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Pyongyang fires projectiles, rejects Seoul’s dialogue pledge
SEOUL: North Korea launched at least two projectiles into the sea today, South Korea’s military said, shortly after Pyongyang described South Korea’s president as “impudent” and vowed that inter-Korean talks are over. The North has protested against joint military drills
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Trump: Kim didn’t violate agreement with missile tests
WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump said yesterday that North Korea’s recent short-range missile tests did not violate his agreement with supreme leader Kim Jong-un, although they may have breached United Nations Security Council resolutions. Trump’s remark came after North Korea
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N Korea: Missiles firing a warning to Seoul
SEOUL: North Korea has fired its “new tactical guided weapon” under its supreme leader Kim Jong Un’s guidance in a demonstration of power, Yonhap news agency reported, quoting North Korean official media report today, a day after the communist state
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North Korea fires two short-range missiles into East Sea
SEOUL: North Korea today fired two short-range missiles from near its east coast town of Wonsan into the East Sea, Yonhap news agency reported, quoting South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS). The incident came amid growing uncertainty over the
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China briefed by US on latest Trump-Kim meet
BEIJING: China has received a briefing from the US on the latest meeting between US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, China’s Foreign Ministry said today, in a call between two senior diplomats. Trump became the
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Trump-Kim meet, reopening talks on denuclearisation
PANMUNJOM/SEOUL: US President Donald Trump became the first sitting US president to set foot in North Korea yesterday when he met its leader, Kim Jong Un, in the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) between the two Koreas and agreed to resume stalled
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Trump opposes the use of CIA informants against North Korea
WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump took a public stance against the use of CIA informants to spy on North Korean leader Kim Jong Un yesterday, saying it would not happen under his watch and possibly taking away a valuable tool
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Trump backs Kim’s assessment on Biden
TOKYO: US President Donald Trump and North Korea’s Kim Jong Un agree on their assessment of Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden, White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said, aligning the president with an authoritarian foreign leader over a former US
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Trump not disturbed that North Korea has ‘fired off some small weapons’
TOKYO: US President Donald Trump dismissed concerns about recent missile launches from North Korea and said he was confident that the country’s leader, Kim Jong Un, would keep promises that he had made. “North Korea fired off some small weapons,
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