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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 ...

  • 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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Miracle at St. Anna

Miracle at St. Anna

In the opening scene of Spike Lees Miracle at St. Anna, an elderly black man sits in his apartment in Harlem beneath a World War II recruitment poster of Joe Louis in uniform. He is watching John Wayne on television commanding his lily-white platoon to hold an Italian vi ... ...

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  • N. Korea nuke arsenal ‘matter of time’

    Prime Minister Shinzo Abe sent an aide, Mr. Isao Iijima — a former secretary to Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi — to North Korea last week in an effort to make progress on unresolved bilateral issues, including the past abduction of Japanese nationals by North ...

  • An overture to Pyongyang

    Prime Minister Shinzo Abe sent an aide, Mr. Isao Iijima — a former secretary to Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi — to North Korea last week in an effort to make progress on unresolved bilateral issues, including the past abduction of Japanese nationals by North Korean agents. Japan has made it clear to North Korea that the abduction issue as well as the issue of the North’s ...

  • Envoy Says North Korea Open to Dialogue

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  • N.Korea says willing to take Chinas advice to start talks

    By Ben Blanchard and Sui-Lee Wee BEIJING (Reuters) - North Korea is willing to take China's advice and enter into talks, Chinese state television cited an envoy of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un as saying, following weeks of tension on the Korean peninsula after the North's latest nuclear test. However, that prospect seems unlikely as North Korea has repeatedly said it will not ...

  • N. Korea wants peace envoy tells China official

    BEIJING (AFP) - A special envoy from North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un told one of China's top officials Thursday that Pyongyang wants peace and is willing to pursue dialogue with key countries, state media reported.Envoy Choe Ryong-Hae met Liu Yunshan, a member of the Chinese Communist Party's highest ranking body the Politburo Standing Committee, state television reported on its ...

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