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SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — North Korea on Monday condemned the latest round of United Nations sanctions imposed against it over its weapons programs, saying it would not negotiate over its nuclear arms while it was threatened by the United States. The sanctions passed at the weekend were a “violent violation of our sovereignty,” Pyongyang said in a statement carried by its official Korea Central News Agency. “We will not put our self-defensive nuclear deterrent […]
SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — South Korea Friday ruled out giving aid to flood-hit North Korea, saying leader Kim Jong-Un would claim credit for any assistance following what Pyongyang calls the “worst disaster” since World War II. The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) appealed Wednesday for $15.5 million in emergency funding to help North Koreans. It warned of a “secondary disaster” in the impoverished country unless urgent assistance is provided. […]
SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — South Korea on Friday demanded Pyongyang swiftly release a North Korean defector it had arrested on charges of attempting to abduct children in the isolated state. In a carefully stage-managed press conference in Pyongyang, Ko Hyon-Chol, 53, who originally fled North Korea in 2013, “confessed” to attempting to kidnap two girl orphans and take them to the South. Seoul’s unification ministry expressed “deep regret” over the North for “illegally arresting” […]
SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — South Korea on Thursday kicked off a live-fire naval exercise near its disputed sea border with North Korea — a move likely to fan already elevated military tensions with Pyongyang. The three-day exercise in the Yellow Sea is aimed at practising responses to simulated incursions by North Korean vessels and aircraft, the South’s navy said in a statement. The manoeuvres will involve 20 naval ships, including an Aegis destroyer, as […]
