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North Korean leader Kim Jong Un sends envoy to China
PYONGYANG, North Korea — After months of ignoring Chinese warnings to give up nuclear weapons, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un sent a high-level confidant to Beijing on Wednesday, in a possible effort to mend strained ties with his country's most...
Tags: Beijing (China), Nuclear Policy, Nuclear Weapons, Japan, Communist Party of China
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North Korea fires short-range missiles off east coast
BEIJING — North Korea fired three short-range missiles off its east coast Saturday, following through on months of threats to conduct a missile launch. The South Korean Defense Ministry reported that it detected two launches in the morning and...
Tags: Weaponry, Seoul (South Korea), South Korea, Unrest, Conflicts and War, North Korea
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Aide to Japan's leader pays unannounced visit to North Korea
BEIJING -- A senior aide to Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe arrived Tuesday in North Korea, but neither country gave a reason for the unannounced visit that followed weeks of high tension in the region over the North's nuclear and missile tests....
Tags: Government, Japan, North Korea, Kim Jong Il, Shinzo Abe
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North Korea denies it will use seized American as bargaining chip
BEIJING – North Korea on Sunday denied it would use a jailed Korean American as a political bargaining chip, saying it had no plans to invite a prominent American to Pyongyang to seek the release of Kenneth Bae. Bae, 44, of Lynwood, Wash., was...Tags: Punishment, Crime, Law and Justice, China
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U.S. urges North Korea to grant amnesty and free Kenneth Bae
The United States urged North Korea on Thursday to grant amnesty and free an American citizen sentenced to 15 years of hard labor for alleged hostile acts against North Korea. Patrick Ventrell, acting deputy spokesman for the State Department, told...
Tags: U.S. Department of State, North Korea, Punishment, United Nations
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American sentenced to 15 years hard labor in North Korea
This post has been corrected. See the note below for details. BEIJING -- Adding to the strained relations with the U.S., North Korea said Thursday that an American citizen held since November has been sentenced to 15 years of hard labor for "hostile...
Tags: Labor Disputes, Jimmy Carter, U.S. Department of State, U.S. Congress, Punishment
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American in North Korea sentenced to 15 years of hard labor
SEOUL — An American detained for nearly six months in North Korea has been sentenced to 15 years of "compulsory labor" for unspecified crimes against the state, the government in Pyongyang announced Thursday. The sentencing of Kenneth Bae,...Tags: Punishment, North Korea, Crime, Law and Justice, Trials
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North Korea's former poet laureate to publish memoir in English
Rider Publishing, a Random House imprint, acquired world rights to "Crossing the Border," the memoirs of former North Korean State Poet Laureate Jang Jin-sung, the Guardian reports. In 2004, unable to reconcile his privileged position with the suffering...
Tags: BBC, North Korea, Kim Il Sung, Poetry
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Kerry arrives in South Korea at a touchy time
From the Associated PressSEOUL, South Korea — U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry arrived in South Korea on Friday on an unusual diplomatic journey, traveling directly into a region bracing for a possible North Korean missile test and risking that his presence alone could...Tags: Weaponry, Government, South Korea, John Kerry, Kim Jong Un
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North Korea warns foreigners to leave South Korea
SEOUL -- North Korea's state-run Asia Pacific Peace Committee warned foreigners in South Korea Tuesday to set up evacuation plans. State media KCNA carried a statement, saying Pyonyang does not want any harm done to foreigners in South Korea in case...
Tags: Seoul (South Korea), Asia, Japan, South Korea, North Korea
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North Korea, China's problem child
BEIJING — In Washington, it is said, the definition of a gaffe is accidentally saying what you really think. That may be doubly true in Beijing, as Deng Yuwen can attest. Deng, an editor at the weekly newspaper run by the Central Party School,...
Tags: George W. Bush, Kim Jong Un, Political Corruption, Kim Il Sung, China
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North Korea poised to launch up to five missiles, South Korea says
BEIJING -- North Korea is poised to launch as many as five missiles from its east coast, South Korean intelligence officials said Thursday. But security analysts said they believed the launches would be part of a military exercise and would not pose an...
Tags: Weaponry, G8, Japan, South Korea, Kim Jong Un
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