North Korea will soon launch a long-range rocket after completing preparations to put a satellite into space, its official media said on Saturday.
North Korea put its military on combat alert on Monday as United States and South Korean troops began a major joint exercise.
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/ 21 February 2009
North Korea kept up its tough rhetoric on Saturday against the United States and the South on Saturday, accusing Washington of preparing for war.
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/ 19 February 2009
North Korea said on Thursday it was ready for war with the South, just hours before US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was set to arrive in Seoul.
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/ 16 February 2009
North Korea said on Monday it had the right to launch its longest-range missile, raising tensions hours before Hillary Clinton arrives in the region.
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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.
South Korea to invest in green projects in an effort to boost its slowing economy and create new jobs
North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il has hailed his troops as ”invincible” during a military inspection, official media announced on Sunday amid a war of words and growing tensions with South Korea. Pyongyang in recent days has threatened to reduce the South to ”ashes” and called its new conservative president, Lee Myung-Bak, a traitor.
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.
North Korea test-fired several short-range missiles on Friday, South Korea said, in what analysts saw as a show of anger at Washington and the new conservative government in Seoul. The launch comes a day after the North expelled South Korean officials from a joint industrial complex north of the border.
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/ 11 February 2008
South Koreans mourned the loss of a 600-year-old building designated as the nation’s top cultural landmark, which collapsed in ruins early on Monday after catching fire. Police said they are investigating whether arson sparked the blaze at the Namdaemun gate in the heart of Seoul.
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/ 31 December 2007
North Korea appeared certain to miss a year-end deadline to finish disabling its atomic plants and declare all its nuclear programmes, a key element in a six-nation disarmament accord. After almost two decades of confrontation over its nuclear ambitions, the communist state in 2007 took an unprecedented step.
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/ 19 December 2007
Right-wing businessman Lee Myung-bak won South Korea’s presidential election by a landslide on Wednesday with his promises to make voters better off and stand up to North Korea, TV exit polls showed. The wide margin of victory put to rest concerns in his camp that a probe in allegations of fraud by Lee might deter voters.
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/ 19 December 2007
South Koreans went to the polls on Wednesday expected to choose as president a former CEO vowing to knock the economy into shape and stand up to the North, but whose authority could be weakened by a fraud investigation. The last legally allowed opinion polls a week ago showed former Hyundai Group executive and ex-Seoul mayor Lee Myung-bak on course to to victory.