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All posts tagged "North Korea"

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  S. Korea to fund N. Korean doctors’ training in Germany

  SEOUL (Yonhap) — South Korea said Wednesday it will resume a program to support North Korean medical doctors’ training in Germany. The move, the first of its kind in seven years, is in line with the Park...

  • Posted January 28, 2015
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  N. Korean leader to visit Russia in May: Kremlin

  MOSCOW/SEOUL  (Yonhap) — The Russian presidential office said Wednesday that North Korea’s leader will attend a war anniversary event in Moscow in May. The heads of state from about 20 nations confirmed their plans to join the...

  • Posted January 28, 2015
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  Agricultural reforms in N. Korea appear to be working: U.S. expert

  WASHINGTON (Yonhap) — Agricultural reforms in North Korea, which center on allowing farmers to keep at least one third of their harvests, appear to be working, with overall grain production increasing in recent years despite unfavorable conditions,...

  • Posted January 28, 2015
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  Obama: Internet, not military options, will bring down North Korea

  WASHINGTON (Yonhap) — U.S. President Barack Obama said he believes North Korea will ultimately collapse, but a military solution is not the answer to handling the communist nation armed with nuclear technologies and missiles. Obama made the...

  • Posted January 26, 2015
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  S. Korea rejects North’s ‘preconditions’ for talks

  SEOUL (Yonhap) — South Korea on Monday spurned North Korea’s demands that Seoul should first remove cross-border sanctions and halt joint military drills with the United States before trying to hold inter-Korean dialogue. Since Seoul’s offer to...

  • Posted January 26, 2015
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  UN official stands by N. Korea abuse allegations despite defector’s changed story

  TOKYO (AP) — The United Nations’ official in charge of investigating human rights violations in North Korea said Friday he stands by U.N. findings of widespread abuses there despite recent backtracking by a prominent defector on the...

  • Posted January 23, 2015
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  [Telegraph] North Korea’s Air Koryo: My flight on the world’s worst airline

    Air Koryo, the flag carrier of North Korea, has once again been named the world’s worst airline, being the only carrier to receive a one-star ranking. Skytrax, a UK-based airline and airport consultancy, ranked 681...

  • Posted January 23, 2015
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