Category: Korea
‘Cuddled in Kim Jong Un’s arms’: N Koreans envisage unification ahead of summit
Sixteen-year-old Ri Jin Ryong, a member of North Korea’s paramilitary Worker-Peasant Red Guards militia, says he has one message for South Koreans if the two countries [...]
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Washington set to replace US military commander in S. Korea
Washington is set to replace the commander of US forces in South Korea amid a rapid diplomatic thaw on the peninsula, even as denuclearisation of the North stalls. The US [...]
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Korea’s Iranian crude oil imports plunge 86.5pct on year in Aug
South Korea’s crude oil imports from Iran plunged 86.5 percent in August from a year earlier due to pending re-imposition of US sanctions on Tehran, according to [...]
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Korean border railway station represents staging post on journey to peace
“We want to be back on track.” A sign on the platform at the dead-end railway station, near the southern side of the heavily fortified border between the two [...]
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Pompeo accuses Russia of actively working to undermine N Korea sanctions
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo accused Russia on Friday of actively working to undermine international sanctions on North Korea and said the enforcement of the steps was [...]
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N Korea claims hacker responsible for WannaCry outbreak does not exist
The country insists the indictment of the hacker is nothing more than a smear campaign. A North Korean hacker allegedly responsible for debilitating cyberattacks against Sony [...]
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US says denuclearisation talks ongoing with NKorea
Talks with North Korea are ongoing over the country’s potential denuclearisation, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Friday, despite the appearance that discussions [...]
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Sending aid to N Korea often means inadvertently helping Kim Jong Um. But there are still ways to help.
Diversion is a common problem in autocratic regimes. Still, we can’t ignore the sheer volume of need in such nations. North Korea often tries to hide from the world the [...]
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Moon faces toughest challenge yet in 3rd summit with Kim
The first inter-Korean summit of 2018, a sunny spectacle in late April, reduced war fears on the peninsula. The second, an emergency one in May, helped ensure a historic [...]
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Koreas open first liaison office ahead of third summit between Kim Jong Un and Moon Jae-in
North and South Korea opened their first liaison office near their tense border Friday in a bid to facilitate better communication ahead of an eagerly awaited summit between [...]
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Korea has high hopes for stalled nuclear talks
South Korea has high hopes that the upcoming inter-Korea summit will achieve a decisive breakthrough in the stalled nuclear talks, when their leaders sit down to discuss [...]
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At summit, Korea’s Moon seeks to play ‘chief negotiator’ between Kim, Trump
Next week’s inter-Korean summit will test whether South Korean President Moon Jae-in can pull off his role of mediator and salvage stalled nuclear talks between [...]
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US accuses Russia of covering up breaches of N Korea sanctions
US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley accused Moscow on Thursday of seeking to cover up breaches of UN sanctions on North Korea by Russians after it pushed for [...]
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US imposes N Korea-related sanctions on Russian, Chinese tech firms
The United States on Thursday imposed sanctions on a China-based tech firm, its North Korean CEO and a Russian subsidiary, accusing them of moving illicit funding to North [...]
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US anger at Russia changes to UN N Korea report
Several paragraphs referring to Russian oil trade in a United Nations report about sanctions on North Korea have been removed at Moscow’s urging, sparking US anger on [...]
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