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Washington Post (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
SEOUL -- With none of the tension presented by a rising China and a willful Japan, President Obama's visit to South Korea on Thursday was short, congenial in substance and splendid in form.
Naval Open Source INTelligence (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
North Korea is running a global arms smuggling enterprise to finance its nuclear weapons program, a United Nations panel said in a report on sanctions imposed on the regime. “The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea has established a highly sophisticated international network for the acquisition, marketing and sale of arms and military equipment,” said the report by a panel established...
Asian Gazette (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
[pba] A special committee of the U.N. General Assembly condemned North Korea and Burma on Thursday for what it said were widespread human rights violations in the two Asian countries. The 192-nation General Assembly's Third Committee, which focuses on human rights issues, approved a resolution on North Korea 97-19 with 65 abstentions. A similar resolution on Burma (Myanmar) passed 92-26 with 65 abstentions....
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
New York - The UN Security Council's trade sanctions against North Korea inflicted a sharp drop in business, but the country appeared to have eluded the arms embargo because of its sophisticated international network, a sanctions panel said Thursday....
Open Democracy (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Obama urges North Korea and Iran to change course On the final leg of his tour of East Asia, US President Barack Obama has used a joint press conference with South Korean President Lee Myung-bak to urge North Korea and Iran to change their nuclear stances or face sanctions in the future. read more
Japan Times (Free subscription) | yesterday
U.S. President Barack Obama and South Korean President Lee Myung Bak reaffirmed in Seoul on Thursday that they will seek a "definite and comprehensive resolution" to the North Korean nuclear issue. Mr. Obama urged the North to return to the six-party nuclear talks, adding that he will send special representative for North Korea policy Stephen Bosworth to the country on Dec. 8. In early October,...
Asia Times (Free subscription) | yesterday
After troublesome stopovers in Japan and China, United States President Barack Obama ended his swing through Asia on a high in South Korea, with US troops jubilant after a rousing speech. The feel-good factor was boosted by a glowing consensus with Seoul's leader over ending Pyongyang's nuclear program. - Donald Kirk (Nov 20, '09)
France24 (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
Chinese Defence Minister Liang Guanglie will visit North Korea soon, state-run media said on Friday, amid efforts to draw Pyongyang back to nuclear disarmament talks. Liang's trip, which also will take him to Japan and Thailand, will begin on Sunday and run through December 5, the China News Service reported, without giving a specific itinerary. It gave no reason for the trip but the announcement...
Boston Herald (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
OSAN AIR BASE, South Korea - U.S. special envoy Stephen Bosworth will travel to North Korea on Dec. 8 for talks aimed at getting the totalitarian regime to give up its nuclear...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Seoul - US President Barack Obama said Thursday that the international community's patience in the nuclear disputes with Iran and North Korea was running out. Neither Iran nor North Korea could continue to bank on the world community continuing to ac...
Sify (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
US President Barack Obama and his South Korean counterpart Lee Myung Bak Thursday urged North Korea to return to nuclear talks, suggesting a 'grand bargain' solution to end the dispute over the Stalinist state's nuclear weapons programme.
ireland.com (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
US President Barack Obama said he was willing to help North Korea repair its economy and end decades of international isolation if Pyongyang stopped a cycle of threats and finally moved towards nuclear disarmament.
L. A. Times Dodgers Blog (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
A visiting President Obama and his South Korean host agree on an offer to the North. Free trade is also key in Seoul talks. President Obama met today with South Korean President Lee Myung-bak, calling for North Korea to take "serious steps" to give up its nuclear weapons and committing himself to reviving a free-trade deal between Seoul and Washington that has stalled in the U.S. Congress....
kansascity.com (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
OSAN AIR BASE, South Korea - U.S. special envoy Stephen Bosworth will travel to North Korea on Dec. 8 for talks aimed at getting the totalitarian regime to give up its nuclear weapons program, President Barack Obama said Thursday during a visit to South Korea on the final day of his weeklong Asia tour.
Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
OSAN AIR BASE, South Korea - U.S. special envoy Stephen Bosworth will travel to North Korea on Dec. 8 for talks aimed at getting the totalitarian regime to give up its nuclear weapons program, President Barack Obama said Thursday during a visit to South Korea on the final day of his weeklong Asia tour.
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yourfindit | 04/29/2009
North Korea, still angered by the United Nations condemnation of a recent rocket launch, has threatened to carry out nuclear missile tests unless an apology is issued. While North Korea insisted that their April 5 rocket launch placed a communications satellite in orbit the general feeling in the international community was that the launch was actually a missile test. Shortly after the launch the UN
djuice24 | 02/11/2009
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mirabeau | 09/10/2008
Popping up again in Japan, the rumor that North Korea’s leader is being replaced by a double has been doing the rounds ever since the communist nation was founded. A specialist in North Korea at Waseda university in Japan and a former correspondent in Seoul for the Japanese daily Mainichi Shimbun , Japanese academic Toshimitsu Shigemura has just published a book entitled “The True Nature of Kim Jong-il”
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