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.
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/ 28 January 2010
North Korea fired artillery shells into the sea near its tense disputed border with South Korea for a second day on Thursday.
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.
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/ 7 February 2007
Nuclear-armed North Korea is notorious for selling its missiles overseas, but the hard-line communist state also has a more improbable export — cute cartoon figures. South Korean experts say the North’s animated movie industry brings the isolated country both precious hard currency and access to global IT expertise.
North Korea on Wednesday offered the United States talks on its missile launch plans, indicating it might put off a flight test that has raised tension and drawn sharp international warnings. The number two diplomat at North Korea’s United Nations mission said the secretive state was open to talks with Washington, where there were reports that the US missile defence shield had been activated.
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/ 16 February 2006
North Korea on Thursday marked the 64th birthday of leader Kim Jong-Il with a bout of sabre-rattling and a warning that a nuclear stand-off will never be settled unless Washington makes concessions. Pyongyang’s state media said celebrations included exhibitions, performances, seminars, parades and a march to Mount Paikdu.