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North Korea blows up the four-storey Inter-Korean Liaison Office in the Kaesong Industrial Region, according to South Korean authorities. Kim Yo-jong, the sister of Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un, had earlier threatened to destroy the "useless" building. A neighbouring apartment complex used by South Korean officials appears to have partially collapsed in the explosion.
2020-06-16

Seoul-based "NK News" reports that North Korean Foreign Minister Ri Yong-ho has been replaced. His successor is expected to be publicly announced next Thursday.
2020-01-18

The Spanish Audiencia Nacional reveals that an attack on the North Korean embassy in Madrid on February 22 was led by a Mexican citizen residing in the United States who later offered the FBI data stolen during the incident.
2019-03-26

North Korean state news agency KCNA reports that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said last Wednesday that he will visit Kim Jong-un in North Korea. The Syrian president's office refuses to comment on the report when contacted by AFP.
2018-06-3

Five unnamed Western European security sources say that North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and his father Kim Jong-il used fraudulently obtained Brazilian passports in order to apply for visas to visit Western countries in the 1990s.
2018-02-27

South Korea reports that North Korea has tested two BM25 Musudan intermediate-range ballistic missiles.
2016-06-22

In compliance with recent UN Security Council resolutons, President Yoweri Museveni of Uganda announces an end to security and military cooperation with North Korea.
2016-05-29

North Korea sentences American Kenneth Bae to 15 years of prison labor for "hostile acts" against the regime. The United States calls for amnesty.
2013-05-2

North Korea's state agency KCNA announces the country will launch a satellite sometime between December 10 and December 22. The launch will take place around the time of South Korea's presidential election on December 19 and close to the first anniversary of the death of former leader Kim Jong-il. South Korean officials, as well as the US, believe that the isolated state is testing long-range missile technology with the aim of developing an intercontinental ballistic missile.
2012-12-1

Thailand deports the five-man crew detained in the country since December after transporting weapons from North Korea. [http:--www.google.com-hostednews-afp-article-ALeqM5i88jCv2tKGVyoH2lghgjnwVNG7ig (AFP)] [http:--www.mcot.net-content-20176 (Thai News Agency)]date=August 2019
2010-02-12