North Korea's ambassador to the Conference on Disarmament says his country will respond if the United States ignores efforts to improve inter-Korean relations and chooses provocation and confrontation.
The mascots for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics have been announced.
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Key words : north conference disarmament
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North Korea's ambassador to the Conference on Disarmament says his country will certainly respond if the United States ignores efforts to improve inter-Korean relations and chooses provocation and confrontation.
Han Tae Song made the remarks at a meeting of the conference in Geneva on Tuesday. He was responding to comments made by South Korean Foreign Minister Kang Kyung-wha.
Kang had stressed the need for continued pressure on the North to denuclearize the Korean Peninsula. She warned against losing sight of reality despite the inter-Korean dialogue brought on by the PyeongChang Olympics.
In response, Han said South Korea mistakenly continues to believe that such pressure is effective. He said the North's nuclear and missile programs are self-defense measures against hostile US policies toward Pyongyang.
US Ambassador Robert Wood emphasized that Washington will continue to put maximum pressure on the North until it agrees to denuclearization talks. He pointed out that it was North Korea that abruptly canceled an opportunity for talks with Vice President Mike Pence at the PyeongChang Olympics.
Key words : north charge promoted
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North Korea's official in charge of negotiations with the United States has been promoted to vice minister of foreign affairs.
A source with close knowledge of the situation on the Korean Peninsula told NHK about the promotion of the director of the North American Affairs Department, Choe Son Hui .
Choe is a veteran of negotiations with the US. She has also served as North Korea's deputy representative to six-party talks on its nuclear program.
Talks between the US and the North have been suspended since February 2012. But Choe has continued to exchange views with former US government officials at international meetings.
She reportedly contacted US special representative Joseph Yun in Norway last May to discuss the release of an American student who was being held in Pyongyang.
Choe was promoted from vice director to department director in 2016. The fate of her predecessor as vice minister, Han Song Ryol, remains unknown.
It's unclear whether the foreign ministry shuffle is linked to a recent remark by the vice chairman of the country's ruling Korean Workers' Party, Kim Yong Chol.
Kim, who visited South Korea for the closing ceremony of the PyeongChang Olympics, told the country's President Moon Jae-in that the North is ready to reopen dialogue with the US.
Key words : news agency north
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The Reuters news agency says North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and his late father, Kim Jong Il, obtained fake Brazilian passports under false names in the 1990s.
The agency reported this on Tuesday, quoting 5 Western European security sources.
The purported photocopies of the passports carry a stamp saying "Embassy of Brazil in Prague" with an issue date of February 26, 1996. The passports' holders are both described as having been born in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
The report says 4 of the security sources confirmed that the passports were used to apply for 4 visas in at least 2 Western countries. It says the passports may also have been used to travel to Brazil, Japan and Hong Kong.
Some are skeptical about the report, since Kim Jong Il became North Korea's de facto leader in 1994 upon the death of his father, Kim Il Sung, and he may not have needed fake passports in 1996, the issue year of the reported fake passport.
The younger Kim is known to have made multiple secret visits to Japan around 1991, when he was a child, using a fake passport. He is also known to have traveled to Japan using a fake Brazilian passport in May of 1991.
Key words : Japan patrol
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Japan's government says one of the country's patrol planes has again spotted an apparent transfer of goods from a foreign vessel to a North Korean tanker in the East China Sea.
The Defense Ministry says the Maritime Self-Defense Force P3C aircraft spotted the Maldivian-registered tanker alongside the North Korean ship in open waters late at night on Saturday.
A photo taken by the aircraft shows the two tankers of almost the same size approaching each other with lights on.
Ministry officials say they determined that one of the ships with no name on its hull is North Korean because of its shape.
This is the fourth time that a Self-Defense Force aircraft has spotted a suspected violation of UN Security Council sanctions against Pyongyang.
Japan reported the latest incident to the UN.
The US government said on Friday it is imposing new sanctions against North Korea. They target more than 50 companies and ships based in China, Taiwan and elsewhere for alleged involvement in ship-to-ship transfers of goods.
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Key words : mascot
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The mascots for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics have been announced.
School children from about 16,000 elementary schools across Japan and overseas voted from among 3 sets of mascots shortlisted by a panel of experts.
The results were unveiled by the organizers of the 2020 Games at an elementary school in Tokyo on Wednesday, drawing cheers from the 550 students packing the venue.
The winning mascots are a pair of humanoid characters clad in the checkered pattern that is featured on the Games' official emblems.
The Olympic mascot features a white body with an indigo blue checkered pattern. The Paralympic character sports a pink checkered pattern.
The mascots do not have names yet. The committee plans to announce their names this summer.
Key words : train operator
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A Japanese train operator says a crack found in the undercarriage of a Shinkansen bullet train last December may have been caused by a lack of structural durability, as its steel material had been shaved thinner than designed.
The undercarriage was manufactured by Kawasaki Heavy Industries in 2007. West Japan Railway Company, or JR West, says the steel materials used in 100 other undercarriages on Shinkansen trains it owns were also shaved.
Japan's Transport Safety Board has designated the discovery of the 14-centimeter crack as a "grave incident" -- a first for a Shinkansen.
JR West explained in a news conference on Wednesday that the steel material used for the undercarriage was supposed to be 7 millimeters thick, but that it was as thin as 4.7 millimeters at some points.
It said a lack of strength in the material could have caused the crack to expand.
Kawasaki Heavy Industries reportedly told JR West that the steel material should not have been shaved when assembled with other parts.
JR West says ultrasonic screenings found 6 undercarriages with cracks in places welded to other parts and that it has already replaced or scrapped 18 of them. It says the remaining 82 have so far revealed no strength problems, but that the company plans to replace them all within a year.
Key words : official output
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Officials of Japan's economy ministry say the country's industrial output dropped in January for the first time in 4 months.
The figure fell 6.6 percent from December. The officials say major reasons include a sharp drop in production of passenger cars and auto parts led by a decline in exports to North America.
Production of construction machinery also fell, as heavy snow disrupted transportation of construction machinery parts.
Analysts at the ministry also forecast major manufacturer production activity.
They predict it will mark a month-on-month increase of 9 percent in February but drop 2.7 percent in March.
They downgraded their assessment of industrial production for the first time in 2 years and 5 months. They now say production is "picking up slowly."
Ministry officials say industrial output slowed quickly after reaching a high level last December.
They say production for companies' capital investment, which has been robust, is losing steam.
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