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(Reuters) — Isolated North Korea marked the 70th anniversary of its ruling Workers’ Party on Saturday (October 10) with a massive military parade overseen by leader Kim Jong Un and a senior Chinese official who had delivered President Xi Jinping’s call for stronger ties. Thousands of troops stood at attention in perfect formation under a blue autumn sky in Pyongyang’s main Kim Il Sung Square, named after Kim Jong Un’s grandfather and the founder of […]
Sighs and cries of anguish and joy were heard in the South Korean Red Cross office, where a computer lottery selected candidates for the upcoming family reunions this month. The lottery drawn on the Red Cross computer randomly selected 500 from nearly 130,000 names of South Koreans looking for family members in North Korea. About 66,000 of them are still alive, with most aged 70 or more. The process of choosing which families to participate […]
SEPT. 2 (Reuters) — North Koreans on Tuesday (September 1) welcomed news that North and South Korea had reached an agreement a week ago at high-level talks. Video provided to Reuters by North Korea’s official news agency KCNA, which Reuters cannot independently verify, showed North Koreans expressing their pleasure to hear an agreement had been reached. “I felt the pride of a North Korean who holds the dear respected leader Kim Jong Un in high […]
|AUGUST 28 (Reuters) — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un called this week’s accord between the rival Koreas “a landmark occasion” paving the way for defused military tension and improved ties, but said it was the strength of its armed forces that made the deal possible, North’s state-run television KRT reported on Friday (August 28). KRT released several still photographs of Kim convening an enlarged meeting of the Central Military Commission of the Workers’ Party […]
South Korea is willing to discuss North Korea’s demand for an end to sanctions imposed over a 2010 naval attack, South Korean Unification Ministry said on Wednesday (August 26), a day after the rivals struck a landmark pact that defused a standoff between their forces. South Korea is preparing to open a new channel of dialogue with the North after the Tuesday (August 25) accord, in which North Korea expressed regret over a landmine incident […]
(Reuters) — Korean defense ministry said on Tuesday (August 25) both North and South Korea would begin rolling back heightened military postures at noon (0300 GMT), after the two Koreas reach reached agreement early on Tuesday to end a standoff involving an exchange of artillery fire. Under the accord reached in the very early hours of Tuesday after more than two days of talks, North Korea expressed regret over the recent wounding of South Korean […]
QUEZON City, Philippines (August 25) – The escalation of conflict between North Korea and South Korea is intense. North Korea accused South Korea of being “war maniacs” and the tension between the two nations is getting worse. The question now is how the Korean people will recover? They may have the best equipment in battle but the sad truth is there are a lot of citizens in both Koreas whose everyday lives will be affected in […]
AUGUST 25 (Reuters) — South Koreans on Tuesday (August 25) welcomed the news that the two Koreas reached an agreement on Tuesday (August 25) to end a standoff involving an exchange of artillery fire. Under the accord reached in the very early hours of Tuesday after more than two days of talks, North Korea expressed regret over the recent wounding of South Korean soldiers in landmine blasts and Seoul agreed to halt anti-Pyongyang propaganda broadcasts, […]
(Reuters) — Aides to the leaders of North and South Korea on Sunday (August 23) agreed to resume high-level talks, after almost ten hours of a rare meeting. Senior politicians of North and South Korea held talks at the Panmunjom truce village straddling their border on Saturday (August 22) and into the early hours of Sunday, raising hopes for an end to a standoff that put the rivals on the brink of armed conflict. “During […]
(Eagle News) — Malacanang said the Philippine government has a ready protocol for evacuation of Filipinos in South Korea in case tensions escalate in the Korean peninsula. The announcement came about as North Korea declared a quasi-state of war at its border with South Korea. Malacanang continues to call for the deescalation of tension in the Korean peninsula to prevent any incident that may threaten regional stability. A senior Palace official hoped for restraint on both North […]
AUGUST 21 (Reuters) — The United Nations (U.N.) Secretary General’s associate spokesperson, Eri Kaneko, told reporters on Thursday (August 20) that the U.N. is closely following tensions between North and South Korea. “On the exchange of artillery fire that we saw reports of today, is that we are closely following the developments with serious concern and we will revert as the situations evolves,” Kaneko said. North Korean leader Kim Jong Un ordered his troops onto […]
AUGUST 21 (Reuters) — Japan asked Pyongyang to exercise ‘self-restraint’ on Friday (August 21) after North Korea fired shots across the border at South Korea. “We are demanding that North Korea exercise self-restraint, and we will continue to deal with it with a sense urgency,” Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida told reporters gathered at the Prime minister’s office. South Korea fired a barrage of artillery rounds into North Korea on Thursday (August 20) after the […]
