North Korea on Sunday test-fired a short-range missile off its east coast, its fourth in two days, despite pleas from South Korea and the UN chief to halt the launches at a time of high tensions...
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- May 20, 2013
- Updated: 9:25pm
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North Korea
The Democratic People's Republic of Korea is a country in East Asia, located in the northern half of the Korean Peninsula bordering South Korea and China. Its capital, Pyongyang, is the country's largest city by both land area and population. It is a single-party state led by the Korean Workers' Party (KWP), and governed by Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un since 2012. It has a population of 24,052,231 (UN-assisted DPRK census 2008) made up of Koreans and a smaller Chinese minority. Japan 'opened' Korea in 1876 and annexed it in 1910. The Republic of Korea (ROK) was founded with US support in the south in August 1948 and the Soviet-backed Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) in the north in September that year.
19 May 2013
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18 May 2013
The firing of the missiles follows recent rhetoric from the Kim Jong-un regime threatening nuclear strikes against the US and moving the medium-range Musudan missiles to North Korea's east coast....
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18 May 2013
Two missiles were fired yesterday morning and another in the afternoon, South Korean Defence Ministry spokesman Kim Min-seok said. "The missiles landed in the East Sea (Sea of Japan)," he said.
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15 May 2013
Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said on Wednesday he may meet North Korean leader Kim Jong-un if it could help resolve the longstanding issue of Pyongyang’s kidnapping of Japanese citizens.
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Increasingly tough financial sanctions, an arms embargo and other international restrictions on trade with North Korea have significantly delayed expansion of Pyongyang’s illicit nuclear arms...
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North Korea has replaced its hard-line defence chief with a little-known army general a state media report said yesterday. Analysts called Jang Jong-nam's appointment an attempt to install a...
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North Korea has replaced its hawkish armed forces minister after just six months in the job – the latest in a long line of top military reshuffles by supreme leader Kim Jong-un.
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The city of Berlin might seem an odd setting for an action movie about North and South Korean spies. But on a visit to the Berlin International Film Festival in 2011, South Korean director Ryoo...
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The US Treasury yesterday set sanctions on a Taiwan company and its chief executive for their ties to an effort to supply arms-related equipment to North Korea. The Treasury named Trans Multi...
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North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un is playing a dangerous game in his nuclear showdown with the international community, the US envoy seeking to tempt the isolated state back into talks said on...
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