“We urge the United States and North Korea to sit down and have communications and negotiations, to explore ways to resolve each other’s reasonable concerns and finally reach the goal we all want reached”. “The U.S.is busy with a malignant smear campaign meant to deny the DPRK’s joining the advanced ranks of nuclear weapons states”, the article reads; “Whenever an opportunity presents itself, the U.S. claims that the DPRK had access to nuclear weapons illegally and that is disturbing peace in the Korean Peninsula and the region”. Cross-border tensions with Seoul are escalating quickly and even China is starting to sound more like an angry neighbor than a comrade-in-arms.
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Two days after Seoul announced its decision to at least temporarily shut down the industrial complex, Pyongyang expelled all the firms from the park and froze their assets there on Thursday, not allowing them to bring back any processed goods or equipment to Seoul.
The North’s official Korean Central News Agency said the ruling Workers’ Party on Saturday gave a banquet in honor of scientists, officials and others who it said contributed to the February 7 rocket launch.
In an effort to reassure one of its key Asian allies, the US Air Force sent a nuclear-capable B-52 bomber on a sortie over South Korea shortly after the North’s nuclear test on January 6.
The report, “Military and Security Developments Involving the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea”, was originally mandated in 2012 to inform Congress and the public of DoD’s analytical assessment of North Korea’s activities based on continuous USA monitoring, according to DoD officials.
“Kim Jong-un is a criminal”.
While North Korea’s ceaseless quest to acquire the ability to fire a nuclear-armed missile is aggravating the already-strained ties between the rival Koreas, the joint military drills between South Korea and the United States scheduled for next month will be the biggest such exercise ever.
In Washington, of course, that position is seen as a non-starter.
But Hong’s comments to KBS mark the first time that Seoul has acknowledged the size and method of the North’s misappropriation of the salaries for its nuclear weapons program.
You are reading news and information on LongIsland.com, Long Island’s Most Popular Website, Since 1996. “Then why shouldn’t we carry it out?” he added.
North Korea insists that its space program is peaceful and that it has a sovereign right to pursue a space program.
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“I feel proud to be a member of the Korean nation”, she said.
