Six world powers have agreed to a draft UN statement condemning North Korea’s rocket launch but analysts said its call for tougher sanctions may
Kim Jong-il put to rest this week doubts about whom he sees as his second in command when he elevated Jang Song-taek to a powerful military post.
South Korea told the North on Friday to immediately withdraw a threat it made against the South’s commercial airliners.
A North Korean missile launch may not come for some time, South Korea’s unification minister said on Wednesday.
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/ 13 January 2009
South Korean officials will visit North Korea on Thursday to check Pyongyang’s progress in keeping to an international disarmament deal.
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/ 22 November 2007
Lack of proper toilet facilities and sanitation kills almost two million people a year, most of them children, the World Toilet Association said at its first meeting on Thursday. ”It is regrettable that the matter of defecation is not given as much attention as food or housing,” said Sim Jae-duck, the association’s South Korean head.
South Korean media questioned on Friday whether the two Koreas’ summit pledge to seek a formal end to their 1950 to 1953 war could be realised given Pyongyang’s record of broken promises. The ambition was spelled out by South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun and North Korean leader Kim Jong-il in a joint statement signed in Pyongyang on Thursday.
South Korea’s president arrived in hermit North Korea’s capital on Tuesday to cheering crowds and a dour leader Kim Jong-il for only the second summit between two states still technically at war. South Korea’s Roh Moo-hyun has billed his first trip to the communist North as a chance to end animosity born with the partition of the Korean peninsula.
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/ 20 January 2007
North Korea has agreed to resume six-country talks aimed at winding up its nuclear arms programme soon, the United States envoy to the thorny negotiations said on Friday. ”There was an agreement that we felt we can make progress and we should go ahead and try to schedule a six-party session,” Christopher Hill told reporters in Seoul.
South Korean officials said on Friday activity had been spotted near a suspected nuclear test site in North Korea but there was no evidence to suggest Pyongyang was about to test another atomic device. ABC News had earlier quoted a United States defence official as saying that North Korea appeared to have made preparations for a second nuclear test.