All posts tagged "China"

  • (AP)
    UN diplomats: US and China agree on new N. Korea sanctions

    UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United States and China have reached agreement on a U.N. resolution that would impose tougher sanctions on North Korea as punishment for its latest nuclear test and rocket launch, U.N. diplomats said...

    • Posted February 24, 2016
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  • (Newsis)
    Chinese firm ordered to halt coal trade with N. Korea: state media

    BEIJING (Yonhap) — A Chinese company in the northeastern border city of Dandong has been ordered by China’s commerce ministry to halt its coal trade with North Korea starting next month, according to a state-run Chinese newspaper...

    • Posted February 24, 2016
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  • Secretary of State John Kerry, right, shakes hands with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, left, at the State Department in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2016. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
    US, China make important progress in UN sanctions on N. Korea

    By Chang Jae-soon WASHINGTON (Yonhap) — The United States and China have made important progress in negotiations to adopt a U.N. Security Council resolution imposing sanctions on North Korea for its nuclear and missile tests, the countries’...

    • Posted February 23, 2016
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  • Barack Obama, Xi Jinping...US President Barack Obama, right, and Chinese President Xi Jinping, left, both adjust their suit coats during the start of their bilateral meeting at the US Ambassador's Residence in Amsterdam, Netherlands, Monday, March 24, 2014. Obama is in the Netherlands for the Nuclear Security Summit in The Hague, which will form the backdrop for an emergency meeting of Group of Seven leaders on Russia's annexation of Crimea. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
    US rejects Chinese offer of peace treaty talks with N. Korea

    WASHINGTON (Yonhap) — The United States said Thursday that denuclearization remains its top priority when it comes to North Korea, rejecting a Chinese proposal to begin peace treaty negotiations with Pyongyang in tandem with denuclearization talks. Chinese...

    • Posted February 18, 2016
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  • Trump, Kim Jong-un
    [NY Post] Trump’s solution for North Korea’s nuclear threat

     – Donald Trump has a solution for North Korea’s nuclear threat — he said he’d have China make the country’s leader “disappear.” “I would get China to make that guy disappear in one form...

    • Posted February 10, 2016
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  • North Korean workers planting seedlings on a field in Jaeryong, South Hwanghae Province, on Jan. 24, 2015. (KCNA/Yonhap)
    N. Korean workers in China rise sharply under Kim Jong-un: study

    SEOUL (Yonhap) — The number of North Korean workers earning foreign currency in China has grown sharply under the Kim Jong-un regime, a South Korean study showed Wednesday. According to the Korea Development Institute, the number of...

    • Posted February 10, 2016
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  • (AP)
    China confirms 1st Zika virus case

    BEIJING (Yonhap) — China has confirmed its first case of the imported Zika virus, according to the country’s health authorities Wednesday, amid fears over the fast-spreading virus that is blamed for births of brain-damaged babies. A 34-year-old...

    • Posted February 9, 2016
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