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By Philip Wen and David Brunnstrom BEIJING/WASHINGTON, Dec 29 (Reuters) – China on Friday denied reports it has been illicitly selling oil products

by Philip Wen (Reuters) – China on Friday denied reports it has been illicitly selling oil products to North Korea after U.S. President Donald Trump said

By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS, Dec 19 (Reuters) – The United States has proposed that the United Nations Security Council blacklist 10 ships for

By Kiyoshi Takenaka TOKYO, Dec 6 (Reuters) – An increasing number of fishing boats from North Korea has been appearing off Japan – some in

TOKYO, Nov 30 (Reuters) – Japan’s coast guard on Thursday boarded a North Korean fishing boat near a Japanese island where the crew said they had

TOKYO, Nov 27 (Reuters) – Eight bodies, which had been reduced partly to skeletons, were found on Monday in a small wooden ship that washed up on a beach

By Saleha Mohsin (Bloomberg) — The Trump administration sanctioned three Chinese trading companies on Tuesday as well as North Korean shipping firms and

SINGAPORE, Nov 16 (Reuters) – Singapore has suspended trade relations with North Korea, the latest of Pyongyang’s major trade partners to cut

By Phil Stewart and Idrees Ali WASHINGTON, Nov 6 (Reuters) – Three U.S. aircraft carrier strike groups will exercise together in the Western Pacific

By Haejin Choi SEOUL, Oct 31 (Reuters) – North Korea probably stole South Korean warship blueprints after hacking into Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine

SEOUL (Reuters) – South Korea and the United States began week-long joint Navy drills in the waters around the Korean peninsula on Monday, amid high

By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS, Oct 10 (Reuters) – The United Nations Security Council has banned four ships from ports globally for carrying

By Greg Torode ABOARD THE USS RONALD REAGAN, South China Sea, Sept 30 (Reuters) – A s the commanders of the largest U.S. warship in Asia seek to

By Margaret Talev (Bloomberg) — President Donald Trump Thursday ordered new sanctions on individuals, companies and banks doing business with

By Polina Nikolskaya MOSCOW, Sept 20 (Reuters) – At least eight North Korean ships that left Russia with a cargo of fuel this year headed for their

By James Stavridis (Bloomberg View) — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is fixated on obtaining a serious nuclear arsenal, and continues to thumb

By Bloomberg News (Bloomberg) — Should U.S. President Donald Trump unleash “fire and fury” on North Korea, it will bring conflict to the core of the

By Christine Kim and Martin Petty SEOUL/GUAM, Aug 10 (Reuters) – North Korea said on Thursday it was completing plans to fire four intermediate-range

By James Stavridis (Bloomberg View) — As the world worries about the increasing threat from North Korea and its dangerous leader Kim Jong Un, there is a

By Ju-min Park (Reuters) South Korea said on Monday it was in talks about holding joint drills with a U.S. aircraft carrier strike group, as U.S. President