All posts tagged "North Korea"

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    North Korea warns of pre-emptive strikes against the South

    SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea said Saturday its military is ready to pre-emptively attack and “liberate” the South in its latest outburst against the annual joint military drills by the United States and South Korea....

    • Posted March 11, 2016
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    N. Korea successfully hacks scores of S. Korean officials: Spy agency

    SEOUL (Yonhap) — North Korea successfully hacked the smartphones of scores of senior South Korean officials recently, a ruling party lawmaker said Friday, citing Seoul’s spy agency. “(The North) sent malicious emails to (smartphones belonging to) 300...

    • Posted March 11, 2016
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  • People watch a TV news program showing North Korean leader Kim Jong Un with superimposed letters that read: "North Korea has made nuclear warheads small enough to fit on ballistic missiles" at Seoul Railway Station in Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, March 9, 2016. The official North Korean news agency says the communist country's leader Kim met his nuclear scientists for a briefing and declared he was greatly pleased that warheads had been miniaturized for use on ballistic missiles. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)
    N. Korea to “liquidate” S. Korea assets, fires missiles into sea

    SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea is responding to Seoul’s unilateral sanctions, saying it will “liquidate” all remaining South Korean assets at former cooperative projects in the North. The statement Thursday follows the North’s firing of...

    • Posted March 10, 2016
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    N. Korea fires two short-range missiles into East Sea

    SEOUL (Yonhap) — North Korea fired two short-range ballistic missiles into the East Sea in the latest saber-rattling move amid the ongoing South Korea-U.S. military drills, South Korea’s military said Thursday. According to the Joint Chief of...

    • Posted March 9, 2016
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  • A South Korean army soldier passes by a TV news program showing North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, at Seoul Railway Station in Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, March 9, 2016. The official North Korean news agency says the communist country's leader Kim his nuclear scientists for a briefing and declared he was greatly pleased that warheads had been miniaturized for use on ballistic missiles. The letters at the screen read "North Korea' nuclear warhead ". (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)
    Kim Jong-un poses beside possible nuclear warhead mock up

    SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea has caused a new stir with photos on the front page of its ruling party newspaper Wednesday that show the country’s leader Kim Jong-un standing beside a purported mock-up of...

    • Posted March 9, 2016
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    N. Korea says it has ‘miniaturized’ nuke warheads

    PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) — The official North Korean news agency says the communist country’s leader Kim Jong-un met his nuclear scientists for a briefing and declared he was greatly pleased that warheads had been miniaturized for...

    • Posted March 8, 2016
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  • Lee Suk-joon, chief of the Office for Government Policy Coordination, holds a press conference at the government complex in Seoul on March 8, 2016, to announce South Korea's own fresh sanctions on North Korea. Under the punitive measures, 38 North Korean officials and two foreigners, as well as 30 organizations, including 24 based in Pyongyang, have been barred from trading with South Korean companies and financial institutions. (Yonhap)
    S. Korea unveils own anti-N. Korea sanctions

    SEOUL (Yonhap) — South Korea unveiled a slew of its own punitive measures against Pyongyang Tuesday, including blacklisting scores of North Koreans and entities suspected to be linked to the North’s weapons of mass destruction (WMD). The...

    • Posted March 8, 2016
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