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  • Ignoring warnings North Korea continues to fire projectiles Ignoring warnings North Korea continues to fire projectiles

    PYONGYANG - North Korea continued to fire short range projectiles into waters off its east coast for a third straight day on Monday, officials here said, despite warnings from the US and South Korea against increasing tensions. The North has conducted six such firings since Saturday, in what are believed to be tests of short-range guided missiles or rockets from multiple launchers, officials ...

  • Situation on Korean Peninsula still serious

    The security situation on the Korean Peninsula is still serious after North Korea's recent missile launch and its defiant pursuit of nuclear weapons, South Korea has said. "We continue to face a grave situation due to a series of provocations and nuclear threats by North Korea," said South Korean Foreign Minister Yun Byung-se at an annual conference of chiefs of overseas diplomatic missions in ...

  • North Korean Peoples Army

    French photographer Eric Lafforgue made six secretive trips to North Korea and managed to capture a different side to the secretive state's army. Above: A female member of the Korean People's Army strokes a dog in Pyongyang, North ...

  • DPRK releases Chinese fishermen

    /enpproperty--> BEIJING - A Chinese fishing boat held by the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) with 16 fishermen onboard was released early on Tuesday, the Foreign Ministry confirmed on Tuesday. Ministry spokesman Hong Lei made the remarks at a regular press conference here, quoting report by the owner of the vessel. "The crew was safe and the owner did not pay the ...

  • China says North Korea released detained sailors

    BEIJING (AFP) - North Korea released 16 Chinese fishermen and their boat Tuesday, Beijing said, demanding an explanation after the kidnapping by armed attackers heightened strains between the neighbours."The DPRK side released the fishing boat and all the fishermen were safe and healthy," foreign ministry spokesman Hong Lei told a regular press briefing, using the North's official ...

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  • Chinese boats captain beaten by North Koreans released after 2 weeks hostage

    The owner of a Chinese fishing boat seized for more than two weeks by armed North Koreans says the captors wore military uniforms, and that they beat up the boat's captain and stole its fuel. Owner Yu Xuejun says the captors eventually released the boat Tuesday without the ransom they had demanded. The incident was the latest irritant in relations between North Korea and a Chinese ...

  • DPRKs Kim Jong Un has 2 daughters S.Korean media

    Kim Jong Un now has two daughters, probably with different women, S.Korea's Chosun Ilbo quoted a source in Beijing as saying. His older brother Kim Jong-chol apparently has a son. The source said Kim Jong Un's wife Ri Sol Ju gave birth to a baby girl late last year. Former NBA star Dennis Rodman, who visited Pyongyang in February this year, said Ri talked mostly about her ...

  • U.S. calls on DPRK to exercise restraint

    The United States has reiterated its call on the DPRK's leaders to exercise restraint and abide by its international obligations. A spokesman for the US State Department made the remarks in a daily press conference in response to the DPRK's latest missiles launches. "To monitoring the situation, and we continue to urge them to exercise restraint and take steps to improve ...

  • Japan tips its hand via North Korea

    By Peter Lee The big story in Asia affairs today is a little trip that was supposed to stay a secret: the dispatch of Isao Iijima, adviser to Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, to meet with senior officials in North Korea, thereby breaking the united US/South Korean/Japanese front in negotiations with Pyongyang. It is the first instance of an overt divergence between Japanese and US ...

  • China media North Korea warned

    State media in China warn North Korea to stop detaining fishing boats amid public anger over the "kidnapping" of fishermen by unidentified ...

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