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Obama Writes Letter To North Korea's Kim Jong Il, Says AP Source

AP | KWANG-TAE KIM | Posted 12.17.2009 | World

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SEOUL, South Korea — Washington's recent bid to persuade North Korea to return to nuclear disarmament negotiations included a personal letter to...

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The Obama Team is Taking Credit for a Bush Policy in North Korea

Richard Grenell | Posted 12.15.2009 | World

Read More: Bush Administration, John Bolton, Proliferation Security Initiative, Un Resolution 1874, New York Times, Obama Administration, Obama North Korea, UN Security Council, Bush North Korea, Kim Jong Il, North Korea, World News
Richard Grenell

During the Bush years pressure on North Korea was greatly increased, not decreased, as the current White House and New York Times say. That the Obama team is taking credit now is a shame.

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Australia Accused Of Censorship Over North Korean Art

AP | ROHAN SULLIVAN | Posted 12.08.2009 | World

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SYDNEY — Australia was accused of censorship Tuesday for denying visas to North Korean artists whose works are on display in a regional exhibiti...

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Kim Jong Il's 007-Style Secret Escape Tunnels Revealed By Defector

Times Online | Richard Lloyd Parry, Asia Editor | Posted 12.08.2009 | World

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The North Korean leader, Kim Jong Il, has a network of 300 metre (1,000 ft) deep emergency escape tunnels connecting Pyongyang with key sites around t...

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Obama Sending Stephen Bosworth, Veteran Envoy, To Communist North Korea

AP | JEAN H. LEE | Posted 12.08.2009 | World

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SEOUL, South Korea — After a year of tensions, President Barack Obama is sending a veteran diplomat to North Korea on Tuesday for the highest-pr...

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12 Ways the World Could End in 2012 (Doug's Dozen #18)

Doug Molitor | Posted 11.19.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Kim Jong Il, Doomsday, Political Satire, Disaster Movie, Ahmadinejad, Glenn Beck, Palin, 2012, Comedy News
Doug Molitor

A big disaster movie is inspired by a centuries-old Mayan prediction. Should we worry? There are a lot of ways planet Earth could end it all...

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North Korea And South Korea Navy Boats Exchange Fire

AP | HYUNG-JIN KIM | Posted 11.11.2009 | World

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SEOUL, South Korea — South Korea's troops went on high alert Wednesday for possible retaliation by North Korea after one of its navy ships was n...

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Kim Jong-il Has 19 Private Train Stations

Telegraph | Posted 11.09.2009 | World

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The trains are equipped with conference rooms, bedrooms and high-tech communication facilities, intelligence sources have said....

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Kim Jong-Il Double Fooled Bill Clinton, Japanese Analyst Says

ABC News | Posted 11.01.2009 | Politics

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A number of analysts here are convinced that not all the photos being released of North Korea's leader, Kim Jong-il, are really photos of Kim Jong-il....

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Kim Jong Il, The Man With The Golden Nukes

Foreign Policy Roundtable | Posted 10.14.2009 | World

Read More: Kim Jong Il, Foreign Affairs, North Korea Sanctions, Foreign Policy Roundtable, North Korea Nuclear Program, Kim Jong Un, North Korea, World News
Foreign Policy Roundtable

This is no evil genius from a James Bond movie. Kim just may be an evil genius, period. The Kim family's rule has lasted so long because son, like father, is calculating and pragmatic.

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North Korea Fires 5 Short-Range Missiles: Report

AP | KWANG-TAE KIM | Posted 10.12.2009 | World

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SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea reportedly test-launched five short-range missiles – and may fire more – in what analysts said is a...

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Alfred Nobel's Last Will And Testament: He'd Be Proud Of President Obama's Peace Efforts

Jackson Williams | Posted 12.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: Iran, Cairo, Afghanistan, Nobel Peace Prize, Alfred Nobel, Iraq, Kim Jong Il, Barack Obama, North Korea, George Bush, Nobel Prize, Politics News
Jackson Williams

Some critics have claimed the prize should be the "culmination of a career." Says who? Not Alfred Nobel, and he ought to know.

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North Korea May Return To Nuclear Talks

AP | Posted 10.07.2009 | World

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PYONGYANG, North Korea — North Korea's leader is offering to return to multinational disarmament talks in a renewed effort to draw Washington in...

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Hundreds Of Korean Families Separated For More Than 50 Years Reunite

AP | KWANG-TAE KIM | Posted 11.26.2009 | World

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SEOUL, South Korea — Lee Dong-un cried and held the hands of his 60-year-old North Korean daughter Saturday during their first meeting in more t...

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South Korea Seeks North Korean Explanation About Flash Flood

AP | HYUNG-JIN KIM | Posted 10.22.2009 | World

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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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Journalists Laura Ling And Euna Lee Break Silence On North Korea Capture, Release

AP | LISA LEFF and HYUNG-JIN KIM | Posted 10.17.2009 | Media

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SAN FRANCISCO — Two American television reporters imprisoned in North Korea for months say communist soldiers "violently dragged" them back when...

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North Korea Reopens Border With South

AP | KWANG-TAE KIM | Posted 10.17.2009 | World

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SEOUL, South Korea — A top South Korean official said Wednesday that North Korea's recent conciliatory gestures do not represent any fundamental...

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Seven Steps to Take in Dealing with North Korea

Doug Bandow | Posted 09.21.2009 | World

Read More: Nonproliferation, Nuclear Weapons, Diplomacy, China, Six-Party Talks, Kim Jong-Il, North Korea, World News
Doug Bandow

The U.S. needs to reward the North when it acts responsibly and punish or ignore it when it acts badly.

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What Comes after Kim Dae Jung?

John Feffer | Posted 09.21.2009 | World

Read More: Kim Dae-Jung, Sunshine Policy, Kim Dae-Jung Dies, Kim Jong Il, Lee Myung-Bak, North Korea, World News
John Feffer

The recent progress in North-South Korean relations - a released South Korean detainee, an agreement to reenergize several key projects - suggests that the policies of the 'sunshine generation' are still bearing fruit.

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Kingjongilia: North Korea's Undeniable Hell

Tom Gregory | Posted 09.19.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Holocaust, IFC Center, Documentary, Wwii, Adolf Hitler, OJ Simpson, Kim Jong Il, Charles Chaplin, N.C. Heikin, North Korea, Docuweek, Kimjongilia, Entertainment News
Tom Gregory

Kimjongilia, the new documentary directed by N.C. Heikin, is enough proof-on-film to convict North Korea's leader Kim Jong Il of mass murder, terrorism, and sadistic insanity.

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Clinton in Pyongyang: The Real Deal

John Feffer | Posted 09.11.2009 | World

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John Feffer

In all the commentary on Clinton's trip, journalists and pundits spent so much time cataloging North Korea's sins, they missed several key points.

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