North Korea has begun fuelling a long-range rocket and could launch it by the weekend, CNN said, with the US and others threatening punishment.
North Korea has put a long-range missile in place for a launch the US warned would violate UN sanctions already imposed on the reclusive state.
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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/ 24 February 2009
North Korea said it was preparing to launch a satellite on one of its rockets, which analysts have said would be a test-launch of a missile.
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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.
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/ 12 November 2008
North Korea said on Wednesday it will close its land border with the South from next month, largely putting a stop to the few exchanges that exist.
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/ 21 October 2008
Communist North Korea accused South Korea on Tuesday of waging ”psychological warfare”.
A senior US envoy travelled to North Korea on Wednesday in a bid to rescue a faltering nuclear disarmament deal
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/ 10 September 2008
North Korean leader Kim Jong-il is not seriously ill, a top official in the secretive state was quoted as saying on Wednesday.
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/ 9 September 2008
North Korea celebrated its 60th birthday with a military parade on Tuesday just as the state appears to be backing away from a disarmament deal.
North Korea toppled the cooling tower at its plutonium-producing reactor on Friday in a symbolic move to show its commitment to a nuclear deal.
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/ 26 February 2008
Cold War foes the United States and North Korea enjoyed a rare moment of harmony on Tuesday when the New York Philharmonic played an unprecedented concert in the hermit state. An audience of North Korea’s communist elite gave America’s oldest orchestra a standing ovation after a rousing set that took in Dvorak, Gershwin and a Korean folk song
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/ 25 February 2008
The New York Philharmonic arrived in a snowy Pyongyang on Monday to play the symphony From the New World in an overture to thaw still frozen ties from the Cold War era between the United States and North Korea. If well-received, the concert would make a ”tiny contribution” toward bringing the United States and North Korea closer together, said music director, Lorin Maazel
North Korea is running out of time to start dismantling its nuclear weapons programme before a weekend deadline, a top White House adviser told North Korean officials on Tuesday during a rare visit to Pyongyang. Meanwhile, United States officials have resolved a separate financial dispute that has stymied progress in the arms talks.
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/ 21 December 2006
North Korea has a massive soft spot for the gifts given to its leaders. The isolated, impoverished nation has dedicated a museum to more than 220 000 items, including a bear’s head and a bullet-proof limousine, sent to ”Great Leader” Kim Il-sung and ”Dear Leader” Kim Jong-il from around the world.
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/ 21 September 2005
Less than 24 hours after signing up to a draft agreement to denuclearise the Korean peninsula, the government in Pyongyang threw the negotiating process into disarray yesterday by declaring that it would not abolish its atomic weapons programme until it had been given a light-water reactor.
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/ 8 December 2003
There is a capitalist pig in Ri Dok-sun’s garden. There are also two capitalist dogs and a brood of capitalist chicks. But even though Ri, a 72-year-old North Korean, lives in the world’s last Orwellian state, this is no animal farm. The beasts are the product of the growing free market pressure on a government that claims to be the world’s last truly socialist country — Korea.
North Korea stepped into the nuclear danger zone yesterday by declaring it had begun reprocessing 8 000 spent fuel rods from the reactor at the heart of its confrontation with the United States.
Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi left the North Korean capital late Tuesday for Tokyo after a ground-breaking one-day summit meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il.