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Quake detected in NK presumed to be natural: S. Korean agency
[Breaking] 3.5-magnitude quake rattles N. Korea near nuclear test site
BTS' 'Love Yourself' hits No. 14 on British albums chart
France reaffirms participation in PyeongChang 2018
China imposes limit on oil supply to North Korea
Does NK H-bomb threat push US closer to war?
Ex-KAI head arrested over W500b accounting fraud scandal
Trump will take 'appropriate' action in event of NK H-bomb test: Tillerson
Teenager charged over London Underground attack: police
Trump calls North Korea's Kim 'a madman'

Sept 23, 2017 North Korea

Quake detected in NK presumed to be natural: S. Korean agency

A 3.0 magnitude earthquake detected near North Korea's nuclear test site Saturday is presumed to have been a natural quake, South Korea's weather agency said.The tremor occurred at 5:29 p.m., some 20 kilometers southeast of the country's Punggye-ri nuclear test in the northeastern province where the North conducted its sixth nuclear test on Sept. 3, according to the Korea Meteorological Administration. (Yonhap)"The quake has been analyzed to have occurred naturally," an agency official said. "A

[Breaking] 3.5-magnitude quake rattles N. Korea near nuclear test site

BEIJING -- A shallow 3.5-magnitude earthquake hit North Korea near the country’s nuclear test site Saturday, US seismologists said, in what China’s seismic service said was a “suspected explosion”, but Seoul deemed a “natural earthquake”. (Yonhap)The earthquake came after days of increasingly bellicose rhetoric between US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un’s regime over Pyongyang’s nuclear ambitions raised international alarm.The United States Geological Survey (USGS) sai

Sept 23, 2017
North Korea
China imposes limit on oil supply to North Korea

BEIJING -- China announced Saturday that it will limit energy supplies to North Korea and stop buying its textiles under UN sanctions imposed over its nuclear and missile development, further reducing support from Pyongyang’s last ally.Exports of refined petroleum to the North will be limited to 2 million barrels per year, effective Jan. 1, the Commerce Ministry said. Sales of liquefied natural gas are banned outright. A North Korean solder stands guard near barrels stacked up near the river ban

Sept 23, 2017
North Korea
Does NK H-bomb threat push US closer to war?

WASHINGTON — Would exploding a hydrogen bomb over the Pacific, as North Korea has threatened, push the current war of words between the US and North Korea closer to actual war?As with much that has transpired lately in the US-North Korea nuclear crisis, no one can be sure where this would lead or whether the North will even carry out its threat. It does, however, raise many questions, including: How would the North undertake such a nuclear test, what risks might it pose to Japan and how would th

Sept 23, 2017
North Korea
Trump will take 'appropriate' action in event of NK H-bomb test: Tillerson

US President Donald Trump will take the "appropriate" action if North Korea tests a nuclear bomb over the Pacific Ocean as threatened, his top diplomat said Friday.North Korean leader Kim Jong-un on Thursday warned of the "highest level" action after Trump told the UN General Assembly the US will have no choice but to "totally destroy" the North if forced to defend itself or its allies. US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson (AP-Yonhap)Kim's top diplomat, Ri Yong-ho, told reporters in New York such

Sept 23, 2017
North Korea
Trump calls North Korea's Kim 'a madman'

President Donald Trump is again assailing North Korea Kim Jong Un, saying that he "will be tested like never before."In an escalation of the war of words between the United States and North Korea, Trump sent a predawn tweet Friday saying, "Kim Jong Un of North Korea, who is obviously a madman who doesn't mind starving or killing his people, will be tested like never before!"Trump's broadside follows a rare statement issued by Kim, branding the US president as "deranged" and warning he will "pay

Sept 22, 2017
North Korea
Top diplomats of S. Korea, Kazakhstan discuss cooperation against NK nuke issue

Top diplomats of South Korea and Kazakhstan have discussed cooperation in their response to North Korea's nuclear and missile provocations, the foreign ministry here said Friday. Foreign Minister Kang Kyung-wha and her Kazakh counterpart Abdrakhmanov Kudaibergenovich met on the sidelines of the UN.General Assembly underway in New York on Thursday, according to the ministry. Foreign Minister Kang Kyung-wha and her Kazakh counterpart Abdrakhmanov Kudaibergenovich (Yonhap)Kang assessed that Kazakhs

Sept 22, 2017
North Korea
NK leader’s direct statement is ‘eye for an eye’ tactic: expert

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un ratcheted up his harsh rhetoric against the US and allies by issuing a rare direct statement on Friday, which experts here interpreted as an “eye for an eye” tactic against his US counterpart Donald Trump. The written statement, which was released in English North Korea’s state newspaper Rodong Sinmun, vowed to consider the “highest-level” of countermeasures including options of military attack against the US. This marks the first time a North Korean leader has sp

Sept 23, 2017
North Korea
Moon’s talk of peace snubbed as US-NK tensions flare up again

President wraps up New York trip after summits with Trump, Abe

Sept 23, 2017
North Korea
‘Stop ethnic cleansing of Rohingya’

Amnesty International Korea Director Catherine Heejin Kim held a one-person protest in front of the Myanmar Embassy in Seoul on Friday, calling for an end to the alleged ethnic cleansing of Rohingya in Rakhine State. Following the protest, Kim delivered a letter addressed to Ambassador Thura Thet Oo Maung at the Myanmar Embassy to call on the Myanmar authorities to end the military’s campaign of violence and human rights abuses. Amnesty International Korea Director Catherine Heejin Kim holds a o

Sept 23, 2017
Social affairs
[Weekender] 4,000 kilometers of business and pleasure

After its first expressway -- the 28.8 kilometer Seoul-Incheon route -- was built in 1968, South Korea set about rapidly expanding its highway network. Two years later, the new decade saw the completion of the Seoul-Busan expressway -- a project personally overseen by late President Park Chung-hee and often considered a milestone in Korea’s industrialization. Since then, the network of highways have expanded to over 4,000 kilometers, and nearly 700 kilometers of new and extensions will be added

Sept 23, 2017
Social affairs
20 years, life imprisonment for child murder teens

A local court sentenced an underage girl to 20 years in prison and her teenage accomplice to life imprisonment on Friday for murdering an 8-year-old girl and dismembering her body, in a murder case that shocked the nation earlier this year for its brutality.The Incheon District Court handed down the heaviest possible punishment for each underage offender under the local juvenile law, saying the murder was “brutal” and “carefully planned.” (Yonhap)The killer, surnamed Kim, was sentenced to 20 yea

Sept 23, 2017
Social affairs
[Newsmaker] Farmers, animal rights groups clash at pro-dog meat trade rally

At least 400 dog meat farmers staged a protest in Gwanghwamun Square in central Seoul on Friday, calling on the government to legalize the dog meat trade and classify dogs used as pets separately from those raised for human consumption. Unleashed dogs are inside cages during the dog meat farmers' protest in central Seoul, Friday. YonhapIn one of the largest pro-dog meat rallies ever held in South Korea, an association of Korean dog meat farmers marched toward the presidential office Cheong Wa Da

Sept 23, 2017
Social affairs
[Weekender] Mystery snack sellers on clogged highways explained

In the middle of a traffic jam on a highway, snack vendors holding bags of puffed rice snacks weave through vehicles that stand bumper to bumper. This scene is familiar to many in South Korea with the experience of being stuck on a congested highway on weekends or major holidays. “When I was younger, it took some 10 hours to go to Mokpo where my grandparents live during the holidays. We were stuck on the clogged road for hours, moving at the speed of tortoises,” said Lee Jin-hee, a 35-year-old o

Sept 23, 2017
Politics
NK hacking bitcoin exchanges to skirt sanctions: report

North Korean hackers are cyberattacking cryptocurrency exchange services in South Korea and related sites to secure bitcoins, Bloomberg Businessweek reported in its latest issue. The weekly business magazine quoted security researcher Fire Eye as saying that more signs of bitcoin ransom payments to North Korea are being detected amid the international sanctions stacking up against the Kim Jong-un regime. (123RF)The US media outlet assessed that the benefits offered by cryptocurrencies -- secret

Sept 23, 2017
North Korea

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