News: North Korea

We have started to collect the most important news related to North Korea in November 2005. By default, most recent news are listed first.

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North Korea: news

'China invite' to Kim Jong-il son

Saturday, March 5th 2011, 3:36
related countries: China

China formally invites Kim Jong-un, the youngest son of North Korea's leader and his likely heir, to visit, South Korean sources say.
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S Korea in refugee row with North

Friday, March 4th 2011, 7:03

South Korean officials say the North is blocking the return of 27 North Koreans who strayed across the border.
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Asia firms strike rare earth deal

Thursday, March 3rd 2011, 7:04
related countries: Botswana, Japan

A group of Japanese and South Korean firms are to buy a 15% stake in a Brazilian company that mines a rare earth metal.
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Hyundai targets company car market

Tuesday, March 1st 2011, 7:48

Korean carmaker Hyundai enters the company car market as a first step towards offering luxury cars for the masses.
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S Korea starts joint US exercises

Monday, February 28th 2011, 10:19
related countries: United States

Large-scale military exercises involving thousands of American and South Korean troops are under way despite a North Korea threat of "all-out war" in response.
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N Korea issues threat over drill

Sunday, February 27th 2011, 10:46
related countries: South Korea

North Korea threatens "all-out war" in response to military exercises by South Korean and US troops starting on Monday, which it says are a pretext for invasion.
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S Korea charges Somali 'pirates'

Friday, February 25th 2011, 9:42
related countries: Somalia

Five Somali men suspected of hijacking a South Korean cargo ship in the Arabian Sea face attempted murder charges.
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Warning on N Korea food shortages

Thursday, February 24th 2011, 8:01

Aid agency officials who have just returned from a trip to North Korea say they saw evidence of looming food shortages and alarming malnutrition.
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Dictator dominoes

Thursday, February 24th 2011, 0:03

What chance of North Korea's Kim Jong Il being toppled?
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US warns of N Korea 'provocation'

Friday, February 18th 2011, 9:35
related countries: United States

North Korea may launch new provocative action within months, a senior US military commander says, as satellite images emerge of a missile launchpad.
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VIDEO: Fears of food crisis in North Korea

Thursday, February 17th 2011, 19:08

North Korea has told the World Food Program that it needs help after poor recent harvests and an unusually harsh winter.
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VIDEO: Birthday 'celebrations' of North Korea's ruler

Wednesday, February 16th 2011, 13:03

North Koreans celebrate Kim Jong-il's birthday
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Kim Jong-il celebrates birthday

Wednesday, February 16th 2011, 9:51

Mass celebrations are expected in North Korea to celebrate leader Kim Jong-il's birthday.
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Kenya welcome for freed sailors

Tuesday, February 15th 2011, 12:06
related countries: Kenya, Somalia

Sailors aboard a South Korean fishing trawler hijacked in October are welcomed home in Kenya after their release last week by Somali pirates.
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Korea military talks 'break down'

Wednesday, February 9th 2011, 9:22
related countries: South Korea

Military talks aimed at easing tensions between North and South Korea have broken down, officials in Seoul say.
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S Korea intercepts N Korean boat

Monday, February 7th 2011, 13:52
related countries: South Korea

South Korea intercepts a North Korean fishing boat carrying 31 workers, a few kilometres south of the disputed sea border.
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Koreas agree date for joint talks

Tuesday, February 1st 2011, 8:15
related countries: South Korea

North and South Korea agree to hold preliminary military talks on 8 February, in an attempt to defuse tensions on the peninsula.
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N Korea 'has more nuclear sites'

Tuesday, February 1st 2011, 0:25

North Korea has at least one hidden nuclear site and should face tougher sanctions, a UN report says, according to diplomats.
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India 'approves' mega steel deal

Monday, January 31st 2011, 9:33
related countries: India

India's environment ministry gives conditional approval to South Korean company Posco's plan to build a steel plant in the eastern state of Orissa.
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Somali 'pirates' flown to Seoul

Sunday, January 30th 2011, 4:38
related countries: South Korea, Somalia
related places: Seoul

Five Somali men suspected of hijacking a South Korean cargo ship in the Arabian Sea are flown to Seoul to face possible criminal charges.
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Kim Jong-il 'opposed succession'

Friday, January 28th 2011, 10:48
related countries: South Korea

North Korea's Kim Jong-il was against a third-generation succession but named his youngest son next leader to ensure stability, his eldest son says.
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South Korea economic growth slows

Wednesday, January 26th 2011, 8:24

South Korean economic growth slowed in the final three months of last year to 0.5%, as retail spending and manufacturing slowed.
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S Korean pastor jailed over trip

Friday, January 21st 2011, 9:27

South Korean pro-reunification pastor Han Sang-ryol is jailed for five years over an unauthorised trip to North Korea.
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South Korea agrees military talks

Thursday, January 20th 2011, 20:58
related countries: South Korea
related places: Seoul

South Korea accepts the North's proposal for military talks, officials say, in a move that could ease tensions on the peninsula.
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N Korea 'hit by foot-and-mouth'

Tuesday, January 18th 2011, 10:52
related countries: South Korea

North Korea is hit by an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease, reports say, as South Korea works to contain the disease.
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Gates warns of North Korea threat

Friday, January 14th 2011, 5:44
related countries: United States

US Defence Secretary Robert Gates says North Korea poses a potent threat and has grown "more lethal" to its neighbours and the world.
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Gates on N Korea: Get 'serious'

Thursday, January 13th 2011, 8:23
related countries: Japan, United States

US Defence Secretary Robert Gates, speaking in Japan, tells North Korea it is time to show concrete evidence that it is committed to talks.
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N Korea resets military hotline

Wednesday, January 12th 2011, 9:54
related countries: South Korea

North Korea has restarted a military hotline with South Korea, but the South says conditions for new talks remain unchanged.
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Gates warns on N Korea missiles

Tuesday, January 11th 2011, 12:42
related countries: United States

North Korea's missile development could pose a direct threat to the US within five years, Defence Secretary Robert Gates warns.
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North Korea renews South overture

Saturday, January 8th 2011, 4:21
related countries: South Korea
related places: Seoul

North Korea says it wants "unconditional and early" reopening of talks with the South, days after a similar offer was rejected by Seoul.
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South Korea dismisses talks offer

Thursday, January 6th 2011, 7:48
related countries: South Korea

South Korea dismisses an apparent offer from North Korea of unconditional talks to ease tensions, saying it is not "a serious proposal".
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N Korea seeks 'unconditional' talks

Wednesday, January 5th 2011, 22:29

North Korea wants "unconditional and early" talks with the South to end months of high tension, the state news agency reports.
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Fresh N Korea diplomacy kicks off

Tuesday, January 4th 2011, 10:22
related countries: South Korea, United States
related places: Seoul

A top US envoy calls for talks with North Korea, as he arrives in Seoul for a new round of diplomacy aimed at easing tensions on the Korean peninsula.
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S Korea stands firm on Pyongyang

Monday, January 3rd 2011, 5:35
related places: Pyongyang

South Korea's President Lee Myung-bak says the door to talks with the North remains open, if Pyongyang's 'military adventurism' ends.
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Pyongyang Project

Monday, January 3rd 2011, 0:05
related places: Pyongyang

Bringing foreign students to schools in North Korea
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N Korea in new year dialogue call

Saturday, January 1st 2011, 1:37

North Korea says it wants better relations with the South, but vows to increase its military strength, in an annual New Year's Eve message.
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N Korean TV broadcasts 'first' Western-made film

Thursday, December 30th 2010, 16:47
related countries: United Kingdom

North Korea broadcasts British film Bend It Like Beckham, in what the UK ambassador to the South says is the first ever Western-made film to air on state television.
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N Korea 'steps up special forces'

Thursday, December 30th 2010, 6:36
related countries: South Korea

A defence paper from South Korea says North Korea has trained 20,000 more special forces over the past two years.
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South Korea backs talks on crisis

Wednesday, December 29th 2010, 9:37

There is no choice but to try to dismantle North Korea's nuclear programme via diplomacy, says South Korean President Lee Myung-Bak.
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Unite to survive, S Koreans told

Monday, December 27th 2010, 8:08

South Korean President Lee Myung-bak tells his nation it must unite to survive in the face of military aggression from the North.
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S Korea, China plan defence talks

Sunday, December 26th 2010, 5:58
related countries: China, South Korea
related places: Beijing, Seoul

South Korean and Chinese defence ministers are to meet in Beijing in February amid rising tension on the Korean peninsula, officials in Seoul say.
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