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Abe ‘speechless’ after video claims IS hostage dead

January 31, 2015 By Northwest Asian Weekly

TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s prime minister said Sunday he was “speechless’’ after an online video purported to show one of two Japanese hostages of the extremist Islamic State group had been killed and promised to save the other.   Shinzo Abe said on NHK TV that the video was likely authentic and offered condolences to the […]

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2015, Germany, Haruna Yukawa, Iraq, Islamic State-affiliated, Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida, Kenji Goto, Kyodo News, NHK, Nobuo Kimoto, Patrick Ventrell, President Barack Obama, Shinzo Abe, Syria, Tokyo, Vol 34 No 6 | January 31 - February 6, White House National Security Council

US calls for NKorea amnesty for sentenced American

May 12, 2013 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Matthew Pennington and Sam Kim The Associated Press WASHINGTON, D.C. (AP) — The United States called May 3 for North Korea to grant amnesty and immediately release a Korean American sentenced to 15 years of hard labor for “hostile acts” against the state.

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2009, 2013, China, Democratic People, Euna Lee, Jay Carney, Jimmy Carter, Kim Jong-un, Laura Ling, North Korean, Patrick Cronin, Patrick Ventrell, Russia, Swedish Embassy, United States, Vol 32 No 20 | May 11 - May 17, WASHINGTON, White House

Dennis Rodman: NKorea leader wants Obama to call

March 9, 2013 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Michelle Salecedo The Associated Press WASHINGTON, D.C, (AP) — North Korea’s young leader has riled the United States with recent nuclear tests, but Kim Jong Un doesn’t really want war with the superpower, just a call from President Barack Obama to chat about their shared love of basketball, according to unlikely diplomat Dennis Rodman, […]

Filed Under: National News Tagged With: 2011, 2013, ABC, Dennis Rodman, Eric Schmidt, HBO, Harlem Globetrotters, Kim Jong-il, Kim Jong-un, National Defense Commission, North Koreans, Patrick Ventrell, President Barack Obama, Security Council, State Department, United States, Vol 32 No 11 | March 9 - March 15

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

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