All posts tagged "North Korea"

  • North Korean leader Kim Jong-un tours a precision machine factory in Pyongyang. North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency reported it on Jan. 16, 2015, without saying when the visit was made. (Yonhap)
    N. Korea leader warns Seoul’s govt organizations will be destroyed

    SEOUL (Yonhap) — North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has called on the military to be ready to strike government organizations in Seoul, the North’s state media said Friday, amid heightened tension on the divided peninsula. The North’s...

    • Posted March 24, 2016
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  • In this Dec. 3, 2015, photo, human remains, which village elders claim belong to soldiers who fought in the Korean War, is laid out next to a burial site on Ryongyon-ri hill in Kujang county, North Korea. "Until They Are Home" is one of the most sacred vows of the U.S. military, yet there are 5,300 American GIs missing in North Korea from the Korean War whose remains are potentially recoverable. It has been more than a decade since any U.S. search teams have tried, and with construction projects across the country moving forward, many could already be lost forever. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E)
    [AP EXCLUSIVE] US remains in N. Korea lost in political limbo

    RYONGYON-RI, North Korea  — The village elder put his shovel aside, stooped down by a scraggly bush and pulled a sack from the freshly turned dirt. Spreading open the sack, he reached in to reveal femurs, skull...

    • Posted March 24, 2016
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  • Park Geun-hye
    Park orders military to brace for possible N. Korean provocation

    SEOUL (Yonhap) — President Park Geun-hye ordered the military to strengthen security across South Korea, a government official said Thursday, as North Korea has ratcheted up its threats against its southern neighbor. Park “instructed the military to...

    • Posted March 23, 2016
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  • Kim Yong-nam (Yonhap file)
    N. Korea sends ‘message of sympathy’ for Brussels attacks

    SEOUL (Yonhap) — North Korea’s ceremonial leader Kim Yong-nam sent “a message of sympathy” to Belgium on Wednesday for the deadly terrorist attacks in its capital a day earlier, the North’s official news agency reported. In the...

    • Posted March 23, 2016
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  • North Koreans watch a news broadcast on a video screen outside Pyongyang Railway Station in Pyongyang, North Korea, Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2016. Pyongyang has long claimed it has the right to develop nuclear weapons to defend itself against the U.S., an established nuclear power with whom it has been in a state of war for more than 65 years. But to build a credible nuclear threat, the North must explode new nuclear devices — including miniaturized ones — so its scientists can improve their designs and technology. (AP Photo/Kim Kwang Hyon)
    N. Korea warns of retaliation against Park

    SEOUL (Yonhap) — North Korea threatened Wednesday to wage a retaliatory war against President Park Geun-hye in the latest show of defiance against tougher sanctions and joint military drills between Seoul and Washington. “From this moment, the...

    • Posted March 22, 2016
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  • A man watches a TV screen showing a file footage of the missile launch conducted by North Korea, at Seoul Railway Station in Seoul, South Korea, Monday, March 21, 2016. North Korea fired short-range projectiles into the sea on Monday, Seoul officials said, in a continuation of weapon launches it has carried out in an apparent response to ongoing South Korea-U.S. military drills it sees as a provocation. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)
    North Korea fires 5 short-range projectiles: Seoul

    SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea fired five short-range projectiles into the sea on Monday, Seoul officials said, in a continuation of weapon launches it has carried out in apparent response to ongoing South Korea-U.S. military...

    • Posted March 21, 2016
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  • President Park Geun-hye, of South Korea, addresses the 69th session of the United Nations General Assembly, at U.N. headquarters, Wednesday, Sept. 24, 2014. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)
    UN strongly condemns North Korea ballistic missile launches

    UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. Security Council is condemning North Korea’s latest ballistic missile launches, calling them “unacceptable” and a clear violation of U.N. resolutions banning such tests. A unanimous statement from the U.N.’s most powerful...

    • Posted March 18, 2016
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