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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 Korea returns hijacked fishing boat after Chinese social media erupts in fury

involving a Chinese fishing boat hijacked by North Korea has come to an end with the safe return of the vessel and its crew. Although the matter was resolved by officials behind closed doors, a fervent discussion took place on social media-and it was decidedly one way. The fishing boat's owner, Yu Xuejun, took it upon himself to spread the word of North Korea's seizure of the vessel ...
One mans escape from Camp 14 and North Korea

Only one prisoner born in North Korea's gulag is known to have escaped to tell his story. A Q&A with Blaine Harden, the journalist who wrote about Shin ...
North Koreas hidden labor camps exposed

A new UN panel is vowing to hold North Korea's Kim regime to 'full accountability' for decades of mass crime and murder. Will Pyongyang face ICC ...

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South Korean top court upholds ruling against man convicted for emailing North Korean spy

South Korean Army soldiers patrol along a barbed-wire fence near the border village of the Panmunjom in Paju, South Korea, Monday, May 20, 2103. North Korea fired short-range projectiles into its own eastern waters Monday for a third straight day, Seoul officials said. The North said it was bolstering deterrence against enemy attack. (AP Photo/Ahn ...
China boat captain says hijackers were in North Korea military uniforms in latest incident to stoke tensions

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, center, visits Breeding Station No. 621 of the Korean People's Army, under construction at an undisclosed location in North Korea, in an undated photo released by the Korean Central News Agency on May 21, ...
Boat hijack stokes tension between N. Korea China

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, center, visits Breeding Station No. 621 of the Korean People's Army, under construction at an undisclosed location in North Korea, in an undated photo released by the Korean Central News Agency on May 21, ...
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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 ...

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'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 Seoul.

Analysts suggested that the latest missile launches were part of military drills.

Pyongyang routinely test-launches such missiles, but the latest tests followed several weeks of relative calm on the Korean Peninsula after tensions escalated earlier this year, following North Korea's test of a long-range Taepodong 2 missile in December and its third nuclear test in February, to which the UN responded with sanctions.

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said Sunday he was concerned over North Korea's latest short-range missile launches and called on Pyongyang to return to six-party talks on its controversial nuclear programme.

North Korea has been subjected to several rounds of UN Security Council (UNSC) sanctions since declaring itself a nuclear power in 2005.

The reclusive communist regime broke off talks with South Korea, China, the US, Japan and Russia on its nuclear programme in 2009, after the UNSC passed a resolution condemning its missile tests. ...