Summary of external news of North Korea this week

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Summary of external news of North Korea this week

SEOUL, Dec. 26 (Yonhap) -- The following is a summary of external news on North Korea this week.

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N. Korea says U.S. nuclear-powered sub's entry into S. Korea poses grave security threat

SEOUL -- North Korea on Thursday denounced a U.S. nuclear-powered submarine's recent entry into South Korea, saying it poses a grave security threat to the Korean Peninsula.

The North's defense ministry issued the response in a statement dated the previous day, following the entry of the USS Greeneville, a Los Angeles-class nuclear-powered attack submarine, into a naval base in Busan, some 330 kilometers southeast of Seoul, on Tuesday.

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