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Regarding the North’s nuclear program, the radio station said nuclear possession is a response to the United States’ anti-Pyongyang policies and nuclear threats.

In 2013, some 32,000 computers in South Korean banks and broadcasters were compromised by a major cyberattack from a Chinese IP address, though South Korean media reported suspicions that the attack was orchestrated by North Korea.

Park and Ban, a former South Korean foreign minister, did not hold specific consultations on sanctions the United Nations could impose on North Korea in case Pyongyang launches a long-range rocket, Ju said.

Lee was initially charged with the killing and sentenced to life in prison, which was later reduced to 20 years in an appeals court.

This morning CNN reported that Kim Ryon Hui, a dress maker from the North Korean capital of Pyongyang, is “desperate” to return to her hometown and see her family because she feels “trapped” in South Korea. While analysts are reportedly doubtful of that...

This week activists in South Korea launched balloons full of anti-Kim Jong Un leaflets across the border into the north. In the past, Pyongyang called the balloon launches provocations and demanded they be stopped before any inter-Korean engagement efforts could proceed.

North Korea has deployed six more patrol vessels near the sea border with South Korea as Pyongyang continues its campaign to invalidate the maritime boundary in the Yellow Sea. The information was announced by a member of the National Assembly’s Public Administration &...

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.

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.

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”.

South Korean President Park Geun-hye’s certification scores surged following the deal, that most South Korean mass media retailers held up for being come out on top for her emotional positioning resistant to the North.

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