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  • 27 May 2009
    Latest North Korea statement on ‘truce’ adds to weapons tension

    The secretive hard-line communist regime in North Korea has reacted angrily to global condemnation of its recent nuclear weapons test, declaring that its ‘truce’ with South Korea may be over and that it will not back down.

  • 26 May 2009
    North Korea test shows need to abolish all nukes, says world church body

    At a time when the international community is re-kindling the vision of a world free of nuclear weapons, the North Korean nuclear test is a source of real concern, says World Council of Churches general secretary Rev Dr Samuel Kobia.

  • 8 Feb 2009
    Parliamentarians see golden opportunity to tear down 'Asia's Berlin Wall'

    British Parliamentarians have said that the new Obama administration brings with it a golden opportunity for a formal cessation of hostilities and normalisation of relations with North Korea.

  • 13 Jan 2009
    British Methodists provide assistance for North Korea

    While North Korea and the generally unknown Christians there remain isolated on the world stage, British Methodists are among those who have been developing relations and providing assistance.

  • 2 Jul 2008
    Seoul urged not to put pre-conditions to North Korea

    The World Council of Churches (WCC) general secretary Rev Dr Samuel Kobia has urged South Korean President Lee Myung-bak to "take urgent measures to strengthen inter-Korean relationships without any pre-conditions".

  • 1 Jul 2008
    Aid agencies sign food agreement with North Korea

    Five aid agencies today announced that they have signed an agreement with the Democratic People's Republic of Korea to deliver US government food assistance to North Koreans suffering from severe food shortages.

  • 11 May 2008
    Anabaptists take the lead on vital North Korea farm programme

    While the food crisis in North Korea continues largely unnoticed in the wider world, due to the country's isolation, a North American Anabaptist peace church is taking quiet steps to provide agricultural assistance.

  • 29 Feb 2008
    US peace church forges historic links with North Korea

    A delegation from the Church of the Brethren has made a historic visit to North Korea, to make direct contact with four farm enterprises that have received support from the church - an act yet rarely extended to people from the United States.

  • 16 Feb 2007
    Engagement is best way to handle nuclear problems, says WCC chief

    Constructive engagement to deal with threats like nuclear proliferation is better than aggression ‚Ä' that is the message of the head of a global association of Protestant, Orthodox, Anglican and indigenous churches concerning developments involving North Korea.

  • 18 Jan 2007
    Five minutes away from Doomsday

    The scientists who mind the Doomsday Clock yesterday moved it two minutes closer to midnight, which symbolizes the annihilation of civilization, adding the perils of global warming for the first time to acute nuclear threats.