Kim Jong Il News
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Liu Yunshan, deputy general secretary of China’s Communist Party, met with North Korean envoy Choe Ryong Hae in Beijing today after recent strains between the allies.
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North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s top military deputy met with a senior Communist Party official in China as ties between the allies showed strain over the North’s nuclear ambitions and the seizure of a fishing boat.
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North Korean leader Kim Jong Un replaced his defense chief with a younger, little-known general in the second such personnel shift since he took power in 2011.
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South Korean workers began to return to Seoul today from an industrial park jointly run with North Korea.
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South Korea demanded North Korea agree by today to negotiations aimed at re-opening a jointly-run industrial park that has been shuttered for more than two weeks or face reprisals.
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North Korea threatened retaliation against South Korea for demanding talks aimed at re-opening a jointly-run industrial park that has been shuttered for more than two weeks.
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North Korea marks the 101st birth anniversary of state founder Kim Il Sung today, after the U.S. reached an agreement with China, Japan and South Korea to try to coax the reclusive regime back to talks.
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North Korea said talks with the U.S. are possible once it has sufficient nuclear weapons to deter an attack, setting a condition the Obama administration has ruled out after weeks of threats from Kim Jong Un’s regime.
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From time to time, newspapers shower readers with predictions of a looming mass starvation in North Korea, usually in springtime. In March 2011, the New York Times wrote: “North Korea: 6 Million Are Hungry.” One year earlier, in March 2010, the Times of London warned: “Catastrophe in North Korea; China must pressure Pyongyang to allow food aid to millions threatened by famine.” In March 2009, a Washington Post headline read: “At the Heart of North Korea’s Troubles, an Intractable Hunger Crisis.”
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North Korea said talks with the U.S. are possible once it has sufficient nuclear weapons to deter an attack, setting a condition the U.S. ruled out today after weeks of threats from Kim Jong Un’s regime.
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