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Perry, Scowcroft Say U.S. May Need to Use ‘Coercion’ to Stop North Korean Nuclear Aspirations
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Washington (CNSNews.com) – Former Defense Secretary William Perry and former National Security Advisor Brent Scowcroft say it may become necessary for the U.S. to use military force to stop North Korea’s nuclear weapons ambitions. At a panel discussion Thursday at the Council on Foreign Relations, the two leading experts said that North Korea has become “much harder to control” in recent years. “I do believe that diplomacy still has a chance of success,” Perry said, “but only if it is robust and only if its robustness includes some... MORE

North Korean Missile Launch Requires ‘Strong’ U.N. Response, Official Says
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WASHINGTON, April 6, 2009 – The United States and its allies want the U.N. to issue a robust response to North Korea’s April 4 missile launch, a U.S. State Department official told reporters here today. “We’re going to continue to go forward in discussions with our partners in the council to see and to seek a strong, coordinated and effective response to the North Korean missile launch,” spokesman Robert Wood said at a State Department news... MORE

Return N. Korea to Terror-Sponsor List, Invest in Missile Defense, Lawmakers Say
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(CNSNews.com) – With slim chance of a firm U.N. Security Council response to North Korea’s defiant long-range missile launch, U.S. lawmakers are pressing for a determined unilateral U.S. response, including returning Pyongyang to a list of terror-sponsoring states and stepping up investment in missile defense. As anticipated, veto-wielding permanent council members China and Russia urged “restraint” Sunday as the decision-making body held urgent talks... MORE

N. Korean Missile Launch Would be ‘Counterproductive,’ Official Says
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WASHINGTON, April 3, 2009 – A potential North Korean test launch of a three-stage missile would have a negative impact on efforts to lessen tensions in the region, a U.S. State Department official told reporters here yesterday. Senior U.S. diplomats have urged North Korea “to desist from launching any type of missile,” spokesman Robert Wood said... MORE

U.N. Security Council May Lack Unified Response to Anticipated North Korean Rocket Launch
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(CNSNews.com) – The U.S., Japan and South Korea reportedly have agreed to push for a new U.N. Security Council resolution against North Korea if the communist country goes ahead with its anticipated rocket launch in the coming days, but with Pyongyang claiming the legal right to launch a satellite, Chinese and Russian support is far from assured. A senior South Korean government official said Thursday that Japan – a non-permanent Security Council member – would... MORE

Three-Year Korea Tours Good for Servicemembers, Alliance, Commander Says
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WASHINGTON, March 23, 2009 – Being assigned to Korea will soon be the same as being assigned to Japan or Europe, under a new policy that came into force in December, the commander of U.S. forces on the peninsula said. “Tour normalization in Korea was long overdue,” said Army Gen. Walter Sharp, the commander of U.S. Forces Korea. In December, the Defense Department changed the assignment policy in Korea. In the past, almost all assignments to... MORE

Japan Looks to Strengthen Security Ties With U.S., Given N. Korean Threat
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(CNSNews.com) – Citing security threats facing Japan, including an increasingly belligerent North Korea’s missile and nuclear programs, Prime Minister Taro Aso on Sunday stressed the importance of strengthening security ties with the United States. “You must be well aware that we face many issues in the Asia-Pacific region, including North Korea’s nuclear and ballistic missile development... MORE

North Korean Uranium Enrichment Issue Re-Emerges as Clinton Visits Seoul
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(CNSNews.com) – Just days after Secretary of State Hillary Clinton appeared to play down the importance of North Korea’s uranium enrichment activities relative to its plutonium-based program, a major South Korean newspaper has put the uranium issue back in the spotlight. The Dong-A Ilbo (East Asia Daily), citing an unnamed senior government official in Seoul, said South Korea and the U.S. were aware of... MORE

North Korea Steps Up Reports of Alleged Kim Jong-il Outings
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One of a series of pictures released by North Korean state media in early November, purportedly showing Kim Jong-il inspecting an army unit. (AP Photo)(CNSNews.com) – Amid continuing speculation that Kim Jong-il is gravely ill – or even dead – North Korean state media have stepped up reports about purported appearances by the dictator, most recently a reported public classic music... MORE

Are you indirectly persecuting North Koreans?
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A human-rights activist says every time Americans buy a Chinese-made Christmas present, they support a regime that is forcibly repatriating entire refugee families to imprisonment and death in North Korea. Suzanne Scholte, chairman of the North Korea Freedom Coalition, admits while it is nearly impossible to avoid buying products made in China -- especially during the... MORE

No relief expected for Christians in No. Korea
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Christians in the communist nation of North Korea aren't expected to see any changes in the foreseeable future, despite reports that the country's dictator is ill. Recent media reports say the leader of the communist nation, Kim Jong Il, may have suffered a stroke that incapacitated him to some extent. Video footage of the 66-year-old dictator was released on October 10 -- for the first time in nearly two... MORE

Japan-US Ties Strained Over North Korea
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Japan's Prime Minister Taro Aso reviews Japanese Self-Defense Force troops at an airbase north of Tokyo on Sunday, Oct. 19, 2008. (AP Photo)(CNSNews.com) – Amid signs of a chill between the U.S. and Japan over how to handle North Korea, Australia has been asked to step in with energy aid for Pyongyang that Japan is... MORE

Delisting North Korea Draws Cautious Praise, Skepticism
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(CNSNews.com) – Washington’s decision to remove North Korea from its terror-sponsor list, not an unexpected step, is aimed at salvaging a fragile denuclearization deal that had begun to unravel. The move announced Saturday came after the Stalinist regime threatened to throw out five years of painstaking multi-party negotiations, by starting to reverse the work done over the past year to dismantle its main nuclear plant at Yongbyon and... MORE

North Korea’s Nuclear Activities Destabilize Region, U.S. Commander Says
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WASHINGTON, Oct. 8, 2008 – North Korea’s assertions of its nuclear weapons capability and the likelihood that it’s proliferating weapons of mass destruction represent a huge security risk for the region and the world, the top U.S. commander in Korea told Pentagon reporters today. “I worry about it every day,” Army Gen. Walter “Skip” Sharp, commander of U.S. Forces Korea, said of concerns that North Korea is exporting its weapons of mass destruction and missile technology to those who could use it against the United States and other countries. ... MORE

Beijing watching Kim's illness closely
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An anti-communist activist doubts that whoever ultimately succeeds North Korean dictator Kim Jong Il will be able to do so without the blessing of Beijing. Recently a North Korean diplomat angrily denied that Kim Jong Il is ill, saying that talk is "nonsense spread by a bad people who don't wish... MORE

Planning for a North Korea without Kim Jong-il
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Rumors that Kim Jong-il suffered a stroke have triggered concerns over the ramifications of instability and regime change in North Korea, particularly in regards to that nation's arsenal of nuclear weapons. Over the years, there have been scores of rumors regarding Kim, including illness, incapacitation, coup, assassination, and even death. ... MORE

Franklin Graham visits North Korea
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Evangelist Franklin Graham has returned from a four-day visit to North Korea, where he met with government officials, toured relief projects, and preached at one of the few Protestant churches in the communist nation. ... MORE

Human Rights to Become More Prominent in N Korea Nuclear Talks
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"Under pressure from political conservatives, the top U.S. envoy on North Korea agreed Thursday to step up the Bush administration's emphasis on human rights issues during nuclear weapons talks, but stopped short of saying an improved record would be a precondition for normalized relations," reports The Los Angeles Times. "Assistant Secretary of State Christopher Hill told a Senate committee that North Korea's rights record was 'abysmal.' He promised that from now on, the country's treatment of its citizens would be a formal part of discussions between the United States and the government in Pyongyang. Up until now, the Americans have raised... MORE

Little Progress Seen on North Korea
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Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and chief U.S. North Korea nuclear negotiator Christopher Hill, in Singapore on Wednesday July 23, 2008 (AP Photo)(CNSNews.com) - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Thursday warned that North Korea should not expect its dialogue partners to accept its word on its... MORE

Novel highlights plight of North Koreans
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The author of a new book hopes to convince Americans of the plight of North Koreans. Author C. Hope Flinchbaugh has written a book in fiction style titled I'll Cross the River in order to point out the conditions in which people, especially Christians, endure in North Korea under the current dictatorship. ... MORE

Bolton: Bush can still save face after NK decision
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President Bush's former ambassador to the United Nations says the president's decision to ease trade sanctions against North Korea and take the communist country off a list of terrorism-sponsoring nations is welcome news for another part of his original "axis of evil." ... MORE

Lifting of No. Korea sanctions applauded
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A military analyst says he believes President Bush made the right decision in lifting trade sanctions against North Korea. The former Airborne Ranger believes that communist regime was on the brink of imploding. Bush made the announcement after North Korea handed over an accounting of its nuclear work to Chinese officials. The president said it was a positive step toward getting that rogue state to give up its nuclear weapons, but warned: "We will trust you only to the extent you fulfill your promises." ... MORE

Bolton: Negotiations not effective with NK
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A former high-ranking Bush administration official says President Bush's nuclear deal with North Korea is equivalent to a police truce with the Mafia. President Bush recently announced the removal of North Korea from a U.S. list of terrorism-sponsoring nations. He also lifted restrictions on trade and released Pyongyang's assets that were frozen under the Trading with the Enemy Act. Former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton says Bush has foolishly given North Korea "an enormous amount of political legitimacy." ... MORE

Conservatives unhappy with Bush over NK sanctions
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A number of conservatives aren't happy with President Bush's recent decision to lift trade sanctions against North Korea. Bush made the announcement after North Korea handed over an accounting of its nuclear work to Chinese officials. The president said it was a positive step toward getting that nation to give up its nuclear weapons, but warned, "We will trust you only to the extent you fulfill your promises." ... MORE

Views Differ Over US Shift on North Korea
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(CNSNews.com) - The Bush administration's decision to ease trade sanctions on North Korea and start a 45-day process of removing Pyongyang from a list of terror-sponsors has drawn fire from conservatives and praise from quarters usually critical of the president's foreign policies. The decision also fueled a long running debate in Japan, where many feel the... MORE

US Rewards North Korea for Positive Step Forward'
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(CNSNews.com) - "We will trust you only to the extent that you fulfill your promises," President Bush warned North Korea on Thursday. The president announced at the White House that in response to North Korea meeting a key deadline to declare its nuclear activities, the United States will lift some trade sanctions against the communist state and rescind North Korea's designation as... MORE

Executive Order: Continuing Certain Restrictions with Respect to North Korea and North Korean Nationals
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I, GEORGE W. BUSH, President of the United States of America, find that the current existence and risk of the proliferation of weapons-usable fissile material on the Korean Peninsula constitute an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States, and I hereby declare a national emergency to deal with that threat. I further find that, as we deal with that threat through multilateral diplomacy, it is necessary to continue certain restrictions with respect to North Korea that would otherwise be lifted pursuant to a forthcoming proclamation that will terminate the exercise of authorities under the... MORE

Statement by the Press Secretary on North Korea
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The United States welcomes the North Korean declaration of its nuclear programs. Today's development is an important step in the multi-step process laid out in the Six Party Talks between North Korea, China, Japan, Russia, South Korea and the United States. ... MORE

President Bush Discusses North Korea
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THE PRESIDENT: Good morning. The policy of the United States is a Korean Peninsula free of all nuclear weapons. This morning, we moved a step closer to that goal, when North Korean officials submitted a declaration of their nuclear programs to the Chinese government as part of the six-party talks. ... MORE

North Korea Removed from Terror List
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"North Korea took a step on Thursday toward re-integration into the world community and rapprochement with the United States by submitting for outside inspection a long-delayed declaration of its nuclear program," reports The New York Times. "The Bush administration almost immediately announced it would remove the country it once described as part of the 'axis of evil' from the State Department's list of state sponsors of terrorism." ... MORE

North Korea Pushes for Removal from Terror List
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(CNSNews.com) - The United States and South Korea have welcomed a North Korean statement pledging to oppose terrorism and nuclear proliferation. But it's unclear how far that pledge will advance the process of removing North Korea from a U.S. list of state sponsors of terrorism. Removal from the list has been a key demand of Pyongyang since 2000. State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said Tuesday the statement, which came earlier in the day from the North Korean foreign... MORE

Korean President Considers Restructuring Government
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"President Lee Myung-bak pledged a 'new beginning' on Wednesday as he contemplated reorganizing his unpopular government which has been shaken by the biggest anti-government demonstrations in two decades," reports The New York Times. "The demonstrations against Mr. Lee started more than a month ago when students began protesting his government's decision in April to resume imports of American beef despite widespread fears of mad cow disease. They snowballed into a broader backlash against Mr. Lee's leadership style and his policies on everything from North Korea to education reform programs." ... MORE

N. Korea Nuclear Declaration Expected Soon
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"North Korea is in the final stages of producing a declaration of its nuclear programs in return for economic aid and political concessions under an aid-for-disarmament deal, a South Korean official said Sunday," reports Welt Online. "South Korea's chief nuclear negotiator, Kim Sook, told reporters that North Korea is coordinating with the United States on when it will issue the long-awaited declaration." ... MORE

North Korea Produces Nuclear Data, Leaving Key Questions Unanswered
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(CNSNews.com) - More than three months after it was supposed to produce a full accounting of its nuclear activities, the North Korean government has given the U.S. some 18,000 pages of data relating to its plutonium-based program, but it has yet to lift the lid on uranium-related work and proliferation. The documents were given to Sung Kim, director of Korean affairs at the State Department, during a visit to Pyongyang last... MORE

North Korea Hands Files to U.S.
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"North Korea has turned over to the United States 18,000 pages of documents related to its plutonium program dating from 1990, in an effort to resolve remaining differences in a pending agreement meant to begin the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula, Bush administration officials said Thursday," The New York Times reports. "The documents contain information about North Korea's three major campaigns to reprocess plutonium for nuclear weapons, in 1990, 2003 and 2005, a senior official said." ... MORE

Rare defection reflects desperation
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Carl Moeller with Open Doors USA says no one should be surprised at the recent report that a North Korean army officer has defected to South Korea. The Yonhap News Agency reports that the defector is a 28-year-old second lieutenant identified only by his surname, Ri. He reportedly approached a South Korean guard post on April 23 and said he was seeking asylum.... MORE

Playing "Whack-a-Mole" with North Korea
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The U.S. intelligence community's revelation that North Korea was helping Syria to build a nuclear reactor "not intended for peaceful purposes"[1] after seven months of Bush Administration stonewalling will be a serious body blow to the Six-Party Talks. The intelligence disclosure, coming so soon after strenuous congressional and interagency objections to a tentative agreement between Washington and Pyongyang to resolve the data declaration impasse, could be a knockout punch to the current U.S. strategy in the talks. ... MORE

North Korea Mum on Syrian Nuclear Cooperation
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(CNSNews.com) - South Korea's new chief nuclear negotiator is scheduled to meet his American counterpart in Washington on Monday, amid continuing fallout over claims of nuclear collaboration between North Korea and Syria. North Korea has yet to react publicly to evidence, presented during intelligence briefings on Capitol Hill last Thursday, indicating that North Korea secretly helped Syria develop a nuclear reactor for... MORE

Chinese repatriation of NK refugees a crisis
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In observance of North Korea Freedom Week 2008, human-rights activists across the world are calling attention to the brutal treatment of the North Korean people by Kim Jong Il's communist regime. The event is being sponsored by The North Korea Freedom Coalition, an organization dedicated to promoting freedom and human rights for the people of North Korea. Jerry Dykstra is with Open Doors, one of the 60 organizations that make up the coalition. He is outraged over China's brutal repatriation of North Korean refugees. ... MORE

Mullen: Nuclear Project Reaffirms Proliferation Dangers
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WASHINGTON, April 25, 2008 – Syria’s building of a secret nuclear facility with North Korean help reinforces the need to prevent the spread of weapons of mass destruction, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said today. “It should serve as a reminder to us all of the very real dangers of proliferation and need to rededicate ourselves to prevent the spread of weapons of mass destruction, particularly into the hands of a state or a group with terrorist connections,” Navy Adm. Mike Mullen said during a Pentagon briefing.... MORE

North Korea's Nuclear Aid to Syria in the Spotlight
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(CNSNews.com) - U.S. lawmakers on Thursday will hear intelligence reports indicating that North Korea provided Syria with nuclear know-how, a development that could break, or further complicate, deadlocked efforts to shut down Pyongyang's nuclear weapons programs. How Kim Jong-il reacts to the U.S. move remains to be seen, but the reclusive North Korean leader has... MORE

China's Treatment of North Korean Refugees Draws Attention
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(CNSNews.com) - Already in the spotlight over Tibet, the Chinese government is about to face a barrage of fresh attention and flak over its treatment of North Koreans who have escaped their impoverished Stalinist homeland. In a series of events beginning Saturday in Washington, D.C., and around the world, "North Korea Freedom Week" aims to highlight the plight of what... MORE

Christians asked to email congressmen on behalf of N. Korean refugees
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Open Doors USA is spearheading an email campaign to members of Congress in an effort to stop the torture and execution of thousands of North Korean refugees, many of whom are Christian. ... MORE

Conservatives Cement Control in South Korea
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(CNSNews.com) - More bad news for North Korea's Kim Jong-il: South Korean voters have handed control of parliament to the conservative Grand National Party, six weeks after the party's flag bearer assumed office as the nation's president. Official results in Wednesday's parliamentary elections gave the GNP 153 of the National Assembly's 299 seats, while the liberal United Democratic Party associated with former president Roh Moo-hyun took 81 seats. Two conservative factions won... MORE

North Korean Christians Suffering Increased Persecution
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Christians living in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, or North Korea, have suffered government-sanctioned persecution since the brutal communist regime came to power. However, according to a recent human rights report, North Korean Christians are experiencing more brutality and violence than at any time in history. The Christian human-rights group Open Doors, based in Holland, reports that North Korea is number one on its annual World Watch List (WWL), which "ranks countries by the "intensity of persecution that Christians face for actively pursuing their faith." ... MORE

Human rights coalition demanding answers in North Korean refugee case
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A coalition of over 65 American and Korean American human rights, religious, and non-governmental organizations are demanding that the government of South Korea explain why 22 North Korean refugees were returned to the communist dictatorship. In early February 2008, the South Korean Navy rescued 22 individuals from North Korea --including 13 members of one... MORE

North Korea Permits Anthem, But Anti-US Rhetoric Continues
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(CNSNews.com) - The Star-Spangled Banner rang out this week on a Pyongyang stage flanked by the American flag, but North Korean state media were insufficiently moved by the New York Philharmonic's unprecedented visit to take a break from America-bashing. The official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) called the performance "exquisite and refined," but elsewhere in the same bulletin it railed against U.S. policies. One 280-word dispatch alone used terms like "warmongers," "bellicose," "brazen-faced" and "conservative hard-liners" to... MORE

NY Philharmonic Prepares to Play Pyongyang
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(CNSNews.com) - The New York Philharmonic Orchestra traveled to Pyongyang Monday for a concert that has drawn considerable attention, given the isolated nature of the North Korean regime, and some criticism, given its human rights record. The official KCNA news agency reported the imminent arrival of one of the "three world-famous philharmonics" in a report that was notable for its absence of the standard vitriol for anything American. (By contrast, the same day's KCNA dispatch railed against "war-thirsty elements of the U.S. imperialist aggression forc... MORE

Korea's New Conservative President to Take a Firmer Line with North
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(CNSNews.com) - A decade of left-wing rule in South Korea ended on Monday as a new conservative president took the helm. Lee Myung-bak has pledged to bolster relations with the U.S. and is pressing North Korea to resolve the nuclear weapons crisis. "Once North Korea abandons its nuclear program and chooses the path to openness, we can expect to see a new horizon in inter-Korean cooperation," Lee said in his inaugural speech in Seoul. Guests at the event included Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, who will hold talks with... MORE

North Korea Nuclear Agreement Under Strain
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The latest international agreement designed to resolve the North Korean nuclear crisis is showing signs of strain, just days before a year-end deadline that now looks certain to be missed. Officials from the U.S., China, South Korea and Japan said this week it was unlikely North Korea would make the Dec. 31 target date for disabling specified plutonium-based nuclear facilities and declaring all of its nuclear weapons programs, past and present.... MORE

Conservative Leads Presidential Race in Korea
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A conservative looks set to be elected as South Korea's new president on Wednesday, ending a decade of liberal rule and ushering in a more pragmatic approach towards North Korea. Lee Myung-bak, the candidate for the opposition Grand National Party (GNP), has enjoyed a wide lead in opinion polls, despite claims by his rivals that he was involved in a stock manipulation scandal in 2001.... MORE

North Korea May Miss Deadline on Nuclear Pledge
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North Korea may not meet a year-end deadline to declare all of its nuclear programs, as it promised to do in an agreement earlier this year, South Korea's foreign minister has warned. "We may need to be a little more flexible," Song Min-soon told a meeting of business leaders in Seoul Thursday, saying that the situation had reached "a critical juncture."... MORE

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