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The Korean Central News Agency confirms that United States Army soldier Travis King has been detained for illegal entry, stating that King claimed "inhuman maltreatment and racial discrimination" within the U.S. Army and also that he is seeking refugee status in the country.
2023-08-16

North Korea shoots two ballistic missiles into a sea, hours after the arrival of USS "Annapolis" at a port on South Korea's Jeju Island.
2023-07-24

North Korean defence minister Kang Sun-nam warns that the deployment of the USS "Kentucky" ballistic missile submarine to South Korea on July 18 could provoke his country to use its nuclear weapons under its law.
2023-07-20

A Russian cargo ship collides with a motorway bridge in the city of Busan, South Korea. The captain is reported to be drunk.
2019-03-1

North Korean state media Korean Central News Agency calls high-level talks with U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo "regrettable" and criticizes the United States' "unilateral and gangster-like" demands for denuclearization.
2018-07-7

Top North Korean official Kim Yong-chol meets with U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in New York City to discuss the summit set to be held in June.
2018-05-30

The three remaining American detainees in North Korea fly with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to the United States.
2018-05-9

South Korean president Moon Jae-in states that North Korea is willing to enter talks with the United States in an effort to denuclearize the Korean Peninsula.
2018-02-25

In a video interview posted on the state-run website Uriminzokkiri, the two sons of James Joseph Dresnok (the last remaining American defector to North Korea) have confirmed that their father has died of a stroke last November 2016.
2017-08-21

North Korea sentences American Otto Warmbier, a 21-year-old from Cincinnati, Ohio, studying at the University of Virginia, to 15 years hard labor for removing a political poster from a hotel.
2016-03-16