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Hacktivist group Anonymous staged another round of online attacks against the North Korean regime’s websites from Sunday morning, closing down those for public organizations and companies run by the ...
Updated : 2013.05.12 20:25
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The head of a new U.N. commission investigating alleged widespread human rights violations in North Korea said that he would ensure “due progress” when his team begins probing allegations of torture ...
Updated : 2013.05.12 20:24
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For 20 years, fears about North Korea’s headlong pursuit of nuclear bombs have been watered down with smirking admonishments not to overestimate an impoverished dictatorship prone to bragging and ta...
Updated : 2013.05.12 20:23
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PYONGYANG (AP) ― The Man Nyon Pharmacy is lined with rows of colorful packages containing everything from dried bear bile and deer antler elixir to tiger bone paste and ginseng. But the ancient “Ko...
Updated : 2013.05.12 20:23
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BEIJING (AFP) -- North Korean visits to China have multiplied over recent years, a Chinese newspaper reported, underscoring growing political and business links between the isolated nuclear-armed sta...
Updated : 2013.05.10 21:08
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Vice Foreign Minister Cho Tae-yul meets Rose Gottemoeller, acting U.S. undersecretary of state for arms control and international security, on Friday. (Yonhap News) Senior diplomats from South Korea...
Updated : 2013.05.10 20:59
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North Korea on Friday denounced South Korean President Park Geun-hye's first visit to the United States and summit with U.S. President Barack Obama as a prelude to war aimed at escalating conflict wi...
Updated : 2013.05.10 15:14
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North Korea's defiant pursuit for nuclear weapons and intercontinental ballistic missiles will move it closer to the deployment of a nuclear-armed missile within five years, a senior Seoul official w...
Updated : 2013.05.10 10:52
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North Korea delivered its most in-depth account yet of the case against a Korean-American sentenced to 15 years' hard labor, accusing him late Thursday of smuggling in inflammatory literature and try...
Updated : 2013.05.10 09:37
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The U.S. envoy on the North Korean nuclear program will visit South Korea next week as part of his Asian tour, a diplomatic source here said Thursday, as the leaders of Seoul and Washington vowed no ...
Updated : 2013.05.09 19:59
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Growing international unity against North Korea’s nuclear adventurism is putting the reclusive state into deeper isolation, which could doom any chances of economic reform and push it to explore arms...
Updated : 2013.05.09 19:53
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The Bank of China’s recent cutoff of ties with North Korea’s main foreign exchange bank appears to be the latest sign of Beijing’s patience wearing thin on the back of a string of nuclear threats and...
Updated : 2013.05.09 19:49
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The U.N. Human Rights Council on Tuesday appointed three experts from Indonesia, Australia and Serbia to conduct a probe into North Korea’s human rights violations. U.N. Special Rapporteur Marzuki D...
Updated : 2013.05.08 17:51
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China’s decision to end financial dealings with a key North Korean foreign exchange bank is a “significant” step that may severely punish North Korea for its internationally condemned nuclear ambitio...
Updated : 2013.05.08 17:50
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Basketball hall-of-famer Dennis Rodman, who forged an unlikely friendship with North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un on a recent trip, appealed Tuesday for the freedom of an American sentenced to 15 years....
Updated : 2013.05.08 09:57
