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Fri, July 21, 2017 | 13:30

N.Korea remains silent over proposal for military talks

North Korea was keeping mum as of Thursday 10 p.m. over South Korea’s offer to hold joint military talks at the border, Friday, according to government officials. “We have not heard from the North yet concerning the military talks. We’re still waiting (for their reply),” Ministry of National Defense spokesman Moon Sang-gyun told reporters.

North Korea | 2017-07-20 16:39

Is N. Korea looking for next hostage candidate?

N. Korea moors fishing boats to prevent defections

North Korea has been banning its fishermen from going fishing in small boats amid the latest cases of North Koreans fleeing to the South by sea, according to sources, Thursday. A fishing boat small enough to fit less than 20 passengers was recently used for a defection as it is not subject to military surveillance at sea.

North Korea | 2017-07-20 16:36

Is N. Korea looking for next hostage candidate?

Is N. Korea looking for next hostage candidate?

About a month after the controversial death of North Korean detainee Otto Warmbier in June, an American tourist in his early 20s, the military state has launched a new tourism website. In a country known for not allowing tourists free rein, it is hard to see it as just like any other conventional tourism promotion. Over the years, the hermit state has become infamous for lock...

North Korea | 2017-07-20 15:47

S. Korea lifts entry ban on American peace activist

“Her entry ban has been lifted at the request of a state organization that asked for her entry ban,” South Korea’s justice ministry said Tuesday. South Korea’s spy agency, the National Intelligence Service, is said to have made the ban request soon after Ahn hosted the march that might have provoked then President Park Geun-hye. Park, who is now on trial over corruption charg...

North Korea | 2017-07-19 14:30

American peace activist denied entry to S. Korea

North Korea still unable to hit US with accuracy: US general

North Korea does not appear to have the technology to strike the United States with accuracy, the vice chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff said Tuesday, referring to the North's recent launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile. Air Force Gen. Paul Selva told a hearing of the Senate Armed Services Committee that despite recent developments in the North's ICBM capa...

North Korea | 2017-07-19 10:59

Disabled in North Korea killed at birth

Life in North Korea is notoriously horrendous for many. For those with disabilities, they have little chance of survival, according to a report published Tuesday by a North Korean human rights group. At a seminar hosted by the Database Center for North Korean Human Rights (NKDB), an NGO based in Seoul, it was revealed that people with disabilities in North Korea are killed at...

North Korea | 2017-07-18 21:49

White House: Current conditions 'far away' to reopen inter-Korean talks

"Well, obviously those comments came out of the Republic of Korea and I would refer you back to them," Press Secretary Sean Spicer said during a briefing, when asked if there are certain conditions U.S. President Donald Trump would like to see met before the talks take place. "That being said, I think the president has made clear in the past with respect that any type of cond...

North Korea | 2017-07-18 10:10

N. Korean defector returns home; lambasts Seoul on propaganda video

A former North Korean defector who starred on South Korean television shows appeared in a North Korean propaganda video, Sunday, fueling speculation she was kidnapped by the repressive state. The video, titled “The truth revealed by Jeon Hye-sung who was used for anti-DPRK propaganda,” shows the woman depicting a “painful” life in the South after defecting from the North in J...

North Korea | 2017-07-17 16:32

Military, Red Cross talks offered to North Korea

The Moon Jae-in government has made an official offer for dialogue to North Korea, including inter-Korean military talks and resuming reunions of separated families, as a follow-up measure to the peace overture he proposed in his recent speech in Berlin. The Ministry of National Defense said Monday the government proposed that the two Koreas hold military talks on reducing te...

North Korea | 2017-07-17 15:51

White House: Current conditions 'far away' to reopen inter-Korean talks

S. Korea proposes talks with Pyongyang on reunion of families separated by Korean War

South Korea on Monday proposed holding inter-Korean military talks later this week on reducing tensions along the border, a follow-up to President Moon Jae-in's recent peace overture made in his Berlin speech. Seoul wants to have the rare meeting Friday at Tongilgak, a North Korean building in the truce village of Panmunjom, according to the Ministry of National Defense. Its ...

North Korea | 2017-07-17 10:20

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