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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 13th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> South Korean President Park Geun-hye personally apologised on Monday for an “unsavoury” incident during her US summit visit that led to the dismissal of her chief spokesman. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 9th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> An 83-year-old nun and two fellow protesters were convicted of interfering with national security when they broke into the primary storehouse for bomb-grade uranium in the US It took the jury about 2 1/2 hours to find the three protesters guilty on Wednesday on a charge of interfering with national security and a second charge of damaging federal property. <!– 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 –>
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By , on May 8th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> China on Wednesday accused the United States of sowing discord between China and its neighbours after the Pentagon said Beijing was using espionage to fuel its military modernisation, branding Washington the “real hacking empire”. The latest salvo came a day after China’s foreign ministry dismissed as groundless a Pentagon report which accused China for the first time of trying to break into US defence computer networks. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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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 –>
Continue reading North Korea has gained nothing from recent threats, says Obama
By By KEITH BRADSHER, on May 7th, 2013 The decision seemed to be the strongest public Chinese response yet to North Korea’s willingness to brush aside warnings from Beijing and push ahead with its nuclear missile programs.
Continue reading China Cuts Ties With North Korean Bank
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 –>
Continue reading Bank of China closes account of key North Korean bank
By By DAVID E. SANGER and CHOE SANG-HUN, on May 7th, 2013 At a time when the United States has learned to target drone strikes with increasing accuracy and direct cyberweapons at specific nuclear centrifuges, its understanding of North Korea has gotten worse.
Continue reading News Analysis: U.S. Intelligence on North Korea Proves Elusive
By , on May 6th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Chinese President Xi Jinping met with Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas in Beijing on Monday, with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu due to follow him later this week. Abbas’s three-day trip – the first by a Middle Eastern leader since Xi took office in March – ends on Tuesday, overlapping with a five-day visit to China by Netanyahu that begins in Shanghai on Monday and ends in the capital. Chinese state-run media have called Abbas’ trip a state visit, while officials describe Netanyahu’s as an “official visit”. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
Continue reading Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas meets China’s Xi Jinping, ahead of Netanyahu visit
By , on May 1st, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> China has stepped up checks on shipments to and from North Korea almost two months after agreeing to new UN sanctions that demand greater scrutiny of trade, but the flow of goods in and out of the reclusive state appears largely unaffected. The sanctions were imposed after North Korea’s third nuclear test on February 12. China has said it wants the measures enforced, but few analysts believe Beijing will take steps that hurt North Korea as it is committed to a policy of engagement. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
Continue reading China steps up customs checks, but North Korea trade robust
By , on April 23rd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> US Defence Secretary Chuck Hagel was meeting Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday at the end of a three-day trip which saw him touting strong backing for Israel despite differences over Iran’s nuclear project. With US-Israeli relations strained over questions about the imminence of the threat posed by Iran’s nuclear programme and Hagel dogged by his past criticisms of Israel, the Pentagon chief has stressed his full-throated support for the Jewish state in his first visit as defence secretary. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
Continue reading Hagel and Netanyahu discuss Iran nuclear threat
By By JANE PERLEZ, on April 22nd, 2013 A Chinese general said he pledged to work with America on cybersecurity because the consequences of a major attack might be “as serious as a nuclear bomb.”
Continue reading U.S. and China Hold Military Talks, With Cybersecurity a Focus
By , on April 21st, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> An unidentified South Korean military source told the South’s Yonhap news agency that satellite imagery showed that North Korean forces had moved two mobile missile launchers for short-range Scud missiles to South Hamgyeong province. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
Continue reading North Korea moves two more missile launchers to east coast
By By DAVID E. SANGER, on April 18th, 2013 A panel of former senior American officials and outside experts asked President Obama to reconsider the likelihood that harsh sanctions will drive Tehran to concessions.
Continue reading Report on Iran Urges Obama to Rethink Sanctions
By , on April 15th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> North Korea celebrated the 101st anniversary of its founder’s birth on Monday with no signs of tension easing on the peninsula after it rejected talks with South Korea aimed at normalising ties and re-opening a joint industrial park. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
Continue reading Defiant North Korea celebrates Kim Il-sung anniversary
By By MICHAEL R. GORDON, on April 14th, 2013 The secretary of state said that the United States was prepared to reach out if North Korea made the first move to abandon its nuclear weapons program.
Continue reading Kerry Says Any Talks Rely on Steps by North Korea
By , on April 13th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Conflicting accounts from United States intelligence about the status of North Korea’s nuclear weapons programme underscore just how hard it is for US spy agencies to penetrate the inscrutable regime in Pyongyang, officials and experts say. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
Continue reading US spies clueless on North Korean nuclear capability and strategy
By , on April 13th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The current situation on the Korean peninsula is at a “critical time”, US Secretary of State John Kerry told Chinese President Xi Jinping on Saturday. “Mr President, this is obviously a critical time with some very challenging issues,” Kerry told Xi in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. “Issues on the Korean peninsula, the challenge of Iran and nuclear weapons, Syria and the Middle East, and economies around the world that are in need of a boost.” <!– google_ad_section_end –>
Continue reading Kerry tells Xi Korea situation is at ‘critical time’
By , on April 13th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The world is facing a “critical time”, top US diplomat John Kerry told China’s President Xi Jinping on Saturday, citing tensions on the Korean peninsula, Iran’s nuclear programme and the conflict in Syria. “Mr President, this is obviously a critical time with some very challenging issues,” Kerry told Xi in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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Financial sanctions delay North Korea’s atom bomb work, says UN
<!– 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 –>
Continue reading Financial sanctions delay North Korea’s atom bomb work, says UN
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