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All posts tagged "North Korea"

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  N. Korea not ready for ‘serious’ nuke talks: U.S. envoy

  BEIJING (Yonhap) — North Korea may not be ready to hold “serious and productive” discussions with countries involved in the long-stalled talks on its nuclear programs, a top U.S. diplomat said Friday. Ambassador Sung Kim, the U.S....

  • Posted January 30, 2015
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  N. Korea’s smartphone imports from China hit record

  SEOUL (Yonhap) — North Korea’s smartphone imports from China surged to a record high last year, a sign of a growing number of people there being connected to the net, according to data released Friday. North Korea...

  • Posted January 30, 2015
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  N. Korea-US meeting yields no denuclearization progress

  WASHINGTON (Yonhap) — No new proposal was made when top North Korean nuclear negotiators held rare meetings in Singapore with former American negotiators and scholars earlier this month, a senior South Korean official said Thursday. Pyongyang’s chief...

  • Posted January 30, 2015
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  North Korea demanded $10 billion and food from South for summit

  SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Late North Korean leader Kim Jong-il repeatedly pushed for summit talks with South Korea before his 2011 death but the plans failed because Pyongyang demanded $10 billion and large-scale shipments of food...

  • Posted January 29, 2015
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  S. Korea to fund $1.3 million UN census of N. Korea

  SEOUL (Yonhap) — South Korea decided Thursday to offer US$1.3 million in assistance for a United Nations census of the North Korean population this year, the unification ministry said. The ministry plans to use the inter-Korean cooperation...

  • Posted January 29, 2015
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  N. Korea restarting nuclear reactor: US think tank

  WASHINGTON/SEOUL (Yonhap) — North Korea appears to be trying to restart its main nuclear reactor after idling the facility for about five months, a U.S. think tank has said, citing steam and other indications. Commercial satellite imagery...

  • Posted January 29, 2015
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  Story of N. Korean refugee leading a new life in US to be published in English

  The story of a North Korean refugee who is successfully leading a new life in America will unfold in the June 2 English-edition release of “Under the Same Sky: From Starvation in North Korea to Salvation in...

  • Posted January 28, 2015
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