Tag: North Korea
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S/Korea confirms missing official killed by N/Korea – Report
A South Korean ministry official who has been missing since Monday was shot dead by North Korea, the Defence Ministry in Seoul said on Thursday. Yonhap news agency cited a ministry statement as saying: “North Korea found the man in its waters and committed an act of brutality by shooting at him and burning his…
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North Korea says it won’t sit down with U.S. as envoy due in South Korea
North Korea has no intention to sit down with the United States and urged South Korea to “stop meddling,” a senior diplomat said on Tuesday. Kwon Jong Gun, director general for U.S. affairs at Pyongyang’s foreign ministry, noted as a U.S. envoy was due to visit Seoul in an effort to renew stalled nuclear talks…
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N. Korea sees no chance for new negotiations with U.S.
North Korea has quashed fresh hopes that negotiations with the U.S. to halt its nuclear weapons programme will resume any time soon. The First Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs, Choe Son Hui, said on Saturday that Washington was only using the dialogue with Pyongyang “as nothing more than a tool for grappling its (own) political crisis”.…