North Korea on Tuesday said the US military has conducted a nuclear bomb dropping drill in South Korea and called it an "extremely reckless" move presaging a nuclear war on the Korean peninsula. "On May 1, the US imperialists committed one more military provocation of conducting a nuclear bomb dropping drill against the major objects …
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May 2, 2017US President Donald Trump is willing to meet North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un “under the right circumstances”, the White House has said asserting that Pyongyang needs to meet a lot of conditions for such a meeting between the two leaders to take place. “There's a lot of things that go along with that, and that's …
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May 2, 2017US President Donald Trump said on Monday he would be willing to meet North Korean leader Kim Jong-un "under the right circumstances" to defuse tensions over North Korea's nuclear programme. "If it would be appropriate for me to meet him, I would absolutely, I would be honoured to do it," CNN quoted Trump as saying …
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May 1, 2017US President Donald Trump said that with the new ballistic missile trial, the North Korean leader has disrespected China, the media reported. "North Korea disrespected the wishes of China and its highly respected President when it launched, though unsuccessfully, a missile today (Friday). Bad!," Efe news quoted Trump as saying in a tweet. On Friday, …
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April 29, 2017With tensions escalating between the US and North Korea, the Pentagon has called for Pyongyang to avoid destabilising the situation further, officials said. "We call on (North Korea) to refrain from provocative, destabilising actions and rhetoric, and to make the strategic choice to fulfil its international obligations and commitments and return to serious talks," CNN …
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April 24, 2017North Korea on Saturday warned the US not to take provocative action in the region, saying it is "ready to hit back with nuclear attacks". The comments came as North Korea marked the 105th anniversary of the birth of its founding President, Kim Il-sung, grandfather of leader Kim Jong-un. A huge parade in Pyongyang was …
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April 15, 2017US President Donald Trump slammed North Korean leader Kim Jong-un for "acting very, very badly", following Pyongyangs missile activities, a media report said. North Korea claimed it tested a new high-thrust rocket engine on Saturday, the latest in a string of missile tests over the past few months, The Hill magazine said in the report. …
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March 20, 2017Serves North Korea right. Its Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un wanted his half-brother dead and his lackeys decided to do the dastardly deed in Malaysia. Analysts have surmised Malaysia was chosen over Macau and Singapore – places Kim Jong-nam was also known to frequent – because it posed the least political and economic risk to North …
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March 17, 2017Malaysian police said on Saturday they had arrested a North Korean man over the assassination of Kim Jong-Un's brother, as relations between Pyongyang and Kuala Lumpur nosedived in a battle for his body. A 46-year-old was arrested on Friday evening with documents that identified him as North Korean citizen Ri Jong Chol, a police statement said, making …
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February 18, 2017Malaysian police said on Saturday they had arrested a North Korean man over the assassination of Kim Jong-Un's brother, as relations between Pyongyang and Kuala Lumpur nosedived in a battle for his body. A 46-year-old was arrested on Friday evening with documents that identified him as North Korean citizen Ri Jong Chol, a police statement said, making …
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February 18, 2017In May 2001, a man was rounded up after trying to smuggle himself into Narita International Airport in Tokyo, alongside his son and two women, using fake Dominican Republic passports. The incident introduced Kim Jong-nam, the slain older half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, to the outside world. But his yearning 16 years ago …
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February 16, 2017In May 2001, a man was rounded up after trying to smuggle himself into Narita International Airport in Tokyo, alongside his son and two women, using fake Dominican Republic passports. The incident introduced Kim Jong-nam, the slain older half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, to the outside world. But his yearning 16 years ago …
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February 16, 2017United States President-elect Donald Trump on Monday responded on Twitter to North Korea's threats, stating that Pyongyang would not develop a nuclear weapon that could endanger US security. Trump was responding to the New Year's speech given on Sunday by North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, who announced that Pyongyang is finalising preparations to launch another …
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January 3, 2017United States President-elect Donald Trump on Monday responded on Twitter to North Korea's threats, stating that Pyongyang would not develop a nuclear weapon that could endanger US security. Trump was responding to the New Year's speech given on Sunday by North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, who announced that Pyongyang is finalising preparations to launch another …
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January 3, 2017If news travels fast from Seoul to Pyongyang, the North Korean establishment might be enjoying a quiet chuckle — almost a sickening glee — over the predicament of Kim Jong-un‘s counterpart in the South. The country is in the midst of a constitutional crisis with Friday’s vote in the National Assembly, which has impeached President …
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December 10, 2016North Korea&’s fifth atomic bomb explosion, quite the most powerful thus far, has caused a flutter in the international roost, and across the choppy oceans. Ever so insensitive to the worldwide condemnation that has greeted last Friday&’s big bang, President Kim Jong-un has let it be known that North Korea is capable of detonating a …
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September 13, 2016The announcement on Friday that North Korea had carried out its fifth test of a nuclear device once again raised fears of regional instability and the prospect of a potential armed conflict on the Korean peninsula. However, coming on the heels of the last test in January of this year, cynics might ask: “What&’s new?” …
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