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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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US North Korea Financial Noose Tightens

AP | JEANNINE AVERSA | Posted 08.30.2009 | World

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-+ WASHINGTON — The Obama administration on Thursday imposed financial sanctions on a North Korean firm accused of involvement in the country's ...

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North Korea Human Rights Abuses Must Be Addressed Alongside Nukes: Interview

CFR | Posted 08.28.2009 | World

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By Jayshree Bajoria | Council on Foreign Relations An interview with Roberta Cohen, Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution The U....

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North Korea: Clinton A "Funny Lady" Who Looks Like A "Pensioner Going Shopping"

Huffington Post | Stuart Whatley | Posted 08.23.2009 | World

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Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and the government of North Korea have engaged in a war of words this week that teeters on the edge of farce. On M...

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North Korea Labor Camp Atrocities Revealed In New Report

Washington Post | Posted 08.20.2009 | World

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Images and accounts of the North Korean gulag become sharper, more harrowing and more accessible with each passing year....

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North Korea Restricts Domestic Markets, Food Aid While Saber-Rattling Abroad

Washington Post | Posted 08.14.2009 | World

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As it noisily goads the outside world with missiles and a nuclear test, North Korea is quietly tightening screws at home....

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North Korea: U.N. Security Council Set To Debate Recent Missile Launch

Reuters | Patrick Worsnip and Jack Kim | Posted 08.06.2009 | World

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UNITED NATIONS/SEOUL (Reuters) - The U.N. Security Council scheduled discussions on Monday on North Korea's latest missile launches as a North Korean ...

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Korea's Missiles, Obama's Maneuvers and Neocons' Mad-libs

Jonathan Morgenstein | Posted 08.03.2009 | World

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Jonathan Morgenstein

In Obama's relations with North Korea, force is an option but a last resort. That is the hallmark of the Smart Power approach: use all the instruments of national power to achieve your goals, not just the military.

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North Korea: A Test for Progressives

Amitai Etzioni | Posted 08.01.2009 | World

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Amitai Etzioni

North Korea poses a special test for progressives because unlike the invasion of Iraq, this time the United State is meeting the criteria previously posed by progressives.

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North Korea Attacking Hawaii?

John Feffer | Posted 07.25.2009 | World

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John Feffer

I'm not sure who's giving the president his advice on North Korea, but it's all wrong. His show of "resolve" has only made matters worse.

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North Korea Threatens To Wipe Out The U.S. "Once And For All"

AP | JAE-SOON CHANG | Posted 07.25.2009 | World

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SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea condemned a recent U.S. pledge to provide nuclear defense of South Korea, saying Thursday that the move boosts ...

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Gates: US Putting More Missile Defense Around Hawaii

AP | ANNE GEARAN and PAULINE JELINEK | Posted 07.20.2009 | Politics

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WASHINGTON — The U.S. military is tracking a ship from North Korea that may be carrying illicit weapons, the first vessel monitored under toughe...

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North Korea May Fire A Missile Toward Hawaii

AP | JAE-SOON CHANG | Posted 07.19.2009 | World

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SEOUL, South Korea — The United States has deployed anti-missile defenses around Hawaii amid reports that North Korea may fire its most advanced...

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Pentagon: North Korea Missiles Could Threaten U.S.

AP | LARA JAKES | Posted 07.17.2009 | Politics

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WASHINGTON — North Korea's missiles could hit the United States in as few as three years if the reclusive rogue nation continues to ramp up its ...

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North Korean Ships Subject To US Interdiction: White House

AP | CHARLES BABINGTON | Posted 07.13.2009 | World

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WASHINGTON — The Obama administration said Friday it is prepared to confront ships believed to be carrying contraband materials to North Korea b...

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Kim Jong-Un, 'Brilliant Comrade' Touted In North Korean Media

AP | VIJAY JOSHI | Posted 07.13.2009 | World

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SEOUL, South Korea — The youngest son of North Korea's authoritarian leader has been given the title of "Brilliant Comrade," a sign the communis...

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Gates: North Korea Shows No Sign Of Retaliation For Sanctions

AP | Posted 07.12.2009 | World

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BRUSSELS, Belgium — U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates says it does not appear that North Korea has made military preparations to follow throug...

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Inside Kim Jong-Il's Former School (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Posted 07.10.2009 | World

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Al Jazeera's Wayne Hay traveled to Pyongyang, North Korea's capital, and got a rare look at life there as the country faces mounting criticism for its...

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North Korea: US Close To Imposing Its Own Sanctions

csmonitor.com | Arthur Bright | Posted 07.06.2009 | World

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The five permanent members of the UN Security Council are close to completing work on new sanctions against North Korea, while the US is set to impose...

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Iran, North Korea and the Technology Fantasy

Michael B. Laskoff | Posted 07.04.2009 | World

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Michael B. Laskoff

I believe in the power of technology. I'm typing this blog on my laptop while sitting in a café, something that would have been considered extraordin...

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North Korea Nuclear Test Raises the Stakes on Nuclear Abolition

Sarah van Gelder | Posted 06.29.2009 | World

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Sarah van Gelder

As the world comes to terms with the dangerous possibilities of a nuclear-armed North Korea and Iran, perhaps the obligations of the current nuclear power to work towards abolition will get the attention required for action.

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U.S. Intelligence -- or the Lack Thereof -- on North Korea

Keith Thomson | Posted 06.29.2009 | World

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Keith Thomson

How is it -- given a skyful of satellites and legions of human spies -- that we were surprised by North Korea's missile launch? Why is it that we know so little about this country?

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North Korea Test-Fires Missile, Vows To Retaliate If Provoked

AP | ERIC TALMADGE and ANNE GEARAN | Posted 06.29.2009 | World

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SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea threatened to retaliate if punitive U.N. sanctions are imposed for its latest nuclear test, and U.S. officials ...

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Why North Korea's Antics Are Good For Obama

Stuart Whatley | Posted 06.28.2009 | World

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Stuart Whatley

Following its initial hullabaloo, the current standoff may be a foreign policy windfall for the Obama administration by uniting typically disparate regional players

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North Korea Weighs Nuclear Option as Solution to its Economic Crisis

Sheldon Filger | Posted 06.28.2009 | World

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Sheldon Filger

We now may be witnessing the emergence of nuclear proliferation as an export-based strategy for capital formation.

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