North Korean officials deny leader&#39;s portrait removed
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North Korean officials have angrily denied reports that portraits of the country&#39;s leader are being taken down. There has been speculation about major changes at the top of North Korean politics.
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North Korea is a totalitarian state where simply mishandling a portrait of leader Kim Jong Il is considered a crime. That doesn't mean there is no internal debate as the regime weighs whether to dismantle its nuclear weapons program.
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Reports that portraits of North Korean  leader Kim Jong-il had been removed were a "groundless  fabrication," China's Xinhua news agency quoted a Foreign  Ministry official on Friday as saying in Pyongyang.
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The remains North Korea gave Japanese officials last month are not those of Japanese abductee Megumi Yokota as Pyongyang had claimed, government officials said Wednesday.
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North Korea has apparently decided against holding six-party talks on dismantling its suspected nuclear arms programs until after the Nov. 2 U.S. presidential election, a senior U.S. official said on Tuesday.
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North Korea is prolonging its isolation by refusing to return to six-nation talks aimed at dismantling the country&#39;s nuclear programs, US State Department spokesman Richard Boucher said.
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North Korea denies that portraits of Kim Jong-il have been taken down from public places.
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A top North Korean official held talks in Syria on Sunday, amid reports -- strongly denied by both countries -- that Pyongyang was helping Damascus develop a nuclear programme.
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North Korean leader Kim Jong-il has ordered the removal of his portrait from display throughout the Stalinist state, signaling a scaling back of the decades-old adulation of the
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SEOUL -- North Korean leader Kim Jong Il recently purged his brother-in-law from the government, removing a powerful party official who was thought to be a possible rival to Kim and his sons, South Korean intelligence officials have reported.
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Reports that portraits of North Korean leader Kim Jong-il had been removed were a U.S. plot to overthrow the government and a "groundless fabrication," Xinhua news agency quoted a North Korean official Friday as saying.
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Reports that portraits of North Korean leader Kim Jong-il had been removed were a U.S. plot to overthrow the government and a "groundless fabrication," Xinhua news agency quoted a North Korean official on Friday as saying.
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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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A senior North Korean official dismissed reports that the secretive country was preparing a missile launch, calling them speculation, Japan's Kyodo news agency reported on Saturday.
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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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As questions emerge over whether a large explosion last week in North Korea was nuclear-related, top US officials do not think it was a nuclear test.
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A senior North Korean official denied a report that Pyongyang was giving nuclear expertise to Syria, South Korea's Yonhap news agency reported on Sunday.