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  • North Korean special envoy visits China to win confidence North Korean special envoy visits China to win confidence

    PYONGYANG, North Korea - In an indication that North Korea may give diplomacy a chance to end regional tension, its leader Kim Jong Un Wednesday sent a special envoy to China to win the confidence of its most important ally. The trip by Vice Marshal Choe Ryong Hae, a senior Workers' Party official and the military's top political officer, comes after months of ignoring Chinese warnings to ...

  • Awaiting meeting with Chinese leader North Korean envoy tours high-tech park

    Chinese paramilitary police officers stand in position at the gate of the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse, where a car believed to be carrying North Korea's Vice Marshal Choe Ryong Hae, a senior Workers’ Party official and the military’s top political officer, arrives in Beijing Thursday, May 23, 2013. After months of ignoring Chinese warnings to give up nuclear weapons, North Korean ...

  • Reshuffle in North Korean Defense Ministry is not Apocalypse

    The North Korean news agency KCNA reported on Monday that the country's leader Kim Jong-un appointed a new Minister of People's Armed Forces, Colonel-General Chang Chung-Nam. How may this reshuffle affect the situation on the Korean Peninsula? Pravda.Ru asked leading officer of the Center for Korean Studies of the Institute for Far Eastern Studies, Konstantine Asmolov, to comment the ...

  • DPRK proposes to South Korea to mark 13th anniversary of Joint Declaration of June 15 2000

    TOKYO, May 23 (Itar-Tass) - North Korea has proposed to South Korea to hold events to mark the 13th anniversary of the inter-Korean Joint Declaration of 15 June 2000, South Korea’s Yonhap news agency reported on ...

  • North Korea envoy awaits chat with Chinas leader

    BEIJING (AP) -- While a North Korean envoy waits for an expected meeting with China's Communist Party chief, his Chinese hosts are taking him touring in ...

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Frenzy [DVD]

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Alfred Hitchcock's penultimate film, Frenzy, marked his first return to England after more than 20 years of filmmaking in Hollywood. In many ways, Frenzy was a return to Hitchcock's roots, not only his national roots, but the cinematic roots that had made him one of the most renowned filmmakers, both critically and commercially, in cinema history. Much like Psycho (1960), ... ...

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  • DPRK proposes joint event with S. Korea to commemorate landmark declaration

    The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) Wednesday sent a fax to propose anniversary activities with South Korea together to commemorate the 13th anniversary of the landmark joint declaration with South Korea, Yonhap News Agency cited Thursday a civic organization as reporting.DPRK said the only way to recover the relationship between inter-Korea and open a new situation for ...

  • Roundup Japan mulling to resume inter-governmental talks with DPRK

    Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga said here Wednesday that Japan is mulling to resume the stalled inter-governmental talks with the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) in an effort to resolve abduction issue.Suga said Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is resolute to resolve the issue and Japan seeks every possibility to communicate with DPRK to make the issue settled.Abe said ...

  • North Korean leader sends high-level confidant to China

    PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) -- After months of ignoring Chinese warnings to give up nuclear weapons, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un sent a high-level confidant to Beijing on Wednesday, in a possible effort to mend strained ties with his country's most important ally and a sign that he may be giving diplomacy a chance.The trip by Vice Marshal Choe Ryong Hae, a senior Workers' Party ...

  • Japan confirms DPRKs missile launches

    Japanese government confirmed the DPRK's missile launches on Saturday, saying none of the missiles have landed in Japan's territorial waters, Kyodo news agency reported. South Korea's Yonhap News Agency earlier reported that the DPRK launched three short-range guided missiles into the Sea of Japan on Saturday, citing the country's defense ministry. It is reported that the ...

  • China media North Korea diplomacy

    Media and experts in China have linked a North Korean special envoy's Beijing visit to escalating regional tensions and public anger over the recent kidnapping of ...

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