Tag: North Korea
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North Korea opts out of Tokyo Olympics
The committee reportedly said the decision was to "protect our athletes from the global health crisis" caused by the coronavirus.
April 6, 2021 -
NK flexes muscles
The other compulsion arguably was to showcase the launch as the first since Joe Biden assumed power over two months ago.
March 27, 2021 -
N.Korean media slams Seoul-US defence talks
Tongil Sinbo, the North Korean weekly, said: "It is a shameful pro-American act and a reckless scheme to crush its own race with its master.
October 20, 2020 -
North Korea displays new ballistic missile at military parade
The new ICBM was carried on a transporter erector launcher (TEL) with 22 wheels, indicating that it is longer than the Hwasong-15, which is carried by a 18-wheel TEL, Yonhap News Agency quoted the KCNA report as saying.
October 11, 2020 -
North Korea issues shoot-to-kill orders to prevent coronavirus: US
The impoverished North -- whose crumbling health system would struggle to cope with a major virus outbreak -- has not confirmed a single case of the disease that has swept the world since first emerging in China, the North's key ally.
September 11, 2020 -
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un visits typhoon-hit area
Damage in areas near Pyongyang was also reported, it said but did not mention any casualties.
August 28, 2020 -
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un sends aid to city locked down over COVID-19
Kim has been concerned “day and night” about people in Kaesong as they continue their “campaign for checking the spread of the malignant virus”, the report added.
August 9, 2020 -
Kim Jong Un visits flood-damaged village, orders release of reserve grains for victims
Kim's visit marks the second of its kind since he became leader in 2011, following the inspection of North Hamgyong province that was hit by a flood in 2015.
August 7, 2020 -
North Korea locks down city over 1st suspected case of COVID-19: Reports
The patient was found in Kaesong City, which borders the South, and "was put under strict quarantine", as would anybody who had come in close contact, state media said.
July 26, 2020 -
Resolution with China calls for patience
Addressing a seminar on ‘Globalizing Indian Thought’ conducted by IIM Kozhikode in January, PM Modi stated, “in a world seeking to break free from mindless hate, violence, conflict and terrorism, the Indian way of life offers a ray of hope.”
July 21, 2020 -
US envoy to North Korea arrives in South after Pyongyang rejects talks
Kim declared in December an end to moratoriums on nuclear and ballistic missile tests, and Pyongyang has repeatedly said it has no intention to continue talks unless Washington drops what it describes as “hostile” policies toward the North.
July 7, 2020 -
Enigma that is NK
Different Presidents in South Korea at different times have adopted either hardline or accommodative and liberal approaches towards its northern neighbour. No conciliatory approach has worked, though several modalities were formulated as the North continued to renege soon after having agreed to such mechanism seeking peace one after another. Even hardline measures made no impact on the North Korean regimes.
June 29, 2020 -
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un suspends military action plans against South: Report
The moves included re-entering areas of the North that it had withdrawn from as part of inter-Korean projects, restoring guard posts in the Demilitarized Zone that forms the border, and stepping up exercises.
June 24, 2020 -
‘Very rude’: South Korea denounces Kim Jong Un’s sister for rejecting talks offer
The two zones are sites of long-shuttered joint inter-Korean projects: Southern tourists visited the scenic Mount Kumgang until a North Korean soldier in 2008 shot dead a woman who strayed off the path.
June 17, 2020 -
US urges North Korea to avoid further ‘counterproductive’ steps
On Tuesday, North Korea blew up an inter-Korean liaison office on its side of the border, after days of increasingly virulent rhetoric from Pyongyang.
June 17, 2020 -
North Korea blows up inter-Korean liaison office at order: Seoul
The liaison office was opened in September 2018, days before the South's President Moon Jae-in flew to Pyongyang for his third summit with Kim.
June 16, 2020 -
‘Will take action’: North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s sister’s fresh threat to South Korea
Kim Yo Jong said that "the right to taking the next action against the enemy will be entrusted to the General Staff of our army.
June 14, 2020