N.Korea Drops Use of Most Laudatory Kim Title
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North Korean media have dropped most laudatory references to leader Kim Jong-il, just days after reports that his portrait had been removed from some public places, an analyst at Radiopress, a Japanese news agency that monitors North Korean media, said on Wednesday.
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Anecdotal evidence of public criticism of North Korean leader Kim Jong-il's rule may point to less control over society after market reforms began but does not mean Kim is losing his grip, North Korea experts said Tuesday.
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Reports that some portraits of North Korean leader Kim Jong-il had been taken down in Pyongyang, if confirmed, could be &quot;very significant,&quot; an expert on North Korea said Wednesday.
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SEOUL North Korea is seriously reconsidering its role in talks on its nuclear programs because of what it sees as a concerted campaign to topple the government in Pyongyang, the North Korean Foreign Ministry said Monday.
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North Korea has told the United States it  has shut down its nuclear reactor as part of a disarmament  deal, the U.S. State Department said after a team of U.N.  nuclear monitors arrived in Pyongyang.
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North Korea appears to have met the legal criteria to be removed from the U.S. state sponsors of terrorism list although this also depends on its progress on denuclearization, a U.S. official said on Tuesday.
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The world&#39;s last major political personality cult could be fading, according to reports from North Korea. Portraits of the country&#39;s &quot;Great General&quot;, Kim Jong-il, have been removed from several prominent locations
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The possibility of North Korea launching a ballistic missile has diminished as activities at missile bases in the Stalinist state were returning to normal, a Japanese press report says.
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A North Korean diplomat confirmed that his country had shut down its sole operating nuclear reactor after receiving an initial shipment of oil aid and said U.N. inspectors would start verifying the closure on Sunday.
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North Korea is seriously reconsidering  its role in talks on its nuclear plans because of what it sees  as a concerted campaign to topple the North's ruling system,  the North Korean Foreign Ministry said on Monday.
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U.N. inspectors have confirmed that North Korea has shut down its sole functioning nuclear reactor, its first step toward halting production of nuclear weapons.
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The United States is somewhat less confident that North Korea has a production-scale covert nuclear enrichment program than it used to be, a top U.S. intelligence official said on Tuesday.
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The U.N. Development Program, accused by Washington with possibly helping funnel hard cash to North Korea's leaders, has shut down its operations in the impoverished country.
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North Korea said on Monday the United States has agreed to remove it from its list of countries that support terrorism, a move long-sought by Pyongyang to better its status with the outside world.
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Anecdotal evidence of public criticism of  North Korean leader Kim Jong-il's rule may point to less  control over society after market reforms began but does not  mean Kim is losing his grip, North Korea experts said Tuesday.
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North Korea declared on Thursday for the first time that it possessed nuclear weapons and said it was suspending participation in six-way talks on dismantling its nuclear programs for an indefinite period.
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For the first time in a decade, South  Korea has stopped labeling North Korea its "main enemy" but its  latest Defense White Paper Friday said it suspects the  reclusive state of possessing nuclear weapons.