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North Korea has sharply revalued its currency by issuing the first new banknotes for 17 years in an apparent attempt to curb inflation and clamp down on black-market trading, reports said Tuesday.
North Korea has sharply revalued its currency, Chinese state media and South Korean reports said Tuesday, in a surprise move apparently aimed at curbing inflation and clamping down on black-market trade.
North Korea will redenominate the won currency to drop two zeros from the nominal value of bills in an effort to fight inflation.
The South Korean Navy rescued a North Korean soldier found in the waters off the west coast, and the authorities were questioning him about whether he had been spying, an official said Monday.
Dec. 1 (Bloomberg) -- North Korea revalued its currency for the first time in 17 years to crack down on black market trading and curb inflation, South Korea’s Yonhap News Agency reported, citing unidentified sources who trade with China.
North Korea Upwardly Revalues Its Currency: Yonhap
South Korea's Unification Ministry dismissed rumors Tuesday that North Korean leader Kim Jong-il had been attacked and killed, which prompted financial markets to slide briefly in what one analyst said was a reflection of fragile sentiment.
(Corrects to show previous revaluations were made prior to 1992.) Dec. 1 (Bloomberg) -- North Korea revalued its currency for the first time in 17 years to crack down on black market trading and curb inflation, South Korea’s Yonhap News Agency reported, citing unidentified sources who trade with China.
North Korea revamped its national currency for the first time in 17 years, reports said Tuesday -- a move that appeared aimed at reviving its dilapidated economy by curbing inflation and black market trading.
North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il took youngest son Kim Jong-Un on a "field guidance" trip as part of his grooming to take over the Stalinist nation, a Japanese newspaper reported Sunday.
A South Korean navy ship has rescued a North Korean soldier whose boat drifted into southern waters across the Yellow Sea border, officials said Monday.
Beijing - North Korean shops were closed on Tuesday pending the revaluation of the country's currency, Chinese and South Korean media reported. The North Korean Foreign Ministry told foreign diplomats that notes denominated in the old won currency wo...
Amano, 62, handled nuclear proliferation issues for Japan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs for three decades. He joined the IAEA’s 35-member board of governors in September 2005 and was elected the agency’s director general in July.
The Supreme Court gave hope Monday to a Korean War veteran on Florida's death row, saying courts should take note of his battlefield bravery and likely post-traumatic stress in weighing whether he deserves to be executed for the murders he later committed.
He infuriated Washington by challenging claims Saddam Hussein had a secret nuclear program, grappled with Iranian and North Korean nuclear programs, and brought luster and unprecedented scrutiny to his organization by winning the Nobel Peace Prize in 2005.
South Korea's navy rescued a North Korean soldier who ended up in the South's waters while fishing and he wants to be returned home, a report said today.
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