15 en North Korea and Belarus have agreed to strengthen high-level exchanges in their vice foreign ministers’ talks.  According to the North’s state Korean Central News Agency(KCNA) on Friday, North Korean Vice Foreign Minister Im Chon-il held talks with Belarusian Deputy Foreign Minister Evgeny Shestakov ...

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]]> KBS WORLD Radio Fri, 19 Apr 2024 10:28:49 +0900 Inter-Korea North Korea has removed street lamps along two inter-Korean roads, in an apparent move to completely close the routes once seen as symbols of cooperation and exchange between the two Koreas.   According to the South Korean military last month, the North began dismantling dozens of street lamps along the ...

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]]> KBS WORLD Radio Thu, 18 Apr 2024 16:16:15 +0900 Inter-Korea Anchor: The U.S. ambassador to the United Nations held an exclusive interview with KBS. Wrapping up her four-day visit to South Korea, she said that the establishment of a new organ within the UN General Assembly to monitor the enforcement of UN sanctions on North Korea is under consideration.  Kim Bum-soo ...

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]]> KBS WORLD Radio Thu, 18 Apr 2024 14:19:33 +0900 Inter-Korea The U.S. ambassador to the United Nations has expressed an intent to continue to seek a new mechanism to monitor the enforcement of UN sanctions on North Korea even if Russia and China attempt to block such efforts.  Linda Thomas-Greenfield revealed the stance on Wednesday during a press conference at ...

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]]> KBS WORLD Radio Wed, 17 Apr 2024 17:35:27 +0900 Inter-Korea North Korea has the capability to genetically engineer biological weapons, according to a U.S. government report.  The U.S. State Department presented the assessment in the annual report titled Adherence to and Compliance with Arms Control, Nonproliferation and Disarmament Agreements and Commitments, ...

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]]> KBS WORLD Radio Tue, 16 Apr 2024 09:05:40 +0900 Inter-Korea Anchor: Defense Minister Shin Won-sik told KBS that North Korea's hypersonic missile test conducted earlier this month was unsuccessful. While noting that the weapons system is still under development, Shin acknowledged that North Korea will be able to complete the missile one day. He added, however, that ...

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]]> KBS WORLD Radio Mon, 15 Apr 2024 14:48:03 +0900 Inter-Korea Defense Minister Shin Won-sik has assessed that North Korea's recent test of a hypersonic missile was not successful and the missile development is still "incomplete." Appearing on a KBS program on Sunday, the minister presented the assessment refuting Pyongyang's claim on April 3 that it ...

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]]> KBS WORLD Radio Sun, 14 Apr 2024 14:30:12 +0900 Inter-Korea North Korean leader Kim Jong-un reportedly met with China’s top legislator, Zhao Leji, on Saturday to discuss ways to develop bilateral relations. The North’s state Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) said on Sunday that Kim met with Zhao, China’s third-highest ranking official, the previous day at ...

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]]> KBS WORLD Radio Sun, 14 Apr 2024 11:58:55 +0900 Inter-Korea Choe Ryong-hae, chairman of the standing committee of North Korea's Supreme People's Assembly, and Zhao Leji, chairman of the National People's Congress of China, together attended an opening ceremony in Pyongyang for the "year of North Korea-China friendship." According to the North's ...

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]]> KBS WORLD Radio Sat, 13 Apr 2024 14:23:00 +0900 Inter-Korea Unification Minister Kim Yung-ho said that the inter-Korean communication line is necessary not only for South Korea but for the North Korean people in terms of communication and consultation in the event of a disaster.   Appearing on KBS Life's “Disaster Safety 119,” which aired on Friday, the ...

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]]> KBS WORLD Radio Fri, 12 Apr 2024 16:22:26 +0900 Inter-Korea South Korea's Ambassador to the UN has renewed criticism of Russia’s recent veto of a resolution to extend the mandate of a panel monitoring anti-North Korea sanctions violations, saying that Russia vetoed it because it didn’t want the panel to shine a light on its “dark spot.” Ambassador Hwang ...

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]]> KBS WORLD Radio Fri, 12 Apr 2024 10:27:44 +0900 Inter-Korea China's top legislator, Zhao Leji, has said that China hopes to enhance high-level exchanges with North Korea to develop bilateral relations. Zhao, China's third-highest ranking official, made the remarks on Thursday during a meeting with Choe Ryong-hae, chairman of the Standing Committee of the ...

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]]> KBS WORLD Radio Fri, 12 Apr 2024 09:10:39 +0900 Inter-Korea Defense minister Shin Won-sik said on Monday that North Korea is likely to launch its spy satellite in the middle of this month. The minister made the remarks to reporters while observing the country's second military spy satellite launched from a U.S. space center on Monday morning. The minister ...

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]]> KBS WORLD Radio Mon, 08 Apr 2024 14:41:59 +0900 Inter-Korea Minister of Unification Kim Yung-ho met with ambassadors of United Nations Command member states on Friday and said South Korea will continue with its unification policy despite North Korea moving to end inter-Korean policies.   Minister Kim pointed out that since the end of last year, North Korea has ...

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]]> KBS WORLD Radio Fri, 05 Apr 2024 17:08:28 +0900 Inter-Korea South Korea’s Ambassador to the UN Hwang Joon-kook has expressed concerns about egregious human rights violations against children in North Korea, saying that North Korean children are getting the death penalty for distributing South Korean dramas. Hwang made the remarks during a meeting of the UN ...

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]]> KBS WORLD Radio Thu, 04 Apr 2024 09:59:54 +0900 Inter-Korea South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff(JCS) says North Korea exaggerated the details of the new intermediate-range hypersonic ballistic missile that the reclusive state test-fired on Tuesday.  The JCS on Wednesday reaffirmed its joint assessment with Washington and Tokyo released on Tuesday that the ...

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]]> KBS WORLD Radio Wed, 03 Apr 2024 16:31:14 +0900 Inter-Korea Anchor: North Korea said Wednesday that it has successfully test-fired a new intermediate-range hypersonic ballistic missile. According to the North’s state-run media outlets, North Korean leader Kim Jong-un guided the testing of the Hwasong-16 missile tipped with a hypersonic warhead, which the South ...

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]]> KBS WORLD Radio Wed, 03 Apr 2024 14:50:22 +0900 Inter-Korea North Korea said Wednesday that it has successfully test-fired a new intermediate-range hypersonic ballistic missile. According to the North’s state Korean Central News Agency(KCNA), North Korean leader Kim Jong-un guided the testing of the Hwasong-16 missile tipped with a hypersonic warhead, which was ...

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]]> KBS WORLD Radio Wed, 03 Apr 2024 09:01:16 +0900 Inter-Korea The ministry in charge of inter-Korean affairs strongly denounced North Korea for using state media to attempt to divide South Korean society ahead of the April 10 general elections. Unification ministry spokesperson Koo Byoung-sam said on Tuesday that through state media, the North continues to plot ...

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]]> KBS WORLD Radio Tue, 02 Apr 2024 15:29:50 +0900 Inter-Korea The South Korean Joint Chiefs of Staff(JCS) said that North Korea fired a ballistic missile toward the East Sea on Tuesday morning.  According to the JCS, the South Korean military detected a missile, presumed to be intermediate-range, which was fired from the Pyongyang area toward the East Sea at 6:53 ...

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]]> KBS WORLD Radio Tue, 02 Apr 2024 11:12:27 +0900 Inter-Korea The government has decided to impose unilateral sanctions on two Russian vessels, two Russian entities and two individuals accused of involvement in illegal activities and funding that support North Korea’s nuclear and missile development programs.  According to the foreign ministry on Tuesday, the ...

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]]> KBS WORLD Radio Tue, 02 Apr 2024 10:15:23 +0900 Inter-Korea Japan’s defense ministry said that a suspected ballistic missile launched by North Korea on Tuesday appears to have fallen into waters outside Japan’s exclusive economic zone(EEZ). According to Japan’s Kyodo News, the ministry said on Tuesday that the North fired what appears to be a ballistic ...

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]]> KBS WORLD Radio Tue, 02 Apr 2024 08:42:49 +0900 Inter-Korea The South Korean Joint Chiefs of Staff(JCS) says that North Korea fired a ballistic missile toward the East Sea on Tuesday morning.  The South Korean military detected a missile, presumed to be intermediate-range, fired from the Pyongyang area toward the East Sea at 6:53 a.m, according to the JCS.  The ...

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]]> KBS WORLD Radio Tue, 02 Apr 2024 07:11:55 +0900 Inter-Korea North Korea has vowed to push for space development and reaffirmed its plan to launch several reconnaissance satellites this year.  According to the North’s state Korean Central News Agency(KCNA) on Monday, Pak Kyong-su, vice director of the North's National Aerospace Technology Administration, ...

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]]> KBS WORLD Radio Mon, 01 Apr 2024 09:46:09 +0900 Inter-Korea A senior North Korean official reportedly visited Laos and stressed the North's policy of bolstering defense capabilities. According to the North's state Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on Sunday, Kim Song-nam, director of the international department at the North's ruling Workers' ...

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]]> KBS WORLD Radio Sun, 31 Mar 2024 13:14:17 +0900 Inter-Korea North Korea may make constitutional amendments and scrap an inter-Korean basic agreement signed in 1991 at the next parliamentary session under the current 14th Supreme People's Assembly. An official at Seoul's unification ministry said on Thursday that Pyongyang is widely forecast to delay an ...

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]]> KBS WORLD Radio Thu, 28 Mar 2024 15:34:09 +0900 Inter-Korea The ministry in charge of inter-Korean affairs said North Korea has taken an irresponsible attitude regarding abductees, detainees and prisoners of war(POWs), calling on the regime to show an active effort to resolve related issues. Unification ministry spokesperson Koo Byoung-sam said on Wednesday that the ...

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]]> KBS WORLD Radio Wed, 27 Mar 2024 15:13:56 +0900 Inter-Korea North Korea said it was not interested in any dialogue with South Korea at a UN conference discussing disarmament issues.  At the Conference on Disarmament in Geneva on Tuesday, representatives of the United States, France and Japan unanimously criticized North Korea's nuclear activities and missile ...

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]]> KBS WORLD Radio Wed, 27 Mar 2024 09:21:49 +0900 Inter-Korea North Korean leader Kim Jong-un inspected a tank unit of the North Korean Army, which was the first to charge into Seoul during the Korean War.  The North’s state-run Korean Central News Agency(KCNA) said on Monday that Kim visited the Seoul Ryu Kyong Su Guards 105th Tank Division and the affiliated ...

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]]> KBS WORLD Radio Mon, 25 Mar 2024 10:11:43 +0900 Inter-Korea North Korea has reportedly dissolved another organization pushing for reunification with South Korea in line with its decision to abolish government agencies charged with promoting cooperation and reunification with South Korea. The North’s state Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reported on Sunday that ...

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]]> KBS WORLD Radio Sun, 24 Mar 2024 12:54:09 +0900 Inter-Korea