All posts tagged "North Korea"

  • Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, right, listens to Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn., center, speak to reporters. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
    Key Republican calls US policy on N. Korea ‘abject failure’

    WASHINGTON (AP) — The chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee says U.S. policy on North Korea for the past several decades has been an “abject failure.” Republican Sen. Bob Corker told a hearing Tuesday that North...

    • Posted October 20, 2015
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  • South Korean Min Ho-shik, 84, center, hugs his North Korean family member Min Un Sik, right, during the Separated Family Reunion Meeting at Diamond Mountain resort in North Korea, Tuesday, Oct. 20, 2015. Hundreds of elderly Koreans from divided North and South began three days of reunions Tuesday with loved ones many have had no contact with since the war between the countries more than 60 years ago. At left is an unidentified family member of North Korean Min.(Kim Do-hoon/Yonhap via AP)
    South, North Korean families begin three days of teary reunions

    SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Hundreds of mostly elderly Koreans – some in wheelchairs or leaning on walking sticks, most overcome by tears, laughter and shock – began three days of reunions Tuesday with loved ones many...

    • Posted October 20, 2015
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    Hundreds of S. Koreans leave for NK for family reunions

    SOKCHO, South Korea (Yonhap) — Hundreds of South Korean family members left for North Korea Tuesday for their first reunions with North Korean relatives they have not seen for more than 60 years due to prolonged inter-Korean...

    • Posted October 19, 2015
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  • In this Oct. 15, 2015 photo, South Korean Kim Wu-jong, 87, who will travel to North Korea to meet his younger sister, looks at a document from the Red Cross during the interview at his home in Seoul, South Korea. Kim and about 640 other South Koreans will meet their North Korean relatives at the authoritarian country’s scenic Diamond Mountain resort in a reunion program that begins Tuesday, Oct. 20. Tens of thousands of people on both sides of the Demilitarized Zone desperately seek such reunions, but the two countries have pulled off relatively few of them. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)
    Q&A: Koreas to resume emotional reunions of divided families

    SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Kim Wu-jong is partially paralyzed, poor and lives alone in a small, run-down home in Seoul. But the 87-year-old feels like the luckiest man in South Korea: This week he will travel...

    • Posted October 19, 2015
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  • President Barack Obama and South Korean President Park Geun-hye shakes hands following their joint news conference in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Friday, Oct. 16, 2015. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
    N. Korea denounces Park-Obama deal, ‘will never abandon nuclear arsenal’

    SEOUL (Yonhap) — North Korea criticized President Park Geun-hye Monday for her latest summit deal with U.S. President Barack Obama, saying she played a “shameful farce” against Pyongyang. The Rodong Sinmun, a newspaper serving as the North’s...

    • Posted October 19, 2015
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  • President Barack Obama answers a question during a joint news conference with South Korean President Park Geun-hye in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Friday, Oct. 16, 2015. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
    Obama blacklists N. Korea for human trafficking

    WASHINGTON (Yonhap) — U.S. President Barack Obama has included North Korea again on a blacklist of countries accused of human trafficking, extending a symbolic ban on provisions of U.S. funding for the communist nation for another year....

    • Posted October 19, 2015
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  • President Park Geun-hye sent a message to the forum that now is the time to extensively make "practical" efforts to improve the North's dire human rights situation. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
    S. Korea expects China’s ‘constructive role’ on N. Korea: ministry

    SEOUL (Yonhap) — South Korea will redouble efforts to prod China into playing a “constructive role” in resolving the North Korean nuclear issue, capitalizing on the outcome of the summit talks between President Park Geun-hye and her...

    • Posted October 19, 2015
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