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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 ...

  • 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 ...

  • 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

    BEIJING ...

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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 ...

  • North Korea ready for dialogue with parties concerned over Korean Peninsula issues

    BEIJING, May 23 (Itar-Tass) - North Korea values highly the efforts, which China is taking to preserve peace and stability on the Korean Peninsula, special envoy of the North Korean leader and head of the General Political Department of the Korean People’s Army Choe Ryong Hae said at a meeting with member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the ...

  • DPRK willing to accept Chinas advice

    /enpproperty--> BEIJING - The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) has agreed to accept China's advice by participating in dialogue with relevant parties, after senior Chinese leader Liu Yunshan met with a DPRK special envoy. Liu, a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Chinese Communist Party (CPC) Central Committee, met in the Great Hall of the ...

  • Pyongyang envoy seeks end to intl isolation say experts

    North Korean leader Kim Jong-un's special envoy on May 22 held talks with a senior Communist Party of China (CPC) official in Beijing, signaling an attempt by Pyongyang to break out of the increasing isolation it has felt from the international community throughout the latest round of ...

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