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07 Jan 19 : 40 | US official: NKorea will challenge Obama The Bush administration said Wednesday that nuclear-armed North Korea will be an early test for President-elect Barack Obama's new administration, conceding that one of President George W. Bush's top foreign policy initiatives is unlikely to be resolved before Obama takes office Jan. 20.... Source : Associated Press News - Salon.com 2 hours ago |
07 Jan 17 : 40 | NKorea sets March date for parliamentary elections North Korea announced Wednesday it will hold long overdue elections in March amid indications the impoverished regime plans to fill parliament with finance-savvy legislators and has named new Cabinet ministers with economic know-how. With foreign aid drying up amid a global economic crisi... Source : Associated Press News - Salon.com 4 hours ago |
07 Jan 04 : 00 | NKorea to hold parliamentary election in March North Korea announced Wednesday it will elect new members of its rubber stamp legislature in March, following months of delay amid speculation about the health of leader Kim Jong Il. The North usually holds a parliamentary election every five years. The last election was held in August 20... Source : Associated Press News - Salon.com 18 hours ago |
01 Jan 11 : 40 | North Korea vows to bolster its military in 2009 North Korea ushered in 2009 with an appeal Thursday to unite around leader Kim Jong Il and bolster the country's military while reaffirming its commitment to denuclearization. North Korea traditionally marks New Year's Day with a joint editorial by the country's three major state-run... Source : Associated Press News - Salon.com |
31 Dec 14 : 45 | No sign of South Korean policy shift toward North South Korean President Lee Myung-bak indicated no softening of his hard-line stance on North Korea and vowed Wednesday to work closely with Washington to end the communist nation's nuclear ambitions. Ties between the two Koreas have plunged to their lowest level in a decade since Lee took... Source : Associated Press News - Salon.com |
17 Dec 03 : 30 | US wants written North Korea nuclear commitments Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Tuesday the current administration will keep trying to get North Korea to make written commitments on inspection of its nuclear programs until President George W. Bush leaves office on Jan. 20. Six-nation disarmament talks in Beijing ended in a sta... Source : Associated Press News - Salon.com |
13 Dec 07 : 05 | North Korea warns nuclear dismantling might slow North Korea's envoy to nuclear talks warned Saturday that Pyongyang will slow work on dismantling its nuclear program if energy aid by Washington and others is delayed. Four days of disarmament talks ended in a stalemate last week after North Korea refused to make written commitments on i... Source : Associated Press News - Salon.com |
11 Dec 11 : 45 | US envoy says North Korea nuclear talks fail A U.S. envoy says that three days of talks have failed to bridge a dispute with Pyongyang over how to have North Korea verify its past atomic activities. Christopher Hill said Wednesday just before flying out of Beijing that North Korea would not agree to proposals made by the other count... Source : Associated Press News - Salon.com |
21 Dec 18 : 20 | Tourist sites along Korea's DMZ A look at South Korean tourist sites near the Demilitarized Zone dividing North and South Korea: -- Odusan Observatory: Offers a glimpse into North Korean villages, with defectors from North Korea serving as guides. -- Dorasan Observatory: With binoculars, tourists can watch North ... Source : Associated Press News - Salon.com |
21 Dec 18 : 20 | North Korean leader's former home open to tourists This small stone villa perched among fragrant pine trees is about as close as most people can get to North Korea, in more than one way. It is only a few miles away from the border, and it was the childhood home of the boy who grew up to become the leader of the North. Kim Jong Il was 6 ye... Source : Associated Press News - Salon.com |
19 Dec 04 : 05 | South Korea denies involvement in alleged Kim plot South Korea on Friday denied North Korea's claim that it hired an agent to track leader Kim Jong Il in what the communist nation suggested was an assassination plot. The North's spy agency, the Ministry of State Security, made the claims late Thursday, saying it recently arrested an... Source : Associated Press News - Salon.com |
01 Jan 03 : 40 | NKorea vows to strengthen its military North Korea ushered in 2009 with an appeal Thursday to unite around leader Kim Jong Il and bolster the country's military, but mentioned its nuclear programs only briefly and broke with tradition by not criticizing the U.S. North Korea traditionally marks New Year's Day with a joint... Source : Associated Press News - Salon.com |
10 Dec 13 : 50 | US envoy says N. Korea nuclear talks hit stalemate The latest round of talks on ending North Korea's nuclear programs have hit a wall, the U.S. envoy to the discussions said Wednesday. Christopher Hill said the talks with envoys from North Korea and four other nations made no progress on the tricky issue of verifying the country's... Source : Associated Press News - Salon.com |
31 Dec 00 : 25 | Judge awards $65 million to USS Pueblo victims A federal judge has awarded more than $65 million to several men of the USS Pueblo, who were captured and tortured by North Korea back in the 1960s. U.S. District Judge Henry H. Kennedy Jr. issued the judgment against North Korea on Tuesday. North Korea did not respond to the lawsu... Source : Associated Press News - Salon.com |
29 Dec 19 : 15 | Report: NKorea's Kim cheered at concert appearance Kim Jong Il attended a concert by North Korea's state orchestra, state media said Monday, the latest official report to portray the reclusive leader as healthy amid speculation he suffered a stroke in August. The official Korean Central News Agency said that when Kim appeared in the audit... Source : Associated Press News - Salon.com |
23 Dec 14 : 35 | NKorean general threatens SKorea amid tensions North Korea's defense minister accused the United States and South Korea on Tuesday of plotting war on the Korean peninsula and threatened to destroy the South if they attack. Defense Minister Kim Il Chol said in a speech in Pyongyang that his army would reduce South Korea to a "sea of... Source : Associated Press News - Salon.com |
18 Dec 10 : 15 | NKorea produces more food, but still needs aid North Korea's food production in 2008 rose from a year ago, but remains far from enough to meet the impoverished nation's minimum requirement, a state-run farm agency in the South said Thursday. Thanks to better weather than last year, the North's total grain production for 2008 is... Source : Associated Press News - Salon.com |
15 Dec 09 : 20 | Impoverished NKorea getting new mobile network North Korea is getting a state-of-the art mobile phone network courtesy of an Egyptian telecoms giant, raising questions about who will be making calls and sending text messages in a country where the vast majority of people are believed banned from using cell phones. Orascom Telecom Chie... Source : Associated Press News - Salon.com |
13 Dec 06 : 15 | SKorea, China, Japan show unity at first summit Japan, China and South Korea moved to ward off the effects of the global financial crunch at a trilateral summit Saturday, while Tokyo and Seoul criticized North Korea for stalling denuclearization talks. The three Asian nations -- which together make up 75 percent of the east Asian econo... Source : Associated Press News - Salon.com |
10 Dec 12 : 45 | US envoy says NKorea nuclear talks hit stalemate The U.S. envoy to talks on ending North Korea nuclear programs says discussion have reached a stalemate. Christopher Hill said Wednesday's talks with envoys from North Korea and four other nations made no progress on the tricky issue of verifying the country's accounting of its past... Source : Associated Press News - Salon.com |
07 Dec 14 : 05 | Negotiators brace for 'tough' NKorea nuclear talks Japan's top nuclear envoy joined other negotiators Sunday in downplaying expectations for a new round of talks on North Korea's disarmament, saying it would be tough to work out a detailed plan for verifying the North's past nuclear activities. North Korea -- which conducted a nuclear... Source : Associated Press News - Salon.com |
07 Dec 08 : 30 | SKorea expresses pessimism over 6-party nuke talks South Korea's nuclear envoy Sunday expressed pessimism about upcoming six-nation talks on North Korea's nuclear program as negotiators arrived in Beijing to prepare for the meetings. Kim Sook, who leads the South Korean delegation, was to meet his U.S. and Japanese counterparts later... Source : Associated Press News - Salon.com |
10 Dec 07 : 25 | Activist: NKorean worker flees Kaesong factory A North Korean who was working at an enclave of South Korean factories in her communist country has defected to China with the aim of seeking asylum in the South, a South Korean civic activist said Wednesday. South Korea's Unification Ministry said it could not immediately confirm the cla... Source : Associated Press News - Salon.com |
