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The two Koreas are supposed to hold calls twice a day -- once in the morning and the other in the afternoon -- via military and liaison hotlines set up across the border, but the North stopped answering calls from the South on Friday afternoon, Yonhap News Agency reported.

The Ministry's call came as Rodong Sinmun, the North's main newspaper, carried photos of South Korean buses running in Pyongyang on Wednesday that were used in the Kaesong Industrial Park to transport North Korean workers before the complex was closed down in 2016, reports Yonhap News Agency.

The bomber was redeployed to the Korean Peninsula about a month after its last deployment here amid tensions caused by Pyongyang's provocative moves, such as its unveiling of the Hwasan-31 tactical nuclear warhead last week, reports Yonhap News Agency. The South Korean Air Force mobilized its F-35A radar-evading fighters for the drills, while the US side deployed F-35B and F-16 fighters.

The two-day anti-submarine and search-and-rescue exercise, featuring the USS Nimitz carrier, got under way in the international waters south of the southern island of Jeju, reports Yonhap News Agency. The joint maneuvers followed Pyongyang's provocative acts, such as its unveiling of the Hwasan-31 tactical nuclear warhead last week and the test of the underwater nuclear attack drone Haeil days earlier.

The USS Nimitz carrier docked at ROK Fleet Command in the city, 325 km southeast of Seoul, after its strike group trained with the South Korean Navy in the international waters south of the southern island of Jeju the previous day, reports Yonhap News Agency. Its presence here is expected to send a warning to Pyongyang, which has been ratcheting up tensions through missile launches and repeated threats to use nuclear weapons in a contingency, observers said.

"The reality of the appalling human rights violations against the North Korean people must be fully revealed to the international community," he said during a Cabinet meeting. Under the North Korean Human Rights Act passed in 2016, the Unification Minister is required to submit an annual report to the National Assembly on the reclusive.

According to the source, Seoul participated as a co-sponsor in the draft resolution to be adopted at the 52nd regular session of the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC), which runs from February 27 to April 4, reports Yonhap News Agency. The draft resolution, led by Sweden and the European Union, urged the North.

Just 23,179 babies were born in January this year, sinking 6 per cent from a year earlier, according to the data from Statistics Korea. It marked the lowest number for any January since the statistics agency started compiling monthly data in 1981. The number of babies born in South Korea has been falling on-year for 86 consecutive months.

Just 23,179 babies were born in January this year, sinking 6 per cent from a year earlier, according to the data from Statistics Korea. It marked the lowest number for any January since the statistics agency started compiling monthly data in 1981, reports Yonhap News Agency. The number of babies born in South Korea has been.

Yoon is expected to be one of the leaders to be invited to the gathering, together with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and Indonesian President Joko Widodo, the Yomiuri Shimbun reported. Japanese Foreign Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi is also considering inviting Ukraine President.