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North Korea fires short-range missiles off east coast
BEIJING — North Korea fired three short-range missiles off its east coast Saturday, following through on months of threats to conduct a missile launch. The South Korean Defense Ministry reported that it detected two launches in the morning and...
Tags: Barack Obama, Wars and Interventions, Weaponry, South Korea, Missile Systems
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Aide to Japan's leader pays unannounced visit to North Korea
BEIJING -- A senior aide to Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe arrived Tuesday in North Korea, but neither country gave a reason for the unannounced visit that followed weeks of high tension in the region over the North's nuclear and missile tests....
Tags: Shinzo Abe, Politics, Japan, Kim Jong Il, Government
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U.S. urges North Korea to grant amnesty and free Kenneth Bae
The United States urged North Korea on Thursday to grant amnesty and free an American citizen sentenced to 15 years of hard labor for alleged hostile acts against North Korea. Patrick Ventrell, acting deputy spokesman for the State Department, told...
Tags: U.S. Department of State, United Nations, Punishment, North Korea
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American sentenced to 15 years hard labor in North Korea
This post has been corrected. See the note below for details. BEIJING -- Adding to the strained relations with the U.S., North Korea said Thursday that an American citizen held since November has been sentenced to 15 years of hard labor for "hostile...
Tags: Trials, U.S. Congress, China, U.S. Department of State, Jimmy Carter
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American in North Korea sentenced to 15 years of hard labor
SEOUL — An American detained for nearly six months in North Korea has been sentenced to 15 years of "compulsory labor" for unspecified crimes against the state, the government in Pyongyang announced Thursday. The sentencing of Kenneth Bae,...Tags: Trials, Crime, Law and Justice, Punishment, North Korea
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North Korea's former poet laureate to publish memoir in English
Rider Publishing, a Random House imprint, acquired world rights to "Crossing the Border," the memoirs of former North Korean State Poet Laureate Jang Jin-sung, the Guardian reports. In 2004, unable to reconcile his privileged position with the suffering...
Tags: Poetry, Kim Il Sung, BBC, North Korea
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For South Korea, no respect, no Kaesong
It's time for South Korea to face facts: The Kaesong experiment has failed. The ideologically motivated joint business venture with North Korea known as the Kaesong industrial complex is not economically viable, nor has it achieved any of its political...
Tags: Korean War (1950-1953), Central Intelligence Agency, Blackmail and Extortion, Seoul (South Korea), Lee Myung-bak
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North Korea denies it will use seized American as bargaining chip
BEIJING – North Korea on Sunday denied it would use a jailed Korean American as a political bargaining chip, saying it had no plans to invite a prominent American to Pyongyang to seek the release of Kenneth Bae. Bae, 44, of Lynwood, Wash., was...Tags: China, Crime, Law and Justice, Punishment
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U.S. agency sees boost in North Korea nuclear ability
WASHINGTON — A U.S. intelligence agency has concluded that North Korea has the capability to develop nuclear warheads small enough to fit on a ballistic missile, a congressman disclosed Thursday. Although U.S. experts believe North Korea cannot...
Tags: Doug Lamborn, Nuclear Policy, Central Intelligence Agency, Missile Systems, Chuck Hagel
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Kerry arrives in South Korea at a touchy time
From the Associated PressSEOUL, South Korea — U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry arrived in South Korea on Friday on an unusual diplomatic journey, traveling directly into a region bracing for a possible North Korean missile test and risking that his presence alone could...Tags: Barack Obama, U.S. Military, Missile Systems, Seoul (South Korea), Military Equipment
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North Korea warns foreigners to leave South Korea
SEOUL -- North Korea's state-run Asia Pacific Peace Committee warned foreigners in South Korea Tuesday to set up evacuation plans. State media KCNA carried a statement, saying Pyonyang does not want any harm done to foreigners in South Korea in case...
Tags: Asia, South Korea, Kim Il Sung, Japan, Seoul (South Korea)
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North Korea, China's problem child
BEIJING — In Washington, it is said, the definition of a gaffe is accidentally saying what you really think. That may be doubly true in Beijing, as Deng Yuwen can attest. Deng, an editor at the weekly newspaper run by the Central Party School,...
Tags: Korean War (1950-1953), Communist Party of China, Seoul (South Korea), Politics, Consumers
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