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N. Korea's Kim calls for increase in grain production in key meeting

People wearing face masks walk in Pyongyang on March 3, 2023. North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has called for increasing grain production at a key four-day ruling party meeting through Wednesday focused on agricultural development, state-run media reported, amid speculation that the country has been suffering from a chronic food shortage. At the plenary meeting of the Workers' Party of Korea, which followed the previous plenum by an unusually short interval of two months, Kim said it is "important to concentrate on increasing the per-hectare yield at all the farms," the official Korean Central News Agency said Thursday. He also stressed the need to enhance the role of the provincial, city and county guidance organs and all the farms in attaining the long-term objective of agricultural development, KCNA said.

UN Climate Change Conference must make progress: UN chief

STORY: UN Climate Change Conference must make progress: UN chief DATELINE: Sept. 23, 2022 LENGTH: 00:02:35 LOCATION: UN Headquarters CATEGORY: POLITICS/SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. SOUNDBITE (English): ANTONIO GUTERRES, UN Secretary-General STORYLINE: UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said Thursday that the upcoming UN Climate Change Conference in Egypt (COP27) must make broad progress in a video message for the Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS) leaders' breakfast. SOUNDBITE (English): ANTONIO GUTERRES, UN Secretary-General "COP27 must demonstrate that the world is making progress on all pillars of the Paris Agreement. We urgently need to address loss and damage in a meaningful and credible way. Loss and damage are happening now -- at 1.1 degrees of warming. The floods in Pakistan have inundated a third of the country. We can only imagine the fate of small islands if we go beyond 1.5 degrees. Two degrees of warming is unthinkable and must be avoided at all costs. We need a targeted, ambitious global r

N. Korea's Kim seeks to expand key missile facility amid ICBM concern

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has instructed his officials to expand a key missile facility to launch a variety of rockets, state-run media reported Friday, with Pyongyang believed to have tested intercontinental ballistic missiles recently. Kim inspected the Sohae Satellite Launching Station in Dongchang-ri in the country's northwest, the Korean Central News Agency said, although it did not state when he visited the facility, which was previously used to test ICBM engines.

N. Korea day at expo

SHANGHAI, China - North Korea's Urban Management Minister Hwang Hak Won (3rd from L) visits the country's pavilion at the Shanghai World Expo on Pyongyang's National Pavilion Day at the world event on Sept. 6, 2010. (Kyodo)

N. Korea defends self at U.N. over nukes

NEW YORK, United States - Pak Kil Yon, North Korea's vice minister of foreign affairs, addresses a session of the United Nations General Assembly at U.N. headquarters in New York on Sept. 27. Pak defended his country's resumption of its nuclear activities while slamming Japan for being a ''war criminal state'' unsuited to becoming a permanent U.N. Security Council member. (Kyodo)

Japan, U.S., S. Korea meet to push forward N. Korea nuke talks

TOKYO, Japan - Christopher Hill (L), U.S. assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific affairs, Kim Sook (C), the South Korean Foreign Affairs and Trade Ministry's special representative for Korean Peninsula peace and security affairs, and Akitaka Saiki, director general of the Japanese Foreign Ministry's Asian and Oceanian Affairs Bureau, pose for photos at the Foreign Ministry in Tokyo on June 19 before the start of their talks on how to proceed with North Korea's denuclearization. (Pool photo by Kyodo News)(Kyodo)

N. Korean defector sues Chongryon over emigration program

OSAKA, Japan - Yumiko Chiba speaks at a news conference in Osaka on June 13 after filing an 11 million yen damages suit against the General Association of Korean Residents in Japan, or Chongryon, over its responsibility for a program that promoted the emigration of Korean residents of Japan to North Korea. Chiba, 47, moved to North Korea with her parents in 1963 under the program and defected from the country in 2003. (Kyodo)

5-nation team reports 'smooth' nuclear disablement in N. Korea

BEIJING, China - Lim Sung Nam (L), South Korean Foreign Affairs and Trade Ministry official, responds to questions from reporters upon returning to Beijing international airport from North Korea on Nov. 29 after observing Pyongyang's nuclear disablement work as a member of a five-nation team from the United States, China, South Korea, Japan and Russia. (Kyodo)

Envoys begin gathering in Shenyang for N. Korea working group ta

SHENYANG, China - Ri Gun (far left), director general of the North Korean Foreign Ministry's American affairs bureau, arrives at Shenyang airport in northeastern China to represent his country in a two-day working group meeting to discuss the specifics of the next stage toward Pyongyang's nuclear abandonment. (Kyodo)

N. Korean Assembly Vice President Yang Hyong Sop in Beijing

BEIJING, China - Yang Hyong Sop, a vice president of North Korea's Supreme People's Assembly, flies into Beijing on May 26 for an undisclosed visit. Yang apparently is the first senior North Koran official to visit China since Pyongyang conducted a nuclear test in October last year. No Chinese official was at the Beijing airport to greet the North Korean visitor, and there is possibility that Yang was on transit to the third country (Kyodo)

N. Korean Red Cross official expects crop loss due to floods

PYONGYANG, North Korea - Ri Ho Rim, secretary general of the North Korean Red Cross Society, speaks to Kyodo News in Pyongyang on Sept. 13. He says he expects the food shortage in North Korea to worsen after recent floods washed away or submerged 11 percent of the country's farmland. (Kyodo)

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