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N. Korea fires several cruise missiles into Yellow Sea: JCS

SEOUL, Jan. 24 (Yonhap) -- North Korea fired several cruise missiles toward the Yellow Sea on Wednesday, the South Korean military said, days after Pyongyang said it tested an underground nuclear attack drone.The Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said the
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N. Korean vice FM meets Chinese, Cuban officials at int'l forums in Uganda

SEOUL, Jan. 24 (Yonhap) -- North Korea's vice foreign minister has held talks with senior officials from China and Cuba on the sidelines of international forums in Uganda, state media said Wednesday.Kim Son-kyong, vice foreign minister for intern
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(URGENT) N. Korea fires several cruise missiles into Yellow Sea: JCS

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Navy special warfare forces conduct wintertime training

SEOUL, Jan. 24 (Yonhap) -- The Navy said Wednesday its special force units have been staging wintertime training to bolster their readiness posture against rising North Korean threats. The training of the underwater demolition team (UDT) and Navy Sea
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(LEAD) U.S. maintains 'appropriate' defense posture against N.K. threats: White House official

(ATTN: ADDS Pentagon official's remarks in paras 11-12)By Song Sang-hoWASHINGTON, Jan. 23 (Yonhap) -- A White House official expressed confidence Tuesday that the United States is keeping an "appropriate" defensive posture against Nor
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U.S. maintains 'appropriate' defense posture against N.K. threats: White House official

By Song Sang-hoWASHINGTON, Jan. 23 (Yonhap) -- A White House official expressed confidence Tuesday that the United States is keeping an "appropriate" defensive posture against North Korean threats, amid tensions heightened by Pyongyang
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Defector-turned-lawmaker proposes designating commemorative day for N.K. defectors

SEOUL, Jan. 23 (Yonhap) -- Rep. Tae Young-ho, a North Korean defector-turned-lawmaker of the ruling People Power Party, said Tuesday he has proposed a bill calling for the designation of a commemorative day for North Korean defectors.Tae said in a Fa
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S. Korea says N. Korean leader Kim's hostile rhetoric will not affect gov't blueprint on unification

SEOUL, Jan. 23 (Yonhap) -- North Korean leader Kim Jong-un's recent hostile rhetoric toward Seoul will not affect South Korea's decadeslong blueprint for unification, an official said Tuesday.Kim has been lambasting South Korea with sharp-wor
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S. Korean envoy lambasts N. Korea-Russia cooperation, UNSC resolution breach

By Song Sang-hoWASHINGTON, Jan. 22 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's top envoy to the U.N. renewed Seoul's criticism of arms transactions between North Korea and Russia during a U.N. Security Council (UNSC) meeting on Monday, as Russia's top dipl
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U.S. flies spy plane after N. Korea's test of underwater nuclear attack drone

SEOUL, Jan. 22 (Yonhap) -- A U.S. surveillance aircraft flew over South Korea on Monday, aviation trackers showed, on an apparent mission to monitor North Korea following its claimed test of an underwater nuclear attack drone. The U.S. Air Force'
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N. Korea's exports of beauty products jump over 13 times in 2023: data

SEOUL, Jan. 22 (Yonhap) -- North Korea's exports of beauty products to China, such as wigs and false eyelashes, soared more than 13 times last year from the previous year amid the North's border opening, Chinese customs data showed Monday.The
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N. Korea calls for economic development in provincial regions

SEOUL, Jan. 22 (Yonhap) -- North Korea called Monday for developing the country's provincial regions to improve the livelihood of people living outside the capital area.The North's main newspaper, Rodong Sinmun, carried an article on its fron
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(LEAD) N. Korea defends its stepped-up military measures at int'l forum

(ATTN: UPDATES with more details throughout; ADDS photo)SEOUL, Jan. 22 (Yonhap) -- North Korea has defended its measures to bolster military capabilities as a just exercise of the sovereign right against Washington-led military confrontations at the
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N. Korea defends its stepped-up military measures at int'l forum

SEOUL, Jan. 22 (Yonhap) -- North Korea has defended its measures to bolster military capabilities as a just exercise of the sovereign right against Washington-led military confrontations at the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) summit in Uganda, state media
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S. Korea sees N.K.'s claimed test of underwater nuclear attack drone as 'exaggerated, fabricated'

SEOUL, Jan. 21 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's presidential office said Sunday it is weighing the possibility that North Korea's latest purported test of an underwater nuclear weapons system is an "exaggerated and fabricated" claim.Nort
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N. Korea condemns U.N. Security Council meeting on its hypersonic missile test

SEOUL, Jan. 21 (Yonhap) -- North Korea on Sunday strongly condemned a recent meeting of the U.N. Security Council convened to discuss Pyongyang's recent test-fire of a hypersonic missile and other issues.The council held the closed-door meeting T
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N.K. parliament's longest-serving chairman dies

SEOUL, Jan. 21 (Yonhap) -- Choe Thae-bok, a former chairman of the Supreme People's Assembly (SPA), North Korea's rubber-stamp legislature, has died, the North's official news agency reported Sunday. Choe was 93.North Korean leader Kim Jo
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N.K. says Putin expressed willingness to visit Pyongyang at early date

SEOUL, Jan. 21 (Yonhap) -- North Korea said Sunday that Russian President Vladimir Putin has expressed his willingness to visit Pyongyang at an early date and the country is ready to "greet the Korean people's closest friend with the greate
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(LEAD) U.S. diplomat calls for world not to stay silent on N. Korean human rights

(ATTN: ADDS photo, more remarks in paras 15-16)By Song Sang-hoWASHINGTON, Jan. 19 (Yonhap) -- A senior U.S. diplomat made an emphatic call Friday for the international community not to remain silent about human rights abuses in North Korea, as "
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U.S. diplomat calls for world not to stay silent on N. Korean human rights

By Song Sang-hoWASHINGTON, Jan. 19 (Yonhap) -- A senior U.S. diplomat made an emphatic call Friday for the international community not to remain silent about human rights abuses in North Korea, as "Beyond Utopia," an Oscar short-listed fi