All posts tagged "politics"

  • Park-and-Abe
    President Park to hold talks with Abe next week

    SEOUL (Yonhap) — President Park Geun-hye will meet with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe next week, Cheong Wa Dae said Wednesday, in the first bilateral summit between leaders of the two neighbors in more than three years....

    • Posted October 28, 2015
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  • Kim Jong-un and his administration deny accusations of human rights violations from the United Nations. (Yonhap/KCNA)
    Pentagon used NGO for espionage missions in N. Korea: report

    WASHINGTON (Yonhap) — The U.S. Defense Department declined comment Monday on a news report that it had secretly funded a nongovernmental aid group to carry out espionage missions in North Korea in the name of humanitarian assistance....

    • Posted October 26, 2015
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  • National security adviser Kim Kwan-jin speaks at a parliamentary audit session on Oct. 23, 2015. (Yonhap)
    S. Korea to push for talks with N. Korea after family reunions: NSC chief

    SEOUL (Yonhap) — South Korea will push for inter-Korean government and red cross talks in the near future after the on-going event of family reunions, Seoul’s security adviser said Friday. “Regarding the South-North agreement, we will go...

    • Posted October 23, 2015
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  • russian
    N. Korea demand for peace treaty worth taking note: Russian envoy

    SEOUL (Yonhap) – Moscow’s top envoy to Seoul said, in clear contrast to the positions of Seoul and Washington, that it is worth taking note of North Korea’s renewed demands for a peace treaty with the United...

    • Posted October 22, 2015
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  • Former U.S. Ambassador Christopher Hill (AP Photo)
    US ‘prepared to pursue peace treaty’ with N. Korea given denuclearization

    By Brian Han After a firm rejection of a North Korean proposal for a peace treaty, a former U.S. ambassador says there may be a willingness to negotiate. That possibility only arises if North Korea is ready...

    • Posted October 22, 2015
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  • Englewood Cliffs Town Council candidate Park Myung-geun speaks to voters during a door-to-door campaign.
    12 NJ Korean Americans vying for general election seats

    By The Korea Times New York staff Twelve Korean Americans are vying for seats in the upcoming New Jersey general assembly election on Nov. 3. Of them, three are Republicans running in predominantly Democratic regions. They have...

    • Posted October 20, 2015
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  • 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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