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Many S. Koreans Ambivalent About Missiles

For more than 50 years, South Koreans have lived with the knowledge that North Korea could pound their capital with artillery shells and rockets. So the North's missile tests drew muted reactions from many Southerners, despite their vulnerability to attack.

Russia, China Refuse to Sanction N. Korea

Russia and China refused Thursday to back a Japanese resolution that would impose sanctions on North Korea for test-firing missiles.

China, Russia Resist North Korea Sanctions

China and Russia resisted an attempt in the U.N. Security Council to impose sanctions against North Korea for its missile launches Wednesday, saying only diplomacy could halt the isolated regime's nuclear and rocket development programs.

Analysis: N. Korea Impact Being Weighed

Six-party talks: Dead? Tensions around the Sea of Japan: Off the charts. And in Washington: What do we do now?

S. Korean Saved After Jumping Onto Tracks

A visually impaired man who had jumped onto subway tracks in an apparent suicide attempt was rescued just seconds before a train passed, officials said Tuesday.

China Watching N. Korea Missile Situation

Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao urged North Korea on Wednesday to refrain from launching a missile, saying such an act would aggravate regional tensions.

U.S. Calls to Keep Up Pressure on N. Korea

U.S. Ambassador John Bolton expressed concern Friday at North Korea's silence over a possible missile launch and called for sustained international pressure on Pyongyang, especially from China, to stop it.

Pre-Launch Strike on N. Korea Unlikely

The U.S. suggested Thursday it has limited ability to shoot a North Korean missile out of the sky and spurned suggestions of a pre-emptive strike on the ground. Still, it warned the Koreans would pay a cost for a missile launch.

Allies Look for N. Korea Missile Activity

All eyes — and ears — are on North Korea. Military and intelligence agencies of the United States and its allies are spying from land, air, sea and space to learn whether the communist nation is preparing to test fire a long-range missile that may be capable of reaching the western U.S.

U.S. Weighs Shootdown of N. Korea Missile

If North Korea launches a long-range missile, as some U.S. officials say appears likely, then the Pentagon may get a first chance to use its unproven missile defenses against a real target.

South Koreans Thriving on LPGA Tour

Despite winning her first LPGA Tour title at 19, Jee Young Lee rates herself a late bloomer in her native South Korea, which is swamping women's golf with winners.

U.S. Within Range of New N. Korea Missile

North Korea is accelerating preparations for testing a missile that has the potential to strike the United States, a U.S. government official said Friday. A test of the Taepodong-2 long-range missile may be imminent, the official said.

N. Korea Missile Launch Troubles Envoy

South Korea's ambassador said Tuesday there are some indications that North Korea is preparing for a test launch of a long-range ballistic missile.

U.S. Cites Progress in South Korea Talks

U.S. trade officials said significant progress had been made during the first week of negotiations aimed at reaching a free trade agreement with South Korea, but they cautioned that difficult issues remained to be resolved.

U.S. and S. Korea Launch Free Trade Talks

The United States and South Korea held their first round of talks Monday aimed at achieving a free trade agreement between the two nations before the end of the year.

Plan for Nuke Plants in N. Korea Killed

A multinational project to build two nuclear power plants for North Korea in exchange for U.N. inspections of the communist country's atomic sites was formally killed off Wednesday by the United States, Japan, South Korea and European Union.

North Korean Refugees Detail Brutality

The first North Koreans allowed into this country as refugees in a half-century said Tuesday they fled starvation at home only to find brutality and slavery in neighboring China.

APTN Opens Full-Time North Korea Office

AP Television News opened a full-time office in North Korea on Monday, becoming the first Western news organization to provide regular coverage of that nation.

S. Korean Protesters Scuffle Over Bases

Thousands of students and civic activists scuffled with police Sunday as they tried to approach the site of a new U.S. military base to protest expansion plans, but no major clashes occurred.

More North Korean Refugees May Come to U.S.

Six North Koreans granted refugee status in the United States last week could be the first of many more to arrive on American shores, a lawmaker said Wednesday.

Six North Korean Refugees Enter U.S.

Six refugees from North Korea, including four women who say they were victims of sexual slavery or forced marriages, have fled to the United States, a senator said Saturday.

Spotlight Directed at S. Korea Tycoons

The arrest of Hyundai Motor Co.'s chairman in a bribery scandal has refocused attention in South Korea on the role of tycoons and the conglomerates they run as family empires.

Japanese Mother Meets With President Bush

After pleading with U.S. lawmakers that time is running out to save her daughter, the mother of a Japanese girl kidnapped nearly 30 years ago by North Korean agents shared her story Friday with President Bush.

Super Bowl MVP Ward Embraces Heritage

Super Bowl MVP Hines Ward was nervous for the first time in his life as he prepared for a trip to the land of his birth. He also looked forward to learning more about his heritage.

Tentative Deal on Korean Rail Reached

North and South Korean authorities, along with Russian officials, tentatively agreed to form an international consortium to reconstruct a trans-Korean railway link, the Russian national railroad company said Friday.

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Eager English Learners Rip Canadian Limb From Limb

Source: theyangpa.wordpress.com

Yangpa blog. Yangpa means "onion" in English. So, yeah, it's like that other site, but focuses of Korea. Some funny stuff there.

S. Korea Denounces Japan's Suggestion of Strike Against North

Source: bloomberg.com

South Korea's government said suggestions by Japanese officials a pre-emptive strike on North Korea is an option ``endanger peace in northeast Asia.''

How to assess North Korea’s leader

Source: progressive.org

The American media has had a field day over the past decade portraying the North Korean dictator as an unbalanced playboy who cannot be trusted to abide by the conventional norms of statecraft.

Missile Tests Divide Seoul From Tokyo - New York Times

Source: nytimes.com

By NORIMITSU ONISHI SEOUL, South Korea, July 10 — Soon after North Korea started launching missiles before dawn last Wednesday, Japan’s television networks canceled their regular programming to broadcast the news and the government’s quick response. By contrast, except  …

US "has votes" for U.N. resolution against N. Korea

Source: today.reuters.com

From the article: The Bush administration on Sunday said it had the votes in the U.N.

Sanctions unlikely against N. Korea | StarNewsOnline.com | Star-News | Wilmington, NC

Source: wilmingtonstar.com

China and Russia resisted an attempt in the U.N. Security Council to impose sanctions against North Korea for its missile launches Wednesday, saying only diplomacy could halt the isolated regime's nuclear and rocket development programs.

N.Korea issues new threat

Source: today.reuters.com

SEOUL, July 7 (Reuters) - North Korea threatened on Friday to take "stronger physical actions" after Japan imposed sanctions in response to its missile tests this week, while the United States and Japan struggled to set out a unified diplomatic response to the launches.

Getting the Korean crisis right

The era of empire may already be over or at least in rapid decline. With Bush promising not to ‘lecture’ Putin and, in a phone conversation with Chinese President Hu Jintao, restating his commitment to solving the Korean crisis by peacefully.

Transcript of Larry King with President Bush, Laura Bush

Source: cnn.com

LARRY KING, CNN HOST: Good evening. We're in the Blue Room of the White House. This is the first presidential interview ever done in this historic room and we're honored to have the president and first lady with us, President George W. Bush and Laura Bush.

Report: N. Korea targeted Hawaii

Source: starbulletin.com

North Korea targeted waters near Hawaii when it fired a long-range missile this week, according to a Japanese newspaper report that isle military officials immediately downplayed.

NKOREA: Stronger Action Threat

Source: www9.sbs.com.au

"Japan occupied Korea with its military 40 years ago, but settlement for that past has not yet been finished," NHK quoted North Korea's envoy to talks on normalization of diplomatic relations with Japan as saying, lambasting Tokyo's demand for multilateral sanctions as "prepost …

Taiwan to test-fire missle: report

Source: reuters.myway.com

Few Good Choices in North Korean Standoff

Source: New York Times

From the article: The Bush administration has tried to ignore North Korea, then, reluctantly, to engage it, and then to squeeze its bankers in a manner intended to make the country's leader, Kim Jong Il, personally feel the pinch.Yet none of these steps in the past six years has …

Star Wars is online & ready to go.... Light your candles Korea

Source: MSNBC

I remember a time not too long ago when the powers that be tried to stop the Star Wars program & it worked for a few short years. Here we are...it was not stopped. We have lasers & all kinds of other crap to test out...

Missile Launches Condemned

Source: www9.sbs.com.au

North Korea has test-fired up to six missiles, including a long-range Taepodong-2 capable of reaching US soil, sparking furious condemnation from neighbouring Japan and the United States.

Crash delays introduction of South Korea's new F-15K Fighters

Source: english.chosun.com

It is always worrying when a new model of a proven, 35+ year old design well known for its robustness has an accident. The crash of the South Korean jet fighter indeed needs to be carefully checked, even though all initial evidence points to pilot error.

The Item Model at Suttree - Real Artists Ship

Source: suttree.com

How skill gaming can make the most of the Item Model in Virtual Worlds.

A Substitute for Victory

Source: realclearpolitics.com

"When General Douglas MacArthur delivered his farewell address to Congress in April of 1951, after President Truman had fired the general during the Korean War, he gave advice that yet can be of value both to President Bush's Democratic Party war critics, and to President Bush a …

Dutch Pay vs. Korean Pay

Source: times.hankooki.com

From the page: -- Both of them, Korean pay and Dutch pay, have their own characters. While Dutch pay is fair and individualistic, Korean pay is a bit far from fair but helps you make connections with other people. --

Goldman Sachs gets South Korea banking licence

Source: today.reuters.com

Whilst Goldman Sachs has has a presence in South Korea for around 30 years, this license will allow it to move into activities such as a foreign exchange and certain interest rate related services.

Nth Korea Missile: Bush Demands

Source: www9.sbs.com.au

US President George W Bush has urged North Korea to disclose what is inside its long-range missile that it appears to be preparing to launch - and say whether it plans to fire the rocket.

N. Korea has 4-13 Nukes

Source: home.kyodo.co.jp

North Korea has produced enough plutonium for four to 13 nuclear weapons, but may be unable yet to make a warhead small enough for the Taepodong-2 long-range ballistic missile which it is reportedly set to test-fire, the Institute for Science and International Security said Monda …

Saddam's UN links to be aired in court

Source: The Times of London

LINKS between Boutros Boutros Ghali, the former UN Secretary-General, and an alleged agent for Saddam Hussein will come under the spotlight when the first American trial of a major figure in the Oil-for-Food scandal gets under way today.

What drives Kim Jong-Il ?

Source: khaleejtimes.com

North Korea’s “Dear leader”, if anything, defies logic. How can a leader be dear to his people when he leaves them starving, acts on his whims, and wastes the nation’s resources for military build-up and missile expeditions?

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