PYONGYANG, North Korea - North Korea's power brokers publicly declared Kim Jong Un the country's supreme leader for the first time at a massive public memorial Thursday for his father, cementing the family's hold on power for another generation. A somber Kim, dubbed the Great Successor, attended the memorial as he stood with his head bowed at the Grand People's Study House, overlooking Kim Il Sung Square, named for his grandfather who founded modern North Korea.
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - North Korea said Tuesday that it has agreed to six-way nuclear talks starting Feb. 25, prompting expectations the countries will discuss the communist nation's offer to freeze its atomic programs in exchange for concessions from Washington. The announcement was a breakthrough after months of trying to restart negotiations among the United States, China, Russia, Japan and the two Koreas. An earlier round, aimed at persuading North Korea to abandon its nuclear programs, ended in August without much progress.
In just the last several days, he has effectively rehabilitated a charter member of the 'Axis of Evil' - North Korea - by agreeing to take it off the State Department's list of state sponsors of terrorism in exchange for Pyongyang's agreement to resume its dismantling of a key nuclear facility and cooperate with U.S. and international inspectors. [George W. Bush] finally yielded to Rice's appeal to engage Pyongyang directly, a mission undertaken by her Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian Affairs, Christopher Hill. By then, however, Washington's hand had been so badly weakened that Hill was forced to settle for a denuclearization accord that inevitably fell short of Bush's one-time promise of a virtually full-proof verification regime that would permit inspectors to go virtually ...
... of the hawks, last weekend's announcement that North Korea had been removed from the terrori...
UNITED NATIONS -- With speculation mounting of a North Korean nuclear test as early as this weekend, a unanimous U.N. Security Council urged the secretive, communist nation Friday to abandon all atomic weapons as it promised last year and cancel plans to detonate a device. Japan hinted the North could face sanctions or possible military action. A statement adopted by the council expresses "deep concern" over North Korea's announcement that it planned a test -- which would confirm strong suspicions it is a nuclear power -- and warns Pyongyang of unspecified consequences if it carries through. The message also urges the North to return to six-party talks on scrapping its nuclear weapons program.
WASHINGTON - President Bush said today he will lift key trade sanctions against North Korea and remove it from the U.S. terrorism blacklist, a remarkable turnaround in policy toward the communist regime he once branded as part of an "axis of evil. The announcement came after North Korea handed over a long- awaited accounting of its nuclear work to Chinese officials today, fulfilling a key step in the denuclearization process.
Several weeks after North Korea's early October announcement that it had successfully tested a nuclear device, new information is emerging about the test and Pyongyang's plutonium-based nuclear weapons program. [...] after the most recent North Korean nuclear crisis started in October 2002, Pyongyang ejected the inspectors, announced its withdrawal from the nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, restarted the reactor, and claimed to have reprocessed the spent fuel to obtain plutonium.
North Korea said yesterday it has taken a key step to build more nuclear bombs, as China resisted efforts by the United States to take a tougher stand with Pyongyang. The Bush administration said yesterday North Korea's announcement that it had removed spent fuel rods from a nuclear reactor in Yongbyon - a move that could lead to producing plutonium for nuclear weapons - only isolates the country further.
North Korea's announcement Friday that it is scrapping all political and security arrangements with the South could be a cover for an ongoing policy struggle inside the secretive state's leadership, a Korea specialist here said. I think [North Korean leader] Kim Jong-il is trying to coordinate different views, but these views are definitely competing," said Choi Jin-wook of Seoul's Korea Institute of National Unification. "And I think one view is the military's.
WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama's decision to impose trade penalties on Chinese tires has infuriated Beijing at a time when the U.S. badly needs Chinese help on climate change, nuclear standoffs with Iran and North Korea and the global economy. China condemned the White House's announcement late Friday as protectionist and said it violated global trade rules. At home, the punitive tariffs on all car and light truck tires coming into the U.S. from China may placate union supporters who are important to the president's health care push.
TOKYO -- North Korea will make an "important announcement" today amid speculation over the health of its leader Kim Jong Il, a Japanese newspaper reported Sunday. The 66-year-old North Korean leader disappeared from public view in mid-August and failed to make appearances on two important national holidays, leading to speculation he was seriously ill. U.S. and South Korean officials said he suffered a stroke and had brain surgery, but North Korea has denied he is ailing.
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