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North Korea Still Shooting Things Into the Sea
North Korea fired a projectile into waters off its eastern coast Sunday, a day after launching three short- range missiles in the same area, officials said. North Korea routinely test-launches short-range missiles. But the latest launches came during a period of tentative diplomacy aimed at easing recent tension, including near-daily threats by North Korea to attack South Korea and the ...
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North Korea sanctions threaten humanitarian aid report
London: Aid agencies helping millions of people in North Korea could be forced to pull out after a Chinese bank cut ties with main foreign exchange bank, a humanitarian group said on Wednesday.The freeze - imposed amid growing concern over North Korea's nuclear ambitions - has made it impossible for aid agencies to transfer money to fund projects, many of them aimed at helping chronically ...
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North Korea frees Chinese fishing boa...
North Korea has freed Chinese fishing boat and its crew, the ship owner Yu Xuejun confirmed on May 21. 16 Chinese fishermen were missing after apparently been kidnapped by armed men from the North Korea two weeks ago. China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs is demanding that Pyongyang secure the release of the men. "China calls on the DPRK to deal with this in a proper manner, and to ...
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Special envoy from DPRK arrives
DPRK 's Vice-Marshal Choe Ryong-hae, a senior Workers' Party official and the military's top political officer, in Beijing on Wednesday. Ding Lin / ...
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Japan mulls resuming talks with N. Korea official
TOKYO (AFP) - Japan is considering direct talks with North Korea, the government said Wednesday, adding momentum to the cause after a top level aide to the prime minister made a surprise trip to Pyongyang.Bilateral talks are on the table as Tokyo seeks to salve the running sore of abductions of its nationals by North Korean spies in the 1970s and 1980s, an issue that inflames public opinion at ...
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Top North Korean Envoy Holds Talks in China
An envoy of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un met Chinese officials on Wednesday in the first such talks since Kim succeeded his late father, Kim Jong Il, Chinese state media said. Choe Ryong Hae, a military leader with close ties to the Kim family, met Wang Jiarui, head of the Chinese Communist Party's international department. Diplomatic meetings between China and North Korea are ...
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US Air Force test-launches Minuteman 3 missile in California delayed by North Korea tensions
An image provided by Vandenberg Air Force Base shows an unarmed Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile being launched during an operational test Wednesday May 22, 2013, from Launch Facility-4 on Vandenberg AFB, Calif. The U.S. Air Force launched this unarmed intercontinental ballistic missile from a California base, a month after the test flight was postponed because of tensions with ...
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North Korean special envoy meets with Chinese party official
Kim Jong Un sent one of his closest advisers to Beijing Wednesday as a "special envoy" amid signs of a fraying alliance, officials say. Choe Ryong Hae, vice marshal of the Korean People's Army, met with Wang Jiarui, a senior official of the Chinese Communist Party, The Washington Post reported, ...
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North Korean delegation arrives in Beijing
Kim Jong Un took power, state media reported. China's official Xinhua News Agency reports that North Korean Vice Marshal Choe Ryong Hae arrived in Beijing to meet with Wang Jiarui, a top official in the Communist Part of China. It was the first time a delegation from North Korean visited Beijing since Kim ascended to power in 2012, Xinhua reports. Neither side offered specifics regarding ...
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Kim Jong Un’s special envoy visits China
TOKYO - A key North Korean military official arrived in Beijing on Wednesday as a "special envoy" of leader Kim Jong Un, state-run media reported. The trip comes amid new signs of strain between the traditional allies. Choe Ryong Hae, who holds several top Workers’ Party positions and serves as vice marshal of the Korean People’s Army, met with Wang Jiarui, a senior ...
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North Korea How the least-wired country became a hacking superpower
Members of the Korea Internet Security Agency check on cyber attacks at a briefing room of KISA in Seoul on March 20, 2013. (Jung Yeon-Je/AFP/Getty ...
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Hawkish general makes comeback as North Koreas military chief
North Korea has reappointed a hardline and loyal general as military chief in a move experts said was part of young leader Kim Jong-un's attempt to tighten his grip on the armed forces. Kim Kyok-sik, widely believed to have been behind the shelling of a South Korean island in 2010 that killed four people, was named "chief of the KPA (Korean People's Army) General Staff" by ...
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Senior CPC official meets DPRKs envoy
/enpproperty--> BEIJING - Wang Jiarui, a senior official of the Communist Party of China (CPC), met with the special envoy of Kim Jong-un, top leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) here Wednesday. Wang, who is vice-chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) and head of the International Department of the ...
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North Korean envoy visits Beijing for talks
A group of North Korean political and military leaders has arrived in Beijing for diplomatic talks. China is under pressure from the US to keep North Korea's nuclear ambitions from getting out of ...
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Stalled abduction talks with N. Korea may resume soon
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Seoul World Design Capital
In 2010, Seoul held the title of World Design Capital for the year, a coveted acknowledgment of the city’s progress in the development of its design-oriented industries and a foundation for the implementation of further development projects in preparation for 2010.
Seoul is a thriving global city of over 12 million people and the capital of South Korea, a country that has seen rapid development over the last few decades to become one of the newly emerged first world countries of the late 20th century. Read more
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