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Kyodo News, Published on 01/01/2015
» North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said Thursday "there is no reason not to be able to" hold a summit meeting with South Korea in a nationally televised New Year's address.
Kyodo News, Published on 09/04/2016
» BEIJING — North Korea claimed on Saturday to have successfully tested a new type of engine for an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), in its latest episode of sabre-rattling ahead of a rare party congress scheduled for early next month.
Kyodo News, Published on 20/03/2016
» The 22 people recently banned from re-entering Japan after visiting North Korea include a rocket engine expert with a doctorate from the University of Tokyo, a Japanese government source said on Saturday.
Kyodo News, Published on 27/12/2015
» SEOUL - The South Korean government lodged a protest with Japan on Saturday over Japanese media reports that say Seoul is considering relocating a statue of a girl symbolising the issue of so-called comfort women from in front of the Japanese Embassy in the South Korean capital.
Kyodo News, Published on 25/01/2015
» North Korea has asked Cambodia to ban the sales and screening of Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc's controversial comedy about an assassination plot against North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, saying the movie insults Kim, according to a government document released Sunday.
Kyodo News, Published on 21/07/2016
» TOKYO - Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida will visit Laos from Sunday to Tuesday next week to attend a series of regional foreign ministerial meetings involving the 10 members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, the Japanese Foreign Ministry said on Thursday.
Kyodo News, Published on 21/03/2016
» TOKYO — North Korea on Tuesday fired five missiles from its east coast, according to South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Kyodo News, Published on 15/01/2016
» Deputy US Secretary of State Antony Blinken will visit Japan, Myanmar, South Korea and China starting later this week for talks on issues such as North Korea's recent nuclear test, the State Department said Thursday.
Kyodo News, Published on 23/07/2016
» VIENTIANE/PYONGYANG - North Korea's new foreign minister on Saturday left for Laos to make his overseas debut at a major security forum, at a time of high tensions over Pyongyang's series of weapons tests.
Kyodo News, Published on 29/06/2016
» Japanese immigration authorities have asked the embassies of five Asian countries, including Thailand, plus Taiwan to help with the voluntary repatriation of their nationals who are living illegally in Japan, Justice Ministry sources said Wednesday.