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North Korea is likely to see its food production fall by up to 20 percent this year from 2014 if a shortage of rainfall continues until early July, a Unification Ministry official said Tuesday.??In May, precipitation in North Korea reached 57 percent of the average rainfall recorded betw...
The U.N. Security Council is unlikely to impose new sanctions or issue any formal statement with regard to North Korea's test-launch of a ballistic missile from a submarine, a diplomatic source said Tuesday.??The secretive North announced in early May that it has successfully fired a sub...
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un visited a historic war site and called for the strengthening of anti-U.S. spirit fostered by his grandfather Kim Il-sung, according to its state-run media Tuesday.??The North characterizes the Pyongyang compound associated with the 1950-53 Korean War as "h...
North Korea said Tuesday that it plans to select deputies to local assemblies in mid-July for the first time since the North's leader Kim Jong-un took power in late 2011.??Elections for deputies to provincial, city and county people's assemblies will take place July 19, according to the ...
North Korea is not likely to shut down an inter-Korean joint industrial park in the North due to a row over Pyongyang's unilateral wage hike, a South Korean businessman said Monday.The two Koreas have been in dispute for over three months following the North's unilateral move to raise the ...
?North Korea is believed to have secret nuclear facilities unknown to the outside world in addition to those at the country's main Yongbyon nuclear complex, the State Department said in a report.The ...
President Park Geun-hye vowed Saturday to resolve difficulties posed by North Korea's nuclear program and historical disputes with Japan.Tensions persist on the Korean Peninsula over North Korea's provocative actions in recent months, including the launch of a ballistic missile from a subm...
North Korea is unlikely to conduct another nuclear test at least until this fall, a U.S. think tank said Friday, citing satellite imagery showing no signs of preparations at the country's underground test site."Recent commercial satellite imagery indicates that North Korea is conducting re...
The Ministry of National Defense said Friday it is working to devise effective countermeasures to counter North Korea's ballistic missiles launched from submarines. Last month, the communist country claimed that it successfully carried out an underwater test of a submarine-launched ballist...
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un may have appointed a new defense chief to replace Hyon Yong-chol, who is believed to have been executed, experts said Friday.The North's Korean Central Television aired documentary footage Thursday that Pak Yong-sik, a four-star military general, saluted Kim...
President Park Geun-hye postponed a unification committee meeting to focus on containing the outbreak of the MERS virus, Cheong Wa Dae said Friday, underscoring the urgency in tackling the virus that has sparked a widespread public scare across the country."Currently, MERS is a top priorit...
North Korea's global trade expanded in 2014 from a year earlier, but its trade deficit also widened due to a drop in exports, a report showed Friday.According to the report by the Korea Trade-Investment Promotion Agency, North Korea's trade came to $7.61 billion last year, up 3.7 percent f...
Two U.S. senators have introduced a resolution calling for family reunions between Korean-Americans and their long-lost relatives in North Korea.Sens. Mark Kirk (R-IL) and Mark Warner (D-VA) submitted the "resolution encouraging reunions of Korean-Americans who were divided by the Korean W...
North Korea condemned South Korea on Thursday for its test-firing of a ballistic missile capable of reaching nearly all parts of the communist nation.On Wednesday, the South carried out its first-ever launch of a ballistic missile with a range of more than 500 kilometers as part of efforts...
South Korea said Thursday it would provide equipment to help detect Middle East respiratory syndrome at a joint factory park in North Korea in a rare reconciliatory gesture.The decision was taken two days after Pyongyang made the request. Seoul will send three heat-sensing cameras shortly ...