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SEOUL (AFP) — North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il has attended a Lunar New Year volleyball match and an artistic performance by the military, state media said Thursday in its latest reports on his activities. The 66-year-old, who reportedly suffered a stroke last August, was "enthusiastically welcomed" by spectators at the game between an army team and another team, the Korean Central News Agency said. It gave no date for the game but said it was held to mark the Lunar New Year, which began Monday. Kim also attended a song and dance performance by members of the navy and air...

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N. Korean newscaster making Foreign Ministry's announcement of nuclear test N. Korea says it will conduct nuclear test SEOUL, Oct. 3 (Yonhap) -- North Korea said Tuesday it will conduct a nuclear test in the future, claiming it is compelled to do so due to U.S. hostility. "Firstly, the field of scientific research of the DPRK will in the future conduct a nuclear test under the condition where safety is firmly guaranteed," a spokesman for the North's Foreign Ministry said in a statement carried by the country's Korean Central News Agency. The statement did not provide any specific date...

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -- North Korea is believed to have completed fueling a long-range ballistic missile capable of hitting the United States, raising the likelihood that it will soon conduct a test launch, U.S. officials said on Sunday. The United States plans to join Japan in a sharp response if the test goes forward. Washington warned Pyongyang against the test in a message passed on Friday through North Korean diplomats at the United Nations, but there w

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/begin my translationN. Korea: Report of 1,000 Deaths in Train CrashWill take months to notify victims' family. [2006-06-02 10:46]  Buraesan Station along Pyongyang-Pyonggang Line (from "Good Friends")(note: the station is a spot marked with short solid line in the middle of winding dotted line going from right to left, after branching off from vertical line at the right side of the picture. A report came out, alleging that large-scale train crash occurred near Gowon County, S. Hamkyong Province, killing over 1,000 passengers. It remains to be seen if this can be confirmed. A N. Korea aid organization, Good Friends (Co,) reported in...

North Korea suggested Tuesday it had the ability to launch a pre-emptive attack on the United States, according to the North's official news agency. A Foreign Ministry spokesman said the North had built atomic weapons to counter the U.S. nuclear threat. "As we declared, our strong revolutionary might put in place all measures to counter possible U.S. pre-emptive strike," the spokesman said, according to the Korean Central News Agency. "Pre-emptive strike is not the monopoly of the United States." Last week, the communist country warned that it had the right to launch a pre-emptive strike, saying it would strengthen...

2005/10/23 09:49 KST Yon Hyong-muk dies of chronic disease: KCNA Yon Hyong-muk SEOUL, Oct. 23 (Yonhap) -- A senior North Korean official, Yon Hyong-muk, died of chronic disease Saturday, North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reported Sunday. The KCNA did not elaborate on what kind of disease caused Yon's death. He was vice chairman of North Korea's powerful National Defense Commission, headed by North Korean leader Kim Jong-il. In an obituary, the National Defense Commission said, "It is a big loss to our party and people that we have lost our comrade Yon Hyong-muk who had long...

SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea will not give up its nuclear weapons until the United States provides civilian atomic reactors, Pyongyang said on Tuesday in a statement that significantly undermined a deal reached just a day earlier. Six countries, including the North and the United States, had agreed on Monday to a set of principles on dismantling the Pyongyang's nuclear programs in return for aid and recognizing its right to a civilian nuclear program. Skeptics had said the deal was long on words, vague on timing and sequencing and short on action: the North's comments made clear just how short....

SEOUL, South Korea North Korea is telling its citizens to get ready for a long war with the U-S. That comes from a set of guidelines issued by the North last April and published in a South Korean newspaper today. The document is classified as "top secret" and the paper isn't saying how it obtained it. The 33-page manual orders North Koreans to be ready to move to underground bunkers and to take along weapons, food and portraits of their leader, Kim Jong Il. The manual says the U-S has "cooked up suspicion" over the North's nuclear program and intends...

TOKYO (Reuters) - North Korea (news - web sites) warned Japan on Wednesday that it would treat economic sanctions as a "declaration of war" and threatened to try to exclude Tokyo from six-party talks on Pyongyang's nuclear arms programs. Calls are growing from the Japanese public and politicians for the government to impose sanctions on North Korea after Tokyo said bones Pyongyang had identified as those of kidnapped Japanese were from other people. "If sanctions are applied against the DPRK (North Korea) due to the moves of the ultra-right forces (in Japan), we will regard it as a declaration of...

There is a 'battle royale' within CBS over whether or not to release the full text of the upcoming Memogate report, Rather Biased.com can reveal.Many higher ups in the network do not it want released to the public in its entirety..