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  • Pyongyang Willing to Take Chinas Advice on Talks

    A North Korean envoy has told a senior Chinese official that Pyongyang is willing to take China's advice to start talks aimed at resolving tensions on the Korean peninsula. Chinese state broadcaster CCTV reported that envoy Choe Ryong Hae made that remark to a high-ranking member of China's Communist Party, Liu Yunshan, during talks in Beijing Thursday. Liu told Choe that China ...

  • North Korea sends envoy to China

    North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has sent a special envoy to Beijing, the state media has announced. A top military official, Choe Ryong-hae, flew to the Chinese capital on Wednesday. The visit comes amid an apparent toughening of Beijing's stance in the wake of Pyongyang's third nuclear test, reports BBC News. The visit - the duration of which remains unknown - follows weeks of high tension ...

  • Pyongyang to heed Beijing

    Pyongyang is willing to take Beijing's advice to engage in dialogue on the Korean Peninsula issue, a visiting special envoy of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea top leader Kim Jong-un said on ...

  • N.Korea ‘Willing’ to Resume Denuclearization Talks - Agency

    MOSCOW, May 23 (RIA Novosti) – Pyongyang "is willing" to accept China's advice to restart dialog with "relevant parties" on the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula, China’s Xinhua news agency said on Thursday citing a senior North Korean official who is on a visit to China. Choe Ryong Hae, the special envoy to DPRK leader Kim Jong Un, met with Liu ...

  • US sanctions hit NK aid agencies

    Foreign aid agencies in North Korea say US financial sanctions are severely restricting their operations there. Six European agencies say foreign banks are no longer transferring money to North Korea's Foreign Trade Bank, which is being targeted by the US Treasury. The agencies say their projects to support nutrition and agriculture in the country will be affected. A North Korean envoy ...

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  • North Korea willing to take Chinas advice start talks

    Choe, director of the General Political Bureau of the Korean People's Army of North Korea, walks at Pyongyang airport before leaving for ...

  • Kim Jong-Un completes generational shift in the top military leadership

    East-Asia-Intel.com SEOUL -- North Korea's Kim Jong-Un has put the final touches on his year-long drive to reorganize the powerful military by replacing aged defense minister with younger ...

  • Pyongyang says now willing to resolve tensions through dialogue

    An envoy of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un told a senior Chinese leader on Thursday that North Korea is willing to take China's advice and start talks to resolve tension on the Korean peninsula.Choe Ryong-hae, a vice marshal and the director of the Korean People's Army's General Political Bureau, arrived in Beijing Wednesday as a "special envoy" of Kim Jong-un. During ...

  • North Korea tries fax diplomacy with Seoul

    South Korean authorities said they received a faxed statement from North Korea proposing joint activities to mark the anniversary of a cooperation agreement. The Yonhap news agency reported Thursday an unnamed civic organization said a fax was sent from North Korea proposing a joint celebration to mark the anniversary of a June 2000 declaration for economic cooperation. Former South Korean ...

  • Japan and North Korea The frogman cometh

    The Yokotas have not lost hope FOR Shigeru and Sakie Yokota, their daughter seems at once far away and tantalisingly near. Megumi Yokota was kidnapped in 1977, at the age of 13, as she walked home from school. North Korean agents walked up the beach near her home and dragged her back to their boat. Her parents, now elderly, know that she married a South Korean who had also been abducted, and ...

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