The alleged plan to use a biochemical agent on a member of North Korea's ruling family resembles the assassination earlier this year of Kim Jong Un's exiled half brother at a Malaysian airport. For South Koreans living next d.
Just by way of example, in March 2010, a South Korean naval vessel was sunk off its west coast resulting in 46 sailors losing their lives with torpedo fragments being consistent with torpedoes produced in North Korea.
FILE - In this Saturday, April 15, 2017 file photo, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un waves during a military parade in Pyongyang, North Korea, to celebrate the 105th birth anniversary of Kim Il Sung, the country's late foun.
U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said on Wednesday that Washington was working on more sanctions against North Korea if it takes steps that merit a new response.
North Korea warned this week that US hostility had brought the region to the brink of nuclear war.
The debate over how to deal with North Korea has intensified as Pyongyang has grown bolder with its nuclear and missile tests and other provocations, such as 2010 attacks that killed 50 South Koreans.
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But while the warning in the North's article of "grave consequences" would seem nothing but rhetoric, there is no disputing that China, with a long border with the country, would be affected should conflict break out on the peninsula.And for Moon to justify a return to engagement, North Korea would first need to at least signal a concession, said Lim Eul-chul, a professor at Kyungnam University in South Korea.
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The North Korea ruler visited the "Hero Defence Detachment" on Mu Islet on Friday, telling troops to "keep highly alert to break the backbone of the enemy", the state-backed Korean Central News Agency reported.
Moon's election would also complicate the deployment of the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) system.
Dialogue between the North and the USA has in the past dampened potential conflict, as happened with trips to Pyongyang by former presidents Jimmy Carter in 1994 and Bill Clinton in 2009 and secretary of state Madeleine Albright in 2000.
China vowed to remain a good neighbour to #NorthKorea on Thursday, despite a rare and stinging critique in Pyongyang's state media of its main diplomatic protector and economic benefactor.
The official KCNA news agency called former president Park Geun-hye a "prostitute" being "pimped" by US presidents and blamed her "venomous swish of skirt" for rising tensions between the two Koreas.
Conservatives portray Moon as a Pyongyang sympathizer. That attack, using the chemical war agent VX, was widely blamed on North Korea and led to calls in the United States to relist the North as a state sponsor of terrorism. Last February, Beijing suspended all coal imports from North Korea.
"We don't want to see our companies leaving for China and Vietnam".
Yoo likened the two Koreas to a divorced couple, saying talks for resumption of the Kaesong project can be "a beginning for the divorced couple to get back together,".
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