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Awaiting meeting with Chinese leader North Korean envoy tours high-tech park
Chinese paramilitary police officers stand in position at the gate of the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse, where a car believed to be carrying North Korea's Vice Marshal Choe Ryong Hae, a senior Workers’ Party official and the military’s top political officer, arrives in Beijing Thursday, May 23, 2013. After months of ignoring Chinese warnings to give up nuclear weapons, North Korean ...
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Reshuffle in North Korean Defense Ministry is not Apocalypse
The North Korean news agency KCNA reported on Monday that the country's leader Kim Jong-un appointed a new Minister of People's Armed Forces, Colonel-General Chang Chung-Nam. How may this reshuffle affect the situation on the Korean Peninsula? Pravda.Ru asked leading officer of the Center for Korean Studies of the Institute for Far Eastern Studies, Konstantine Asmolov, to comment the ...
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DPRK proposes to South Korea to mark 13th anniversary of Joint Declaration of June 15 2000
TOKYO, May 23 (Itar-Tass) - North Korea has proposed to South Korea to hold events to mark the 13th anniversary of the inter-Korean Joint Declaration of 15 June 2000, South Korea’s Yonhap news agency reported on ...
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Speculation over N Korea envoys China trip
Speculation mounted over a top NorthKorean military official's visit to China on Thursday, as few details of his meetings were made ...
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North Korea envoy awaits chat with Chinas leader
BEIJING (AP) -- While a North Korean envoy waits for an expected meeting with China's Communist Party chief, his Chinese hosts are taking him touring in ...
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DPRK proposes joint event with S. Korea to commemorate landmark declaration
The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) Wednesday sent a fax to propose anniversary activities with South Korea together to commemorate the 13th anniversary of the landmark joint declaration with South Korea, Yonhap News Agency cited Thursday a civic organization as reporting.DPRK said the only way to recover the relationship between inter-Korea and open a new situation for ...
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Roundup Japan mulling to resume inter-governmental talks with DPRK
Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga said here Wednesday that Japan is mulling to resume the stalled inter-governmental talks with the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) in an effort to resolve abduction issue.Suga said Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is resolute to resolve the issue and Japan seeks every possibility to communicate with DPRK to make the issue settled.Abe said ...
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North Korean leader sends high-level confidant to China
PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) -- After months of ignoring Chinese warnings to give up nuclear weapons, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un sent a high-level confidant to Beijing on Wednesday, in a possible effort to mend strained ties with his country's most important ally and a sign that he may be giving diplomacy a chance.The trip by Vice Marshal Choe Ryong Hae, a senior Workers' Party ...
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Japan confirms DPRKs missile launches
Japanese government confirmed the DPRK's missile launches on Saturday, saying none of the missiles have landed in Japan's territorial waters, Kyodo news agency reported. South Korea's Yonhap News Agency earlier reported that the DPRK launched three short-range guided missiles into the Sea of Japan on Saturday, citing the country's defense ministry. It is reported that the ...
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China media North Korea diplomacy
Media and experts in China have linked a North Korean special envoy's Beijing visit to escalating regional tensions and public anger over the recent kidnapping of ...
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Amateur sleuths crack North Korean secrets
An online community of amateur satellite sleuths are gathering intelligence about North Korea by comparing historical differences in publicly accessible satellite imagery. Not only have they been successful in predicting recent rocket launch dates, they have also been able to use the imagery to identify expansions of prisons and changes to key landmarks. More recently, they were able to ...
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N. Korea tries diplomacy with China
Pyongyang, North Korea - After months of ignoring Chinese warnings to give up nuclear weapons, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un sent a high-level confidant to Beijing on Wednesday, in a possible effort to mend strained ties with his country's most important ally and a sign that he may be giving diplomacy a chance. The trip by Vice Marshal Choe Ryong Hae, a senior Workers' Party official ...
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U.S. urges DPRK to immediately release sentenced American
The U.S. State Department on Thursday urged the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) to immediately release a U.S. citizen who was sentenced to 15 years of compulsory labor by its court. "There is no greater priority for us than the welfare and safety of U.S. citizens abroad, and we urge the DPRK authorities to grant Mr. Bae amnesty and immediate release," said State ...
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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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Cracking North Koreas secrets
An online community of amateur satellite sleuths are gathering all sorts of interesting intelligence about North Korea by comparing historical differences in publicly accessible satellite imagery. Not only have they been successful in predicting recent rocket launch dates, they have also been able to use the imagery to identify expansions of prisons and changes to key landmarks. More recently, ...
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Seoul World Design Capital
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