All posts tagged "North Korea"

  • Map of South and North Korea (Yonhap)
    N. Korea rejects South’s parliamentary resolution calling for talks

    SEOUL (Yonhap) — North Korea refused Friday to accept a South Korean parliamentary resolution calling for the resumption of inter-Korean dialogue, the unification ministry said. In late December, the National Assembly passed the resolution, which calls for...

    • Posted January 9, 2015
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  • More than 50 out of North Korea's around 70 submarines had previously been detected away from their bases for operations after the country threatened an "all-out war" against South Korea. (Yonhap)
    N. Korean sub equipped to fire missiles

    WASHINGTON (AP) — Recent satellite imagery appears to show that a North Korean submarine is being equipped to fire missiles, posing a potential new threat to its neighbors, a U.S. research institute said Thursday. The finding published...

    • Posted January 8, 2015
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  • North Korean leader Kim Jong-un holds binoculars during his observation of an actual drill of combined military units at an unidentified location on Oct. 24, 2014. (Yonhap)
    China publicly wishes N. Korean leader happy birthday

    BEIJING, Jan. 8 (Yonhap) — China said Thursday that it has sent a message of congratulations to North Korea on the birthday of its young leader Kim Jong-un, expressing its hope Kim can oversee a “new achievement”...

    • Posted January 8, 2015
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  • James Clapper, the Director of National Intelligence, speaks at the International Conference on Cyber Security at Fordham University, Wednesday, Jan. 7, 2015, in New York. Clapper says the cyberattack against Sony demonstrated a new threat from North Korea. He also warned that North Korea will continue the attacks against American interests unless the United States "pushes back." (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)
    FBI director confident North Korea was behind cyberattack despite skepticism

    NEW YORK (AP) — FBI Director James Comey says he’s confident that North Korea was behind the cyberattack on Sony. Comey said Wednesday that threats made against Sony were traced to IP addresses used exclusively by the...

    • Posted January 7, 2015
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  • leaflet balloons
    N. Korea urges S. Korea to curb anti-Pyongyang leaflet campaign

    SEOUL (Yonhap) – North Korea called on South Korea on Wednesday to put the brakes on the spread of anti-Pyongyang leaflets by activists here if it genuinely wants a resumption of dialogue. The call came two days after...

    • Posted January 7, 2015
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  • South Korean activists send anti-Pyonyang leaflets over the norther border. (NEWSis)
    Leaflet launches test N. Korea’s will for dialogue

    By Lee Chi-dong and Park So-jung SEOUL (Yonhap) — South Korea is keeping close tabs on North Korea’s response to another round of massive anti-Pyongyang leaflet launches across the border, a unification ministry official said Tuesday. An...

    • Posted January 6, 2015
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    North Korea has 6,000-member cyber army

    SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea said Tuesday that rival North Korea has a 6,000-member cyber army dedicated to disrupting the South’s military and government, a dramatic increase from an earlier estimate of 3,000 such specialists....

    • Posted January 6, 2015
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