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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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Sources: Kim Jong Nam was a CIA informant
WASHINGTON: Kim Jong Nam, the half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, who was murdered in Malaysia in 2017, was an informant for the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), said a report on The Wall Street Journal (WSJ).
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Breaking: 7 dead, 21 missing after boat touring Budapest sinks
The sightseeing vessel had at least 33 South Korean passengers when it collided with another vessel and sank in Hungary. BUDAPEST, Hungary — Dozens of rescue workers searched the Danube River in downtown Budapest for 21 people missing after a
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‘North Korea’s weapons of mass destruction violate UN resolutions’
WASHINGTON: North Korea’s entire weapons of mass destruction programme violates United Nations Security Council resolutions, said the US State Department when asked about recent missile launches by Pyongyang. “I think the entire North Korean WMD programme, it’s in conflict with
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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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Slavery, gang rape of North Korean women in Chinese cybersex dens
Tens of thousands of North Korean women and girls – some as young as nine – are being trafficked into sexual slavery in China are raped as they try to flee poverty and oppression in their homeland, experts on the
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Address ship seizure by ‘gangster’ US: Pyongyang tells UN chief
PYONGYANG: North Korea urged the United Nations (UN) secretary general Antonio Guterres to deal with the ‘illegal’ seizure of one of its cargo ships by the US. “This act of dispossession clearly indicates that the US is a gangster country
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Release our cargo ship, N Korea demands US
SEOUL: North Korea demanded that the United States release a cargo ship seized on suspicion of violating United Nations (UN) sanctions, Yonhap news agency reported. A spokesperson for North Korea’s foreign ministry made the demand in a statement carried by
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N. Korea restoring part of launch site it promised Trump to dismantle
WASHINGTON: North Korea has restored part of a missile launch site it began to dismantle after pledging to do so in a first summit with US President Donald Trump last year, South Korea’s Yonhap News Agency and a US think tank reported
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