• 200,000 inmates held in 6 N. Korean political camps

    Up to 200,000 North Koreans are being held in its sprawling political prisoner system including hundreds of former officials, human rights group Amnesty International said Thursday. In its annual report, the group said the prisoners “were held in horrific conditions in six sprawling political prison camps, including the notorious Yodok…

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  • US envoy calls for end to NK brinkmanship

    United States Ambassador to Seoul Sung Kim urged North Korea’s new leadership Thursday to shift its policies and enhance the lives of its people. “The new leadership of North Korea can move into the 21st century by educating its people, opening up its economy and allowing the talents of the…

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    North Korea upgrades rocket launch pad

    This April 29 satellite image provided by DigitalGlobe shows what appears to be the initial stages of construction of a rocket assembly building at Musudan-ri in northeastern North Korea. The U.S.-Korea Institute at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies says this building and a nearby launch pad under construction…

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    Russia opposes NATO’s missile defense system

    In dual press conferences held on Monday evening after the closing of NATO’s historic summit in US President Barack Obama’s hometown of Chicago, NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen and President Obama discussed NATO missile defense program and developments in Afghanistan and Yemen. One of the most contentious issues which…

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    “NK Is On Our Palm”

    This April 29, 2012 satellite image provided by DigitalGlobe shows what appears to be the initial stages of construction of a rocket assembly building at Musudan-ri in northeastern North Korea. The U.S.-Korea Institute at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies says this building and a nearby launch pad under…

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  • NK reaffirms nuke policy

    North Korea vowed Tuesday to continue to pursue its nuclear program as long as the United States maintains a “hostile policy” amid ongoing tension over Pyongyang’s failed April 13 rocket launch. The North “will not stop for a moment in its nuclear deterrence as long as the United States continues…

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    Netanyahu: No more concessions to Iran

    Iran continues to pose a nuclear threat to Israel and world powers should not make any concessions to Tehran at the upcoming talks in Baghdad, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said. “Iran wants to destroy Israel and it is developing nuclear weapons to fulfill that goal,” Netanyahu said at a…

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  • Allies stuck in 6-party deja vu

    Seoul, Washington and Tokyo renewed their sticks-and-carrots approach to North Korea, Monday, amid tensions following a failed long-range rocket launch. But despite the diplomacy, huge doubts loom over the ability of the region to cope with Pyongyang. Officials of the three nations, following trilateral talks in Seoul, laid out their…

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    G8 Leaders gather at Camp David

    MARYLANDㅡ The leaders of the G8 nations meeting at Camp David on Friday-Saturday agreed that Iran needed to take concrete steps to prove the claim that its nuclear program was peaceful, a U.S. official said. The onus is on the government in Tehran to disclose more about its nuclear activities,…

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    Myanmar seeks compromise with armed ethnic group

    Delegaters of Myanmar government’s peace-making group talk at central level with the Restoration Council of Shan State (RCSS) and its military wing the Shan State Army South (RCSS/SSA) during the second round of peace talks between the two sides, in Kengtung, Myanmar, May 19, 2012. (Photo=Xinhua/Ding Lingling) KENGTUNG, Myanmar, May…

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