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North Korea Wants To Restart Nuclear Talks If Trump Wins, Says Ex-Diplomat
North Korea wants to reopen nuclear talks with the United States if Donald Trump is re-elected as president and is working to devise a new negotiating strategy, a senior North Korean diplomat who recently defected to South Korea told Reuters.
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North Korean Diplomat Defects From Cuba To South Korea: Report
A high-ranking North Korean diplomat stationed in Cuba defected to South Korea last November -- just months before Seoul and Havana established diplomatic ties, a report said Tuesday.
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Boat Carrying Suspected North Korean Defectors Stopped By South Korea
South Korean authorities on Tuesday detained a North Korean boat carrying people believed to be seeking to defect from the isolated country, the military said.
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North Korean Soldier Crosses Demilitarised Zone Into South
A North Korean soldier crossed the Demilitarised Zone that divides the peninsula, Seoul's military said Thursday, in a rare direct defection across the heavily fortified frontier.
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South Korean Follows Parents In Rare Defection To North Korea: Report
A South Korean man has defected to North Korea, following in the footsteps of his political parents who also made a high-profile switch of allegiance in the 1980s, according to Pyongyang's state media.
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North Korea's Kim Jong Un Shuffles Nuclear Talks Team Amid Spying Charges
Veteran North Korean diplomats are being sidelined from nuclear talks ahead of a second summit with the US as recent defections and allegations of spying undermine the trust of leader Kim Jong Un, South Korean officials said.
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Hackers Steal Data Of Nearly 1,000 North Korean Defectors In South Korea
The personal information of nearly 1,000 North Koreans who defected to South Korea has been leaked after unknown hackers got access to a resettlement agency's database, the South Korean Unification Ministry said on Friday.
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North Korean Soldier Defects Across Border, Says South Korea's Military
A North Korean soldier defected to South Korea across the eastern land border on Saturday, the South's military said.
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North Korea Defector Paid Smugglers To Get Family Out, Sent Back By China
This was Heo's world. She agreed to tell her story to The Washington Post, abandoning the normal cloak of anonymity used by defectors worried that speaking openly could endanger relatives back home.
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Shots Fired Along Demilitarised Zone As North Korean Soldier Defects
South Korean guards fired warning shots across the heavily militarised border with North Korea on Thursday as a soldier from the North defected, officials said, complicating efforts to ease tensions over the Pyongyang's weapons programmes.
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North Korean Defector Pleads To Return At UN Event
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.
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A 'Ghost Ship' Washed Ashore In Japan, And Clues Point To North Koreans
About 30,000 North Koreans have defected since the devastating famine in the mid-1990s. They tell stories of sometimes violent reprisals for political speech, being banished to labor camps for watching American movies and old-fashioned starvation.
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North Korea Sacks Soldiers, South Korea Awards Medals After Defector's Border Dash
North Korea has reportedly replaced guards and fortified a section of its border with South Korea where a North Korean soldier staged a daring defection last week, while South Korean and U.S. soldiers have been decorated for their role in his rescue.
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Dramatic Video Shows North Korean Soldier Making A Run For Freedom
North Korea clearly violated the 1953 armistice agreement that ended the Korean War when its border guards shot after, and one ran after, a North Korean soldier as he made a daring dash for freedom last week, the commander of U.S. Forces in Korea said Wednesday.
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Watch: Dramatic Footage Shows North Korea Defector's Border Dash
Dramatic footage of a North Korean soldier's defection released Wednesday showed him racing across the border under fire from former comrades, and then being hauled to safety by South Korean troops.
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North Korea Wants To Restart Nuclear Talks If Trump Wins, Says Ex-Diplomat
North Korea wants to reopen nuclear talks with the United States if Donald Trump is re-elected as president and is working to devise a new negotiating strategy, a senior North Korean diplomat who recently defected to South Korea told Reuters.
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North Korean Diplomat Defects From Cuba To South Korea: Report
A high-ranking North Korean diplomat stationed in Cuba defected to South Korea last November -- just months before Seoul and Havana established diplomatic ties, a report said Tuesday.
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Boat Carrying Suspected North Korean Defectors Stopped By South Korea
South Korean authorities on Tuesday detained a North Korean boat carrying people believed to be seeking to defect from the isolated country, the military said.
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North Korean Soldier Crosses Demilitarised Zone Into South
A North Korean soldier crossed the Demilitarised Zone that divides the peninsula, Seoul's military said Thursday, in a rare direct defection across the heavily fortified frontier.
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South Korean Follows Parents In Rare Defection To North Korea: Report
A South Korean man has defected to North Korea, following in the footsteps of his political parents who also made a high-profile switch of allegiance in the 1980s, according to Pyongyang's state media.
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North Korea's Kim Jong Un Shuffles Nuclear Talks Team Amid Spying Charges
Veteran North Korean diplomats are being sidelined from nuclear talks ahead of a second summit with the US as recent defections and allegations of spying undermine the trust of leader Kim Jong Un, South Korean officials said.
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Hackers Steal Data Of Nearly 1,000 North Korean Defectors In South Korea
The personal information of nearly 1,000 North Koreans who defected to South Korea has been leaked after unknown hackers got access to a resettlement agency's database, the South Korean Unification Ministry said on Friday.
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North Korean Soldier Defects Across Border, Says South Korea's Military
A North Korean soldier defected to South Korea across the eastern land border on Saturday, the South's military said.
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North Korea Defector Paid Smugglers To Get Family Out, Sent Back By China
This was Heo's world. She agreed to tell her story to The Washington Post, abandoning the normal cloak of anonymity used by defectors worried that speaking openly could endanger relatives back home.
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Shots Fired Along Demilitarised Zone As North Korean Soldier Defects
South Korean guards fired warning shots across the heavily militarised border with North Korea on Thursday as a soldier from the North defected, officials said, complicating efforts to ease tensions over the Pyongyang's weapons programmes.
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North Korean Defector Pleads To Return At UN Event
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.
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A 'Ghost Ship' Washed Ashore In Japan, And Clues Point To North Koreans
About 30,000 North Koreans have defected since the devastating famine in the mid-1990s. They tell stories of sometimes violent reprisals for political speech, being banished to labor camps for watching American movies and old-fashioned starvation.
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North Korea Sacks Soldiers, South Korea Awards Medals After Defector's Border Dash
North Korea has reportedly replaced guards and fortified a section of its border with South Korea where a North Korean soldier staged a daring defection last week, while South Korean and U.S. soldiers have been decorated for their role in his rescue.
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Dramatic Video Shows North Korean Soldier Making A Run For Freedom
North Korea clearly violated the 1953 armistice agreement that ended the Korean War when its border guards shot after, and one ran after, a North Korean soldier as he made a daring dash for freedom last week, the commander of U.S. Forces in Korea said Wednesday.
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Watch: Dramatic Footage Shows North Korea Defector's Border Dash
Dramatic footage of a North Korean soldier's defection released Wednesday showed him racing across the border under fire from former comrades, and then being hauled to safety by South Korean troops.
