26 North Koreans rescued as cargo ship sinks off Japan
Japan rescued 26 North Koreans after they abandoned their sinking cargo vessel in the East China Sea, the coast guard ...
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No North Korean missile will reach US: Trump
President-elect Donald Trump took to Twitter again on Monday evening to promise North Korea would not develop a nuclear missile ...
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Faces of Pyongyang
By Ed Jones PYONGYANG—Ask anyone to conjure up an image of North Korea and it would probably be of a ...
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Kim Jong-Un: North Korea lost a ‘close friend and comrade’
North Korea began three days of official mourning on Monday (Nov. 28) for late Cuban leader Fidel Castro, remembering him ...
Read moreIn N. Korea, bleak choices for women
HONG KONG"•Stay and endure a life of privation and oppression, or escape and risk being sold into sexual slavery: this ...
Read more‘No stopping Pyongyang’
WASHINGTON"•Convincing North Korea to abandon nuclear weapons is a “lost cause,” America’s top intelligence official said Tuesday, causing concern in ...
Read moreChieffy named Azkals’ assistant mentor
THERE was a familiar animated figure on the bench of the Philippine Azkals in their international friendly matches against Bahrain ...
Read more‘Prepare for mass North defections’
SEOUL"•South Korean President Park Geun-Hye on Tuesday told her government to prepare for large-scale defections from North Korea, just days ...
Read moreChina raps US moves at meeting
BEIJING"•Beijing rapped Washington Tuesday for its interventions in Asia, as tensions grow between the two powers over the territorial disputes ...
Read moreNorth Korea embassy official defects in Beijing
A ranking North Korean embassy official in Beijing has defected, South Korea's Yonhap news agency said Wednesday, while a separate ...
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