visit.Isao Iijima, a senior adviser to Abe, was tightlipped when confronted by reporters in Beijing on his way home. "I won't accept any interview on this issue," he told reporters, according to ...
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Sanctions are delaying development of North Koreas nuclear and missile programs UN panel says
A North Korean soldier, left, looks at the south through a pair of binoculars as a South Korean soldier, right, stands guard at the border village of Panmunjom, which has separated the two Koreas since the Korean War, in Paju, north of Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, May 14, ...
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Report Sanctions delaying N. Korea nuke program
New York - North Korea is still trying to import and export nuclear and ballistic missile-related items but financial and trade sanctions are slowing progress on development of their prohibited weapons, U.N. experts say in a new report. Key parts of the expert panel's report, obtained Friday by the Associated Press, provide further information on North Korea's attempts to evade four ...
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UN Implicates Azerbaijan Kazakhstani In North Korea Arms Embargo Violations
A United Nations report has implicated Azerbaijan and a Kazakhstan airline executive in violations of arms embargos against North Korea. The Associated ...
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Carter has no plan to visit DPRK spokeswoman
Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter has no plan to visit the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) for the release of a U.S. citizen who was sentenced 15 years of compulsory labor by Pyongyang, his spokeswoman said on Thursday. "President Carter has not had an invitation to visit North Korea(DPRK) and has no plans to visit," Carter's spokeswoman Deanna Congileo said in ...
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North Korea names General Jang Jong-nam as new armed forces minister
North Korea has replaced the hardline general who headed its armed forces ministry, in a further reshuffling of the top brass by young leader Kim Jong-un. General Jang Jong-nam was named "minister of the People's Armed Forces" by state news agency KCNA in a report, the third official to take the role since Kim Jong-un formally assumed power in North Korea just over a year ...
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N. Korea Vows to Strike South Korean Islands
North Korea is once again threatening the United States and South Korea -- this time over joint naval drills taking place in the Yellow Sea. The drills come ahead of a joint summit in Washington by the leaders of the two allies. North Korea says it will hit back if any of the shells fall on its side of the disputed maritime border during scheduled South Korean-U.S. military drills. If the ...
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UN panel sanctions delaying N.Korea nuke program
North Korea is still trying to import and export nuclear and ballistic missile-related items but financial and trade sanctions are slowing progress on development of their prohibited weapons, UN experts say in a new report. Key parts of the expert panel's report, obtained Friday by the Associated Press, provide further information on North Korea's attempts to evade four rounds of increasingly ...
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Sandra Scott Travels The best place to see North Korea
DMZ security checkpoint As part of our DMZ tour we went to Dora Observatory where it is supposed to be the best place to see North Korea. First we had to go through a security checkpoint that had Korean soldiers on one side of the entrance and American soldiers on the other. We were told to bring our passports but no one checked them probably because the only non-military vehicles allowed are ...
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N. Korea should open up and ask for food aid
N. Korea should open up and ask for food aid . MAY 18, 2013 05:30. . North Korea is releasing its rice reserves to feed its residents. For the past three months, the North has been using its military rice provisions in its major cities such as Pyongyang, Hyesan and Chongjin to ration 15 ...
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U.S. Response to North Koreas Threats
A North Korean political poster in inter-Korean military demarcation area. The poster says there is only one country on the Korean Peninsula. (Photo: Linqong, ...
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Japan envoy leaves North Korea gives no hints on talks
TOKYO (AP) — An adviser to Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has ended a visit to North Korea but would not give details of his talks with leaders in Pyongyang.Isao Iijima's three-day visit came amid a slight easing of tension on the Korean Peninsula after weeks of threats from the North aimed at Washington, Seoul and Tokyo.Japan has not disclosed the purpose of Iijima's trip. ...
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Google on North Korean maps
The recent addition of North Korea to Google’s Maps service made up a small part of the company’s presentation to developers at its annual conference on Wednesday. Brian McClendon, vice president of Google Maps, spoke about adding data and what it meant during at keynote speech at the Google I/O conference in San Francisco. North Korea had been a largely white area of Google Maps ...
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Japan PM aide in Beijing after Pyongyang trip
TOKYO (AFP) - An aide to Japan's premier said Friday he had held "sincere" talks with North Korean officials during his controversial visit to the country.Isao Iijima, a senior adviser to Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, was tightlipped about the subjects of his discussions when he arrived at the airport in Beijing."By visiting there, I was able to hold sincere talks for a ...
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Is North Korea evil and clownish
North Korea relies on foreign aid to feeds its people, having suffered persistent food shortages since a famine in the 1990s. (FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP/Getty ...
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North Korea May Possess 200 Missile Launchers - Thinktank Report
State media film a rocket carried by a military vehicle during a military parade to celebrate the centenary of the birth of Kim Il-sung in Pyongyang - Reuters North Korea may possess nearly 200 missile launchers, almost double the number previously thought, according to a report from a state-run South Korean ...
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Picture of the day North Koreas first charity fun run
On May Day, 50 tourists hit the streets of Pyongyang to take part in North Korea's first charity run raising money for an orphanage. There's a first time for ...
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Japans secret trip to North Korea disrupts united stance against Pyongyang
Japan's visit to North Korea comes after broad regional agreement that Pyongyang should not be offered talks unless it displays a genuine commitment to ...
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Big in North Korea
Just for the record: I didn't actually visit the DPRKalso, "Politico" should be all-caps. What I did do is interview Tommy Vietor, then-National Security Council spokesman, who told me that the oversaturated coverage of the country's upcoming missile test threatened to provide Pyongyang with the propaganda tools they so desperately desired. "North Korea is trying ...
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Requiem for North Korea
The war clouds over the Korean peninsula are darkening perceptibly in the wake of US Secretary of State John Kerry's official visits to Tokyo and Seoul last month. Not much was disclosed about those consultations except that the former American presidential candidate had pledged full and unequivocal US support to both Tokyo and Seoul in the event hostilities did break out between them and ...
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North Korea may have 200 mobile missile launchers South media says
PanARMENIAN.Net - North Korea may have up to 200 mobile missile launchers, or twice the number previously estimated by South Korea’s authorities, South Korean media reported Friday, according to RIA Novosti. South Korea’s state-run Korea Institute for Defense Analyses (KIDA) said that in line with a report submitted to the US Congress by the Pentagon, North Korea has probably ...
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