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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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APEC education ministers’ meeting opens
Top educators of 21 Asia- Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) members will discuss globalization, the convergence of education and technology and other topics at the fifth education ministerial meeting, which will kick off a three-day run in Gyeongju today. The APEC Education Ministerial Meeting will be the biggestever such event to…
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‘Kim’s remarks misinterpreted’
Human rights group claims detainees under duress in Chinese detention A human rights group said Sunday that it suspected the foreign ministry quoted Kim Young-hwan, a Korean activist detained in China, out of context during a meeting with a South Korean consular official. The group said the ministry erroneously concluded…
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Will Ahn declare presidential bid?
Amid mounting speculations about his presidential ambition, rumors abound that Ahn Cheol-soo, a software tycoon and university dean, is poised to break his silence, drawing public attention prior to an upcoming lecture in Busan. He is scheduled to speak to Pusan University students May 30, as part of his lecture…
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