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Pyongyang and Tehran

Michael Brenner | Posted 04.19.2012

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Michael Brenner

North Korea's military capabilities and intentions get scant attention in the American media, among politicians, and in Congress, in contrast to the all-consuming obsession with Iran. Why?

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Pyongyang Party Celebration Preparations Underway

AP | JEAN H. LEE | Posted 05.31.2012

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PYONGYANG, North Korea — The sprawling site, which buzzes in the shadow of a giant bronze statue of North Korea founder Kim Il Sung, looks at fi...

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Why We Should Not Be 'Leaping' for Joy at the North Korea Deal

Daniel Wagner | Posted 05.09.2012

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Daniel Wagner

Given North Korea's lengthy history of stringing out the negotiation process with West to deliver little or nothing in return, and given its history of reneging on previously agreed deals, we are skeptical that this deal will achieve what the Obama administration hopes it will.

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How to End the Craziness With North Korea

Eric Margolis | Posted 03.04.2012

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Eric Margolis

South Korea toiled its way out of dire poverty four decades ago, creating an economic miracle. Equally industrious, determined North Koreans could do the same today, if given half a chance.

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North Korea Claims Progress In Uranium Enrichment

AP | HYUNG-JIN KIM | Posted 01.29.2012

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SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea claimed Wednesday that it is making rapid progress on work to enrich uranium and build a light-water nuclear po...

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U.S. Plans Talks With North Korea About Nuclear Program

AP | BRADLEY KLAPPER and ROBERT BURNS | Posted 12.19.2011

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WASHINGTON — Raising hopes for a new era of rapprochement with nuclear-armed North Korea, the Obama administration said Wednesday it would sit d...

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Reuters Makes History In North Korea

Katherine Fung | Posted 09.10.2011

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Reuters has announced plans to partner with North Korea's state media agency KCNA to access news video from the country via satellite. The company ...

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Kim's son gets key party posts

Al Jazeera. | Al Jazeera | Posted 05.25.2011

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North Korean leader names youngest son for two official and influential positions at ruling party meeting in Pyongyang....

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North Korea's Economy Is a Disaster, But the Family Business Is Thriving

Sheldon Filger | Posted 05.25.2011

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Sheldon Filger

As nation builders, the Kim dynasty is a train wreck. But as the managers of a very lucrative family business, they are obviously brilliant. Maybe there is something after all to their title, "Great Leader."

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North Korean Life Shown (VIDEO)

Posted 05.25.2011

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WorldFocus recently produced a series of videos from a five-day trip as fully legal US tourists to North Korea. This video gives a glimpse into the d...

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100,000 North Koreans dazzle at mass games spectacle

WorldFocus.org | WorldFocus.org | Posted 05.25.2011

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In August, Worldfocus web producer Ben Piven traveled to the 2009 Arirang Games in Pyongyang, North Korea, with a point-and-shoot camera. A North Kore...

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Pressure Over North Korea

Radio Free Asia | Radio Free Asia | Posted 05.25.2011

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The Obama administration faces new calls for a more robust stance toward Pyongyang....

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SKorea leader urges North to return to nuke talks

AP | FOSTER KLUG | Posted 05.25.2011

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South Korean President Lee Myung-bak said Wednesday that North Korea must scrap its atomic weapons programs before the divided Korean Peninsula can be unified with the signing of a peace treaty to formally end the Korean War.

Lee told world leaders gathered at the United Nations General Assembly that North Korea, which conducted its second nuclear test in May, should return to stalled international nuclear disarmament talks "right away and without any preconditions."

Lee, whose tough policies on the North have stoked fury in Pyongyang, spoke as his country, the United States, China, Japan and Russia worked to persuade the North to abandon its nuclear weapons program. North Korea walked away from the talks in April to protest world criticism of a rocket launch.

Lee urged the North to come back to nuclear talks "to achieve a genuine peace on the Korean Peninsula and for its own sake as well."

In a description of Korean history likely to anger the North, Lee said in his speech that the South, with U.N. approval, "became the only legitimate government on the Korean peninsula."

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South Korea Seeks North Korean Explanation About Flash Flood

AP | HYUNG-JIN KIM | Posted 05.25.2011

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SEOUL, South Korea — South Korea rejected North Korea's explanation for a sudden, deadly release of dam water, saying Tuesday that Pyongyang sho...

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ANALYSIS: Bill Clinton's Korea trip is lesson in diplomacy for Obama

Haaretz. | Haaretz | Posted 05.25.2011

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Barack Obama is more impressive than him on stage when delivering a speech, and his biography is more fascinating, but all things being equal, ...

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North Korea seeks US talks

The Independent | Independent | Posted 05.25.2011

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North Korea has suggested a new dialogue to resolve tensions over its atomic weapons programmes - an apparent invitation to the US to engage in one-on...

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North Korea Says It's Open To New Dialogue On Nukes

AP | JAE-SOON CHANG | Posted 05.25.2011

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SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea said Monday that it is open to new dialogue to defuse tensions over its nuclear weapons program in what appeare...

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UN sanctions approved Thursday against North Korea

AP | The Associated Press | Posted 05.25.2011

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A panel of the U.N. Security Council approved sanctions Thursday against North Korea that include travel bans and asset freezes against five individuals, four companies and one state agency. It also banned sales of two materials used in ballistic missiles.

The panel identified:

_General Bureau of Atomic Energy, based in Pyongyang. North Korea's chief agency responsible for its nuclear program. Includes the Yongbyon Nuclear Research Center and its plutonium production research reactor, and fuel fabrication and reprocessing facilities.

_Namchongang Trading Corp., in Pyongyang, subordinate to the bureau. Namchongang has been involved in procuring Japanese vacuum pumps found at a North Korea nuclear facility and other nuclear-related materials linked to a German individual. It also has been involved in the purchase of aluminum tubes and other equipment for a uranium enrichment program from the late 1990s.

_Korea Hyoksin Trading Corp., based in Pyongyang, subordinate to Korea Ryonbong General Corp., targeted for sanctions in April, and involved in weapons-making.

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Korean armies face off but repeat of war unlikely

AP | HYUNG-JIN KIM | Posted 05.25.2011

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North Korea's barrage of missile tests and a recent underground nuclear blast have unnerved many South Koreans. Yet for all the scaremongering on the Korean peninsula, an all-out attack by either side is unlikely.

Six decades ago, communist North Korea caught South Korea and its American allies off guard with an invasion that sent more than 180,000 troops and 240 Soviet-made tanks storming across the frontier, setting off a war that devastated the Korean peninsula.

Such a surprise attack wouldn't be easy today: Tens of thousands of South Korean troops stand guard along the 154-mile (248-kilometer) border, the world's most fortified. Watchposts and barbed wire line roads heading south, and huge blocks of concrete are ready to be dropped to obstruct the advancement of communist tanks.

South Korea's 650,000 forces are bolstered by 28,500 American troops in the country. The U.S. also has F-16 jets and A-10 attack aircraft in South Korea, while its F-16s in Japan could reach North Korea in an hour.

"I'm sure that the North Koreans know very well that they cannot win," said Yang Moo-jin, a professor at Seoul's University of North Korean Studies.

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Kim Jong Il Convalescing By The Sea

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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SEOUL, South Korea — North Korean leader Kim Jong Il has been living at an east coast villa since mid-May and is likely convalescing after repor...

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North Korea Bans Ships From Coastal Waters

AP | JAE-SOON CHANG | Posted 05.25.2011

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SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea has warned fishermen and boat captains to stay away from the country's east coast, Japan's coast guard said Mon...

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Obama Calls North Korea "Extraordinarily Provocative"

AP | JENNIFER LOVEN | Posted 05.25.2011

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CAEN, France — His patience tested, President Barack Obama on Saturday promised a new and stronger response to defiant North Korea, saying that ...

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Soccer Result Could Affect Iranian Election

Financial Times | Najmeh Bozorgmehr | Posted 05.25.2011

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But the clash between North Korea and Iran in Pyongyang on Saturday could be one of those occasions when the cliché actually proves true. A World Cup...

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In Focus: N. Korea Detonates 40 Years Of GDP

The Onion | The Onion | Posted 05.25.2011

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PYONGYANG, NORTH KOREA—The fiscal equivalent of 2.3 billion hot meals, 11 million housing units, and 1,700 hospitals was blown up below the eart...

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Pentagon scoop on North Korea threat

CNN / Anderson Cooper 360° | CNN / Anderson Cooper 360° | Posted 05.25.2011

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Program Note: Tune in tonight to hear more on the North Korea nuclear threat on AC360° at 10 p.m. ET. An image from North Korean ...

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