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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 ...

  • DPRKs Kim Jong-un visits childrens camp

    's leader Kim Jong-un (center) and his wife Ri Sol-ju sit during a visit to the Pyongyang Myohyangsan Children's Camp situated at the foot of Mt Myohyang in North Phyongan province, in this photo released by DPRK's Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on May 20, 2013. ...

  • Piracy prisoners and missiles North Korea had a busy weekend

    Like an attention-seeking toddler, albeit one with with nuclear weapons, North Korea rarely allows much time to go by without some destructive antics. As of this weekend, the unpredictable country appears to be ransoming a Chinese fishing boat, potentially talking with the US about an American prisoner it's holding as a bargaining chip, and lofting a series of short-range missiles into the ...

  • S. Korea analyzing if North launched missiles or artillery- Experts N. Korea camp holding American not worst

    South Korea officials are trying to determine out what exactly North Korea fired into its eastern waters over the weekend. A Defense Ministry official speaking on condition of anonymity citing department rules says experts are analyzing whether the projectiles are short-range missiles or a new type of artillery the country may be developing. North Korea fired what Seoul officials called a ...

  • U.S. calls on DPRK to release detained American

    WASHINGTON, April 29 (Xinhua) -- The U.S. government on Monday called on the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) to release the detained American citizen. Describing welfare of U.S. citizens as a "critical and top priority" for his department, State Department spokesman Patrick Ventrell called on the DPRK to release the detained American, identified by him as Kenneth ...

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