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November 3rd, 2009 - 11:52 pm ICT by Aishwarya Bhatt
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Pyongyang, Nov 3 (THAINDIAN NEWS) North Korea said on Tuesday that, ‘it has reprocessed 8,000 spent nuclear fuel rods and extracted enough plutonium to bolster its atomic stockpile’, raising the stakes in ...
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November 2nd, 2009 - 11:34 am ICT by IANS
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Seoul, Nov 2 (DPA) The US needs to decide whether it wants to engage in bilateral talks with North Korea on the country's nuclear weapons programme, the foreign ministry in Pyongyang said ...
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November 1st, 2009 - 9:02 pm ICT by Aishwarya Bhatt
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Pyongyang, Nov 1 (THAINDIAN NEWS) Speculation has been rife that Kim Jong Il has a very good-look alike who has been attending official functions on his behalf, as he himself is ...
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October 28th, 2009 - 12:58 pm ICT by IANS
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Hong Kong, Oct 28 (DPA) Luxury hotel chain Ritz-Carlton is to open the world's tallest hotel in Hong Kong in 2010 with its top floor on the 118th storey, a news report ...
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October 26th, 2009 - 1:44 pm ICT by IANS
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Seoul, Oct 26 (DPA) South Korea Monday offered North Korea its first food aid in nearly two years as part of a recent cautious rapprochement between the two neighbours.
South Korea made the ...
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October 21st, 2009 - 5:11 pm ICT by IANS
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Seoul, Oct 21 (DPA) The danger posed by North Korea has grown as it develops its nuclear and missile programmes and engages in proliferation, US Defence Secretary Robert Gates said Wednesday on ...
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October 14th, 2009 - 12:11 pm ICT by IANS
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Seoul, Oct 14 (IANS) North Korea Wednesday expressed regret for its abrupt release of dam water Sep 6 that led to the death of six South Koreans, Xinhua reported.
North Korea's remark came ...
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October 13th, 2009 - 10:13 pm ICT by IANS
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Seoul, Oct 13 (DPA) North Korea Tuesday agreed to meet South Korea this week for talks, but was at the same time preparing new missile tests, South Korean media reports said.
The two ...
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October 4th, 2009 - 9:52 pm ICT by IANS
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Pyongyang, Oct 4 (Xinhua) Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao arrived here Sunday on a three-day visit and was greeted at the airport by North Korean premier Kim Jong Il.
Wen arrived at Sunan ...
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October 4th, 2009 - 6:34 pm ICT by IANS
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New Delhi/Kochi, Oct 4 (IANS) A probe team has found nothing "incriminating" on board a Pakistan-bound North Korean ship, which was detained off the Kerala coast for anchoring in Indian waters without ...
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October 4th, 2009 - 4:06 pm ICT by IANS
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New Delhi, Oct 4 (IANS) A North Korean ship headed for Pakistan has been detained off the Kerala coast by the navy and the Coast Guard after it anchored in Indian waters ...
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October 1st, 2009 - 5:04 pm ICT by ANI
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Seoul, Oct. 1 (ANI): South Korea said Thursday the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK)'s rejection of the so-called "grand bargain," which Seoul proposed to Pyongyang as a measure to end the ...
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September 26th, 2009 - 4:55 pm ICT by IANS
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Seoul, Sep 26 (RIA Novosti) Hundreds of North and South Koreans separated by the Korean War (1950-53) met north of the border Saturday in the first such reunion in two years, a ...
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September 18th, 2009 - 4:48 pm ICT by ANI
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Pyongyang, Sep. 18 (ANI): North Korea's top leader Kim Jong Il on Friday met with Chinese President Hu Jintao's special envoy, Dai Bingguo, in Pyongyang.
According to Xinhua, Dai delivered Hu's letter to ...
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September 16th, 2009 - 5:22 am ICT by IANS
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Washington, Sep 16 (DPA) Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton suggested the US is prepared to engage in direct talks with North Korea to encourage the communist country to rejoin negotiations over ...
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September 15th, 2009 - 4:32 am ICT by IANS
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New York, Sep 15 (DPA) UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has selected a group of highly qualified people to monitor sanctions imposed by the UN Security Council on North Korea, a US ...
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September 13th, 2009 - 2:02 pm ICT by ANI
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Pyongyang, Sep. 13 (ANI): North Korean leader Kim Jong Il has reportedly instructed party and military leaders to start preparing for a third nuclear test with the use of enriched uranium.
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September 12th, 2009 - 11:09 am ICT by IANS
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Washington, Sep 12 (DPA) The US is willing to hold direct talks with North Korea in order to bring it back to the negotiating table to end its nuclear weapons programme.
US State ...
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September 8th, 2009 - 6:16 pm ICT by IANS
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Seoul, Sep 8 (DPA) South Korea Tuesday demanded an apology from North Korea for what it said was the unannounced release of water from a dam that created a wave of water ...
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September 6th, 2009 - 3:56 am ICT by IANS
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Pyongyang, Sep 6 (Prensa Latina) Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla has concluded his three-day official visit to North Korea Saturday.
Parrilla's visit to Pyongyang has helped to continue the high-level political dialogue ...
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September 5th, 2009 - 12:59 am ICT by IANS
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Pyongyang, Sep 4 (Prensa Latina) Foreign Ministers of North Korea and Cuba have held talks here.
Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla Bruno arrived in Pyongyang from China Thursday along with a Cuban ...
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September 4th, 2009 - 11:36 am ICT by IANS
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Seoul, Sep 4 (DPA) North Korea said Friday that it was entering the final phase of uranium enrichment and was reprocessing plutonium for nuclear weapons from spent fuel rods.
"Experimental uranium enrichment has ...
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September 3rd, 2009 - 7:45 pm ICT by IANS
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Beijing, Sep 3 (DPA) The Chinese government Thursday disputed two US journalists' account of their capture at the border between China and North Korea, saying it believed that the two women were ...
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September 3rd, 2009 - 1:01 am ICT by IANS
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Los Angeles, Sep 2 (DPA) The two US journalists captured and held in North Korea for months before being released last month revealed the first details of their ordeal Wednesday.
Laura Ling and ...
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August 29th, 2009 - 3:08 pm ICT by IANS
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New York/Seoul, Aug 29 (DPA) The United Arab Emirates claims to have seized a ship carrying banned weapons from North Korea bound for Iran, diplomatic sources said in New York.
The incident, which ...
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August 26th, 2009 - 8:46 pm ICT by IANS
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Seoul, Aug 26 (DPA) North and South Korea Wednesday began discussing reunions between divided families after an almost two-year break.
The talks, scheduled to last three days, between representatives of the Red Cross ...
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August 26th, 2009 - 4:13 pm ICT by ANI
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Washington/Seoul, Aug.26 (ANI): US special envoy Stephen Bosworth is said to have accepted an offer from North Korea for nuclear talks and is expected to visit Pyongyang next month.
According to South Korean ...
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August 25th, 2009 - 8:04 pm ICT by IANS
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Seoul, Aug 25 (DPA) South Korea's first launch of a satellite missed its planned orbit Tuesday.
Millions of South Koreans watched live telecasts of the KSLV-1 blasting off from a new space centre ...
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August 25th, 2009 - 1:57 pm ICT by IANS
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Seoul, Aug 25 (DPA) North and South Korea have agreed to discuss family reunions in the latest example of a cautious improvement in relations between the two countries.
North Korea accepted a proposal ...
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August 23rd, 2009 - 1:10 pm ICT by ANI
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Seoul, Aug.23 (ANI): South Korean President Lee Myung-bak met a six-member North Korean delegation here on Sunday. A meeting of this nature is taking place for the first time since the former ...
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