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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.

China prepares for restart of vehicle transport services to N. Korea

China has prepared for the resumption of regular vehicle transportation services between a border city and North Korea, which have been suspended for more than two years due to the COVID-19 pandemic, as Beijing reopened its borders and abandoned quarantine measures on Sunday. Non-regular vehicle transportation services between the border city of Hunchun in northeast China's Jilin Province and North Korea appear to have resumed late last year, with at least one truck carrying rice and shoes entering Wonjong-ri on the North Korean side via a bridge over the Tumen River, local Chinese officials said. Several dozen officials were working at an immigration facility in Hunchun on Sunday. Local authorities had also begun accepting traders' applications for cross-border transaction procedures.

Win-win economic cooperation deepens China-South Korea relationship: South Korean official

STORY: Win-win economic cooperation deepens China-South Korea relationship: South Korean official DATELINE: July 23, 2022 LENGTH: 00:01:50 LOCATION: Seoul CATEGORY: ECONOMY SHOTLIST: 1. SOUNDBITE (Korean): KIM KWAN-YOUNG, Governor of North Jeolla Province, South Korea STORYLINE: An official in South Korea said win-win economic cooperation between South Korea and China has enabled the two countries to establish a deeper relationship. China has become South Korea's largest trading partner, export destination and import source. In 2021, the trade volume between China and South Korea reached 362.35 billion U.S. dollars. SOUNDBITE (Korean): KIM KWAN-YOUNG, Governor of North Jeolla Province, South Korea "Since the establishment of diplomatic ties in 1992, the relations between South Korea and China have made amazing progress. South Korea and China can deepen cooperation in the automotive sector. Both our country and China have witnessed a great improvement in car manufacturing. In addition to Hyundai Motor's s

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 hints at resuming nuclear, ICBM tests to counter U.S.

North Korea on Thursday hinted at resuming nuclear and intercontinental ballistic missile tests, saying it may restart "activities" that it had temporarily suspended to build trust with former U.S. President Donald Trump. A key ruling party gathering held Wednesday concluded that North Korea should take "practical action to more reliably and effectively increase our physical strength" to counter the United States, the official Korean Central News Agency reported. North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, who held talks with Trump three times, presided over the meeting of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, according to KCNA. People wearing face masks walk in Pyongyang on Jan. 20, 2022, amid worries over the novel coronavirus.

Men Found on Boat in North East Japan Say they came From N. Korea

AKITA, Japan,-Nov. 24 Kyodo - A boat carrying eight men claiming to be fishermen from North Korea has washed ashore in the north eastern Japan prefecture of Akita, police said Friday. The police received a call from a resident in the city of Yurihonjo around 11:30 p.m. Thursday about suspicious men at the seaside. They later found the men on the wooden boat at a nearby marina. The men had no life-threatening injuries and appeared to speak Korean, the police said. They have been taken into protective custody. Hachiro Okonogi, chairman of the National Public Safety Commission, told reporters after a Cabinet meeting that the men have said they were fishing before the boat broke down and washed ashore. In November 2015 a wooden boat drifted ashore in the city of Noshiro in Akita and skeletal remains of two men were found inside the vessel and nearby.

N. Korean nuclear chief speaks after meeting ex-U.S. officials

Ri Yong Ho (L), North Korea's chief negotiator for six-party denuclearization talks, speaks to the press in Singapore on Jan. 19, 2015, after unofficially meeting with former U.S. officials. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Ex-U.S. envoy for N. Korea speaks after meeting N. Korea nuke envoy

Stephen Bosworth, former U.S. special envoy for North Korea policy, speaks to the press in Singapore on Jan. 19, 2015, after meeting unofficially with North Korea's chief nuclear negotiator. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

U.S. wants 'meaningful results' for 6-party talks: envoy

SEOUL, South Korea - Stephen Bosworth (R), U.S. special representative for North Korea policy, answers questions from reporters at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade in Seoul on Sept. 13, 2010. He said the United States wants to resume the six-party talks on the North Korean nuclear issue only if they produce ''meaningful results.'' (Kyodo)

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)

U.S., N. Korea hold talks over nuke, sanctions

BEIJING, China - Two North Korean working-level officials are stopped by reporters as they leave the U.S. Embassy in Beijing after their bilateral talks with U.S. officials on financial sanctions imposed on their country. (Pool photo)

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