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Seoul hopes appointment of new foreign minister will persuade Bide
Updated : 6 days, 8 hours ago IST
Seoul [South Korea], January 21 (ANI): South Korean President Moon Jae-in on Wednesday named Chung Eui-yong, a key player behind North Korean-US summits (denuclearization talks), as his new foreign minister only hours before the Joe Biden administration took office, reported Asia Times.
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North Korea displays submarine-launched ballistic missile during m
Updated : 1 week, 5 days ago IST
Pyongyang [North Korea], January 15 (ANI/Sputnik): North Korea has once again demonstrated a submarine-launched ballistic missile during a military parade that commemorated the 8th Congress of the Workers' Party of Korea, North Korea's state-run KCNA news agency reported on Friday.
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DPRK's party congress ends with vows to strive for unity, self-rel
Updated : 2 weeks ago IST
Pyongyang [North Korea], January 13 (ANI/Xinhua): The eighth congress of the ruling Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) closed here on Tuesday, reported official media on Wednesday.
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N Korea's Kim Jong-un elected General Secretary of ruling Workers'
Updated : 2 weeks, 2 days ago IST
Pyongyang [North Korea], January 11 (ANI/Sputnik): The 8th Congress of the Workers' Party of Korea has elected Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un as the General Secretary of the party following the decision to change the party's Executive Policy Council into Secretariat, the state-run Korean Central
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Kim says Inter-Korean unification dream now further away
Updated : 2 weeks, 4 days ago IST
Seoul [South Korea], January 9 (ANI/Sputnik): Inter-Korean relations are on the brink of catastrophe with prospects for unification now dimmer than they were before the historic 2018 summit, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has told the 8th ruling party congress.
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Kim terms US 'biggest enemy', calls to develop more nuclear weapon
Updated : 2 weeks, 4 days ago IST
Seoul [South Korea], January 9 (ANI): North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has called the United States the "biggest enemy" of his country and vowed to advance the nuclear arsenal of his country unless the US ended what he called its "hostility" to his regime, reported state media.
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Kim Jong-un vows to strengthen North Korea's defence capabilities
Updated : 2 weeks, 6 days ago IST
Seoul [South Korea], January 7 (ANI): At a rare party congress on Tuesday, the first in five years, North Korean leader Kim Jong-un vowed to strengthen his country's military capabilities to protect its people amid an impasse in its nuclear negotiations with the US, reported Yonhap.
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DPRK top leader reviews work as 8th Party Congress opens
Updated : 3 weeks ago IST
Pyongyang [North Korea], January 6 (ANI/Xinhua): Kim Jong-un, the top leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), delivered a report on the work of the seventh Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea on the first day of the Eighth Party Congress on Tuesday, said offi
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DPRK celebrates New Year with performance in central Pyongyang
Updated : 3 weeks, 5 days ago IST
Pyongyang [North Korea], January 1 (ANI/Xinhua): A New Year performance was given at Kim Il Sung Square in central Pyongyang, the capital of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), on Thursday night with tens of thousands of people standing in the cold to embrace the New Year.
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Situation in WB similar to North Korea, says Jyotirmay Mahato over
Updated : 1 month, 2 weeks ago IST
South 24 Parganas (West Bengal) [India], December 10 (ANI): Slamming the attack on Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) National President JP Nadda's convoy in West Bengal, MP Jyotirmay Singh Mahato on Thursday compared the situation of the state to North Korea and said that it is being run by a
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North Korea ramps up border restrictions amid COVID-19 pandemic
Updated : 1 month, 4 weeks ago IST
Pyongyang [North Korea], November 29 (ANI): North Korea has enforced stricter control measures at state borders in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic. The country has stepped up virus control measures along the inter-Korean border and at sea, Yonhap News citing state media reported on Sund
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China, North Korea pose cyber threat to Canada
Updated : 2 months, 1 week ago IST
Toronto [Canada], November 19 (ANI): China and North Korea are among several countries that pose the greatest cybersecurity threat to Canada through their state-sponsored programs, against the country's critical infrastructure, according to a report by the country's Communications Security E
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