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  • Ban concerned about provocations after latest DPR Korea missile test Ban concerned about provocations after latest DPR Korea missile test

    19 May 2013 150 Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has voiced his concern about provocations and tensions on the Korean Peninsula following reports that the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) launched short-range guided missiles into the sea on Saturday. The latest action comes despite repeated calls by the international community, including Mr. Ban and the United Nations Security ...

  • North Korea Test-Fires 4th Short-Range Missile

    North Korea fired its fourth short-range missile in the past two days into waters off its east coast on Sunday, despite calls for restraint from South Korea and other countries in the region, as well as the United Nations. The latest launch into the Sea of Japan, confirmed by South Korean Defense Ministry officials, follows three coastal launches on Saturday that rattled the ...

  • North Korea fires short-range missile

    North Korea Sunday fired a short-range missile into the East Sea, even as UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said he was concerned over Pyongyang's latest missile launches and urged the regime to return to the talks on its controversial nuclear programme. Citing an anonymous military official in Seoul, South Korea's Yonhap news agency said the short-range missile launch came a day after Pyongyang ...

  • UN chief urges DPRK to return to negotiating table

    Moscow, May 19 (Xinhua-ANI): UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Sunday urged the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) to return to the negotiating table with international mediators. Ban was concerned over the DPRK's latest short-range missile launches and urged the country "to refrain from further such acts," Ban told the RIA Novosti news agency. The DPRK launched three short-range ...

  • DPR Koreans win mixed doubles at table tennis worlds

    DPR Korea's Kim Hyok Bong and Kim Jong claimed the mixed doubles title at the World Table Tennis Championships here. This is the first individual title at the world championships that was won by a non-Chinese player or pair since it was last held here 10 years ago. China has cleans wept all titles since, reports Xinhua. The two Kims defeated Lee Sangsu and Park Yongsook of South Korea in the ...

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The White Ribbon (Das weisse Band - Eine deutsche Kindergeschichte) [Blu-Ray]

The White Ribbon (Das weisse Band - Eine deutsche Kindergeschichte) [Blu-Ray]

Michael Hanekes Palme dOr-winning The White Ribbon is a dense, novelistic character study that takes place in a small, rural village in the north of Germany in the year preceding World War I. Shot in the kind of controlled, austere black and white that brings to mind the film ... ...

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  • UN chief calls on North Korea to return to talks

    UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon Sunday said he was concerned over North Korea's latest short-range missile launches and called on Pyongyang to return to the six-party talks on its controversial nuclear programme. The communist regime broke off talks with South Korea, China, the US, Japan and Russia on its nuclear programme in 2009, after the UN Security Council passed a resolution condemning ...

  • S. Korea to monitor financial market conditions amid DPRK risks

    South Korea's top financial regulator said Monday that financial market conditions should be monitored more thoroughly amid resurfacing risks related to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK)."North Korea (DPRK) risks eased recently, but the North resumed its provocation over the weekend by launching short-range missiles, " Financial Services Commission (FSC) ...

  • North Korean rocket launch

    - Equities are the favored asset class in the Asia session despite the accelerating housing prices in China and more provocations from North Korea - developments which in prior months would have dampened investors appetite. Hong Kong's Hang Seng is leading the charge in a catch-up rally following Friday holiday, reaching a 3-month high above 23,400. Shanghai Composite is up about 1% above ...

  • North Korea launches projectile after launching short-range missiles

    SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea has deployed dozens of Israeli-made precision guided missiles on islands near a western sea boundary disputed by North Korea.A North Korean artillery strike on one of the islands in 2010 killed four South Koreans.South Korea's Defense Ministry announced the move as North Korea fired a projectile into waters off its eastern coast Sunday, and a day ...

  • S.Korea says ready for more North missile tests

    SEOUL (AFP) - South Korea on Monday predicted further missile tests by North Korea which fired four short-range missiles into the Sea of Japan at the weekend, drawing criticism from Seoul and UN chief Ban Ki-moon."Our military is closely monitoring activities by the North's military since there is a possibility of additional launches in the future," Defence Ministry spokesman Kim ...

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