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North Korea suggests high-level talks with U.S.
SEOUL — The North Korean government Sunday suggested a high-level meeting with the United States "to ease the tension on the Korean peninsula," less than a week after its scheduled working-level talks with Seoul were called off. In what North...
Tags: Global Expansion, Park Geun-hye, White House, Nuclear Weapons, Xi Jinping
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North Korea calls for high-level talks with U.S.
SEOUL — The North Korean regime Sunday suggested a high-level meeting with the United States "to ease the tension on the Korean peninsula," less than a week after its scheduled working-level talks with Seoul were called off. In the National...
Tags: Global Expansion, North Korea, Park Geun-hye, Politics, Nuclear Weapons
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North Korea abruptly backs out of talks with South
SEOUL -- Talks between North and South Korea scheduled to be held this week were abruptly canceled Tuesday, with Pyongyang dissatisfied over the makeup of the South's delegation. South Korea's Unification Ministry, which handles North Korean issues,...
Tags: North Korea, Iran, South Korea, Xi Jinping, Barack Obama
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The Week Ahead: North Korea conciliatory, Iran holds humdrum vote
North Korea: Baby steps back from the brink Wednesday, June 12 – After more than a month of ominous silence that followed threats to launch nuclear weapons, North Korea appears to be making modest motions toward easing tensions on the divided...
Tags: Elections, Mohammad Reza Aref, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Tehran (Iran), Saeed Jalili
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China tightening trade with North Korea
TUMEN, China — In a concrete building on the northern edge of this city across the border from North Korea, young pony-tailed women wearing hoodies sew sportswear. The building has no flashy logo or company name on the outside, only a blue-and-red...
Tags: United Nations, North Korea, Kim Jong Un, China, Career and Workplace
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North and South Korea name date for talks on restoring ties
This post has been updated. See the note below for details.SEOUL -- North Korea and South Korea indicated Friday that they would hold working-level talks on Sunday to discuss the reopening of a closed-down industrial park and the restart of tourist exchanges and reunions of separated families. In a possible...Tags: Kim Jong Il, North Korea, Kim Jong Un, Park Geun-hye, South Korea
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North Korea changes course, calls for talks with South
SEOUL -- In a sudden change of heart, North Korea called Thursday for talks with South Korea about reopening a shuttered industrial park and restarting tourist exchanges and reunions of separated families. Seoul almost immediately accepted, setting...
Tags: Kim Jong Il, South Korea, Xi Jinping, North Korea, Kim Jong Un
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China and the U.S.: a little big summit
President Obama and China's new leader, Xi Jinping, convene this week in Rancho Mirage for their first face-to-face discussion as presidents. It is a summit without precedent in Sino-American relations. Both leaders agreed to informal discussions very...
Tags: Brookings Institution, Heads of State, China, Politics, Government
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At informal Obama-Xi summit, White House hopes for a connection
WASHINGTON — Two years ago, President Obama hosted China's president, Hu Jintao, in a fastidiously choreographed White House summit involving an honor guard, a state dinner and a 21-gun salute. In meetings, officials spent more time reading from...
Tags: White House, China, Central Intelligence Agency, Hu Jintao, G20
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North Korea's Kim signals he's willing to talk in letter to China's Xi
BEIJING -- Chinese President Xi Jinping on Friday personally received a handwritten letter from North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, signaling a possible rapprochement after months of estrangement between the communist allies. The contents of the letter...
Tags: Kim Jong Il, White House, China, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Japan
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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: North Korea, Kim Jong Un, China, Communist Party of China, Politics
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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: Kim Jong Il, North Korea, News Agency, Shinzo Abe, Politics
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