North Korea will send its athletes to the Winter Olympics in the South after their first formal talks in more than two years

North Korea to attend Olympics in rival South

WION Morning News Brief, January 10, 2018

The US State Department said Washington would be interested in joining future talks, but stuck to its insistence that they must be aimed at denuclearisation

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A cybersecurity company said it has found software that appears to install code for mining cryptocurrency and sends mined coins to a server in North Korea

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North Korean officials at the first formal talks with South Korea in more than two years said their delegation for the Games would consist of athletes, high-ranking officials and a cheering squad

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For South Korean civil society, who can remember crossing borders, building relationships, and re-humanising each other, peacebuilding is still regarded as the best way to neutralise the nuclear ambitions of the North Korean leadership and improve the human rights conditions of the North Koreans.

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US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un have exchanged threats and insults in the past year, raising tensions on the peninsula

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The South, meanwhile, proposed holding reunions during next month's Winter Olympics for families divided by the 1950-53 Korean War.

North Korea offers to send high-level delegation to Olympics during talks with South Korea

WION Morning News Brief, January 9, 2018

Unification minister Cho Myung-Gyun who is leading the delegation

North and South Korea begin talks in truce village

'I think that he (Trump) always has to keep Kim on his toes. It's very important that we don't ever let him get so arrogant that he doesn't realise the reality of what would happen if he started a nuclear war,' Haley said

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The warship has taken part in Iraq and Afghanistan.

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In order to prop up his image as the Great Marshal, Kim collects his military resources below the radar. Illegal smuggling, counterfeiting, insurance scams, weapons sales, cyber attacks, narcotics production and forced labour abroad bring in cash.

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'We will be as flexible as we can be,' an IOC spokesman said

North Korea 'likely to participate' in Winter Olympics, IOC extends deadline

At the individual greetings after the speech, Francis spent more time chatting with South Korea`s envoy, Jonghyun Jeong, than with most other diplomats.

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A day after US President Donald Trump said he is open to talks with the North Korean leader, his top Indian-American diplomat to the US said that Pyongyang needs to take steps to make that happen

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Discussions will be held at the IOC headquarters in Lausanne

IOC to host North Korea 2018 Games talks 'midweek': Sources

Donald Trump also said that he hopes that the two Koreas take it to the next level

Would like to see North Korea get involved in Winter Olympics: Trump

Kim Jong-Un in his new year speech said his country wished success for the Olympics and would consider sending a delegation

North Korea 'likely' to join Winter Games, says IOC official

Defections across the heavily guarded Demilitarised Zone that divides the Korean peninsula are very rare, but this year there have been four.

North Korean defector numbers slump as controls tighten

To launch a strike the President will first decide on which weapons are to be launched

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The new rules put in place by Twitter recently targets violent and hateful content posted on the micro-blogging platform.

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Tension in the region has been rising, particularly since North Korea conducted its sixth and largest nuclear test in September, and then in November, said it had successfully tested a new intercontinental ballistic missile that could reach all of the US?mainland

Japan faces greatest danger since World War due to North Korea: PM Shinzo Abe

On several occasions, North Korea has reacted strongly to Trump's pressure tactics and refused to bow to Trump's pressure tactics.?

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