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SF Gate
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The top U.S. and South Korean trade envoys broke off talks without resolving a crisis over the resumption of American beef shipments that has shaken South Korea's pro-U.S. government.
South Korean Trade Minister Kim Jong-hoon, who flew into Washington..
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BBC News
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Australian police say they have broken up an international sex-trafficking ring after rescuing 10 South Korean women from Sydney brothels.
Five people have been arrested and charged with offences including people trafficking and debt bondage.
Police..
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MSNBC
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In a rare move, President Bush has sent a letter to North Korean leader Kim Jong Il, the North’s official news agency said Thursday without giving further details about the message.
US nuclear envoy Christopher Hill delivered the letter to North Kore..
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BBC News
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North Korea's reclusive leader Kim Jong-il has welcomed South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun to Pyongyang for a historic summit.
Live television footage showed the two men shaking hands ahead of three days of talks in the North Korean capital.
The su..
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MSNBC
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North Korean leader Kim Jong Il greeted South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun in Pyongyang on Tuesday to begin the second summit between the two countries since the peninsula’s division after World War II.
Thousands of cheering North Koreans waving pin..
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USA Today
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Long one of the world's most isolated countries, North Korea finally might be looking to make friends.
Its reclusive dictator, Kim Jong Il, is scheduled to meet Tuesday with South Korean President Roh Moo Hyun in Pyongyang, the North Korean capital. It..
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USA Today
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The leaders of North and South Korea, capitalizing on progress in shutting down the North's nuclear program, plan to meet later this month for the second-ever summit between the longtime foes, officials said Wednesday.
North Korean leader Kim Jong Il w..
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FOX News
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The leaders of North and South Korea, capitalizing on progress in shutting down the North's nuclear program, plan to meet later this month for the second-ever summit between the longtime foes, officials said Wednesday.
North Korean leader Kim Jong Il w..
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USA Today
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The chief U.S. nuclear envoy met Tuesday with his North Korean counterpart ahead of the first six-nation talks on Pyongyang's nuclear program since the communist nation shut down its sole operating nuclear reactor.
Just after arriving in the country, t..
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CNN
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North Korea is ready to start dismantling its nuclear programs following the shutdown its sole operating reactor, a North Korean diplomat said Sunday, as long as the United States lifts all sanctions against the communist nation. Kim Myong Gil, minister a..
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CNN
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How ill is Kim Jong Il? Talk of the reclusive North Korean leader's health emerged anew this week when he made a rare public appearance Tuesday in a surprise meeting with Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi in Pyongyang. Chinese television footage showed..
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BBC News
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All 22 people, most of them South Korean tourists, on board a plane which crashed in Cambodia on Monday were killed, a government minister says.
"All have died. It is confirmed," said Information Minister Khieu Kanharith.
A helicopter search found t..
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BBC News
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A team of UN nuclear inspectors will visit the North Korean nuclear reactor at the centre of a key disarmament deal, Kyodo news agency reports.
"We're going to Yongbyon," said team leader Olli Heinonen, adding that they would go on Thursday and return..
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FOX News
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North Korea fired a short-range missile toward waters between the Korean Peninsula and Japan, a South Korean intelligence official said Tuesday, amid signs of progress in ending North Korea's nuclear weapons program.
The North "fired the short-range mi..
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FOX News
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The chief U.S. envoy to North Korean nuclear talks called Tuesday for rapid progress in shutting down Pyongyang's bomb-making reactor when U.N. nuclear inspectors visit the communist nation next week.
Next week's trip by the International Atomic Energy..
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USA Today
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A stalled process to dismantle Pyongyang's nuclear programs could resume within weeks now that a dispute over the transfer of North Korean funds is over, U.S. nuclear envoy Christopher Hill said Monday.
Meanwhile, Russia's Interfax-China news agency sa..
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BBC News
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The US has welcomed North Korea's decision to invite International Atomic Energy Agency monitors to discuss shutting down a key nuclear reactor.
White House spokesman Gordon Johndroe said the offer was a "good step". But the IAEA said it had not yet re..
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BBC News
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The transfer of North Korean funds from a bank in Macau - a key sticking point to nuclear disarmament talks with the US - is under way.
A Macau official said that most of the $24m frozen in the Banco Delta Asia had now been moved elsewhere.
The move..
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Al Jazeera
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The heart of the Korean peninsula is beating again," he told a crowd at South Korea's Munsan station, 12km south of the Demilitarised Zone that divides the two countries.
Kwon Ho-ung, North Korea's senior cabinet councillor, said the two Koreas "shoul..
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Alter Net
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Korean officials feared that many Americans might see the murderous assault as something more than the act of a lone deranged, individual. This was not a totally false fear.
The casual mention by some campus officials, students, and in some press repor..
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