Experts are also debating the cause of the earthquake, notes Taipei's Central News Agency.
It was released by the state-run Korean Central News Agency on January 31, 2003.
The statement by the North Korean Foreign Ministry spokesman was carried by the North's official Korean Central News Agency.
According to the state-run Central News Agency, there are a total of 55 death row inmates following the executions.
"Dialogue can never go with war actions, " said the statement, which was carried by the official Korean Central News Agency.
"The DPRK has no plan to invite anyone of the U.S. as regards Bae's issue, " the Korean Central News Agency said.
But the Central News Agency reported that Taiwan's Olympic flag will be placed on the street display, instead of its flag.
For one thing, the only news outlet that received notice of the claim of responsibility was Taiwan's official Central News Agency.
According to the North's official Korean Central News Agency, a delegation from the Laotian capital of Vientiane visited North Korea on May 20.
Her remarks were an "unpardonable provocation, " a spokesman for a body that deals with inter-Korean issues said, the Korean Central News Agency reported.
"The situation of the Korean Peninsula is reaching the brink of a nuclear war, " the statement, issued by the official Korean Central News Agency, says.
My colleague Andy Greenberg defeated such hearsay just as easily in 2009 when an account claimed to represent the government-run Korean Central News Agency.
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The accompanying news report from the state-run Korean Central News Agency said the young leader dropped by to get a firsthand report on the progress of construction.
"Our retaliatory action will start without any notice from now, " the North's army supreme command said in a separate statement carried by the official Korean Central News Agency.
North Korea has denied any involvement in the sinking of the Cheonan, calling the results of the preliminary report "sheer fabrication, " according to its official Korea Central News Agency.
"Shooting our satellite for peaceful purposes will precisely mean a war, " a spokesman for the North Korean army said in a statement carried by the state-run Korean Central News Agency (KCNA).
Since the election, however, although regular criticism of Lee as "human scum" continues, the North's official Korean Central News Agency hasn't mentioned Park by name, though her political party is still condemned.
In a statement carried by the state-run Korean Central News Agency, the North Korean Foreign Ministry called the U.N. condemnation of the nation's April 5 rocket launch a gross infringement on North Korea's sovereignty.
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Regional papers ran wire stories about the panel's decision, saying that Taiwan officials were careful to give the bill "a low-key welcome, " according to an Agence France-Presse article carried by Taiwan's Central News Agency.
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"No nation has directly been exposed to the U.S. nuclear threat for such a long time in the world, " a recent and representative commentary from the North's official Korean Central News Agency said.
Taiwan's government-owned Central News Agency has reported that Chen Guangcheng who now lives in New York with his wife and children plans to visit the island, likely for two weeks starting on June 23.
"A patrol ship of the Navy of the Korean People's Amy captured one ship of South Korea on July 30 when it illegally intruded deep into the DPRK territorial waters, " North Korea's Korean Central News Agency reported.
"A safe flight orbit has been chosen so that carrier rocket debris to be generated during the flight would not have any impact on neighboring countries, " Korea Central News Agency, the North's state-run news service, said Friday.
"The investigation proved that the intruders crossed the border and committed the crime for the purpose of making animation files to be used for an anti-DPRK smear campaign over its human rights issue, " the Korean Central News Agency said Tuesday.
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"We had already warned the South Korean group of traitors not to make reckless remarks concerning the sinking of warship Cheonan of the puppet navy, " North Korea's National Defence Commission said in a statement, according to the Korean Central News Agency.
According to the Korean Central News Agency, the United States affirmed during talks in Beijing that its sanctions were not intended to target the North Korean people and that once six-party talks began, priority would be given to lift the sanctions.
"There can be talks for peace and stability of the Korean Peninsula and the region in the future, but no talks for the denuclearization of the peninsula, " the Foreign Ministry said in a memorandum carried by the state-run Korean Central News Agency.
Kim was also quoted as saying his military is fully ready to fight an "all-out war" and that he will order a "just, great advance for national unification" if the enemy makes even a slight provocation, according to the North's official Korean Central News Agency.
"If the U.S. ... delays the settlement of the nuclear issue, it would have a serious impact on the disablement of nuclear facilities, " an unidentified spokesman for North Korea's Foreign Ministry said in a statement carried by the Korean Central News Agency, the North Korean news agency.
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