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Matched Keyword: bombing
Rebiya Kadeer tells RFA she wants scrutiny of the legal process, key evidence of 2015 Erawan Shrine bombing.
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Matched Keyword: humanitarian
A South Korean resort island’s sudden announcement that it supplied humanitarian aid to North Korea has brought a familiar name back into the limelight: Ri Ho Nam, a controversial DPRK middleman who has facilitated inter-Korean exchanges for over three decades. The government of Jeju Island revealed on Monday that it had sent around $100,000 worth […]
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Matched Keyword: diplomacy
Chinese President Xi Jinping’s allusion to boosting military ties with North Korea this week has raised the specter of deeper security cooperation between the long-time allies, including closer coordination on a Taiwan contingency. During a summit with Kim Jong Un in Pyongyang, Xi called for improving ties in the fields of diplomacy, law enforcement and […]
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Matched Keyword: hostages
The son of a South Korean missionary detained in North Korea met with senior U.S. officials in Seoul this week to seek support for the release of his father and others in DPRK custody. Choi Jin-young, co-founder of the ROK Hostages’ Families Association (ROKHFA), told NK News he delivered a letter calling on President Donald […]
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Matched Keyword: missile
The leaders of South Korea and the EU issued a joint statement Tuesday expressing “grave concern” over North Korea’s nuclear and ballistic missile programs, condemning its “illegal military cooperation” with Russia over the war against Ukraine. The comments were included in a 36-point joint statement following a summit between ROK President Lee Jae Myung, European […]
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Matched Keyword: denuclearization
South Korea has reaffirmed its commitment to the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula, after North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and Chinese President Xi Jinping omitted mention of the DPRK’s nuclear program at their summit this week. During Tuesday’s regular briefing in Seoul, South Korea’s Foreign Ministry rejected the notion that Beijing had effectively acquiesced […]
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Matched Keyword: security council
North Korea illegally exported around 1.5 million tons of coal last year, possibly by disguising the fuel as of Russian origin, according to a South Korean lawmaker. Pyongyang “continues to export coal, iron ore and other minerals that are completely banned under U.N. Security Council resolutions,” Yu Yong-weon of the conservative People Power Party stated […]
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Matched Keyword: denuclearization
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and Chinese President Xi Jinping discussed ways to expand economic ties and people-to-people exchanges in wide-ranging talks on Monday afternoon, including through the reopening of border crossings and resumption of civilian flights. But a readout released by China’s state-run Xinhua news agency made no mention of nuclear talks or […]
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Matched Keyword: denuclearization
South Korean President Lee Jae Myung called for efforts to secure a moratorium on North Korea’s production of nuclear materials through talks on Monday, as Chinese leader Xi Jinping visits Pyongyang for a summit with Kim Jong Un. Lee made the remarks in response to questions about Seoul’s approach to denuclearization at a press conference […]
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Matched Keyword: disinformation
The North Korean leader’s influential sister, Kim Yo Jong, denounced the U.S. on Sunday for spreading “baseless disinformation” that it is working with China toward denuclearization, reiterating a day before Chinese President Xi Jinping’s visit to the DPRK that the international community will never succeed in reversing Pyongyang’s “irreversible” nuclear status. In a statement published […]
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Matched Keyword: missile
Kim Jong Un called for increased missile production in a visit to a weapons factory on Saturday, underscoring his focus on weapons development two days before a summit with China’s president. During a visit to the unspecified factory, the North Korean leader emphasized the need to boost capacity in line with the Korean People’s Army’s […]
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Matched Keyword: sanctions
A Russian ship linked to North Korean arms smuggling berthed at a key Indian naval hub this week, maritime data shows, a visit that an expert labeled a breach of U.N. sanctions. The Maia-1 (IMO 9358010) appeared to dock at the Indian port of Kochi (Cochin) on Wednesday, according to ship-trafficking data from MarineTraffic. The […]
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Matched Keyword: armistice
South Korea’s unification minister proposed four-party talks with North Korea, the U.S. and China to advance peace on Thursday, addressing a security conference in Mongolia. In opening remarks at the Ulaanbaatar Dialogue, Chung Dong-young laid out a plan to change the current armistice system on the Korean Peninsula into a formal peace structure. “We can […]
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Matched Keyword: sanctions
North Korean officials toured a factory operated by a Belarusian heavy machinery maker this week, appearing to eye imports of tractors and other farming equipment that would likely run afoul of U.N. sanctions. A DPRK delegation led by External Economic Relations Minister Yun Jong Ho visited the facilities of Amkodor, a major Belarusian producer of […]
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Matched Keyword: defectors
“Ask a North Korean” is an NK News series featuring interviews with and columns by North Korean defectors, most of whom left the DPRK within the last few years. Readers may submit their questions for defectors by emailing ask@nknews.org and including their first name and city of residence. Today’s question is about the study of […]
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Matched Keyword: nuclear weapons
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un inspected a “newly commissioned nuclear material production plant” on Wednesday, according to state media, confirming the existence of a third facility enriching fuel to “exponentially” advance the country’s nuclear forces. Accompanied by senior officials from the ruling party’s Munitions Industry Department and the Nuclear Weapons Institute, the North Korean […]
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Matched Keyword: food
Belarusian autocrat Alexander Lukashenko told a Russian official that North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is not a dictator on Monday, boasting of his good ties with the DPRK’s head of state following a summit earlier this year. Lukashenko’s remarks came as a North Korean delegation visited Belarus for talks on food security and healthcare […]
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Matched Keyword: cruise missile
On this week’s episode, NK News Senior Analytic Correspondent Colin Zwirko discusses a busy week of developments in North Korea. He examines Pyongyang’s latest missile test of a new modular launcher and tactical cruise missile system, as well as what these weapons could mean for military planning near the inter-Korean border. He also talks about […]
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Matched Keyword: missile
South Korea’s military appears to have deployed more than 300 short-range ballistic missiles in fixed concrete bunkers near Seoul, an arrangement that suggests it could be used as a first-strike weapon against North Korea, two U.S. security analysts have assessed. But some ROK experts contend that the missile bases are aimed at rapidly responding to […]
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Matched Keyword: missile
South Korea has announced plans to build its first nuclear-powered submarine by the mid-2030s, saying the vessel will play “a pivotal role” in countering North Korea’s growing submarine-based nuclear and missile threats. During the inaugural Future Defense Strategy Committee meeting on Tuesday at the southeastern naval hub of Jinhae, Defense Minister Ahn Gyu-back unveiled Seoul’s […]