All posts tagged "North Korea"

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    N. Korean leader calls for more precise rockets

    SEOUL (Yonhap) — North Korean leader Kim Jong-un ordered a further development of “modern and precise” anti-aircraft rockets as he watched a firing drill in a western front-line area, Pyongyang’s state media reported Tuesday. “He underlined the...

    • Posted November 3, 2015
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  • From left, U.S. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Joseph Dunford, U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter, South Korean Defense Minister Han Min Koo and South Korean Chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Lee Sun-jin salute during a welcome ceremony at the Defense Ministry in Seoul, South Korea, Monday, Nov. 2, 2015. Carter called on North Korea to shrink and eventually eliminate its nuclear weapons program, while acknowledging during a visit Sunday to the Demilitarized Zone dividing the two Koreas that prospects for reconciling with the defiant North are dim. Ash Carter will attends at the 47th Security Consultative Meeting or SCM. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)
    US, S. Korea pledge to strengthen defenses against N. Korea

    SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The U.S. and South Korea are pledging to strengthen their combined defenses against what they call threats by North Korea, but announced no specific new steps toward a long-delayed transfer of wartime...

    • Posted November 2, 2015
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  • North Korean students use computers in a classroom with portraits of the country's later leaders Kim Il-sung, left, and his son Kim Jong-il hanging on the wall at the Kim Chaek University of Technology in Pyongyang, North Korea. Key North Korean websites were back online Tuesday, Dec. 23, 2014 after an hours-long shutdown that followed a U.S. vow to respond to a cyberattack on Sony Pictures that Washington blames on Pyongyang. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu)
    N. Korea spurring ‘online’ education at its universities

    SEOUL (Yonhap) — North Korea is making efforts to spur online education at its major universities in a bid to better instill the North’s ideology into young people and nurture their expertise, Pyongyang’s media reported Friday. North...

    • Posted October 30, 2015
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  • Undated picture released from North Korea of leader Kim Jong-un (Yonhap/KCNA)
    N. Korea to hold biggest party congress in 36 years

    SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea’s ruling party said Friday it will hold its biggest convention in decades next May. The Workers’ Party said in a dispatch carried by state media that it has decided to...

    • Posted October 30, 2015
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    N. Korea digging new tunnel at its nuke test site: official

    SEOUL (Yonhap) — North Korea has been excavating a new tunnel at its nuclear test site in the country’s northeastern tip, an official said Friday, in what may be a show of its nuclear capability. The North...

    • Posted October 30, 2015
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  • Farmers work in a rice field, Wednesday, June 24, 2015 in South Hwanghae, North Korea. North Korea may be facing a poor harvest and possible food shortages due to unusually light rainfall in some parts of the country so far this year. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E)
    Tens of thousands of N. Koreans forced into labor abroad: UN

    UNITED NATIONS (AP) — A U.N. investigator says tens of thousands of North Koreans are being sent to work abroad in conditions that amount to forced labor to circumvent U.N. sanctions and earn foreign currency for the...

    • Posted October 29, 2015
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    N. Korea is gravest threat to US interests: US gov’t think tank

    WASHINGTON (Yonhap) — North Korea poses the greatest threat to the United States, an annual Heritage Foundation report said Wednesday, warning that the communist nation likely has already mastered the technology to put a nuclear warhead on...

    • Posted October 28, 2015
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