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  • North Korea approaches China about resuming dialogue

    - After months of strained relations and provocations, North Korea sent signals this week that it wants to re-engage with its longtime ally China and possibly resume international negotiations on ending its nuclear weapons program. On Friday, a high-level North Korean envoy delivered a letter from North Korea's leader, Kim Jong Un, to Chinese President Xi Jinping, ending an unusually long ...

  • UN to strangle North Korea with brutal sanctions

    The world community again demonstrated unanimity in the face of North Korea's nuclear threat. After an atomic explosion at an underground test site on February ...

  • S.KoreaU.S. end massive joint military exercise amid tensions on Korean Peninsula

    South Korea and the United States wrapped up Tuesday their joint military drills which was denounced by the Democratic People's Republic of Korea(DPRK)as "an irresponsible and dangerous action." The two-month Foal Eagle exercises, launched on March 1, were aimed to improve the readiness of U.S.-South Korea alliance to defend South Korea, with 10,000 U.S.troops and 200,000 South ...

  • Seoul press doubtful over N.Korea dialogue offer

    SEOUL (AFP) - South Korea's press on Saturday expressed scepticism over an apparent offer by North Korea that it was willing to return to six-party nuclear disarmament talks.North Korean special envoy Choe Ryong-Hae met Chinese President Xi Jinping on Friday and reportedly handed him a letter from leader Kim Jong-Un in a sign Pyongyang may be backing away from confrontation with the ...

  • Chinas blunt message to North Korea

    North Korea launched several short-range guided missiles into the sea off the Korean Peninsula's east coast May 18, South Korea's semi-official news agency Yonhap cited the South Korean Defense Ministry as ...

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  • North Korean envoy to China pledges renewed commitment to nuclear disarmament talks

    In this photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency, Chinese President Xi Jinping, right, greets North Korean Vice Marshal Choe Ryong Hae in Beijing Friday, May 24, 2013. The top North Korean envoy delivered a letter from leader Kim Jong Un to Xi on Friday and told him Pyongyang would take steps to rejoin stalled six-nation nuclear disarmament talks, in an apparent victory for ...

  • Does North Korea Have a Missile-Deliverable Nuclear Weapon

    According to a recent unclassified Defense Intelligence Agency report, "DIA assesses with moderate confidence the North currently has nuclear weapons capable of delivery by ballistic missiles." The day the DIA report came out, Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel stated that neither Iran nor North Korea is capable of attacking the U.S. with nuclear weapons. Despite the Obama ...

  • Interactive Meet North Koreas first family

    The North Korean dictatorship established by Kim Il Sung after World War II was taken over by his son Kim Jong Il in the 1990s. Now Kim Jong Il’s health is failing and a transfer of power appears imminent. Click here to learn about his heir-apparent, Kim Jung Un, and other members of the Kim family, who hold powerful positions throughout the North Korean ...

  • North Korea Puts Bright Face on China Visit Despite Tensions

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  • Chinese FM talks with U.S. South Korean counterparts on Korean Peninsula tensions

    BEIJING, April 14 (Xinhua) -- Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi has held separate talks by phone with his U.S. and South Korean counterparts Hillary Clinton and Kim Sung-hwan on tensions on the Korean Peninsula.Speaking to Clinton Friday and Kim Saturday, Yang said the Chinese side noted the concern of various parties about the Democratic People's Republic of Korea's (DPRK) ...

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