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Koreas, US, China to discuss peace treaty
22 hours ago ago from Open Pakistan
SEOUL: The United States and North Korea agreed to discuss a peace treaty on the Korean peninsula at four-nation talks involving the two nations, China and South Korea, a news report said Sunday. The "common understanding" was reached when US envoy Stephen Bosworth visited Pyongyang from December 8 to 10, a news agency said, citing an unnamed Seoul official. A peace treaty would replace an armistice to formally end the 1950-1953 Korean War at ...
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7 hours ago ago from The Rosett Report
Yes, Virginia, despite United Nations sanctions forbidding any such activity, North Korea's government is still supplying weapons hither and yon. The latest sanctions busting shipment turned up aboard a cargo plane that stopped Friday for refueling in Bangkok you can peruse some of the details on Hot Air . Thai authorities found some 35 tons of North Korean armaments aboard the plane, including rocket-propelled grenades and surface-to-air ...
Related contentN.Korea still wants recognition as nuclear state: S.Korea
12 hours ago ago from Bao Viet Nam
SEOUL, Dec 14, 2009 (AFP) North Korea is still seeking recognition as a nuclear power despite trying to normalise relations with the United States, South Korea's top military officer said Monday. It is our assessment that North Korea has not altered its strategic goal of simultaneously securing the status of a nuclear state and the stability of its regime through the normalisation of North-US relations, General Lee Sang-Eui, chairman of ...
Related contentLoose change for December 14, 2009
14 hours ago ago from Monster Island (actually a peninsula)*
Economic news Samsung Electronics says it will spend $416 million to expand an LDC production facility. CNN talks about the threats posed by cyber crime this year , including attacks on South Korea. The Korea Times talks about the obstacles foreign CEOs see to doing business in South Korea . Coffee is 112 times more expensive than it was in 1965. North Korea news and stuff The Voice of America says the seizure of the North Korean arms ...
Related contentNorth Korean food diplomacy
22 hours ago ago from Edible Geography
IMAGE: Pujon Potato Starch Factory, from the International Starch Institute . Over at the Foreign Policy editor's blog , Joshua Keating notes with surprise that North Korea's Central News Agency chose not to make much of U.S. special envoy Stephen Bosworth's recent visit to Pyongyang. After noting Bosworth's arrival in a single sentence, reports Keating, the state propaganda engine went on to devote quadruple the coverage to a ...
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Thailand Traces Path of North Korea Arms
11 hours ago ago from Wall Street Journal
Thailand's seizure of a plane packed with North Korean arms signals a possible escalation of international pressure on North Korean activities overseas aimed at threatening the financial health of its regime. Thai authorities said late Monday they were trying to determine where the aircraft -- carrying surface-to-air missile parts and other arms -- was headed when it was detained after stopping to refuel in Bangkok on Friday. Many of the ...
Related contentNorth Korea Weapons Siezure Raises More Questions
6 hours ago ago from Huffington Post
Christian Science Monitor : The seizure at Bangkok's airport of 35 tons of North Korean arms being shipped by plane raises a disturbing question: How many weapons is North Korea managing to ship undetected to Iran and other clients worldwide? The commander of US troops in Korea, General Walter Sharp, cited Monday the UN resolution imposing stringent sanctions on North Korean weapons sales as the key to halting the shipments. He refrained, ...
Related contentFive major changes to North Korean tourism in 2009
19 hours ago ago from Gadling
Fewer than 1,500 Americans have been to North Korea on vacation, according to Koryo Tours , making it one of the truly remote destinations in a world that's becoming increasingly interconnected. So, if you're looking for an unusual stamp in your passport or bragging rights when the conversation turns to "most unusual destination," a trip above the DMZ remains one of the top alternatives. If you have set expectations of what a trip to North ...
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