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North Korean leader Kim Jong Il has visited a new power plant and a farm in the south of the country, official media reported Saturday. The official Korean Central News Agency said Kim went to North Korea's South Hamgyeong Province where he congratulated...
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From his seat of power in Pyongyang, Kim Jong-il waves a lordly hand. Here comes former United States president Bill Clinton with his retinue, begging for the favor of an audience. And there's Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao, beseeching the Dear Leader for...
Tags: North Korean, Barack Obama, South Korea, East Asia, China, Japan, United States, president barack, U.S, Singapore
Tuesday said the country had 'successfully completed reprocessing 8,000 spent fuel rods by the end of August'. "Noticeable successes have been made in turning the extracted plutonium weapon-grade for the purpose of bolstering up the nuclear deterrent,"...
Tags: North Korean, fuel rod, United States, direct talks, Washington, spent fuel, Inter-Korean, nuclear disarmament, South Korea, nuclear issue
South Korea— North Korea pressed the United States to accept its demand for direct talks on the communist regime's nuclear program, warning Monday that Pyongyang "will go our own way" unless Washington agrees. North Korea's Foreign Ministry did not elaborate...
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Masatoshi Okauchi / Rex Features On the evening of 7 July 1978, Yasushi Chimura and his fiancée, Fukie Hamamoto, drove in a small truck to a lookout point above the craggy coast that marks the city of Obama's meeting with the Sea of Japan .
Tags: North Korean, U.S.-North Korea, U.S. State Department, Kim Jong-il
Chinese President Hu Jintao told a senior North Korean official on Wednesday that ties between the two nations have reached a new level of goodwill, avoiding direct mention of the North's nuclear dispute in his public praise. Hu lauded relations between...
Tags: North Korean, Below North Korea, Northeast Asian, China News Service, Northeast Asia Cooperation Dialogue, major breakthroughs, University of California-San Diego, unofficial talks
The aid was being offered purely on humanitarian grounds and no further shipments were planned, the Unification Ministry in Seoul said. If accepted, the food aid would be the first to be sent to the impoverished, communist North Korea since conservative...
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A North Korean delegation has arrived in the United States with rumors swirling it will meet with U.S. officials on restarting nuclear talks, observers say. The delegation's leader, Ri Gun, wouldn't reveal to reporters at JFK Airport in New York Friday...
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Daniel Chun peers out of the window of the Air Koryo turboprop from China as it touches down outside Pyongyang, his former home. It has taken him less than two hours to go back nearly 60 years. There are no jumbo jets jockeying for a gate or passengers...
Tags: North Korean, U.S, New York, north koreas, South Korean, korean envoys, korean bank, assets offing, Ri Gun, The Treasury Department
Vitit Muntarbhorn, the UN's Special Rapporteur for North Korea, called on the country's leaders to replace their so-called "military first" policy with a "people first" policy. Presenting his latest report to the UN General Assembly committee that deals...
Tags: North Korean, South Korean, north koreas, south koreas, Singapore, Kim Jong-il, possible summit, Washington, Kim Jong-il, KBS