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Chinese and North Korean defence chiefs have pledged to strengthen their long-standing military alliance. The Chinese Defence Minister, Liang Guanglie, is visiting North Korea two weeks before the US North Korea envoy, Stephen Bosworth, is due to visit. Full Article at BBC News
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The defense chiefs of North Korea and China reaffirmed pledges to strengthen their nations' 60-year-old alliance, North Korean state media reported Monday, amid renewed attempts to draw the country back to disarmament talks. Full Article at eTaiwan News
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WASHINGTON—Corruption is now so entrenched in North Korea that military officers will even give away information on nuclear test sites, according to an elite defector. Full Article at Radio Free Asia
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It's official, the field has been set for the 2010 World Cup. Soccer fans (or football fans, depending on where you live) are rejoicing as we look forward to the future groupings of teams. Full Article at Bleacher Report
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Chinese Defense Minister Liang Guanglie, center, waves to well-wishers after he was received by his North Korean counterpart Kim Yong Chun, left, on his arrival in Pyongyang, North Korea, on Sunday. Full Article at USA Today
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SEOUL: Chinese and North Korean defence chiefs have pledged to strengthen their military alliance dating back to the Korean War during talks in Pyongyang, state media said on Monday. Full Article at Channel News Asia
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Monday, November 23, 2009 PYONGYANG, North Korea: Chinas defence minister arrived in Pyongyang on Sunday for the latest in a recent flurry of high-level visits between the two countries. The visits have come as the two sides mark 60 years of... Full Article at The News
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South Korea, the final leg of US President Obamas Asian trip, was no more successful that his other stops. In Japan, Singapore and China, Obama failed to secure any significant economic concessions and came under fire for growing US protectionism. Full Article at Global Research
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“In that showdown nearly six decades ago, President Truman and his advisers were preparing to engage North Korea and China in peace negotiations when MacArthur, commander of the U.N. forces in Korea, issued an unauthorized statement containing a veiled... Full Article at Rational Review
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Things are warming up on this front. Previously here, with backward links. Full Article at The Atlantic
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Some enterprising Swedes had some jeans manufactured in North Korea (where they can’t be worn in public) to be sold in the west. The brand name is Noko Jeans. Full Article at North Korea Economy Watch
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It is no secret that North Korean diplomats and embassies are self-financing. In fact, they are profit earning and they must remit funds back to Pyongyang. Full Article at North Korea Economy Watch
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President Barack Obama announced in Seoul last week that he would send a special envoy to Pyongyang on Dec. 8 in an effort to restart the talks, which are hosted by China. China is the North's main source of economic aid and diplomatic support. Full Article at Macleans.ca
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UPDATE: The Guradian brings us up to date with the monument’s construction: The statue shows a muscular man in a heroic posture, outstretched arms wrapped around his wife and child. Full Article at North Korea Economy Watch
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PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) - China's defense minister arrived in Pyongyang on Sunday for the latest in a recent flurry of high-level visits between the two countries. Full Article at Ventura County Star
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Page last updated at 13:41 GMT, Sunday, 22 November 2009 James Chamanga scored a hat trick for the Chipolopolo Goals from James Chamanga and Felix Sunzu gave Zambia a 4-1 win over North Korea in an international friendly. Full Article at BBC Sport
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I couldn't help but be shocked that the Travel section would run a piece on tourism in North Korea ["A Rare Glimpse Offers Plenty of Curious Sights," Nov. 15]. Full Article at Los Angeles Times
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Lord Alton of Liverpool writes for ePolitix.com ahead of his oral question in the House of Lords on the situation in North Korea. In February last, with my colleague, Baroness (Caroline) Cox, I made my second visit to North Korea. Full Article at ePolitix
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China-based striker James Chamanga helped himself to a hat-trick as Zambia trounced 2010 World Cup-bound North Korea 4-1 at the Nkoloma Stadium in Lusaka in a friendly on Saturday. Full Article at Goal.com
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An article last week about visiting North Korea, where tourism is highly controlled, contained incorrect contact information for an agency that arranges trips to the country. Full Article at Los Angeles Times
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North Korea, officially The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), is an East Asian country situated on the northern half of the Korean Peninsula. Its capital is Pyongyang. Its northern border is shared mostly with China, although 18.3 km (11.4 mile) is shared with Russia along the Tumen River, in the far northeast corner of the country. Full Article
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It is the fixed stand of the Korean army and people to invariably consolidate and develop the DPRK (North Korea)-China friendship, which has stood all trials of history
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President Obama was unable to secure any lasting agreements on climate change, free trade, revaluing the Chinese currency, or, most important, sanctions on Iran and North Korea…. The president’s failure to achieve any concrete results will impact his standing back at home and in his dealings with Congre...
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The Iranian president ... is turning into an international pariah. Iran is going in the same direction of North Korea: they are countries that either carry out genocide or are totalitarian or disregard human rights, persecute the opposition and rig the elections. Brazil doesn't have any reason to get cl...
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We made progress with China and Russia in sending a unified message to Iran and North Korea that they must live up to their international obligations and either forsake nuclear weapons or face the consequences
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unified message to Iran and North Korea that they must live up to their international obligations and either forsake nuclear weapons or face the consequences.
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China believes it has India pinned by Pakistan and its jihadi antics the same way it believes it has Japan pinned with North Korea and its nuclear antics.
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administration is to make progress on a new model for global growth, or limiting emissions of greenhouse gases, or halting the nuclear programs of North Korea and Iran, Mr. Obama will need to find common ground with Beijing's Communist rulers
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Both the Post and the Times focus not on South Korea per se, but on Obama's taking a 'stern tone' toward North Korea in his discussions with the South Koreans ... OK, pardon me if I yawn.
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But I can see why North Korea might want to lessen China’s near-monopoly state in that industry … with their Ju’che ideology and all
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President Lee and I both agree on the need to break the pattern that has existed in the past, in which North Korea behaves in a provocative fashion, it then is willing to return to talks, it talks for a while, and then leaves the talks seeking further concessions and there's never actually any progress ...
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We weren’t going to duplicate what has happened with North Korea, in which talks have happened forever without any … resolution to the issue
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Americans are allowed to go to Libya, North Korea ... anywhere in the world, and not to Cuba. There is no animosity for Americans, despite nearly fifty years of hostility between the governments.
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During the 8 years I worked in the White House, every nuclear weapons proliferation problem we had to deal with was connected to a reactor program. That's what's happening in Iran, and in North Korea, and the technology for further enriching nuclear fuel to get it up to weapons-grade material is now muc...
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If North Korea is prepared to take concrete and irreversible steps to fulfill its obligations and eliminate its nuclear weapons program, the United States will support economic assistance and help promote its full integration into the community of nations ... That opportunity and respect will not come w...
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And I think that there have been so many cases, both with Iran and North Korea, where the West in general, the United States in particular, has said, 'You can't do this,' and then they go ahead and do it -- called our bluff on that. And Obama's starting to get some heat from that. I don't think that the...
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After taking his message as the ‘first Pacific president’ through four countries in eight days, President Obama wrapped up his tour of Asia on Thursday with talks with South Korean President Lee Myung-bak and a planned visit to U.S. troops stationed in the shadow of nuclear-armed North Korea
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President Obama's Asian trip was heavily focused on China and his brief stop in Seoul created a sense of pity, particularly at a time when tensions are mounting on the peninsula over North Korea's nuclear drive and military provocations
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If North Korea is prepared to take concrete and irreversible steps to fulfill its obligations and eliminate its nuclear weapons program, the United States will support economic assistance and help promote its full integration into the community of nations ... That opportunity and respect will not come w...
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We weren't going to duplicate what has happened with North Korea, in which talks just continue forever without any actual resolution to the issue
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The door is open to resolving these issues peacefully, for North Korea to see over time the reduction of sanctions and its increasing integration into the international community ... but it will only happen if North Korea is taking serious steps around the nuclear issue.
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The thing I want to emphasise is that President Lee and I both agree that we want to break the pattern that existed in the past, in which North Korea behaves in a provocative fashion, and then is willing to return to talks ... and then that leads to seeking further concessions
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The U.S. imperialist aggressor forces' presence in South Korea and their daily intensifying moves for a war of aggression against the DPRK (North Korea) are the main factor of disturbing peace and security on the Korean Peninsula
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The Obama administration is different, and that stems both from the change in the US's status in the world and the attempts to negotiate with difficult opponents such as North Korea and Iran.
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I want to emphasize that President Lee and I both agree on the need to break the pattern that existed in the past in which North Korea behaves in a provocative fashion, then is willing to return to talks, and then talks for a while, and then leaves the talks and seeks further concessions
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I don't care if he eats nothing but birch bark and mildew, as long as North Korea doesn't nuke Hawaii, let's roll with it.
SOURCE: Gawker
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