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All posts tagged "North Korea"

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  N. Korea installs its largest missile launch pad

  When North Korea said it was going to continue developing nuclear weapon and missile technology regardless of the Iran nuclear deal earlier on Tuesday, most observers probably didn’t expect that the communist state would also install a...

  • Posted July 21, 2015
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  N. Korea gig fits well with iconic Slovenian band’s image, will play Korean songs

  JUBLJANA, Slovenia (AP) — For a band inspired by art in totalitarian regimes, a gig in North Korea is a dream come true. Slovenia’s Laibach recently announced it will play two concerts in Pyongyang next month. The...

  • Posted July 21, 2015
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  N. Korea justifies nuclear weapons program as deterrent to ‘US hostility’

  The U.S. recently expressed that it hoped North Korea might see the economic value in denuclearizing after six world powers reached the beginning stages of a deal with Iran earlier this month. Instead the North said it...

  • Posted July 21, 2015
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  Chicago TV station hosts three North Korean refugees, their stories

  Three North Korean refugees spoke of their experiences for a talk concert inside a television station in Chicago’s Arlington Heights last Thursday. The women — Lee So-yeon, Han Seo-hee, Lee Mi-kyung — were brought on the air...

  • Posted July 20, 2015
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  N. Korea reports 99.97% voter turnout, Kim Jong-un casts ballot

  SEOUL, July 20 (Yonhap) — North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has cast a ballot in the elections to select deputies to local assemblies, which was held for the first time in four years, the North’s media said...

  • Posted July 20, 2015
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  N. Korea firmly rejects S. Korea’s offers for dialogue

  SEOUL, July 20 (Yonhap) — North Korea rejected South Korea’s recent offers for talks Monday, claiming Seoul should first give up its confrontational policy toward Pyongyang. South Korea’s parliamentary speaker Chung Ui-hwa proposed inter-Korean talks Friday to...

  • Posted July 20, 2015
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  US prepared for N. Korea’s SLBM threat

  SEOUL, July 20 (Yonhap) — North Korea’s development of submarine-launched ballistic missiles is “very destabilizing” to the security of the Asia-Pacific region and the United States is fully prepared to respond to any contingency situation, the commander...

  • Posted July 20, 2015
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