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Asia Minute: Earth Day: Renewable energy rising on Korean Peninsula
22 April 2019 - Clean energy is gaining traction on the Korean Peninsula in both the south and the north. There was some surprising news out of North Korea last week. Reuters reports solar panels are becoming cheaper and more widely available in the country. ... Reuters also quotes recent defectors as saying more teahouses and karaoke bars have switched from diesel generators to solar power. (more)

Koreas open 1st liaison office for better communication
14 September 2018 - The rival Koreas on Friday [14 September] opened their first liaison office near their tense border to facilitate better communication and exchanges ahead of their leaders' summit in Pyongyang next week. The office's opening in the North Korean border town of Kaesong is the latest in a series of reconciliatory steps the Koreas have taken this year. The office is the first of its kind since the Koreas were divided at the end of World War II in 1945. (more)

Koreas holding military talks to reduce tensions on border
14 June 2018 - The rival Koreas were holding rare high-level military talks Thursday to discuss reducing tensions across their heavily fortified border. Seoul's Defense Ministry said the military talks would focus on carrying out agreements from a summit between Kim and South Korean President Moon Jae-in in which they vowed to take steps to reduce military tensions and eliminate the danger of war. The discussions are the first general-level talks between the militaries since December 2007. (more)

North Korea leader Kim prepared to cede nuclear weapons if U.S. pledges not to invade
29 April 2018 - Keeping diplomatic developments coming at a head-snapping pace, the South Korean government said on Sunday that North Korea's leader, Kim Jong-un, had told President Moon Jae-in that he would abandon his nuclear weapons if the United States agreed to formally end the Korean War and promise not to invade his country. (more)

North Korea offers to give up nukes if US vows not to attack
29 April 2018 - North Korean leader Kim Jong Un told his South Korean counterpart at their historic summit that he would be willing to give up his nuclear weapons if the U.S. commits to a formal end to the Korean War and a pledge not to attack the North, Seoul officials said Sunday (29 April). (more)

North and South Korea set bold goals: A final peace and no nuclear arms
27 April 2018 - The leaders of North and South Korea agreed on Friday (27 April) to work to remove all nuclear weapons from the Korean Peninsula and, within the year, pursue talks with the United States to declare an official end to the Korean War, which ravaged the peninsula from 1950 to 1953. At a historic summit meeting, the first time a North Korean leader had ever set foot in the South, the leaders vowed to negotiate a treaty to replace a truce that has kept an uneasy peace on the divided Korean Peninsula for more than six decades. (more)

Rival Koreas agree to form first unified Olympic team
17 January 2018 - The rival Koreas agreed Wednesday (17 January) to form their first unified Olympic team and have their athletes parade together for the first time in 11 years during the opening ceremony of next month's Winter Olympics in South Korea, officials said. The agreements still require approval from the International Olympic Committee. But they are the most prominent steps toward rapprochement achieved by the Koreas since they recently began exploring cooperation during the Olympics following a year of heightened tension over the North's nuclear weapons program. (more)

A small uptick in inter-Korean ties follows a tense year
9 January 2018 - What a difference a year makes. North and South Korea sat down to talk Tuesday (9 January) after a year of mounting tensions ... The seemingly intractable differences suddenly eased over the past week -- though just a tad -- in a series of developments that followed a suggestion by North Korea's leader that he might send a delegation to the upcoming Winter Olympics in South Korea. A look at the buildup and easing of tensions: (more)

North Korea to join Olympics in South Korea as tensions ease
9 January 2018 - The rival Koreas took steps toward reducing their bitter animosity during rare talks Tuesday, as North Korea agreed to send a delegation to next month's Winter Olympics in South Korea and reopen a military hotline. (more)

AP Explains: What to expect from North-South Korean talks
8 January 2018 - North Korea's recent abrupt push to improve ties with South Korea wasn't totally unexpected, as the country has a history of launching provocations and then pursuing dialogue with rivals Seoul and Washington in an attempt to win concessions. Still, Tuesday's planned talks between the Koreas, the first in about two years, have raised hopes of at least a temporary easing of tensions over North Korea's recent nuclear and missile tests, which have ignited fears of a possible war. A look at how the Korean talks were arranged and what to expect from them: (more)


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North Korea says it tested new solid-fuel ICBM, warns of 'extreme' horror
14 April 2023 - North Korea announced on Friday (14 April) it had tested a new solid-fuel intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), a development set to 'radically promote' its forces, which experts said would facilitate missile launches with little warning. (more)

Groundwater carries radiation risk for North Korean cities near nuke test site - rights group
21 February 2023 - Tens of thousands of North Koreans and people in South Korea, Japan, and China could be exposed to radioactive materials spread through groundwater from an underground nuclear test site, a Seoul-based human rights group said in a report on Tuesday [21 February]. North Korea secretly conducted six tests of nuclear weapons at the Punggye-ri site in the mountainous North Hamgyong Province between 2006 and 2017, according to the U.S. and South Korean governments. (more)

North Korea takes inspiration from Putin's nuke threats
13 October 2022 - For decades North Korea has threatened to turn enemy cities into a 'sea of fire,' even as it doggedly worked on building a nuclear weapons program that could back up its belligerent words. Now, as North Korea conducts another torrid run of powerful weapons tests -- and threatens pre-emptive nuclear strikes on Washington and Seoul [South Korea] -- it may be taking inspiration from the fiery rhetoric of the leader of a nuclear-armed member of the U.N. Security Council: Russia's Vladimir Putin. (more)

North Korea sends missile soaring over Japan in escalation
4 October 2022 - North Korea conducted its longest-ever weapons test Tuesday [4 October], a nuclear-capable ballistic missile that flew over Japan and could reach the U.S. Pacific territory of Guam and beyond, forcing the Japanese government to issue evacuation alerts and halt trains. (more)

North Korea destroys inter-Korean liaison office in 'terrific explosion'
16 June 2020 - North Korea on Tuesday [16 June] blew up a joint liaison office set up in a border town in 2018 to foster better ties with South Korea after threatening action if defectors continued with a campaign sending propaganda leaflets into the North. The liaison office in Kaesong - a gleaming blue-glass four-story structure in an otherwise drab industrial city - was 'ruined with a terrific explosion,' North Korea's state news agency KCNA said. ... The destruction of the building 'broke the expectations of all people who hope for the development of inter-Korean relations and lasting peace on the peninsula', [South Korea's] deputy national security advisor Kim You-geun told a briefing. (more)

Malnutrition, disease rising in North Korea: aid organization
18 July 2019 - Rates of malnutrition and disease are increasing in North Korea as it faces a harvest that is half of what was expected, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) said on Thursday [18 July]. ... in the 1990s, a nationwide famine killed as many as one million people. (more)

Flooding kills dozens in North Korea, thousands left homeless: Red Cross
6 September 2018 - Severe flooding in North Korea has killed at least 76 people with nearly the same number missing and thousands left homeless by the destruction, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies said on Thursday (6 September). (more)

Red Cross warns of food crisis in North Korea as crops fail in heat
10 August 2018 - A heat wave in North Korea has led to rice, maize, and other crops withering in the fields, 'with potentially catastrophic effects', the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) said on Friday (10 August). The world's largest disaster relief network warned of a risk of a 'full-blown food security crisis' in the isolated country, where a famine in the mid-1990s killed up to three million people. (more)

Worst drought in 16 years threatens food supplies in North Korea - UN
20 July 2017 - Early season production has plunged over 30 percent from the previous year. North Korea is facing severe food shortages due to the worst drought since 2001 with food imports needed to ensure children and the elderly do not go hungry, the United Nations' food agency said on Thursday, 20 July. The Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) said rainfall in key producing areas fell well below the longterm average between April and June and badly affected staple crops . . . (more)

North Koreans: Brutal work abroad better than life back home
12 April 2016 - One North Korean who worked abroad says that as a waitress in China, she was forced to put up with male customers who groped her and tried to get her drunk. Two others recall the frozen bodies of their countrymen stored in Russian logging camps. Another says he toiled for up to 16 hours a day at a Kuwaiti construction site surrounded by wire fences. As difficult as those lives were, the four workers told The Associated Press, it beat staying in the North. North Korea has sent tens of thousands of workers abroad with a mission to bring in foreign currency. Human-rights organizations have called those workers modern-day slaves, while also decrying human-rights abuses North Koreans face back home. To the workers themselves, there is little debate about which plight is more favorable. The average monthly wage for ordinary North Korean workers is less than $1, according to defectors. (more)

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