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Syeda Mubeena Hashmi Posted in World

North Korea Launches Ballistic Missile Into East Sea

North Korea fired a ballistic missile towards the East Sea on Sunday, South Korea’s military said, prompting heightened surveillance by Seoul and coordination with the United States and Japan. The launch came days after Pyongyang reaffirmed its nuclear-armed status and rejected a UN nuclear watchdog resolution calling for an end to its nuclear activities. Japan also confirmed the launch. Read More…

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Syeda Mubeena Hashmi Posted in World

Lee Says Trump Seeks Dialogue With North Korea

SEOUL: South Korean President Lee Jae Myung said Friday that US President Donald Trump clearly wants dialogue with North Korea and urged Washington to pursue talks with Pyongyang. Lee said Seoul was continuing preliminary efforts to facilitate US-North Korea engagement, while noting a Trump-Kim Jong Un meeting remained uncertain but possible. He also ruled out South Korean troops joining the Iran war. Read More…

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Hafsa Mustafa Posted in World

China's Xi to visit North Korea next week

Chinese President Xi Jinping will visit North Korea next week, state media said Friday, the latest in a series of high-level summits as Beijing asserts its position as a diplomatic superpower on the world stage. State broadcaster CCTV said that Xi would visit from June 8 to 9 at the invitation of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, his first trip to Pyongyang in seven years. Read More…

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Hafsa Mustafa Posted in World

North Korea's ruling party elevates Kim Jong-un’s sister

North Korea's ruling party has elevated leader Kim Jong-un's powerful younger sister to a top position, state media has said, a sign of her far-reaching influence within the reclusive nation. Kim Yo-jong - long considered one of her brother's closest lieutenants - was promoted to department director within the party's apex central committee, the Korean Central News Agency has said on Tuesday. Although it was not clear which department she would lead, she had previously held a senior role within the party's propaganda unit. Read More…

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Hafsa Mustafa Posted in World

Parade with Putin and Kim aims to 'cherish peace', not conspire against US: China

China defended on Thursday its decision to invite the leaders of Russia and North Korea to World War II commemorations, which President Donald Trump accused them of using to conspire against the United States. Trump wrote a testy Truth Social post addressing his Chinese counterpart after North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and Russia's Vladimir Putin flanked Xi Jinping at a massive parade in Beijing showcasing Chinese military hardware. "Give my warmest regards to Vladimir Putin, and Kim Jong-un, as you conspire against The United States of America," Trump wrote. Read More…

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Hafsa Mustafa Posted in World

Kremlin rejects Trump's claims of China, North Korea, Russia plotting against US

Moscow has denied US President Donald Trump’s accusation that the Russian, Chinese, and North Korean leaders were conspiring against Washington amid a massive parade held in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square. “I want to say that no one was plotting (against the US), no one was weaving anything, no conspiracies. Moreover, no one even had this in their thoughts; none of these three leaders had it,” Russian presidential aide Yuri Ushakov told Russian journalist Pavel Zarubin in an interview shared on his Telegram account on Wednesday. Read More…

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Hafsa Mustafa Posted in World

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un arrives in China

A train carrying North Korean leader Kim Jong Un passed into China early Tuesday, South Korea's Yonhap news agency reported, citing the North's state-run radio service. It is a rare trip outside North Korea for Kim, who is one of 26 heads of state slated attend a military parade in Beijing to mark the 80th anniversary of Japan's surrender in World War II. If it proceeds as planned, the diplomatic foray will mark the first time that Kim, Russia's Vladmir Putin and China's Xi Jinping appear at the same event. Read More…

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North Korea’s Kim calls for rapid nuclear buildup

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said his country needed to rapidly expand its nuclear armament and called U.S.-South Korea military exercises an “obvious expression of their will to provoke war,” state media KCNA reported on Tuesday. South Korea and its ally the United States kicked off joint military drills this week, including testing an upgraded response to heightened North Korean nuclear threats. Pyongyang regularly criticises such drills as rehearsals for invasion and sometimes responds with weapons tests, but Seoul and Washington say they are purely defensive. Read More…

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Alina Hashmi Posted in World

Putin hails 'heroic' North Korean troops

Russian President Vladimir Putin has hailed North Korean troops sent to fight in Ukraine as "heroic" in a letter he sent to Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un, according to North Korean state media. In a letter marking the anniversary of Korea's liberation from Japanese rule, Mr Putin recalled how Soviet Red Army units and North Korean forces fought together to end Japan's colonial occupation. "The bonds of militant friendship, goodwill and mutual aid which were consolidated in the days of the war long ago remain solid and reliable even today," Mr… Read More…

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Hafsa Mustafa Posted in World

N. Korea sent 3,000 more soldiers to Russia this year: Seoul  

North Korea sent an additional 3,000 troops to Russia this year and is still supplying missiles, artillery and ammunition to help Moscow fight Kyiv, Seoul’s military said on Thursday. Russia and North Korea have drawn closer since Moscow’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine, with Seoul accusing Kim Jong Un of sending thousands of troops and containers of weapons to help Moscow. Neither Moscow nor Pyongyang has officially confirmed the troop deployment but the two countries signed a military deal last year, including a mutual defence clause, when Russian President Vladimir Putin… Read More…

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