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N.K. lifts top combat posture; seen pulling out mid-range missiles

North Korea appears to have lifted its highest combat alert and pulled out two mid-range missiles from the east coast in a move that defused tension after weeks of warlike threats, reports said Tuesd...

Updated : 2013.05.07 17:53

Not friends, but not quite foes either

A movie about three North Korean spies dispatched to South Korea on a covert mission is slated for opening in June. Titled “Eunmilhagae, Widaehagae (Discreetly, Greatly),” it is a story about elit...

Updated : 2013.05.07 14:38

N.K. says it's poised to strike back against S. Korea-U.S. joint drills

North Korea's military warned Tuesday that it would mercilessly avenge any breach of its territorial sovereignty by South Korea or the United States during the ongoing anti-submarine drills in the Ye...

Updated : 2013.05.07 09:27

Park vows to make N. Korea 'pay' if it attacks S. Korea

President Park Geun-hye warned Monday North Korea will "pay" if the communist nation launches attacks like its sinking of a warship and shelling of a border island in 2010. Park made the remark duri...

Updated : 2013.05.07 09:26

N. Korea removes missiles from launch site: U.S. officials

North Korea has moved two missiles from launch sites on the country's eastern coast, U.S. officials said Monday, signaling lowered tensions following worries Pyongyang was ready to test-fire the weap...

Updated : 2013.05.07 09:21

South Korea sharply reduces power supply to Gaeseong

South Korea has not disconnected the power to Gaeseong but reduced supplies to a “minimum level” in line with the suspension of the joint industrial park, officials said Monday. The Korea Electric P...

Updated : 2013.05.06 20:18

Koreas brace for prolonged deadlock over Gaeseong

The stalemate over the suspended industrial park in Gaeseong is expected to continue for some time as neither Seoul nor Pyongyang appears likely to make the first concession. While leaving open chan...

Updated : 2013.05.05 20:34

North Korea rules out political bargaining over jailed American

North Korea said Sunday it would not invite any leading U.S. figure to seek the release of a jailed American and he would not become a “bargaining chip” in any political negotiations. “Some media of...

Updated : 2013.05.05 20:28

N. Korea won't invite U.S. figure over jailed American

North Korea said Sunday it would not invite any leading US figure to seek the release of a jailed American and he would not become a "bargaining chip" in any political negotiations. "Some media of t...

Updated : 2013.05.05 15:53

Pyongyang yet to respond to Seoul's demands: official

North Korea has yet to respond to South Korea's demands made at the conclusion of last week's working-level talks to pull out its last remaining workers from a joint industrial zone in the North, inc...

Updated : 2013.05.05 13:39

U.S. non-profit group to build tuberculosis center in Pyongyang

A U.S. non-profit group plans to build a tuberculosis treatment training center in Pyongyang by the end of this year, a report said Saturday. Christian Friends of Korea (CFK), the non-governmental o...

Updated : 2013.05.04 11:09

Chronology of N. Korea's suspension of Kaesong industrial complex

The following is a chronology of major events leading up to Seoul pulling the last seven South Korean workers from the Gaeseong complex on May 3. 2013 March 27: North Korea severs the military hotl...

Updated : 2013.05.03 19:02

Last S. Koreans return from Gaeseong complex

South Korean workers who have just returned from joint industrial zone in Gaeseong, North Korea, address the press on Friday at Customs, Immigration and Quarantine (CIQ) office in Paju. (Yonhap News)...

Updated : 2013.05.03 16:23

Banks, insurers to offer Gaeseong firms 700 bln won in loans

Financial companies in South Korea will provide troubled local companies at the inter-Korean industrial park with an emergency fund of up to 700 billion won ($636.5 million) to help them avoid cash s...

Updated : 2013.05.03 10:32

Pentagon report: N. Korea moving toward nuke missile

North Korea “will move closer” to its announced goal of being able to strike the U.S. with a nuclear-armed missile if it keeps investing in tests of nuclear and missile technology, the Pentagon said ...

Updated : 2013.05.03 09:34