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DPRK

Washington slammed over Biden's speech

The Democratic People's Republic of Korea warned on Sunday that the United States "will face worse and worse crisis" after US President Joe Biden called the DPRK's nuclear program a "serious threat". Kwon Jong-gun, director general of the Department of US Affairs of the Foreign Ministry, said in a statement that Biden made a slip of the tongue last week about the DPRK in his first Congressional speech in which he called Pyongyang a "serious threat" to the security of the US and the world. "His statement clearly reflects his intent to keep enforcing the hostile policy toward the DPRK as it had been done by the US for over half a century," Kwon said.

UNITED STATES

SpaceX returns 4 astronauts to Earth

SpaceX safely returned four astronauts from the International Space Station on Sunday, making the first US crew splashdown in darkness since the Apollo 8 moonshot. The Dragon capsule parachuted into the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Panama City, Florida, just before 3 am local time, ending the second astronaut flight for Elon Musk's company.

Xinhua - Agencies