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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, Shinzo Abe, News Agency, Pyongyang (North Korea), North Korea
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'The Way of the Knife' exposes America's shadow wars
In October 2002, Barack Obama, then an obscure state senator in Illinois, stood in Federal Plaza in Chicago and gave a speech about Iraq that launched his career toward the White House. "I don't oppose all wars," Obama told the crowd. "What I am opposed...
Tags: Fidel Castro, Barack Obama, U.S. Military, Yemen, Pakistan
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The Week in Pictures | April 15 – April 21, 2013
FrameworkThe eyes of the world were on Boston this week with the two bomb blasts during the marathon on Monday and subsequent manhunt for two brothers believed to be the perpetrators.... -
Pictures in the News | April 15, 2013
FrameworkMonday's Pictures in the News begins in North Korea, where people visit giant statues of the late North Korean leaders, Kim Il Sung, left, and his son Kim Jong Il, in Pyongyang. Oblivious to international tensions over a possible North Korean missile... -
North Korea marks founder's birthday with flowers, not missiles
BEIJING -- North Korea celebrated the 101th anniversary of its founder's birth Monday with flowers and dancing instead of missiles, raising hopes that the regime may be climbing down from the furious rhetoric of recent weeks. Even the fire-breathing...
Tags: Pyongyang (North Korea), News Media, Kim Jong Un, Kim Il Sung, Beijing (China)
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Kerry affirms U.S.-Japan bond as North Korean threat looms
TOKYO — Secretary of State John F. Kerry pledged a strong and continuing U.S. commitment to the defense of Japan in the final stop of an Asia tour that was dominated by North Korea's threats of an attack with nuclear weapons. Speaking before a...
Tags: Pyongyang (North Korea), Ceremonies, Kim Jong Un, Kim Il Sung, Beijing (China)
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Kerry: Beijing to work with U.S. to quell North Korea nuke threat
BEIJING -- After meeting with top Chinese leaders Saturday, Secretary of State John Kerry said Beijing had pledged to work with the United States to urge North Korea to abandon its nuclear weapons. "There is no question in my mind that China is...
Tags: Xi Jinping, Hillary Clinton, Pyongyang (North Korea), Kim Jong Un, Human Rights
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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: Government, Defense Intelligence Agency, Barack Obama, Pyongyang (North Korea), U.S. Military
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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: Xi Jinping, Pyongyang (North Korea), George W. Bush, Consumers, Kim Jong Un
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North Korea plays a weak hand to advantage
BEIJING — North Korea is sometimes mocked as the mouse that roared, one of the poorest countries in the world threatening two economic and military giants, the United States and South Korea. But under Kim Jong Il and now his 30-year-old son, Kim...
Tags: South Korea, Nuclear Weapons, Military Equipment, Nuclear Policy, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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Kim Jong Un is a pudgy punk with the power to create great misery
Kim Jong Un is an absurdly comical figure. If he were not holding the fate of millions of people in his hands, the North Korean dictator would provide us all with nothing but laughs. He runs a country that, thanks to the ruinous communist policies of...
Tags: South Korea, U.S. Department of Defense, Unrest, Conflicts and War, North Korea, Kim Jong Un
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North Korea could stumble from bluster to war
Beneath a map depicting the battle plan for “Target Mainland U.S.,” North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is shown in state propaganda photos being briefed by his generals on preparations for attacks on Guam, Hawaii and the U.S. West Coast....
Tags: South Korea, U.S. Department of Defense, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Pyongyang (North Korea), Seoul (South Korea)
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