NK weekly-inter-Korean news

Summary of inter-Korean news this week

SEOUL, July 28 (Yonhap) -- The following is a summary of inter-Korean news this week.

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S. Korea stresses arms trade with N. Korea illegal amid Pyongyang-Moscow defense talks

SEOUL -- Seoul's foreign ministry on Thursday stressed that any form of weapons trade between North Korea and other nations would constitute a violation of United Nations Security Council resolutions, following high-level defense talks held between Pyongyang and Moscow this week.

According to Russian news agency TASS, North Korean Defense Minister Kang Sun-nam and his Russian counterpart, Sergei Shoigu, held talks in Pyongyang on Wednesday to discuss the strengthening of bilateral defense ties.

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(LEAD) S. Korea deplores N.K. missile test at Track 1.5 forum amid Pyongyang's absence

SEOUL -- South Korea has deplored North Korea's ongoing missile provocation at a regional security conference that has served as a venue for dialogue among the members of the six-party talks on Pyongyang's nuclear program, Seoul's foreign ministry said Tuesday.

At a session of the annual Northeast Asia Cooperation Dialogue (NEACD) held in California on Monday, Chun Young-hee, head of the ministry's Korean Peninsula Peace Regime Bureau, deplored Pyongyang for threatening the international community with its ongoing nuclear and missile development, according to the ministry.

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