# pyongyang - Wednesday 24 February, 2021
# Great Defector
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# Great Defector
The man was caught only after apparently falling asleep.
# pyongyang - Tuesday 23 June, 2020
# At Loggerheads
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# At Loggerheads
A propaganda war is fuelling the escalating tensions between the two countries.
# pyongyang - Sunday 3 May, 2020
# Demilitarised Zone
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# Demilitarised Zone
The fire exchange took place a day after North Korea reported its leader Kim Jong Un’s first public appearance in some 20 days.
# pyongyang - Tuesday 14 April, 2020
# Pyongyang
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# Pyongyang
South Korea said that the missiles were fired towards the sea.
# pyongyang - Monday 2 March, 2020
# Pyongyang
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# Pyongyang
The lack of testing activity in past months had experts wondering whether the North was holding back its weapons displays.
# pyongyang - Tuesday 31 December, 2019
# North Korea
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# North Korea
Kim spoke for seven hours during the ruling Workers’ Party meeting in Pyongyang.
# pyongyang - Monday 9 December, 2019
# Weapons Test
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# Weapons Test
This comes as Pyongyang said it had carried out a major new weapons test.
# pyongyang - Thursday 3 October, 2019
# Nuclear Threat
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# Nuclear Threat
North Korea and the United States are due to meet this weekend.
# pyongyang - Wednesday 2 October, 2019
# Kim Jong-un
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# Kim Jong-un
Washington and Pyongyang are set to resume long-stalled talks in the coming days.
# pyongyang - Friday 16 August, 2019
# Tense
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# Tense
North Korea blamed blamed South Korea and US military exercises.
# pyongyang - Friday 28 June, 2019
# Pyongyang
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# Pyongyang
Alek Sigley has not been heard from since Tuesday.
# pyongyang - Saturday 4 May, 2019
# Tensions
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# Tensions
South Korea has said North Korea fired a number of projectiles into the sea.
# pyongyang - Wednesday 24 April, 2019
# Russian Talks
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# Russian Talks
The talks will be Kim’s first face-to-face meeting with another head of state since his meeting with Trump.
# pyongyang - Wednesday 6 March, 2019
# Rocket Site
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# Rocket Site
The activity was recorded days after the summit North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and US President Donald Trump.
# pyongyang - Tuesday 1 January, 2019
# North Korea
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# North Korea
The North Korean leader says the state might be compelled to explore a ‘new path’ of defense if US sanctions remain unchanged.
# pyongyang - Sunday 7 October, 2018
# Pyongyang
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# Pyongyang
The top US diplomat met with Kim for around two hours this morning in the North’s capital.
# pyongyang - Wednesday 19 September, 2018
# Pyongyang
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# Pyongyang
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has invited his North Korean counterpart to meet in New York next week.
# pyongyang - Tuesday 31 July, 2018
# Nuclear
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# Nuclear
Following the Singapore summit in June, President Donald Trump had declared that Pyongyang was “no longer a nuclear threat”.
# pyongyang - Thursday 14 June, 2018
# Urgency
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# Urgency
US President Donald Trump has proudly declared that there is no longer a nuclear threat from North Korea.
# pyongyang - Wednesday 9 May, 2018
# Pyongyang
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# Pyongyang
The US President said they ‘seem to be in good health’.
# pyongyang - Friday 27 April, 2018
# Good Neighbours?
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# Good Neighbours?
Kim was flanked by his sister and close adviser Kim Yo Jong.
# pyongyang - Monday 23 April, 2018
# Pyongyang
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# Pyongyang
Few details were released about the bus crash, but a now-deleted tweet claimed that 30 had died.
# pyongyang - Saturday 21 April, 2018
# Progress
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# Progress
Donald Trump tweeted that “progress [is] being made for all”.
# pyongyang - Tuesday 6 March, 2018
# Pyongyang
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# Pyongyang
South Korea also claims that Pyongyang said it would consider abandoning nuclear weapons in exchange for security guarantees.
# pyongyang - Monday 5 March, 2018
# Dinner Host
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# Dinner Host
It is the first time the North Korean leader has met with officials from the South since taking office in 2011.
# pyongyang - Saturday 23 December, 2017
# Nuclear Weapons
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# Nuclear Weapons
The sanctions will restrict oil supplies vital for Pyongyang’s missile and nuclear programmes.
# pyongyang - Thursday 30 November, 2017
# North Korea
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# North Korea
“If war comes, make no mistake – The North Korean regime will be utterly destroyed.”
# pyongyang - Monday 13 November, 2017
# Border Shooting
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# Border Shooting
The soldier survived the shooting.
# pyongyang - Tuesday 7 November, 2017
# Seoul Searching
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# Seoul Searching
Trump has been visiting a number of Asian countries.
# pyongyang - Tuesday 24 October, 2017
# North Korea
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# North Korea
Siti Aisyah and Doan Thi Huong are accused of killing Kim on 13 February.
# pyongyang - Sunday 8 October, 2017
# Going Nuclear
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# Going Nuclear
The US President has been trading insults with Kim Jong-un amid rising tensions.
# pyongyang - Tuesday 26 September, 2017
# International Tensions
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# International Tensions
North Korea’s foreign minister said the statement from Trump was “clearly a declaration of war”.
# pyongyang - Sunday 24 September, 2017
# Unswerving Loyalty
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# Unswerving Loyalty
Seo Ok-ryol has spent three decades in prison and been sentenced to death on two separate occasions.
# pyongyang - Friday 15 September, 2017
# Escalating Tensions
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# Escalating Tensions
The missile was launched from near Pyongyang.
# pyongyang - Thursday 14 September, 2017
# TOUGH TALK
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# TOUGH TALK
Pyongyang is unhappy after being hit with fresh UN sanctions.
# pyongyang - Sunday 3 September, 2017
# Explosion
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# Explosion
The US President also criticised China, and offered advice to South Korea.
# pyongyang - Wednesday 30 August, 2017
# Mixed Message
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# Mixed Message
His comments are at odds with remarks made by US Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis.
# pyongyang - Thursday 17 August, 2017
# War Games
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# War Games
Tensions in the region have been rising.
# pyongyang - Saturday 5 August, 2017
# Nuclear Weapons
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# Nuclear Weapons
The move could cost Pyongyang about €850 million in annual revenue.
# pyongyang - Friday 21 July, 2017
# Banned
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# Banned
Relationships with North Korea have been strained since it successfully tested an intercontinental ballistic missile.
