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Japanese official discussion finished for resuming talks with N. Korea
Japanese official: discussion finished for resuming talks with N. Korea . MAY 24, 2013 06:01. . Isao Iijima, an adviser to Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, said Thursday that when he visited North Korea last week, he finished working-level talks for the proposed resumption of negotiations for establishing formal diplomatic relations between the two countries. His remark suggested that ...
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Pyongyang to heed Beijing
Pyongyang is willing to take Beijing's advice to engage in dialogue on the Korean Peninsula issue, a visiting special envoy of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea top leader Kim Jong-un said on ...
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N.Korea ‘Willing’ to Resume Denuclearization Talks - Agency
MOSCOW, May 23 (RIA Novosti) – Pyongyang "is willing" to accept China's advice to restart dialog with "relevant parties" on the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula, China’s Xinhua news agency said on Thursday citing a senior North Korean official who is on a visit to China. Choe Ryong Hae, the special envoy to DPRK leader Kim Jong Un, met with Liu ...
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US sanctions hit NK aid agencies
Foreign aid agencies in North Korea say US financial sanctions are severely restricting their operations there. Six European agencies say foreign banks are no longer transferring money to North Korea's Foreign Trade Bank, which is being targeted by the US Treasury. The agencies say their projects to support nutrition and agriculture in the country will be affected. A North Korean envoy ...
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North Korea willing to take Chinas advice start talks
Choe, director of the General Political Bureau of the Korean People's Army of North Korea, walks at Pyongyang airport before leaving for ...
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North Korea sends envoy to Beijing
PYONGYANG, North Korea - After months of ignoring Chinese warnings to give up nuclear weapons, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un sent a high-level confidante to Beijing on Wednesday, in a possible effort to mend strained ties with his country’s most important ally and a sign that he may be giving diplomacy a chance.The trip by Vice Marshal Choe Ryong Hae, a senior Workers’ Party ...
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Kim Jong-Un completes generational shift in the top military leadership
East-Asia-Intel.com SEOUL -- North Korea's Kim Jong-Un has put the final touches on his year-long drive to reorganize the powerful military by replacing aged defense minister with younger ...
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Pyongyang says now willing to resolve tensions through dialogue
An envoy of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un told a senior Chinese leader on Thursday that North Korea is willing to take China's advice and start talks to resolve tension on the Korean peninsula.Choe Ryong-hae, a vice marshal and the director of the Korean People's Army's General Political Bureau, arrived in Beijing Wednesday as a "special envoy" of Kim Jong-un. During ...
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North Korea tries fax diplomacy with Seoul
South Korean authorities said they received a faxed statement from North Korea proposing joint activities to mark the anniversary of a cooperation agreement. The Yonhap news agency reported Thursday an unnamed civic organization said a fax was sent from North Korea proposing a joint celebration to mark the anniversary of a June 2000 declaration for economic cooperation. Former South Korean ...
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Japan and North Korea The frogman cometh
The Yokotas have not lost hope FOR Shigeru and Sakie Yokota, their daughter seems at once far away and tantalisingly near. Megumi Yokota was kidnapped in 1977, at the age of 13, as she walked home from school. North Korean agents walked up the beach near her home and dragged her back to their boat. Her parents, now elderly, know that she married a South Korean who had also been abducted, and ...
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North Korea wants peace envoy tells China official
Choe Ryong-hae (C), director of the General Political Bureau of the Korean People's Army (KPA) of North Korea, visits the Beijing Economic and Technical Development Zone, in this May 23, 2013 picture released by North Korea's KCNA news agency. ...
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N. Korea nuke arsenal ‘matter of time’
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe sent an aide, Mr. Isao Iijima — a former secretary to Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi — to North Korea last week in an effort to make progress on unresolved bilateral issues, including the past abduction of Japanese nationals by North ...
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An overture to Pyongyang
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe sent an aide, Mr. Isao Iijima — a former secretary to Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi — to North Korea last week in an effort to make progress on unresolved bilateral issues, including the past abduction of Japanese nationals by North Korean agents. Japan has made it clear to North Korea that the abduction issue as well as the issue of the North’s ...
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Envoy Says North Korea Open to Dialogue
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North Korea ready for dialogue with parties concerned over Korean Peninsula issues
BEIJING, May 23 (Itar-Tass) - North Korea values highly the efforts, which China is taking to preserve peace and stability on the Korean Peninsula, special envoy of the North Korean leader and head of the General Political Department of the Korean People’s Army Choe Ryong Hae said at a meeting with member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the ...
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DPRK willing to accept Chinas advice
/enpproperty--> BEIJING - The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) has agreed to accept China's advice by participating in dialogue with relevant parties, after senior Chinese leader Liu Yunshan met with a DPRK special envoy. Liu, a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Chinese Communist Party (CPC) Central Committee, met in the Great Hall of the ...
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Pyongyang envoy seeks end to intl isolation say experts
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un's special envoy on May 22 held talks with a senior Communist Party of China (CPC) official in Beijing, signaling an attempt by Pyongyang to break out of the increasing isolation it has felt from the international community throughout the latest round of ...
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Did James Rosens Story on North Korea Do Any Harm
story that Fox News correspondent James Rosen published on North Korea, kicking off a federal leak investigation and the FBI accusation that he was guilty of criminal conduct. "U.S. intelligence officials have warned President Obama and other senior American officials that North Korea intends to respond to the passage of a U.N. Security Council resolution this weekwith another nuclear ...
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Awaiting meeting with Chinese leader North Korean envoy tours high-tech park
Chinese paramilitary police officers stand in position at the gate of the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse, where a car believed to be carrying North Korea's Vice Marshal Choe Ryong Hae, a senior Workers’ Party official and the military’s top political officer, arrives in Beijing Thursday, May 23, 2013. After months of ignoring Chinese warnings to give up nuclear weapons, North Korean ...
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Reshuffle in North Korean Defense Ministry is not Apocalypse
The North Korean news agency KCNA reported on Monday that the country's leader Kim Jong-un appointed a new Minister of People's Armed Forces, Colonel-General Chang Chung-Nam. How may this reshuffle affect the situation on the Korean Peninsula? Pravda.Ru asked leading officer of the Center for Korean Studies of the Institute for Far Eastern Studies, Konstantine Asmolov, to comment the ...
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DPRK proposes to South Korea to mark 13th anniversary of Joint Declaration of June 15 2000
TOKYO, May 23 (Itar-Tass) - North Korea has proposed to South Korea to hold events to mark the 13th anniversary of the inter-Korean Joint Declaration of 15 June 2000, South Korea’s Yonhap news agency reported on ...
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Speculation over N Korea envoys China trip
Speculation mounted over a top NorthKorean military official's visit to China on Thursday, as few details of his meetings were made ...
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Roundup Japan mulling to resume inter-governmental talks with DPRK
Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga said here Wednesday that Japan is mulling to resume the stalled inter-governmental talks with the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) in an effort to resolve abduction issue.Suga said Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is resolute to resolve the issue and Japan seeks every possibility to communicate with DPRK to make the issue settled.Abe said ...
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North Korean leader sends high-level confidant to China
PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) -- 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 important ally and a sign that he may be giving diplomacy a chance.The trip by Vice Marshal Choe Ryong Hae, a senior Workers' Party ...
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