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All posts tagged "North Korea"

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  UN says North Korea aid faces ‘significant underfunding’

  UNITED NATIONS (AP) — A new United Nations report says humanitarian aid for North Korea faces “significant underfunding” while about 70 percent of the population faces food insecurity, and it says recent U.S. sanctions forced U.N. agencies...

  • Posted April 9, 2015
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  [UPI] N. Korea’s one percent lead lives of unimaginable luxury, says expert

    BERLIN, April 8 (UPI) — The number of North Koreans considered elites has increased to one million under North Korean leader Kim Jong Un – who took control after the death of his father Kim...

  • Posted April 8, 2015
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  N. Korea claims Mexico ‘forcibly’ holding ship, blames US

  UNITED NATIONS (AP) — North Korea on Wednesday said Mexico has “forcibly detained” one of its ships months after it ran aground off Mexico’s Gulf coast last year, and Pyongyang blames the United States for making sure...

  • Posted April 8, 2015
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  N. Korea deports US humanitarian worker by ‘generosity’ of country’s laws

  SEOUL, April 8 (Yonhap) — North Korea has deported a U.S. citizen as she was suspected of plotting and propagandizing against the communist regime under the name of doing humanitarian works, the North’s official media said Wednesday....

  • Posted April 8, 2015
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  N. Korea believed to be capable of firing nuclear missile at US mainland: US Admiral

  WASHINGTON (Yonhap) — North Korea is believed to be capable of building a nuclear weapon small enough to fit atop a long-range missile and fire it at the U.S. mainland, the commander of the U.S. Northern Command...

  • Posted April 8, 2015
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  N. Korea opens first online shopping mall

  By Lee Min-hyung North Korea has launched its first online shopping mall, the regime’s state-controlled media reported Tuesday. The Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) said the North opened the shopping mall, called Okryu, last Wednesday, offering various...

  • Posted April 7, 2015
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  Hundreds of N. Korean missiles threaten Asia: US researchers

  WASHINGTON (AP) — Nuclear-armed North Korea already has hundreds of ballistic missiles that can target its neighbors in Northeast Asia but will need foreign technology to upgrade its arsenal and pose a more direct threat to the...

  • Posted April 7, 2015
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