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North Korea Says Its Main Nuclear Reactor Is Operating Again

11:02am September 15, 2015

by Bill Chappell

The restart of a reactor that produces weapons-grade plutonium was announced by the Korean Central News Agency, which also says North Korea is ready to use nuclear weapons "any time."

U.S. Ambassador to South Korea Mark Lippert, seen here greeting U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry in May, was attacked during a breakfast function in March.

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South Korean Man Who Slashed U.S. Ambassador Gets 12-Year Sentence

10:07am September 11, 2015

by Bill Chappell

U.S. Ambassador Mark Lippert was at a performing arts center in Seoul preparing to give a speech on relations between the U.S. and the two Koreas when he was attacked.

After Days Of Talks, Tense Standoff, North And South Korea Reach Detente

8:10am August 25, 2015

by Eyder Peralta

South Korea has agreed to stop blaring propaganda from speakers across the border and the North has agreed to lift its semi-war status.

An undated composite photograph showing the delegates at the Panmunjom talks on Saturday. (Left to right) South Korean National Security Adviser Kim Kwan-jin, South Korean Unification Minister Hong Yong-pyo, Hwang Pyong-so, the North Korean military's top

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Koreas Hold Talks Aimed At Preventing Larger Conflict

5:04pm August 22, 2015

by Scott Neuman

Hours before the deadline set by North Korean for Seoul to halt propaganda broadcasts across the border, the two sides said they would meet face-to-face at the border village of Panmunjom.

South Korean protesters with defaced portraits of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un shout slogans during an anti-North Korean rally in Seoul on Friday.

As Tensions Rise, North Korea Puts Frontline Troops On 'Semi-War State'

6:50am August 21, 2015

by Eyder Peralta

The North warned that if South Korea does not stop blaring propaganda from speakers across the border by Saturday, it would take military action.

South Korean residents gather at a shelter in the South Korean town of Yeoncheon where one shell fell on Thursday.

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North And South Korea Trade Artillery Fire; No One Is Hurt

10:58am August 20, 2015

by Eyder Peralta

Joint exercises between the U.S. and South Korea have raised tensions in the region. Thursday's exchange was the first time the North and South had traded fire in five years.

Visitors look at a miniature map of the Korean Peninsula at the Odusan observatory in Paju, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea, on Friday. North Korea is set to push back its clocks by half an hour to mark the end of Japanese occupation after World War II.

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North Korea's Receding Time Zone

10:46am August 07, 2015

by Scott Neuman

The reclusive authoritarian regime has announced that it will turn back its clocks half an hour beginning next week to mark 70 years since liberation from Japan.

Farmers worked in June in a cornfield in a southern region of North Korea that has seen unusually light rainfall this year.

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Is N. Korea Facing A Famine Or Just Seeking More Aid?

2:31pm July 20, 2015

by Jackie Northam

The country warned in June it faces its worst drought in a century. That's raised concerns — and some doubts about the severity of the situation. In the 1990s, 1 million died in a famine.

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To screen for MERS, an official at South Korea's customs gate checks the body heat of a worker arriving from North Korea.

North Korea Announces Cure For MERS (As If)

7:55am June 20, 2015

by Jason Beaubien

The drug can also allegedly wipe out AIDS and TB and just about every other disease. The state-run media announced the news, so exaggeration is to be expected.

Gloria Steinem and South Korean peace activists march along a military fence at a checkpoint after crossing the border separating North and South Korea.

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Controversy Follows As Activists Cross North-South Korean Border

10:53am May 26, 2015

by Elise Hu

The symbolic gesture was aimed at reunifying two nations still technically at war. But an event staged in the name of peace ended up exposing some distrust that's lasted for decades.

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