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N. Korea delegates arrive in Seoul for pre-Olympics inspection

Seoul - Emiratesvoice

A North Korean delegation arrived in Seoul on Sunday to inspect venues and prepare cultural performances for next month's Winter Olympics, in the first visit by Pyongyang officials for four years. Television footage showed a group of seven officials led by Hyon Song-Wol, the leader of the North's popular Moranbong band, crossing the heavily-fortified border on a bus before arrivingRead more

North Korea says will attend Olympics in rival South

Seoul - Emiratesvoice

North Korea said it was willing to send athletes and a high-level delegation to the forthcoming Winter Olympics in the South on Tuesday as the rivals held their first official talks in more than two years after high tensions over Pyongyang's nuclear weapons programme. Seoul urged that reunions of families divided by the 1950-53 Korean War -- one of the mostRead more

N.Korea accepts South's offer of talks next week

Seoul - Emiratesvoice

North Korea on Friday accepted the South's offer of talks next week, said Seoul's Unification ministry, which oversees relations with Pyongyang. "North Korea this morning faxed a message to our side, saying it accepts the South's proposal for talks on January 9," a ministry official told AFP.Read more

Kim says N. Korea must mass-produce nukes, missiles

Seoul - Emiratesvoice

North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un urged his country to step up the production of nuclear warheads and missiles in a New Year message Monday, as Pyongyang's ever-accelerating weapons drive stokes international tensions. "We must mass-produce nuclear warheads and ballistic missile and speed up their deployment," said Kim in his annual address to the nation.Read more

North Korea denies role in WannaCry ransomware attack

Seoul - Emiratesvoice

North Korea on Thursday denied US accusations it was behind the WannaCry global ransomware cyberattack, saying Washington was demonising it. WannaCry infected some 300,000 computers in 150 nations in May, encrypting user files and demanding hundreds of dollars from their owners for the keys to get them back. The White House this week blamed Pyongyang for it, adding its voice to several other countriesRead more

N. Korean defector pleads to return

Pyongyang - Emirates Voice

A North Korean defector interrupted a United Nations human rights press conference in Seoul on Thursday to plead tearfully to be allowed to go back to her relatives in Pyongyang. More than 30,000 North Koreans have fled poverty and repression in their isolated homeland to move to the South. But they often struggle to make a living in the capitalist South and sometimesRead more

Don't sleepwalk into war over N. Korea, warns UN boss

Tokyo - Emirates Voice

United Nations chief Antonio Guterres Thursday warned the world against "sleepwalking into war" over North Korea, as he called for diplomatic efforts to banish nuclear weapons from the Korean peninsula. Speaking on a visit to Japan, Secretary-General Guterres said: "The worst possible thing that could happen would be for us all to sleepwalk into a war that might have veryRead more

N. Korean defector pleads to return

Pyongyang - Emirates Voice

UN envoy says North Korea agrees on need 'to prevent war'

United Nations - AFP

Returning from Pyongyang, a senior UN official said Tuesday that North Korean officials agreed on the need to prevent war but offered no concrete proposal for talks. "They agreed that it was important to prevent war," Jeffrey Feltman, the UN's political affairs chief, told reporters after briefing the Security Council on his tripRead more

Senior UN official to make rare visit to North Korea

United Nations - AFP

A top UN official will travel to North Korea this week for talks with officials there, a UN spokesman said Monday, amid heightened tensions over Pyongyang's nuclear and ballistic missile programs. Jeffrey Feltman, the UN under-secretary-general for political affairs, "will discuss with DPRK officials issues of mutual interest and concern," UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric said, using the acronym for NorthRead more