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Tag: Pyongyang
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N.Korea adopts law to protect ‘state secrets’
North Korea has adopted a new law aimed at protecting state secrets, amid apparent efforts to tighten internal discipline.
February 3, 2023 -
N.Korea fires 1 short-range ballistic missile, 170 artillery shots
The JCS said it detected the SRBM launch from the Sunan area in Pyongyang at 1.49 a.m., and that the missile flew some 700 km at an apogee of 50 km at a top speed of about Mach 6, reports Yonhap news Agency.
October 14, 2022 -
Kim Jong-un inspects training of tactical nuke weapon units
The KCNA further said Kim made clear that he is not interested in talks with the US and South Korea, vowing to strengthen his regime's nuclear force.
October 10, 2022 -
Nuclear threat
For over a decade starting 2006, multiple United Nations (UN) resolutions okaying the implementation of ever harsher sanctions seeking to dissuade North Korea have been the norm
July 22, 2022 -
N. Korean leader celebrates completion of major housing project in Pyongyang
Kim did not deliver a speech in person while warmly waving to the cheering crowds and "wishing them happiness" in the new houses, Yonhap news agency reported.
April 12, 2022 -
Korean Communication
The western and eastern military hotlines were set up in 2002 and 2003, respectively.
August 2, 2021 -
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 -
Kim Jong Un calls for prevention efforts against Coronavirus, looming typhoon: Reports
Kim also made “sharp criticism of inattention, onlooking and chronic attitude getting prevalent among officials, and violation of the rules of the emergency anti-epidemic work as this work takes on a protracted character”.
August 26, 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 -
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The moves included re-entering areas of the North that it had withdrawn from as part of inter-Korean projects, restoring guard posts in the Demilitarized Zone that forms the border, and stepping up exercises.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 -
Korea versus Korea
A spokesman for the general staff of the North Korean People’s Army said troops would be sent to “resume all kinds of regular military exercises” at the two sites. Both projects have been closed for several years, but were once symbols of inter-Korean unity that many hoped would be strengthened as cross-border ties improved.
June 19, 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 -
‘Disappointed’ by North Korea cutting communications with South, says US
"We urge the DPRK to return to diplomacy and cooperation", the spokesperson further added.
June 10, 2020 -
North Korea to cut communication lines to ‘enemy’ South Korea: Report
The threats come with inter-Korean ties at a standstill, despite three summits between the North's Kim Jong Un and the South's President Moon Jae-in in 2018.
June 9, 2020
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