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BEIJING – U.S. President Barack Obama continued courting China in talks with Premier Wen Jiabao on Wednesday, opening an opportunity to press him on the economic and currency strains that have shadowed his goodwill visit.Obama's first trip to China...
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North Korea intensified its rhetoric against South Korea on Thursday, just days after their two navies exchanged gunfire in disputed waters on the west coast of the Korean Peninsula. North Korea's main Rodong Sinmun newspaper denounced South Korea and...
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South Korea — Activists in South Korea staged a rally Monday near the border with North Korea, which has long been accused of having one of the world's worst human rights records. Organizers said the rally is aimed at calling for greater global attention...
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South Korea — A 30-year-old South Korean defected to communist North Korea by crossing the heavily fortified border dividing the two Koreas, Pyongyang's state media said Tuesday. The man crossed into North Korea on Monday and was in the country's "warm...
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Daniel Chun peers out of the window of the Air Koryo turboprop from China as it touches down outside Pyongyang, his former home. It has taken him less than two hours to go back nearly 60 years. There are no jumbo jets jockeying for a gate or passengers...
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Vitit Muntarbhorn, the UN's Special Rapporteur for North Korea, called on the country's leaders to replace their so-called "military first" policy with a "people first" policy. Presenting his latest report to the UN General Assembly committee that deals...
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North Korea has completed plans for 100,000 new apartments in high-rise blocks, which will be built by 2012 to mark a major anniversary, a pro-Pyongyang newspaper said Tuesday. Blueprints for the apartment blocks, which will all be between 18 and 30...
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North Korea can expect less than 5 tons of corn in humanitarian aid from South Korea this year, a senior government official said. North Korea Friday requested aid during Red Cross talks on cross-border family reunions, South Korea's Yonhap news agency...
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North and South Korea were unable to reach a consensus Friday on more reunions of families separated by the 1950-53 Korean War, officials said. Officials at the South Korean Unification Ministry said both sides agreed to work toward future talks, involving...
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The skeletal remains of the one-time local Workers' Party headquarters of North Korean forces during the 1950-1953 Korean War remind visitors of the fighting that raged across this mountainous district south of the 38th parallel line, which has divided...
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