Seoul, May 7 (IANS) North Korea is not bound under any circumstances by the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), its representative to the United Nations said in a statement released Thursday, calling any attempt to force Pyongyang to fulfill treaty obligations a “wanton violation” of international law.In the statement, dated May 6 and carried by the North’s official Korean Central News Agency, Kim Song, Pyongyang’s permanent representative to the UN, claimed his country’s nuclear program ref…
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Seoul, April 28 (IANS) South Korea’s top nuclear envoy has stressed the need to swiftly resolve the North Korean nuclear issue, calling it the “most urgent” challenge to the nonproliferation regime, the foreign ministry said Tuesday. Jeong Yeon-doo, vice foreign minister for diplomatic strategy and intelligence, made the remarks in a keynote speech during the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) conference held in New York on Monday (US time), according to the ministry.”The DPRK is the only ca…
Seoul, April 27 (IANS) Pyongyang has opened a memorial honoring North Korean troops killed while fighting alongside Russia in the war against Ukraine, with leader Kim Jong-un stressing the need to strengthen Pyongyang-Moscow ties into a “powerful bulwark” in a ceremony marking its opening, state media reported Monday.The North held the opening ceremony of the Memorial Museum of Combat Feats at the Overseas Military Operations in Pyongyang the previous day on the occasion of the first anniversary…
Seoul, April 2 (IANS) North Korea on Thursday condemned a recent United Nations resolution on human rights violations in the country, calling it a “grave political provocation.”The reaction came after the Geneva-based UN Human Rights Council adopted its annual resolution on Pyongyang’s human rights by consensus Monday at its 61st regular session, co-sponsored by 50 countries, including South Korea.”(Our) foreign ministry brands the adoption of this anti-DPRK ‘human rights resolution’ as a grave …
Seoul, Jan 22 (IANS) South Korea’s Unification Minister Chung Dong-young on Thursday committed to seeking a breakthrough in resuming exchanges with North Korea, reaffirming Seoul’s policy of reengaging the regime to promote peace. “By designing mutually beneficial, multilateral and innovative cooperative projects, the government will find a path to resuming inter-Korean exchanges,” Chung said during a meeting of the South-North Korea Exchanges and Cooperation Support Association, Yonhap News Age…
Seoul, Jan 13 (IANS) North Korea has replaced its top officials in charge of guarding leader Kim Jong-un in recent years, Seoul’s unification ministry said on Tuesday. North Korea has changed the chiefs of three major North Korean units defending the security of the North’s leader — the Guard Office of the ruling party, the Guard Department of the State Affairs Commission and the Guard Command — the ministry said in its analysis of the major reshuffle of North Korean officials in 2025.The mini…
Seoul, Jan 12 (IANS) The South Korean government will continue efforts to ease tensions and build trust with North Korea despite Pyongyang’s recent claim accusing Seoul of carrying out drone incursions into the country, the unification ministry said on Monday.Unification ministry spokesperson Yoon Min-ho made the remarks after President Lee Jae Myung ordered last week the creation of a joint military-police investigation team to look into the alleged drone incursions.On Sunday, Kim Yo-jong, the …
Seoul, Jan 11 (IANS) The influential sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has called for Seoul to provide a detailed explanation about recent drone incursions, claiming that the drones from South Korea clearly violated the North’s airspace. Kim Yo-jong, vice department director of the Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea, made the remarks as South Korea’s Defence Ministry denied Pyongyang’s claim about the drone incursions from the South’s military, raising the possibility that …
Seoul, Jan 2 (IANS) South Korea’s Unification Minister Chung Dong-young urged North Korea to return to dialogue Friday, saying South Korea is ready to talk with the North “on any agenda” to ease inter-Korean tensions. Chung made the remarks in his New Year’s message during a ceremony at the government complex in Seoul, stressing that the two Koreas must “end inter-Korean hostilities this year.””The Lee Jae Myung administration, as a sovereign government, will fully support exchanges in the priva…
Seoul, Dec 29 (IANS) North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has overseen a test launch of long-range strategic cruise missiles, calling for the “unlimited and sustained” development of state nuclear combat forces, state media reported on Monday.The drill took place Sunday in the Yellow Sea, demonstrating “the absolute reliability and combat readiness of the North’s strategic counterattack capability,” according to the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA).The strategic cruise missiles flew along the preset…