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“We hope through commemorating and reviewing the joint statement and its spirit, we will be able to… find a new way to restart the dialogue on the basis of balancing concerns held by each related party”, said Su Ge, president of China Institute of global...

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In the past, United Nations human rights investigators have said inmates in camps have suffered starvation, torture and other atrocities.

It also stressed that it has a “sovereign right” to strengthen nuclear deterrence for self-defense and to push for a satellite launch, which many suspect would be a long-range rocket test to advance its missile technology.

North Korea could be separating isotopes used to manufacture sophisticated and more powerful nuclear bombs, United States experts warned Wednesday, after Pyongyang announced its main atomic weapons complex was fully operational. Furthermore, later that year, the country...

In its state media, North Korea stated on Tuesday that the plutonium and uranium facilities at its main nuclear complex have been “rearranged, changed or readjusted”, according to ABC News.

North Korea’s state-run Korean Central News Agency said the reactor at the Yongbyon nuclear facility had been restarted two years ago-along with uranium enrichment.

On 15 September it released a statement by the director of its Atomic Energy Institute insisting that all of its Yongbyon facilities had “started normal operations”.

Following all-night talks between the Red Cross branches of North and South Korea, both countries agreed on Tuesday to hold a reunion for families separated by the Korean War.

North Korea demanded Monday that United States troops be pulled out from South Korea, saying USA military presence in the South is a pretext for “ceaseless north-targeted saber-rattling”.

North Korea has followed the South in resuming loudspeaker propaganda broadcasts across their heavily militarised border, Seoul’s defence ministry said on Monday.

“It is very merciful to grab an opportunity for developing inter-Korean relations and preventing the recurrence of provocative acts through this round of high-level inter- governmental contact between the two Koreas”, Kim Kwan-jin, South Korean President Park...

The joint accord, signed by the two countries on Tuesday, includes a guarantee from Seoul to turn off loudspeakers blasting high-decibel propaganda across the North Korean border, in light of Pyongyang having “expressed regret” at the maiming of two South Korean...

North Korea’s maneuver was detected hours after the two Koreas reached an agreement on ways to defuse heightened military tension on the peninsula in marathon negotiations.

There was no immediate official word on the outcome, but the South’s Yonhap news agency said both sides had reached agreement, with the North voicing “regret” for recent provocations, and the South conditionally undertaking to halt loudspeaker propaganda...