Park Chan Kyong

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​He reiterated his claims that the North was a nuclear state and insisted its expansion of the weapons programme was a defensive measure.

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The arrested captain of a South Korean ferry that capsized three days ago with 476 people on board has defended his decision to delay its evacuation.

Military talks aimed at easing high tensions between North and South Korea collapsed on Wednesday.

North and South Korea on Tuesday haggled over how to ease tensions in their first talks since the North's shelling of a South Korean island last year.

North Korea proposed "unconditional and early" talks with the South on Wednesday to mend battered cross-border ties.

North Korea vowed on Thursday to attack any South Korean ships that violate their disputed border.

North Korea fired artillery shells into the sea near its tense disputed border with South Korea for a second day on Thursday.

North Korea said on Saturday it has started reprocessing spent fuel rods to make weapons-grade plutonium,

A Japanese centre which says it has trained a dog to sniff out human cancer cells is cloning the animal in South Korea, a Seoul bio-technology company and the dog's owner said on Wednesday. Cloned foetuses from the black labrador retriever named Marine were last month implanted into a surrogate mother dog.

North Korea announced on Thursday it was suspending all dialogue with South Korea after failing to win an apology for remarks by a Seoul general, its toughest action in a week of growing cross-border tensions. The communist state's Korean Central News Agency blamed Seoul for the North's decision to suspend dialogue and contacts.