Obama agree on tougher punishment on DPRK
U.S. House of Representatives on Friday overwhelmingly passed the bill with a 408-2 vote. The legislation was approved by the Senate earlier last week. The legislation requires the Obama administration...
View ArticleFeb. 19 world news summary at 1530 GMT
SEOUL — South Korean military is pushing to create an additional army unit in preparations for possible “terror attacks” from the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) amid rising tensions on...
View ArticleDPRK’s ordnance fire heard in frontline island – Yonhap
A South Korean military official was quoted as saying that one round of artillery fire was heard from the northern region of South Korea’s Baengnyeong Island near the western maritime border. The...
View ArticleDPRK Top Official Directs Military Drills
Engaged in the maneuvers were metropolitan defense corps, a tank division and two motorized infantry divisions of the Korean People’s Army (KPA), according to the KCNA. The maneuvers were aimed at...
View ArticleAdvocates express worry over arms race and THAAD deployment concerns
Civic group activists in South Korea on Tuesday voiced concerns about the deployment of a sophisticated U.S. missile defense system as it was expected to trigger arms race in Northeast Asia and...
View ArticleFeb. 24 world news summary at 0030 GMT
Important progress has been made in talks on a UN resolution on the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) and it is expected to be adopted in the coming days, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi...
View ArticleSouth Korea Military calls for severe reprisal against DPRK
South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) issued a statement in response to the DPRK’s Tuesday warning, saying the military will make the DPRK bitterly regretting with stern retaliations as planned and...
View ArticleUNSC president confirms DPRK resolution vote set for Wednesday
“We hope to adopt this resolution tomorrow. And now the members of the council have been able to discuss, negotiate, and see how each of the country fits into this,” Martins, also Angolan ambassador to...
View ArticleDPRK ships carried away South Korea maritime drill for WMD
The exercise assumed a situation that a DPRK vessel suspected of carrying weapons of mass destruction sails past South Korea’s territorial waters off the southern resort island of Jeju. It marked the...
View ArticleUN Says its stiff sanctions is not directed at peoples livelihoods
The fresh UN sanctions adopted Wednesday on the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), though widely believed to be tougher than ever, are not intended to affect DPRK people’s livelihood as the...
View ArticleSouth Korean president Hopes for a true nuke renunciation from DPRK
Park said in her message on the new UN resolution that she sincerely hopes for the DPRK to abandon its nuclear program and come to a road for change, pledging to make more efforts at peace and...
View ArticleUN Sanctions against DPRK receives New Zealand’s Backing
“New Zealand has already condemned North Korea (DPRK)’s recent nuclear test and long-range rocket launch,” Foreign Minister Murray McCully said in a statement. “North Korea (DPRK)’s actions blatantly...
View ArticleWorld Community Calls for DPRKs adherence over its obligations
Countries in the world have expressed their support for a newly-adopted UN resolution on the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), which China said should serve as a new starting point for a...
View ArticleDPRK sends 6 short- range projectiles over UN resolution
The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) fired six short-range projectiles on Thursday morning in an apparent show of force after new tougher sanctions resolution on Pyongyang was passed at the...
View ArticleChina’s reflections on approving latest UN resolution on DPRK
The United Nations (UN) Security Council on Wednesday adopted a new resolution to impose a set of harsh sanctions on the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) to punish the country’s latest...
View ArticleDPRK to toughen its nuclear-powered weapons
The DPRK leader made the remarks when guiding a test firing of newly developed large-caliber multiple rocket launcher, the state media KCNA reported Friday. Kim said that as the enemies are planning to...
View ArticleMarch 4 world news summary at 0030 GMT
Top leader of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) Kim Jong Un said that the only way to defend the nation’s sovereignty is to further strengthen nuclear forces in quality and the military...
View ArticleMarch 5 world news summary at 0030 GMT
MAPUTO — Mozambique’s civil aviation authorities said they will discuss with a Malaysian team on Saturday in Maputo the investigation of the plane debris found off the country’s coast. Joao de Abreu,...
View ArticleDPRK Cargo Ship impounded by Philippines
Undersecretary Manuel Quezon of the Presidential Communications Development and Strategic Planning Office, citing the UNSC Resolution 2270, said that DPRK’s vessels, including Jin Teng, the one held in...
View ArticleSouth Korea criticize DPRK over UNSC resolution condemnation
Seoul’s foreign ministry spokesman Cho June-hyuk said in a statement that Pyongyang’s rejection of the UN Security Council resolution is tantamount to an outright challenge to the international...
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