15 en The United Nations announced that it had visited North Korea in mid-November and conducted an audit. The UN stated on its website on Tuesday that representatives of its International Maritime Organization(IMO) had traveled to North Korea during the week of November 17 to conduct a “technical audit” ...

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]]> KBS WORLD Radio Tue, 16 Dec 2025 11:18:44 +0900 Inter-Korea The unification ministry says it will not take part in regular consultative talks attended by South Korean and U.S. foreign affairs officials and will instead hold separate discussions on North Korea policy with the U.S. if deemed necessary. The ministry said Monday that it had decided not to attend the ...

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]]> KBS WORLD Radio Mon, 15 Dec 2025 17:25:22 +0900 Inter-Korea North Korea has reportedly completed the construction of a second local hospital under its regional development policy.  The North’s state-run Korean Central News Agency(KCNA) reported on Sunday that the country’s leader, Kim Jong-un, toured the new hospital in Kusong, North Pyongan Province, the ...

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]]> KBS WORLD Radio Sun, 14 Dec 2025 11:05:25 +0900 Inter-Korea North Korean military engineers have returned home to a heroes’ welcome from Kim Jong-un after completing their mission to remove mines in Russia’s Kursk region. According to the state-run Korean Central News Agency on Saturday, the troops from the 528th Regiment of Engineers attended a welcoming ...

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]]> KBS WORLD Radio Sat, 13 Dec 2025 16:09:50 +0900 Inter-Korea According to a publication specializing in North Korea, a Chinese drone manufacturer has promoted shipments of drone production facilities to the North, despite United Nations Security Council sanctions that ban all machinery exports to the regime. NK News reported on a video that appeared Friday on ...

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]]> KBS WORLD Radio Sat, 13 Dec 2025 13:06:08 +0900 Inter-Korea North Korea has concluded a three‑day plenary session of the ruling Workers’ Party, focusing on preparations for its congress scheduled for early next year. The North’s state‑run Korean Central News Agency(KCNA) said Friday that an enlarged 13th plenary meeting of the party’s eighth Central ...

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]]> KBS WORLD Radio Fri, 12 Dec 2025 10:18:11 +0900 Inter-Korea Next year’s U.S. defense policy bill calls for the reunification of Korean American families with their relatives in North Korea. The 2026 National Defense Authorization Act, released by Congress, directs the secretary of state to compile a registry of Korean Americans who lost contact with family members ...

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]]> KBS WORLD Radio Tue, 09 Dec 2025 09:09:29 +0900 Inter-Korea National Security Adviser Wi Sung‑lac said 2026 must mark a leap in diplomacy and security, pledging that South Korea, as a “pacemaker,” will promote communication between the United States and North Korea and work to restore inter‑Korean trust. During a press briefing at the presidential office in ...

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]]> KBS WORLD Radio Mon, 08 Dec 2025 10:02:31 +0900 Inter-Korea North Korean leader Kim Jong-un inspected several regional industrial plants ahead of their opening and urged the construction sector to meet its annual goal by year's end. The state-run Korean Central News Agency(KCNA) reported Friday that Kim visited factories in South Pyongyan Province two days ...

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]]> KBS WORLD Radio Fri, 05 Dec 2025 13:41:08 +0900 Inter-Korea The unification ministry says it is hard to know whether six South Koreans detained in North Korea are still alive, but that Seoul seeks to resolve the issue through negotiation with Pyongyang. A ministry official revealed the stance to reporters on Thursday when asked if it was possible to confirm ...

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]]> KBS WORLD Radio Thu, 04 Dec 2025 16:54:08 +0900 Inter-Korea The presidential office said it will work to secure the release of six South Korean nationals currently detained in North Korea through dialogue with the regime. The top office said on Thursday that six South Koreans, including three North Korean defectors, have been held in the North on charges including ...

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]]> KBS WORLD Radio Thu, 04 Dec 2025 12:44:35 +0900 Inter-Korea President Lee Jae Myung said that an apology to North Korea for the military's dissemination of anti-Pyongyang leaflets last year is in order, but that he has not issued one out of fear that doing so could be used to paint him as "pro-North." Lee made the comment on Wednesday at a news conference marking ...

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]]> KBS WORLD Radio Wed, 03 Dec 2025 13:34:20 +0900 Inter-Korea President Lee Jae Myung said unification is the path South Korea must take, whether it takes decades, centuries or millennia, and that it must be pursued peacefully. During a speech on Tuesday at the launch of the 22nd Peaceful Unification Advisory Council, Lee stressed that the process of merging nations ...

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]]> KBS WORLD Radio Tue, 02 Dec 2025 16:48:05 +0900 Inter-Korea North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has highlighted the role of his country’s air force in deterring a nuclear war as he celebrated the 80th anniversary of its founding along with his daughter. According to the North’s state-run Korean Central News Agency on Sunday, Kim said Friday that the air force will ...

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]]> KBS WORLD Radio Sun, 30 Nov 2025 11:50:03 +0900 Inter-Korea North Korea has warned that if South Korea and the United States continue undermining the regional strategic balance and intimidating neighboring countries, it will exercise its “essential rights” in response. The North’s state-run Korean Central News Agency(KCNA) issued the threat in a commentary ...

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]]> KBS WORLD Radio Fri, 28 Nov 2025 10:57:16 +0900 Inter-Korea An analyst from a state-run think tank said North Korea likely possesses up to 150 nuclear weapons and may increase its stock to more than 200 by 2030, and 400 by 2040. At a forum hosted by the Korea Institute for Defense Analyses on Wednesday, Lee Sang-kyu, chief of the institute's nuclear security ...

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]]> KBS WORLD Radio Wed, 26 Nov 2025 18:49:31 +0900 Inter-Korea The unification minister called on Seoul to help Washington restart stalled dialogue with Pyongyang. According to the Ministry of Unification, Minister Chung Dong-young made the appeal on Tuesday afternoon during a meeting with chargé d’affaires Kevin Kim at the government complex in Seoul. Chung said ...

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]]> KBS WORLD Radio Wed, 26 Nov 2025 09:53:51 +0900 Inter-Korea President Lee Jae Myung says North Korea is refusing all dialogue and contact with South Korea, calling such a state very dangerous. Lee made the remark on Monday during a news conference aboard Air Force One bound for Turkiye.  Lee said if an accidental clash were to occur between the two Koreas, there ...

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]]> KBS WORLD Radio Mon, 24 Nov 2025 17:33:34 +0900 Inter-Korea A former U.S. State Department official said that a meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un would require Russia's cooperation. At an event hosted by Georgetown University's SFS Korea Policy Club on Tuesday, Mark Lambert, former deputy assistant ...

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]]> KBS WORLD Radio Wed, 19 Nov 2025 18:49:18 +0900 Inter-Korea Anchor: North Korea denounced a joint fact sheet Washington and Seoul released Friday, which outlines the details of the two allies' recent trade agreement and highlights a shared commitment to denuclearization. The presidential office responded diplomatically later the same day, vowing to maintain ...

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]]> KBS WORLD Radio Tue, 18 Nov 2025 15:50:51 +0900 Inter-Korea Former U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said North Korea’s denuclearization will only happen with Chinese President Xi Jinping’s “permission” and “direction” because the two states are deeply intertwined. Pompeo, the chief diplomat during U.S. President Donald Trump’s first term, spoke at a ...

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]]> KBS WORLD Radio Tue, 18 Nov 2025 15:43:01 +0900 Inter-Korea North Korea has condemned the recent joint fact sheet and statement from the South Korea-U.S. summits and annual defense talks, calling them renewed evidence of hostile policy. In a statement published Tuesday by the state-run Korean Central News Agency(KCNA), Pyongyang accused Seoul and Washington of ...

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]]> KBS WORLD Radio Tue, 18 Nov 2025 09:22:51 +0900 Inter-Korea South Korea’s presidential office said on Monday that a proposal of inter-Korean military talks aims to prevent accidental clashes and ease tensions along the border. The office explained that many Military Demarcation Line markers installed after the 1953 signing of the Korean War Armistice ...

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]]> KBS WORLD Radio Mon, 17 Nov 2025 19:37:27 +0900 Inter-Korea South Korea has proposed an inter-Korean meeting of military authorities to clarify the location of the military demarcation line(MDL) within the demilitarized zone(DMZ) following reports of North Korean soldiers crossing the border into the South. Kim Hong-cheol, head of the defense ministry's ...

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]]> KBS WORLD Radio Mon, 17 Nov 2025 18:09:07 +0900 Inter-Korea North Korea appears to have deployed a second corvette-class warship to an east coast port near the inter-Korean border during the recent joint U.S.-South Korea naval exercises in the East Sea. NK News, a media outlet specializing in North Korea, issued the report Friday, citing satellite imagery from ...

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]]> KBS WORLD Radio Sun, 16 Nov 2025 12:57:31 +0900 Inter-Korea North Korea’s Foreign Minister Choe Son-hui denounced a joint statement by the foreign ministers of the Group of Seven(G7) nations, saying she opposes their push for the complete denuclearization of North Korea.   In a statement carried Friday by Pyongyang's state-run Korean Central News Agency(KCNA), ...

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]]> KBS WORLD Radio Fri, 14 Nov 2025 09:31:14 +0900 Inter-Korea The top diplomats of North Korea and Laos reportedly met on Wednesday to discuss ways to deepen bilateral ties and cooperation. The North’s state Korean Central News Agency(KCNA) reported on Thursday that North Korean Foreign Minister Choe Son-hui had met with her Laotian counterpart, Thongsavanh ...

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]]> KBS WORLD Radio Thu, 13 Nov 2025 11:56:46 +0900 Inter-Korea A delegation led by a senior executive of the Russian state-run media group Rossiya Segodnya arrived in Pyongyang as the two nations continue deepening cooperation in various fields.   The North’s Korean Central News Agency(KCNA) reported Tuesday that the delegation, led by Sergei Kochetkov, first deputy ...

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]]> KBS WORLD Radio Tue, 11 Nov 2025 09:51:20 +0900 Inter-Korea The unification ministry has clarified that foreign affairs and security-related ministries remain in constant, close communication regarding South Korea-U.S. joint military drills amid questions of whether such drills should be adjusted in order to facilitate a North Korea-U.S. summit.   On Saturday, ...

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]]> KBS WORLD Radio Mon, 10 Nov 2025 15:54:46 +0900 Inter-Korea A North Korea-linked hacking group has launched a new form of destructive cyberattack that remotely deletes critical data, including photos, documents and contacts, from PCs and Android phones. According to a threat analysis report released on Monday by South Korean cybersecurity firm Genians, the ...

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