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“Ulchi Freedom Guardian will entail tough military counteraction of the army of the DPRK to firmly defend the dignity of the nation and sovereignty of the country”, the North’s Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) said in a statement.

The clocks are to be turned back 30 minutes, which will put the standard time in North Korea at GMT+8:30, 30 minutes behind both South Korea and Japan, which are at GMT+9:00.

Since then, Japan, North Korea and South Korea have run on the same local time – nine hours ahead of Greenwich Mean Time.

South Korea hopes to reconnect the line and link it to Russia’s Trans-Siberian Railway, an ambitious project, which would cut logistics costs for trade with Europe.

“We have seen the gap between South Korea, we will take the next two games seriously”, said Perrin.

There are telephones on the South Korean side for defectors from the impoverished and reclusive North to call seeking help, although it was not immediately clear if Tuesday’s incident involved North Korea.

As North Korea considered deal as start of incursion, having own nuclear program rejected negotiating with such deal.

Last week South Korea’s Yonhap news agency cited “credible intelligence” that North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un had personally ordered a satellite launch to mark the anniversary.

Reverend Hyeon Soo Lim, a Korean Canadian pastor who has been detained in North Korea after his last visit to Pyongyang on January 31, was reported to have admitted to allegations of attempts to overthrow the North Korean government at a press conference held in Pyongyang,...

We remain hopeful that on this date, out of respect for those who did not survive, and to those thinning ranks of those who did, that this war will not be “forgotten”, but will be remembered in our history books as the Korean War, for war it was. Jacobetti Home for...

The Korean War anniversary celebration brought a celebratory tone to the capital of North Korea, with the general public using the holiday to show their patriotic pride by laying flowers before statues of North Korea’s first president Kim Il-sung and his son, Kim Jong-il.

It also shows that the “door is open” to North Korea should it choose to break away from its diplomatic and economic isolation, Seiler said.

United States Ambassador to South Korea Mark Lippert faced a second scare of his relatively short spell in Seoul, it emerged Friday, as police announced the arrest of a local man for threatening to kill the envoy.

The North’s preparatory group for a joint anniversary proposed to its South Korean counterpart on Monday that the two sides meet in the North’s border city of Kaesong on Thursday to discuss preparations for a joint anniversary event on Liberation Day, which falls on...