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Post by Admin on Jul 29, 2019 4:49:37 GMT
Days after reporting that Defense Intelligence Agency analysts suspect that North Korea has built a dozen nuclear weapons since President Trump met with Kim Jong Un last year, the Wall Street Journal on Saturday issued a correction that changed the story dramatically.
"A previous version of this article incorrectly stated that analysts at the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency said North Korea could have produced 12 nuclear weapons since the Trump-Kim handshake in Singapore in June 2018," the paper amended to the Friday article.
In addition to adding the correction, the Wall Street Journal also deleted the paragraph that read, "Analysts at the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency say North Korea’s scientists may have produced 12 nuclear weapons since the first Trump-Kim meeting in Singapore last year. In total, Pyongyang could currently possess between 20 and 60 nuclear bombs, according to estimates by various security analysts."
The sources for the story are instead described as analysts from a non-government agency.
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Post by Admin on Aug 6, 2019 17:55:25 GMT
North Korea has fired two unidentified missiles, its fourth such launch in less than two weeks, South Korea's military has said. They were fired from South Hwanghae province across the peninsula into the sea to the east, a statement said. The North again expressed anger at US-South Korean military drills that began on Monday. It says they violate agreements reached with US President Donald Trump and South Korea's President Moon Jae-in.
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Post by Admin on Aug 9, 2019 18:06:53 GMT
North Korea has generated an estimated $2 billion for its weapons of mass destruction programs using “widespread and increasingly sophisticated” cyberattacks to steal from banks and cryptocurrency exchanges, according to a confidential UN report seen by Reuters on Monday. Pyongyang also “continued to enhance its nuclear and missile programs although it did not conduct a nuclear test or ICBM [intercontinental ballistic missile] launch,” said the report to the UN Security Council North Korea sanctions committee by independent experts monitoring compliance over the past six months. The North Korean mission to the United Nations did not respond to a request for comment on the report, which was submitted to the Security Council committee last week. The experts said North Korea “used cyberspace to launch increasingly sophisticated attacks to steal funds from financial institutions and cryptocurrency exchanges to generate income.” They also used cyberspace to launder the stolen money, the report said.
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Post by Admin on Aug 20, 2019 21:06:49 GMT
Team Trump on Monday extended a ban on Americans traveling to North Korea by forbidding the use of US passports to gain entry to the hermit kingdom for another year. The State Department said the ban would remain in place until Aug. 31, 2020, unless revoked by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, a move that comes despite President Trump’s frequent warm words for the rogue regime’s dictator, Kim Jong Un. The ban was imposed last September by then-Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and renewed in 2018. Tillerson took the unusual step following the death of an American student, Otto Warmbier, who had been detained in North Korea. The State Department said it determined “there continues to be serious risk to United States nationals of arrest and long-term detention” for Americans traveling to North Korea, according to the notice.
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Post by Admin on Oct 30, 2019 18:23:01 GMT
South Korea says North Korea has rejected proposed bilateral talks over the handling of South Korean facilities at a tourist resort they jointly developed.
Seoul wanted to hold working-level talks at Mount Kumgang, a tourist region and mountain range. It is where the joint project was launched in 1998 as a symbol of cooperation between two countries.
The invitation to talk was made on Monday in response to North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's order to remove South Korean facilities last week.
According to South Korea's Unification Ministry, Pyongyang says that the matter should be discussed by exchanging documents rather than meeting face-to-face.
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