All posts tagged "topstories"

  • Missiles paraded in Pyongyang, North Korea, last October. Credit Wong Maye-E/Associated Press
    North Korea’s Brazen Nuclear Moves

    By THE EDITORIAL BOARD  New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/02/opinion/north-koreas-brazen-nuclear-moves.html?smprod=nytcore-iphone&smid=nytcore-iphone-share   North Korea is still defying the international community with its nuclear weapons program, and it now may have enough fissile material for 20 bombs. Its nuclear-related activity has surged this year, part...

    • Posted April 16, 2017
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    N.K. says it will conduct nuke test when leader decides: report

    SEOUL, April 14 (Yonhap) — North Korea’s vice foreign minister said that the country will conduct another nuclear test at any time upon the leadership’s decision, a news report said Friday. In an interview with the Associated...

    • Posted April 14, 2017
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  • This undated image capture from Yonhap News TV shows a building in Pyongyang and mysterious numbers presumed to be a broadcast for North Korean spies operating in South Korea. (Yonhap)
    N. Korea sends radio broadcast of new encrypted numbers ahead of key anniv.

    SEOUL, April 14 (Yonhap) — North Korea on Friday sent a radio broadcast of a new combination of mysterious random numbers believed to be coded orders to its spies operating in South Korea, one day ahead of...

    • Posted April 14, 2017
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    N.K. says it will conduct nuke test when leader decides: report

    SEOUL, April 14 (Yonhap) — North Korea’s vice foreign minister said that the country will conduct another nuclear test at any time upon the leadership’s decision, a news report said Friday. In an interview with the Associated...

    • Posted April 14, 2017
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  • This file photo shows singer-actor Park Yu-chun. (Yonhap)
    Park Yu-chun to wed granddaughter of dairy founder

    SEOUL, April 13 (Yonhap) — Singer-actor Park Yu-chun from the popular boy trio JYJ will marry a granddaughter of a local diary founder in September, his star agency said Thursday. Park recently got engaged to his girlfriend...

    • Posted April 13, 2017
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  • Supporters of French hard-left presidential candidate Jean-Luc Melenchon gather in Marseille’s Old Port, southern France, to attend a campaign rally, Sunday, April 9, 2017. The two-round presidential election is set for April 23 and May 7. (AP Photo/Claude Paris)
    France election: Far-left Melenchon enjoys late poll surge

    PARIS (AP) — With a bleed-the-rich video game and suggestions of a “Frexit,” French far-left candidate Jean-Luc Melenchon is rattling financial markets by rising in polls just 11 days before the country’s presidential vote. Melenchon’s surge is...

    • Posted April 12, 2017
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    Xi and Trump Discuss Rising Tensions With North Korea

    By JANE PERLEZ  New York Times BEIJING — China’s leader, Xi Jinping, and President Trump spoke by phone on Wednesday about the escalating tensions with North Korea as a prominent Chinese state-run newspaper warned the North that it faced a cutoff...

    • Posted April 12, 2017
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