Seoul, South Korea (CNN) -- North Korea reacted to a South Korean anti-submarine exercise early Thursday by saying it would meet "confrontation with confrontation" and war with "all-out war, " according to North Korean state-run media.
Visits by North Korean groups to South Korea gained frequency after the first inter-Korean summit in 2000, but they tailed off after North Korea tested a nuclear weapon for the first time in late 2006.
The US has some 28, 000 troops stationed in South Korea under a post-Korean War security alliance.
On Japanese TV I watched this well-mannered, polite and loving son as he sipped tea with his mother, who had him educated in a pro-North Korean school and a North Korea-affiliated university with a Tokyo campus.
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More positive was Beijing's response to a Clinton proposal for four-power talks -- involving the U.S., China, and North and South Korea -- to create a new peace mechanism for the Korean peninsula.
On Friday, Russia - which shares a border with North Korea - summoned US and South Korean envoys to urge them to cancel the exercises, saying Moscow was "deeply concerned" about rising tensions in the region.
At a meeting of security-related and foreign-affairs ministers following North Korea's response, South Korean President Park Geun-hye said it would be preferable to normalize the Kaesong complex.
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He also told his South Korean counterpart that the US-South Korea alliance was "instrumental in maintaining stability on the Korean peninsula", Pentagon spokesman George Little said in a statement.
North Korea has been railing against joint U.S.-South Korean military exercises that are taking place in South Korea and has expressed anger over tightened U.N. sanctions for its February nuclear test.
South Korea says a North Korean mini-sub fired torpedoes at the Cheonan South Korean Navy ship, killing 46 people.
North Korea has relied on the Korean-Japanese for some of the foreign investment it gets from the outside world, and for trade.
But the jointly-run Kaesong industrial park, an important money-maker for North Korea which is seen as a key barometer of inter-Korean tensions, remains in operation.
Reports in South Korea allege he swore at the Korean-American woman and sexually harassed her.
During previous periods of inter-Korean tension, North Korea has threatened to close the project.
Around 1.5 million households, or about 10% of cable subscribers in South Korea, watched South Korean Shin Ji-yai beat Paula Creamer in playoff at the Kingsmill Championship in Williamsburg, Va.
And we have had -- National Security Advisor Tom Donilon has had Korean and Japanese officials here to discuss North Korea and -- along with Secretary Clinton.
It was thought that the word Assarabia - a Korean slang term - might also raise pronunciation issues outside South Korea.
At the same time, both South Korean intelligence and US Defense Department sources have accused North Korea of responsibility for launching massive cyber-attacks against US and South Korean computer systems over the past week.
North Korea and the United States were on opposite sides in the 1950-1953 Korean War and had no regular contacts before a 1994 crisis over North Korea's nuclear program.
Since the 1950-53 Korean War, North Korea has feared that Washington is intent on destroying the regime.
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The U.S. has about 28, 500 troops in South Korea to help deter potential aggression from North Korea, a legacy of the 1950-53 Korean War.
But officials involved in the discussions said they're likely to build on Security Council sanctions enacted last month against three North Korean arms companies -- Korea Mining Development Trading Corp.
SEOUL The final group of South Korean workers returned home from a jointly run industrial park inside North Korea, closing the last outpost of inter-Korean economic cooperation a month after Pyongyang began its choke on the complex.
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Three of the other parties -- China, South Korea and Japan -- have advocated a more conciliatory approach to solving the North Korean nuclear issues, and have urged the United States to be more flexible.
Ahn Byung-min, of the Seoul-based Korea Transport Institute, has made 40-odd trips to monitor the distribution of South Korean food aid.
The U.S. Treasury on Thursday levied new North Korea sanctions, against a Hong Kong-based company and two officials from a North Korean bank it said is linked to North Korea's weapons programs.
In apparent response to the UN sanctions vote, however, North Korea has issued multiple threats, promising to abandon the Korean War armistice, pull out of non-aggression pacts with North Korea and cut cross-border links, including the hotline.
The U.S.-South Korean drills, which North Korea calls war preparations, ended Tuesday, the United States Forces Korea said.
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