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By , on May 18th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> An aide to Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe returned home from a trip to North Korea on Saturday but declined to shed any light on the reason for his mysterious visit. Isao Iijima, a senior adviser to Abe, was tightlipped when confronted by reporters in Beijing on his way home. “I won’t accept any interview on this issue,” he told reporters, according to Japan’s public broadcaster NHK. Abe said on Saturday that Iijima would report back to chief cabinet secretary Yoshihide Suga, Japan’s top government spokesman, on the visit. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 18th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> North Korea fired three short-range guided missiles into its eastern waters on Saturday, a South Korean official said. It routinely tests such missiles, but the latest launches came during a period of tentative diplomacy aimed at easing tensions. The North fired two missiles on Saturday morning and another in the afternoon, South Korean Defence Ministry spokesman Kim Min-seok said by phone. He said the North’s intent was unclear. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 17th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A human rights activist in Japan has written to 178 US senators and congressmen urging them to impose sanctions on three Chinese companies that were allegedly involved in assisting North Korea obtain weapons systems, in violation of UN sanctions. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 17th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> In the wake of its apparent aversion to virgins – as expressed in its recent article “Never Sleep With a Virgin”, China’s nationalist newspaper, the Global Times, seems enthusiastic about lesbians – at least when former US secretary Hillary Clinton is suspected of being one. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 15th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The organisation that represents North Korean residents of Japan accused the Japanese government of blocking the sale of its headquarters in Tokyo to a priest who wanted to permit the Chongryon group to remain in the building. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 15th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Increasingly tough financial sanctions, an arms embargo and other international restrictions on trade with North Korea have significantly delayed expansion of Pyongyang’s illicit nuclear arms programme, according to a confidential report by a UN panel of experts. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 14th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> There has been no official comment from the Japanese government about the decision by Park Geun-hye, the new South Korean president, to make China her first diplomatic port of call in Asia. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 14th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> South Korean President Park Geun-Hye said Tuesday she wants talks with North Korea on removing raw materials and finished products from a joint industrial complex closed by military tensions. In a cabinet meeting, Park instructed the Unification Ministry to offer Pyongyang discussions on the Kaesong complex, which lies 10 kilometres (six miles) inside the North Korean side of the joint border. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 13th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> North Korea has replaced its hard-line defence chief with a little-known army general a state media report said yesterday. Analysts called Jang Jong-nam’s appointment an attempt to install a younger figure to help solidify Kim Jong-un’s grip on the military. Kim succeeded his late father, Kim Jong-il, in 2011. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 11th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A US naval strike group led by the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz arrived off South Korea on Saturday for drills, following joint exercises that infuriated North Korea. The Nimitz Strike Group includes 64 aircraft as well as cruisers and destroyers, said the group’s commander, Rear Admiral Mike S. White, after the aircraft carrier anchored off the southern port of Busan. “I believe it’s critically important that we maintain our inter-operability with our partners like the Republic of Korea South Korea”, White told journalists. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 10th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The US Treasury yesterday set sanctions on a Taiwan company and its chief executive for their ties to an effort to supply arms-related equipment to North Korea. The Treasury named Trans Multi Mechanics of Taichung, Taiwan, and chief executive Tony Chang Wen-Fu as having sanctions imposed under laws aimed at freezing the assets of those designated “proliferators of weapons of mass destruction” and their supporters. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 10th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A Korean-American tour operator jailed in North Korea had smuggled in anti-Pyongyang materials and sought to establish a base to overthrow the regime, according to the North’s Supreme Court. Detailing for the first time some of the charges against Kenneth Bae, who was sentenced to 15 years hard labour at the end of last month, a court spokesman painted him as a militant Christian evangelist. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
Continue reading North Korea says jailed US citizen preached regime change
By , on May 9th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Japan has lodged a diplomatic protest with China over an article in a state-run publication that challenged Japan’s ownership of Okinawa, home to major US bases, officials said on Thursday. The People’s Daily, the mouthpiece of the ruling Communist Party, on Wednesday published a call for a review of Japan’s sovereignty over Okinawa, suggesting that Beijing may be the rightful owner. The call came as the two countries are already at loggerheads over islands in the East China Sea. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 8th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Basketball hall-of-famer Dennis Rodman, who forged an unlikely friendship with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un on a recent trip, has appealed for the freedom of an American sentenced to 15 years in prison. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 8th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The leaders of the United States and South Korea vowed no concessions to North Korea after months of high tension, saying it is up to Pyongyang to end the crisis over its nuclear programme. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
Continue reading Obama, Park vow no concessions to Pyongyang
By , on May 8th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The United States and South Korea vowed on Tuesday to keep up their guard and not reward bad behaviour by North Korea, which US President Barack Obama said had won no benefits or prestige from recent war threats. “If Pyongyang thought its recent threats would drive a wedge between South Korea and the United States or somehow garner the North international respect, today is further evidence that North Korea has failed again,” Obama said at a joint news conference with South Korean President Park Geun-hye. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 7th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Bank of China has shut the account of North Korea’s main foreign exchange bank, which was hit with US sanctions in March after Washington accused it of helping finance Pyongyang’s nuclear weapons programme. The state-run Foreign Trade Bank had been told its transactions had been halted and its account closed, Bank of China, the country’s biggest foreign exchange bank, said in a brief statement on Tuesday. It gave no reason for the closure and the bank declined to comment further. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 6th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> South Korea on Monday dismissed an “incomprehensible” list of North Korean demands for reviving suspended operations at a jointly-run industrial park. The Kaesong Industrial Complex, opened north of the border in 2004 as a rare symbol of co-operation, has been shut indefinitely with the withdrawal of all North and South Korean workers amid soaring military tensions. On Sunday, the North’s National Defence Commission led by leader Kim Jong-un said re-starting the complex would require the South to cease all “hostile acts and military provocations”. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 5th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> North Korea said on Sunday it had no intention of using an American it sentenced to hard labour for 15 years as a bargaining chip in talks with the United States. North Korea sentenced Kenneth Bae, a Korean American who travelled to visit North Korea last November, on Thursday for what is said were crimes against the state. North Korea has in the past used detained American as bargaining counters in dealings with the United States. But the North’s state news agency dismissed speculation it might do so again. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 5th, 2013 
Foreign Secretary William Hague says the Conservative Party does not need a “drastic change of course” despite last week’s local election results.
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Aide to Japanese PM returns from North Korea
<!– google_ad_section_start –> An aide to Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe returned home from a trip to North Korea on Saturday but declined to shed any light on the reason for his mysterious visit. Isao Iijima, a senior adviser to Abe, was tightlipped when confronted by reporters in Beijing on his way home. “I won’t accept any interview on this issue,” he told reporters, according to Japan’s public broadcaster NHK. Abe said on Saturday that Iijima would report back to chief cabinet secretary Yoshihide Suga, Japan’s top government spokesman, on the visit. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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