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N. Korea set to mark late founder's birthday
North Korea appears set to hold celebrations for the 111th birth anniversary of its late founder Kim Il-sung on Saturday with dance performances in its capital and fireworks. The North's state-run Korean Central Television reported that a slew of events will be held at Kim Il-sung Square in Pyongyang to mark the Day of the Sun holiday later in the day. But it did not mention large-scale performances and events. As the North usually marks every fifth and 10th political anniversaries with maj
April 15, 2023
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S. Korea, US, Japan agree to hold missile defense, anti-sub drills regularly to counter NK threats
South Korea, the United States and Japan agreed to hold missile defense and anti-submarine exercises regularly to counter growing North Korean threats during their senior-level defense talks in Washington earlier this week, Seoul's defense ministry said Saturday. They reached the agreement at a session of the Defense Trilateral Talks on Friday, amid tensions caused by Pyongyang's recent weapons tests, including that of what it claims to be a solid-fuel Hwasong-18 intercontinental balli
April 15, 2023
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N. Korea says it conducted first test launch of new solid-fuel ICBM
North Korea claimed Friday that the country had successfully test-fired a new-type solid-fuel intercontinental ballistic missile for the first time on Thursday., under the guidance of the country’s leader Kim Jong-un. It labeled the ICBM as its “powerful, strategic attack means.” The South Korean military also confirmed that the test-launch aimed to develop a solid-propellant ICBM, although it assessed that North Korea still has a long way to go to complete the weapon developme
April 14, 2023
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Ministry officially uses term 'N. Korea's denuclearization' in white paper on unification
South Korea's unification ministry officially used the term "North Korea's denuclearization" in the first white paper on inter-Korean affairs issued by the conservative Yoon Suk Yeol administration Friday. In the annual Unification White Paper, the ministry also stressed the need to improve the North's human rights situation, and used terminology that was not used under the former liberal government in an apparent bid to highlight the government's tough stance on th
April 14, 2023
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N. Korea says it tested new solid-fuel ICBM to improve nuclear counterattack posture
North Korea on Friday said the missile used in its recent launch was its new solid-fuel "Hwasong-18" intercontinental ballistic missile, with leader Kim Jong-un claiming that the launch significantly improved its nuclear counterattack posture. Kim guided Thursday's launch and said the new ICBM "radically promote the effectiveness of its nuclear counterattack posture and bring about a change in the practicality of its offensive military strategy," the North's officia
April 14, 2023
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North Korea fires suspected new solid-fuel ballistic missile
North Korea appears to have fired a new, solid-fuel, intermediate- or long-range ballistic missile Thursday, the South Korean military said hours after the launch. The initial assessment suggested that Pyongyang conducted its first test-launch of a solid-fuel intercontinental ballistic missile in the run-up to the anniversary of the birth of the country’s late founder. North Korea fired the intermediate- or long-range ballistic missile into waters off its east coast from an area on the out
April 13, 2023
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N. Korea fires intermediate-range or longer ballistic missile toward East Sea: S. Korean military
North Korea fired an intermediate- or longer-range ballistic missile toward the East Sea on Thursday, South Korea's military said, following its continued refusal to answer what used to be daily cross-border calls. The Joint Chiefs of Staff said it detected the launch in the vicinity of Pyongyang at 7:23 a.m. It did not elaborate further pending an analysis. "While strengthening its monitoring and vigilance, our military is maintaining a full readiness posture in close cooperation with
April 13, 2023
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N. Korea unresponsive to regular contact via inter-Korean liaison line for 6th day
North Korea remained unresponsive to daily routine calls with South Korea through an inter-Korean liaison communication channel for the sixth straight day Wednesday, Seoul's unification ministry said. The North was unresponsive to the 9 a.m. routine opening calls, and has not answered the calls from the South since last Friday, according to the ministry. Seoul's opening call via the militaries' East and West seas communication lines also went unanswered. The two Koreas typically h
April 12, 2023
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N. Korea vows to initiate vibrant space projects amid worries over potential spy satellite launch
North Korea vowed Wednesday to pursue more space development projects on the occasion of the International Day of Human Space Flight, according to state media, amid concerns over its potential launch of a military spy satellite this month. North Korea has an "unwavering" willingness to turn itself into a global space powerhouse as outer space belongs to all mankind, not something monopolized or possessed by a specific country, according to the Korean Central News Agency. The Internatio
April 12, 2023
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Unification minister issues ‘strong warning’ to N.Korea
The South Korean unification minister on Tuesday strongly warned that North Korea’s unilateral severance of cross-border hotlines will eventually put itself in a predicament, urging North Korean leader Kim Jong-un to stop heightening tensions and make a “wise decision.” Unification Minister Kwon Young-se made the remarks in a rare public statement after North Korea refused to take regularly held inter-Korean calls from South Korea for five days without explanation since last Fr
April 11, 2023
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N. Korea unresponsive to regular contact via inter-Korean liaison line for 5th day
North Korea remained unresponsive to daily routine calls with South Korea through an inter-Korean liaison communication channel for the fifth straight day Tuesday, according to Seoul's unification ministry. The North was unresponsive to routine opening calls at 9 a.m. since it stopped answering calls from the South last Friday, the ministry said. The ministry earlier said it is putting weight on the possibility of Pyongyang's "unilateral" suspension of the liaison communicati
April 11, 2023
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N. Korean leader calls for expanding war deterrence in more 'offensive' way: KCNA
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has called for expanding his country's war deterrence in a more "practical and offensive" manner, state media said Tuesday, in response to joint military drills by South Korea and the United States. Kim made the remarks while presiding over an enlarged meeting of the Central Military Commission of the ruling Workers' Party of Korea on Monday, according to the Korean Central News Agency. Kim raised the need to expand the North's war deterre
April 11, 2023
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N. Korea again unresponsive to daily phone call via inter-Korean liaison line: ministry
North Korea again did not respond to daily morning calls with South Korea through an inter-Korean liaison communication channel Monday, according to Seoul's unification ministry. The North was unresponsive to routine opening calls at 9 a.m. after it stopped answering calls from the South on Friday morning, according to the ministry. Calls from the liaison hotline do not take place on weekends. The two Koreas are supposed to hold phone calls twice a day, at 9 a.m. and 5 p.m., via their joint
April 10, 2023
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Inter-Korean military hotlines go unanswered for three days
North Korea has refused to take regularly held, inter-Korean, military-to-military calls from South Korea for three days without explanation, South Korea’s Defense Ministry said Sunday morning. The two Koreas hold calls twice a day, in the morning and afternoon, via liaison and military hotlines. But North Korea has stopped answering regular calls across all inter-Korean communication channels since Friday morning. Inter-Korean military hotlines -- which operate at 9 a.m. and 4 p.m. seven
April 9, 2023
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N. Korea conducted another test of underwater nuclear-capable attack drone this week
North Korea said Saturday it carried out another test of an underwater nuclear-capable attack drone this week, proving the weapon system's reliability and "fatal" striking capability. The North tested the Haeil-2 underwater strategic weapon system from April 4-7, according to the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA). "The system will serve as an advantageous and prospective military potential of the armed forces of the DPRK essential for containing all evolving military actions
April 8, 2023
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Inter-Korean hotlines go dead amid tensions
North Korea did not answer the daily routine calls South Korea makes using its military and nonmilitary hotlines -- another sign that inter-Korean tensions have been escalating quickly as the North accuses the South and its biggest ally, the US, of ramping up tensions with their annual military drills. The Unification Ministry in Seoul, which handles the nonmilitary lines, confirmed Friday that Pyongyang had not picked up the calls, made once each in the morning and afternoon, saying assessment
April 7, 2023
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Nuclear envoys urge repatriation of NK workers abroad
The chief nuclear envoys from South Korea, the US and Japan called on the international community and countries employing North Korean workers to help repatriate them as per United Nations Security Council resolutions preventing their overseas income from bankrolling the North’s nuclear and missile programs. At a regular meeting held in person in Seoul on Friday, South Korean chief nuclear negotiator Kim Gunn, his US counterpart Sung Kim and Japanese counterpart Takehiro Funakoshi undersco
April 7, 2023
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Cables show NK tried to undermine US amid efforts for Korean peace
North Korea had sought to undermine the US-led United Nations Command and joint military exercises between US and South Korea, the two biggest deterrents preventing the North’s potential attacks, amid efforts for peace on the Korean Peninsula, according to the latest diplomatic cables released Thursday. The declassified papers made public by the Foreign Ministry in Seoul to update the public on events dating to 30 years ago showed the North had asked US allies and partners to remove their
April 6, 2023
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Dossier reveals accounts of 1st high-level diplomacy between N. Korea, US
The South Korean government on Thursday made public newly declassified documents on the first-ever senior-level diplomacy in 1992 between the United States and North Korea, offering a glimpse into the diplomatic tug-of-war over the North's nuclear program. The set of mostly 1992 diplomatic documents, spanning some 360,000 pages, highlights accounts of discussions between Washington and Pyongyang amid the then reconciliatory mood fueled over the Korean Peninsula following the adoption of the
April 6, 2023
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N. Korea slams UNHRC's adoption of resolution on its human rights as 'document of fraud'
North Korea on Thursday condemned the latest adoption of a resolution by the United Nations Human Rights Council that denounced the North's human rights violations as "the most heavily politicized document of fraud." Han Tae-song, the North's permanent representative to the UN office in Geneva, said his country "categorically" rejected the UN resolution as an "intolerable act of political provocation and hostility," according to the Korean Central News Age
April 6, 2023