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North Korea sends leader's special envoy to China
PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un dispatched a high-profile official and close confidant to China on Wednesday as Beijing faces pressure to rein in its belligerent neighbor.(5/22/2013 1:53:45 AM) |
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North Korea sanctions threaten humanitarian aid: group
By Emma Batha LONDON, May 22 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Aid agencies helping millions of people in North Korea could be forced to pull out after a Chinese bank cut ties with main foreign exchange bank, a humanitarian group said on Wednesday. The freeze - imposed amid growing concern over North Korea's nuclear ambitions - has made it impossible for aid agencies to transfer money to fund ...(5/22/2013 1:20:36 PM) |
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North Korea sends top Kim Jong-un aide to Beijing
By Ju-min Park and Ben Blanchard SEOUL/BEIJING (Reuters) - North Korea sent one of its top military officials as a "special envoy" from its leader Kim Jong-un to Beijing on Wednesday, accompanied by a high-powered delegation in what appeared to be a bid to mend frayed relations with its most important ally. The delegation led by Choe Ryong-hae, vice chairman of the country's top military body ...(5/22/2013 5:21:03 AM) |
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North Korea's hidden labor camps exposed
Even with new leader Kim Jong-un at the helm, North Korea remains the most reclusive and closed country in the world: It is a police state inside a totalitarian system ruled by a family dynasty that encourages a cultish ideology and following.(5/21/2013 9:55:00 AM) |
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European banks stop sending money to North Korea: aid groups
By Megha Rajagopalan BEIJING (Reuters) - European aid groups said their banks in Europe had stopped sending money to North Korea in the wake of U.S. sanctions on Pyongyang's main foreign exchange bank, leaving them scrambling for a solution short of hand-carrying cash into the impoverished country. Aid groups said if it became impossible to send enough money to operate, donors might withdraw ...(5/22/2013 11:16:56 PM) |
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North Korea sends special envoy to mend relations with China
North Korea's leader Kim Jong-un dispatched a top military official to main ally Beijing, signaling that Pyongyang may be ready to swap diatribe for dialogue.(5/22/2013 10:44:45 AM) |
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Hawkish general makes comeback as North Korea's military chief
By Ju-min Park SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea has reappointed a hardline and loyal general as military chief in a move experts said was part of young leader Kim Jong-un's attempt to tighten his grip on the armed forces. Kim Kyok-sik, widely believed to have been behind the shelling of a South Korean island in 2010 that killed four people, was named "chief of the KPA (Korean People's Army) General ...(5/22/2013 5:21:03 AM) |
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North Korea: How the least-wired country became a hacking superpower
North Korea’s cyber-war strength says a lot about the future of global hostilities.(5/22/2013 8:00:41 AM) |
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Japan considers resuming talks with North Korea: media
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan has started looking into resuming inter-governmental talks with North Korea after a surprise visit to Pyongyang by an aide to Japan's prime minister, the Asahi Shimbun and other newspapers said on Wednesday. Such talks, intended to discuss North Korea's abduction of Japanese citizens decades ago and other issues, were last held in November 2012, but have been halted due ...(5/21/2013 9:54:17 PM) |
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Crack North Korea's secrets
Online community of amateur sleuths able to predict rocket launches. (5/22/2013 11:09:06 PM) |
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