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NK founder’s second wife died in 2014: Unification Ministry

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un’s step-grandmother and the national founder Kim Il-sung’s second wife Kim Song-ae died in 2014, South Korea’s Ministry of Unification confirmed Thursday, in a booklet ...

Dec 27, 2018
North Korea
NK reports railway, road groundbreaking a day after

North Korean state media reported the groundbreaking for a project to reconnect inter-Korean railways and roads on Thursday, a day after the ceremony took place. “A groundbreaking ceremony for recon...

Dec 27, 2018
North Korea
N. Korea faces serious humanitarian challenges as sanctions hamper medical supplies: Pyongyang official

Health situations in North Korea are "extremely worrying" as multilayered global sanctions on its regime are taking a toll on the country's medical supplies, a North Korean Red Cross official has sai...

Dec 27, 2018
North Korea
N. Korea to keep momentum for dialogue through New Year’s speech

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un would likely reaffirm his commitment to moving forward denuclearization talks with Washington but would also call on it to take corresponding measures in his New Year’...

Dec 26, 2018
North Korea
NK may no longer be described as ‘enemy’ in S. Korea’s defense white paper

North Korea may no longer be described as South Korea’s official enemy in the government’s soon-to-be-published defense white paper, with the two Koreas accelerating efforts to reduce cross-border mi...

Dec 26, 2018
North Korea
Koreas hold groundbreaking ceremony for railways, roads

South and North Korea held a groundbreaking ceremony Wednesday to highlight the significance of their goal of modernizing and reconnecting cross-border railways and roads, amid the Seoul government’s...

Dec 26, 2018
North Korea
Pro-North Korean paper paints rosy outlook for relations with US

A pro-North Korean newspaper in Japan predicted Wednesday that the "new history" of relations between the North and the United States will move steadily forward in the new year, even though there cou...

Dec 26, 2018
North Korea
Koreas set to hold symbolic groundbreaking ceremony for inter-Korean railway and road project

South and North Korea were set to hold a symbolic groundbreaking ceremony Wednesday for an inter-Korean project to modernize and reconnect roads and railways across their heavily armed border. A spe...

Dec 26, 2018
North Korea
UN exempts inter-Korean groundbreaking ceremony from NK sanctions

The United Nations Security Council has agreed to exempt this week’s groundbreaking ceremony for inter-Korean road and railway projects from sanctions, reports said Tuesday, in another sign of the US...

Dec 25, 2018
North Korea
Trump says progress being made on N. Korea

WASHINGTON -- US President Donald Trump said Monday that progress is being made on the issue of North Korea and he looks forward to a second summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un. Trump posted...

Dec 25, 2018
North Korea
UN grants sanctions exemption for inter-Korean project's groundbreaking ceremony

The United Nations Security Council has granted a sanctions waiver to enable the Koreas to hold a symbolic groundbreaking ceremony for their project to modernize and reconnect roads and railways acro...

Dec 25, 2018
North Korea
NK leader likely to use New Year's address to call for implementation of summit deal with Trump

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un is expected to reaffirm his denuclearization commitment and call for the sincere implementation of June's summit agreement with US President Donald Trump when he deliv...

Dec 25, 2018
North Korea
[Newsmaker] US judge orders North Korea to pay $500m in student’s death

WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge on Monday ordered North Korea to pay more than $500 million in a wrongful death suit filed by the parents of Otto Warmbier, an American college student who died shor...

Dec 25, 2018
North Korea
Two Koreas’ ministers to attend ceremony for railway and road project

South Korea’s unification and transport ministers, as well as South Korean families separated by the Korean War will attend the groundbreaking ceremony for a project to modernize and connect inter-Ko...

Dec 24, 2018
North Korea
Koreas to discuss Seoul's provision of Tamiflu to N. Korea

South and North Korea will discuss Seoul's provision of antiviral medication to the North as part of cooperative efforts in the medical and health sectors across the border, the unification ministry ...

Dec 24, 2018
North Korea

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