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North Korea proposes high-level talks with US

June 22, 2013 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Jean H. Lee The Associated Press PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) — North Korea’s top governing body on June 16 proposed high-level nuclear and security talks with the United States in an appeal sent just days after calling off talks with rival South Korea.

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2013, Associated Press, Beijing, China, Dongguk University, Kim Il Sung, Kim Jong-un, Kim Yong-hyun, Korean Peninsula, Korean War, NDC, National Defense Commission, National Security Council, North Koreans, South Korean, US, United States, Vol 32 No 26 | June 22 - June 28, Youkyung Lee

South Koreans hope to return to Kaesong factories

April 27, 2013 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Youkyung Lee AP Business Writer SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The South Korean entrepreneurs who invested up to 10 years and millions of dollars in the Kaesong industrial complex, a symbol of economic collaboration between the Koreas that is now shuttered by the North, have little more than hope to cling to as assembly […]

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2009, 2013, CEO, Chinese, Choi Dong-jin, Daemyung Blue Jeans Inc, Foxconn Technology Group, Han Jae-kwon, Korean Peninsula, North Koreans, Sam Kim, South Koreans, Unification Ministry, United States, Vol 32 No 18 | April 27 - May 3, Yoo Byung-ki, communication

China offers to reduce friction

April 13, 2013 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Charles Hutzler The Associated Press BOAO, China (AP) — With pressure growing on Beijing to get North Korea to step back from its war-like footing, Chinese President Xi Jinping said Sunday, April 7 that no one country should be allowed to upset world peace and added China would work to reduce tensions over regional […]

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2013, Asia, Australia, BOAO, Beijing, Chinese President Xi Jinping, East China Sea, Korean Peninsula, North Korean, Philippines, South Korea, Switzerland, United States, Vol 32 No 16 | April 13 - April 19, World Economic Forum, Zaire, language

South Korean leader’s islets visit draw Japan protest

August 20, 2012 By Northwest Asian Weekly

South Korea’s president has made a surprise, election-year visit to islets also claimed by Japan, which quickly reasserted its sovereignty there, recalled its ambassador from Seoul and warned that the trip would worsen the countries’ strained relations …

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: Associated Press, Eric Talmadge, Foreign Ministry, Japanese Embassy, Japanese Foreign Minister Koichiro Gemba, Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda, Korean Peninsula, North Korea, Patrick Ventrell, President Lee Myung-bak, SEOUL, South Korea, South Koreans, State Department, Tokyo, William Grimes, japan

North & South Korea suffer worst drought in a century

July 7, 2012 By Northwest Asian Weekly

The Associated Press Staff KOHYON-RI, North Korea (AP) — North Korea dispatched soldiers to pour buckets of water on parched fields and South Korean officials scrambled to save a rare mollusk threatened by the heat as the worst dry spell in a century gripped the Korean Peninsula.

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2012, Associated Press, Finance Minister Bahk Jae-wan, Food, Hyung-jin Kim, Jang Hyun-sik, Korean Peninsula, Lee Soo-jung, Mountainous North Korea, North Hwanghae, North Korean, North South Korea, Pak Tok Gwan, Ri Sun Pom, South Korean Prime Minister Kim Hwang-sik, United Nations, Vol 31 No 28 | July 7 - July 13

North Korea to suspend key nuclear activities

March 1, 2012 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Matthew Pennington The Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — North Korea has agreed to suspend uranium enrichment and nuclear and long-range missile tests in a breakthrough in negotiations with the United States, which is set to provide food aid in return.

Filed Under: National News Tagged With: 2009, 2010, 2012, Baek Seung-joo, Beijing, IAEA, International Atomic Energy Agency, Kim Jong-il, Kim Jong-un, Korean Peninsula, North Korean, South Korea, State Hillary Rodham Clinton, United Nations Security Council, United States, Vol 31 No 10 | March 3 - March 9, culture

All wait with bated breath for a post-Kim Jong-il world

December 22, 2011 By Stacy Nguyen

By Stacy Nguyen Northwest Asian Weekly In the early 1990s, when North Korea opened its borders a tiny bit to Americans, Seong Suk Kim, also known as Joan, sought the opportunity to visit her siblings — two brothers — and their children, Kim’s nieces and nephews, whom she had never met. During the Korean War, […]

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: Democratic People, Jang Song Thaek, KCNA, Kim Il Sung, Kim Jong-il, Kim Jong-un, Kim Kyong Hui, Korean Peninsula, Korean Studies, Korean War, North Koreans, Party Delegates Conference, President Barack Obama, Seong Suk Kim, United States, Whereas South Korea

The U.S. dismisses North Korea’s call for peace treaty

January 14, 2010 By Northwest Asian Weekly

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — On Jan. 11, North Korea proposed signing a peace treaty this year to formally end the Korean War, a suggestion that Washington quickly dismissed.

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2010, Baek Seung-joo, China, Foreign Ministry, Korean Central News Agency, Korean Peninsula, Korean War, North Koreans, Obama, Peter Beck, Rival South Korea, SEOUL, Stanford University, State Department, Vol 29 No 3 | January 16 - January 22, Yang Moo-jin, japan

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