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  North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, presiding over a Central Military Commission meeting of the ruling Workers' Party, called for a "high alert posture" against the "fast-changing" situation on the Korean Peninsula, state media reported Saturday. KCNA-Yonhap North Korean leader Kim Jong-un presided over a Central Military Commission meeting of the ruling Workers' Party and called for a "high alert posture" against the "fast-changing" situation on the Korean Peninsula, state media reported Saturday. During the meeting held Friday, Kim also discussed "important tasks" to make "a fresh turn in the overall work of national defense," the official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) said without elaborating on what the important tasks were. "The enlarged meeting set forth important tasks for ... bringing about a fresh turn in the overall work of national defense as required by the recent fast-changing situation around the ...

  A North Korean work brigade on Mount Paektu / Courtesy of Swiss Alpine Museum By Kwon Mee-yoo Swiss Alpine Museum Director Beat Hachler North Korea is one of the most reclusive countries in the world. Totalitarian dictatorship, human rights abuses, food crises and aggressive military posturing are some of the things that come to mind when people hear "North Korea." However, a group of researchers at the Swiss Alpine Museum in Bern, a museum dedicated to the nature and culture of the Swiss Alps as well as other mountains around the world, thought differently. As mountains and hills take up a large portion of the territories of both Switzerland and North Korea, they decided to focus on how mountains shape the identity, culture and economy of North Korea. The museum is currently presenting an exhibition titled "Let's Talk about Mountains: A Filmic Approach to North Korea," shedding light on North Korea from a fresh perspective. Beat Hachler, director of the museu...

  North Korean leader Kim Jong-un talks with South Korean entertainers, including members of K-pop group Red Velvet, after their concert in Pyongyang, in this April 2018 file photo. Yonhap By Yoon Ja-young A recent media report that North 메이저놀이터추천 leader Kim Jong-un defined K-pop as a "vicious cancer" is shedding spotlight on the regime's culture war. The New York Times reported on June 11 that Kim called South Korean pop music a "vicious cancer" corrupting young North Koreans, declaring a war to stop it, with its state media warning that the South's entertainment business would eventually make North Korea "crumble like a damp wall." The report reflects the far-reaching influence of South Korean pop music in North Korea. According to a 2018 survey on North Korean defectors by Seoul National University's Institute for Peace and Unification Studies, 41.4 percent said that they frequently consumed South Korean TV programs, films, dramas and songs,...

  This file photo taken on Nov. 21, 2017, shows a general view of a public square in North Korea's northeastern border city of Rason. AFP-Yonhap The United States has no immediate plan to directly provide COVID-19 vaccine to North Korea but supports international efforts to assist the impoverished country cope with the pandemic, the State Department said Monday. "While we have no plans to 메이저놀이터 vaccines to the DPRK, we continue to support international efforts aimed at the provision of critical humanitarian aid to the most vulnerable North Koreans," a department spokesperson told Yonhap News Agency, asking not to be identified. DPRK stands for the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, the North's official name. The remarks come after South Korean President Moon Jae-in said his country will help push for international support for the North if Pyongyang asked. "If North Korea agrees, (we) will push proactively for cooperation on vaccine supplies for it,"...

  Unification Minister Lee In-young, right, and Defense Minister Suh Wook attend a Cabinet meeting at the government complex in Seoul, Tuesday. Yonhap By Kang Seung-woo Unification Minister Lee In-young has postponed his long-prepared trip to the United States as it was not expected his visit would yield desirable results, according to the ministry, Tuesday. Starting this year, Lee had been planning a trip to Washington, D.C., to meet the newly inaugurated Joe Biden 안전토토사이트 officials to discuss how to revive stalled North Korean nuclear negotiations and resume cross-border exchanges. Lee is a long-time advocate of engagement with the North. Inter-Korean ties have been deadlocked since the summit between the U.S. and North Korea in Hanoi, Vietnam, in February 2019 ended without a deal. "Despite having prepared for the minister's U.S. visit in late June, we decided to put it on hold after considering numerous factors," a senior ministry official said. According to the offic...

  North Korean leader Kim Jong-un speaks during a key Workers' Party meeting on Tuesday, according to the Korean Central News Agency Wednesday. Yonhap North Korean leader Kim Jong-un opened a key Workers' Party meeting to discuss ways to deal with the "current international situation," food shortages, anti-pandemic efforts and other economic issues, state media said Wednesday. The multiday plenary meeting of the party's Central Committee was convened for "taking measures to solve the pending issues urgent for improving the economic work and the people's living and for the discussion of and decision on issues for powerfully and correctly pushing forward crucial state work under the prevailing situation," according to the Korean Central News Agency. "Saying that in particular, the people's food situation is now getting tense as the agricultural sector failed to fulfill its grain production plan due to the damage by typhoon last year, he stress...

  The image captured from the website of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee shows Daniel Kritenbrink, nominee for assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific affairs, delivering opening remarks in a confirmation hearing in Washington, June 15. Yonhap Strict and continued enforcement of sanctions on North Korea while also seeking to engage with the reclusive state diplomatically are important to the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula, the nominee for U.S. assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific affairs said Tuesday. Daniel Kritenbrink also said he would try to find ways to further strengthen sanctions on the North if confirmed. "As I noted at the outset, the Biden-Harris administration is committed to the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula. And, if confirmed, I would support an approach that relies both on sanctions enforcement and deterrence, as well as a practical calibrated approach, open to diplomacy," he said in his confirmation...

  Rep. Song Young-gil, chairman of the ruling Democratic Party of Korea, speaks during his speech at the National Assembly in Seoul, June 16. Yonhap The head of South Korea's ruling party on Wednesday proposed the installation of small modular reactors (SMRs) in North Korea, calling it a useful way to supply energy to the country when it is free from nuclear weapons. "Under the precondition of resolving the North Korean nuclear issue, SMRs could be a useful way to supply energy to North Korea that has many mountainous regions and a shortage of power transmission and distribution networks," Rep. Song Young-gil, chairman of the ruling Democratic Party (DP), said in his speech to a parliamentary plenary session. "SMR is highly likely to emerge as an effective energy source for Middle Eastern nations or countries with heavy geographical restrictions." The party chief made the proposal as part of his 사설토토 vision to help his country attain carbon neutrality. "The...

  A session meeting of North Korea's Workers' Party meeting is held in this photo released by the official Korean Central News Agency, June 17. Yonhap North Korea held a key Workers' Party meeting for the second day with a focus on economic issues, according to state media Thursday, amid speculation that foreign policy could also have been discussed. Photos released by the official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) showed leader Kim Jong-un presiding over a panel discussion during the second-day plenary meeting of the party's Central Committee on Wednesday. 사설토토사이트 Minister Ri Son-gwon was seen taking down notes in one of the photos. Ri's attendance suggests that policy directions for the U.S. and South Korea could have been discussed. Wednesday's meeting consisted of a series of panel discussions and consultative meetings to "successfully push ahead with the fighting tasks for the second half of the year without any deviation," the KCNA said. The sect...