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Summary of inter-Korean news this week

SEOUL, Dec. 22 (Yonhap) -- The following is a summary of inter-Korean news this week.

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Yoon calls for strengthening surveillance, reconnaissance against N. Korea

SEOUL -- President Yoon Suk Yeol called Wednesday for strengthening surveillance and reconnaissance capabilities to deal better with North Korea's nuclear and missile threats.

Yoon made the remark as he presided over a meeting of the presidential defense innovation committee, noting the North's recent launches of a spy satellite and an intercontinental ballistic missile.

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Navy sailor indicted on spreading pro-N.K. materials, leaking military secrets

SEOUL -- Navy prosecutors have indicted a sailor on charges of spreading pro-North Korean materials and disclosing the location of a warship during maritime operations, the Defense Counterintelligence Command said Tuesday.

The petty officer second class is accused of making materials praising North Korean founder Kim Il-sung, the late grandfather of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, by referencing pro-Pyongyang propaganda websites during his vacation in November 2022 and distributing them in his unit's restroom the following month, the command said.

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(LEAD) Yoon says N. Korea will learn its provocations only bring 'greater pain'

SEOUL -- President Yoon Suk Yeol said Tuesday that North Korea will learn its provocations only bring "greater pain," as he referred to a series of missile launches by the regime this week, including its latest test of an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM).

Yoon made the remark during a Cabinet meeting a day after North Korea fired what appeared to be a Hwasong-18 in its fifth test of an ICBM this year.

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(LEAD) S. Korean troops allowed to carry guns in truce village of Panmunjom: UNC

SEOUL -- South Korean troops in the inter-Korean truce village of Panmunjom have been allowed to carry guns in response to North Korea's redeploying of weapons in the Joint Security Area (JSA), the United Nations Command (UNC) said.

The two Koreas had agreed to pull back firearms in the JSA in accordance with a 2018 inter-Korean military agreement, but North Korean military personnel in the area have begun carrying guns since late November after it vowed to restore all military measures halted under the accord.

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