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North Korea fires ballistic missile: Seoul
The 'unidentified ballistic missile' was fired from Sinpo into the sea east of the peninsula, Seoul's Joint Chiefs of Staff said in a statement.
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Defectors sue N. Korea's Kim Jong Un in Tokyo over repatriations
Five participants in the repatriation scheme who later escaped from North Korea are demanding 100 million yen ($880,000) each in damages as they make their case in the Tokyo District Court.
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North Korea says will restore severed communications with South
The two Koreas had signalled a surprise thaw in relations in late July by announcing the restoration of cross-border communications, which were severed more than a year earlier.
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ANALYSIS: The rise and rise of North Korea's ‘first sister’ Kim Yo-jong
The increasing prominence of Kim Jong-un’s younger sister has prompted speculation about whether she is positioning herself for ultimate power in North Korea.
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North Korea fires anti-aircraft missile ahead of UN Security Council meeting
This is the latest in a series of tension-raising steps by Pyongyang, which had until recently been biding its time since the change in US administrations in January.
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Kim Yo Jong: North Korean leader's newly promoted sister
On Thursday state media announced that the sibling to North Korea's leader had been named to the State Affairs Commission, the country's top government body.
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North Korea fires 'missile', insists on right to weapons tests
The projectile was fired from the northern province of Jagang into waters off the east coast, according to the South's Joint Chiefs of Staff, and a Japanese defence ministry spokesman told AFP it 'appears to be a ballistic missile'.
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Thousands evacuated as floods hit North Korea: state TV
The TV report comes as the impoverished North in June admitted it was tackling a food crisis, sounding the alarm in a country with a moribund agricultural sector that has long struggled to feed itself.
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North Korean leader Kim 'emaciated', citizens heartbroken: state TV
The impoverished, nuclear-armed country is more isolated than ever behind its self-imposed coronavirus barricade, and this month admitted it was tackling a food crisis, sounding the alarm in a nation with a moribund agricultural sector that has long struggled to feed itself.
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US has 'wrong' expectation for NKorea dialogue: Kim's sister
Since US President Joe Biden's election, the two countries have adopted a wait-and-see attitude to relations following the diplomatic roller-coaster ride under Donald Trump that produced three historic summits but no agreement on dismantling the North's nuclear arsenal.
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NKorea must prepare for 'dialogue and confrontation' with US: Kim
At a plenary meeting of the central committee of the ruling Workers' Party of Korea on Thursday, Kim outlined his strategy for relations with Washington, and the "policy tendency of the newly emerged US administration", the Korean Central News Agency said.
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N. Korea says will not go to Olympics over COVID-19 fears
North Korea's Olympic Committee 'decided not to participate in the 32nd Olympic Games in order to protect players from the world public health crisis caused by COVID-19', said the Sports in the DPR Korea website, run by the sports ministry in Pyongyang.
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Biden warns of 'responses' if North Korea 'choose to escalate'
North Korea fired two suspected ballistic missiles into the sea Thursday, in its first substantive provocation to Biden's new administration.
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N. Korean leader's sister warns US as Biden envoys begin Asia trip
Pentagon chief Lloyd Austin and Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived in Japan on their first overseas trip, aimed at rallying military alliances as a bulwark against China and cementing a united front against the nuclear-armed North.
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Trump 'offered Kim Jong Un a ride home on Air Force One'
Kim Jong Un and Donald Trump first engaged in a war of words and mutual threats, before an extraordinary diplomatic bromance that featured headline-grabbing summits and a declaration of love by the former US president.
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North Korea's Kim pledges to strengthen nuclear arsenal
Kim is looking to grab the attention of the incoming Biden administration, analysts say, with his country more isolated than ever after closing its borders to protect itself against the coronavirus pandemic.
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From 'love' to 'thug': Biden win to change US-North Korea dynamic
Donald Trump's bizarre diplomatic engagement with Pyongyang veered from mutual insults and threats of war to "love letters" and the first ever meeting between a sitting US president and a North Korean leader.
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North Koreans rally wearing masks after military parade
Authorities held the rally on Monday at the start of an '80-Day Campaign', a mass mobilisation drive to boost the economy ahead of a ruling party congress in January.
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North Korea’s Kim throws down gauntlet with huge new ICBM: analysts
On Saturday North Korea put a gargantuan new missile on show at a military parade.
