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New role for wife of DPRK's Kim Jong Un: First Lady

TheDemocraticPeople'sRepublicofKorea(DPRK)leaderKimJongUnhasgivenhisyoung,stylishwifethetitleofFirstLadyinwhatanalystssayisamajorboosttoherstatusaheadofback-to-

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Russia's FM accepts invitation to visit DPRK

Russia'sForeignMinisterSergeiLavrovsaidonTuesdaythathehadacceptedaninvitationtovisitPyongyang.LavrovtoldreportersaftermeetingwithRiYongHo,ForeignMinisteroftheDe

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DPRK minister meets again with Swedish counterpart

TheDemocraticPeople'sRepublicofKorea(DPRK)'sforeignministermetagainSaturdaywithhisSwedishcounterpartamidgrowingspeculationaboutapossiblemeetingintheScandinavian

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DPRK foreign minister to pay a rare two-day visit to Sweden on Thursday

TheDemocraticPeople'sRepublicofKorea(DPRK)'sForeignMinisterRiYongHowillbeginararetwo-dayvisitonThursdaytoSweden,whichrepresentstheUnitedStatesdiplomaticallyinth

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DPRK accuses U.S. of undermining inter-Korean reconciliation process

RiYongHo,ForeignMinisteroftheDemocraticPeople'sRepublicofKorea(DPRK),hasaccusedtheUnitedStatesofundermininginter-Koreanreconciliationprocessandaggravatingthesit

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DPRK diplomat: Take hydrogen bomb threat 'literally'

TherecentwarningfromDPRK'sforeignministerofapossibleatmosphericnucleartestoverthePacificOceanshouldbetakenliterally,aseniorDPRKofficialtoldCNNinaninterviewaired

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DPRK foreign minister: Trump has 'lit the wick' of war

USPresidentDonaldTrumphas"litthewickofthewar"againsttheDemocraticPeople'sRepublicofKorea(DPRK),aRussianstatenewsagencyquotedDPRK'sforeignministerassayingonWedne

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DPRK FM: DPRK may consider hydrogen bomb on Pacific Ocean

TheDPRK’sForeignMinisterRiYongHosaidonFridayhebelievestheDPRKcouldconsiderahydrogenbombtestonthePacificOceanofanunprecedentedscale,SouthKorea'sYonhapnewsagencyr

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DPRK FM: DPRK may consider hydrogen bomb test on Pacific Ocean

TheDPRK’sForeignMinisterRiYongHosaidonFridayhebelievestheDPRKcouldconsiderahydrogenbombtestonthePacificOceanofanunprecedentedscale,SouthKorea'sYonhapnewsagencyr

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DPRK slams Trump UN speech as 'sound of dog barking'

TheDemocraticPeople’sRepublicofKorea’s(DPRK)ForeignMinisterRiYongHoWednesdayissuedasharprebukeofUSPresidentDonaldTrump’saddresstotheUN,sayingTrump’sremarksequat

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DPRK foreign minister leaves for UN General Assembly in New York

RiYong-ho,foreignministeroftheDemocraticPeople'sRepublicofKorea(DPRK),lefthereTuesdaymorningforNewYorktoparticipateintheUNGeneralAssemblyleadingafive-memberdele

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DPRK leader Kim Jong Un may have third child

DPRKleaderKimJongUnhasfatheredhisthirdchild,reportssaidTuesday,afterhiswifedroppedoutofthepubliceyeforseveralmonths.FirstladyRiSolJudeliveredthecouple'sthirdchi

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Giant panda Shin Shin at Tokyo zoo shows signs of pregnancy

Tokyo'sUenoZoo's11-year-oldgiantpandaShinShinisshowingsignsofbeingpregnant,includingincreaseddozingandreducedappetite.IfShinShinisreallypregnantsheislikelytogiv

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Denuclearisation went out of the window because of US, says DPRK’s foreign minister

DPRK’s foreign minister said Tuesday that any decision to stage a further nuclear test would depend on the United States, as he held Washington responsible for scuppering denuclearisation efforts on the Korean peninsula.

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Foreigner Ministers of S.Korea and DPRK Cross Paths in Laos

Foreign Minister Yun Byung-se and his North Korean counterpart Ri Yong-ho briefly shook hands on the sidelines of the Asian Regional Forum in Vientiane, Laos on Monday

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Smokers’ paradise: DPRK is now urging people to quit, though Kim Jong-un sets a poor example

DPRK, one of the last bastions of free, unhindered smoking, a country where just about every adult male can and does light up almost anywhere he pleases and where leader Kim Jong-un is hardly ever seen without a lit cigarette in his hand, is now officially trying to get its people to kick the habit.

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DPRK names nuclear disarmament negotiator as new foreign minister

DPRK, diplomatically isolated and squeezed by UN sanctions, has appointed as foreign minister its negotiator at failed international talks aimed at getting it to disarm, according to a DPRK diplomatic note to Britain.