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We have started to collect the most important news related to North Korea in November 2005. By default, most recent news are listed first.
United StatesFormer US President Jimmy Carter has arrived in North Korea in an apparent bid to negotiate the release of a US man jailed there.
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IndiaIndian carmaker Mahindra and Mahindra signs a preliminary deal to take over bankrupt South Korean rival Ssangyong Motor.
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ChinaChina and North Korea evacuate thousands of people from their homes after heavy rains flood villages on both sides of the border.
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ChinaTens of thousands of people are moved to safety as summer floods hit both sides of China's border with North Korea.
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Aberdeen-based Dana Petroleum receives a £1.87bn hostile takeover offer from South Korean state oil company Knoc.
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South KoreaPro-reunification pastor Han Sang-ryol is arrested on return to South Korea after an unauthorised trip to communist North Korea.
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North Korea says that a South Korean fishing boat that it seized earlier this month was poaching in its exclusive economic zone.
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ChinaA North Korean aircraft, which may be a fighter jet carrying a suspected defector, has crashed in China, according to reports.
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United StatesA US consular team has gained access to an American sentenced to hard labour in North Korea, Washington says.
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South Korea, United StatesThousands of military personnel from the US and South Korea launch the latest in a series of military exercises, despite warnings from Pyongyang.
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United StatesA 13-year-old American schoolboy is hoping to go where few senior US politicians have been before, to North Korea for a meeting with Kim Jong-il.
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Czech RepublicThe Czech government considers accepting a shipment of the aphrodisiac root ginseng as a down payment on a debt, reports say.
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Football's world governing body investigates claims that North Korea's World Cup squad were punished and the coach sentenced to hard labour.
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South KoreaSouth Korean police raid Google's Seoul office on suspicion the company had illegally collected users personal information.
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North Korea is said to have fired shells into the Yellow Sea near its border with the South as Seoul ends naval exercises.
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JapanA South Korean fishing boat missing in the Sea of Japan has been detained by the North, the South's coastguard says.
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South KoreaNorth Korea promises "strong physical retaliation" over Seoul's anti-submarine drills near the disputed Yellow Sea border.
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South KoreaNorth Korea promises "strong physical retaliation" over Seoul's anti-submarine drills near the disputed Yellow Sea border.
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North Korea's celebrated Arirang Games opened in Pyongyang's May Day stadium on Monday. A spectacle of dance and gymnastic ability, it is the world's largest mass performance.
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A landmine that apparently drifted along a river from North Korea kills South Korean man and injures another.
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A landmine that apparently drifted along a river from North Korea kills South Korean man and injures another.
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United StatesNorth Korea enters third round of talks with the US-led United Nations Command, days after a US military exercise.
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United StatesNorth Korea enters third round of talks with the US-led United Nations Command, days after a US military exercise.
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Burma, United StatesNorth Korea's foreign minister arrives in Burma, days after the US voiced concern about possible nuclear co-operation between the two authoritarian states.
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Burma, United StatesNorth Korea's foreign minister arrives in Burma, days after the US voiced concern about possible nuclear co-operation between the two authoritarian states.
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South Korean electronics firm LG Electronics reports a slump in profits as it struggles to keep pace with competitors in the mobile phone market.
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Japan, South Korea, United StatesThe US and South Korea have begun a major military exercise in the Sea of Japan, despite threats of retaliation with nuclear weapons from North Korea.
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South Korea, United StatesThe US and South Korea practised anti-submarine drills on the second day of joint exercises aimed as a show of strength to North Korea.
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Japan, South Korea, United StatesThe US and South Korea hold a major military exercise in the Sea of Japan, despite threats of retaliation from North Korea.
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United StatesNorth Korea says it will use its "nuclear deterrent" in response to joint US-South Korean military exercises this weekend.
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United StatesNorth Korea says it will use its "nuclear deterrent" in response to joint US-South Korean military exercises this weekend.
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United StatesNorth Korea promises a "physical response" to forthcoming large-scale joint US-South Korean military exercises, amid rising regional tensions.
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United StatesThe US and South Korea's plans to hold joint military exercises pose a major danger to the region, Pyongyang says.
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South Korea, United StatesThe US secretary of state and defence secretary visit the Demilitarized Zone between North and South Korea, in a show of support of Seoul.
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United StatesNorth Korea's sinking of a South Korean warship may herald a "dangerous new period", the nominee to be US director of national intelligence warns.
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South KoreaThe US and South Korea say they will begin a major military exercise aimed at sending a message of deterrence to North Korea on 25 July.
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BurmaA regional summit of Asean foreign ministers will be dominated by tension on the Korean peninsula, Burma and economic recovery.
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JapanA former North Korean spy who blew up a plane killing 115 people is in Japan to meet families of people abducted to North Korea.
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The World Health Organization says Amnesty's report on North Korea's health system is unscientific and outdated.
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The human rights group, Amnesty International, has said North Korea is failing to meet even the most basic health needs of its people.
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United StatesSouth Korea and the US are planning joint military exercises in what the Pentagon says is a message of deterrence to Pyongyang.
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