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Saturday, November 21, 2009 11:07 AM

Pyongyang

Type: City

Name: Pyongyang

Country: North Korea

Latitude: 39.02

Longitude: 125.75

population: 2,787,902

First Reported 16 hours ago - Updated 4 hours ago - 5 Documents (in Politics)

US experts to visit Pyongyang

SEOUL - A GROUP of US experts on Korean affairs will visit Pyongyang Saturday for talks with policy makers regarding North Korea's nuclear weapons programme, a news report said.The trip comes as Stephen Bosworth, US special representative for North Korean ... [Straits Times - 4 hours ago]

Entities: Pyongyang, North Korea, Jack Pritchard, United States Government

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 29 Documents

Barack Obama

Nuke talks: Obama says will send envoy to N.Korea

Having arrived from Chinese capital Beijing, US President Barack Obama said here on Thursday that he will send a special envoy to North Korea next month to continue talks on ending Pyongyang's nuclear ambitions in exchange for massive aid.Speaking at ... [Sify - 11/19/2009]

Entities: North Korea, Barack Obama, Seoul, Beijing

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/20/2009 - 15 Documents (in Politics)

Bosworth to Visit N. Korea for 2 Days

By Kim Sue-youngStaff ReporterThe U.S. envoy on North Korea will likely spend two days in the isolated state and be accompanied by about four to five senior officials, according to reports Friday.A day earlier, U.S. President Barack Obama said special ... [Korea Times - 11/20/2009]

Entities: North Korea, Stephen Bosworth, Pyongyang

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/20/2009 - 14 Documents (in Conflicts & Crime)

North Korea prodded back to nuclear talks

SEOUL -- U.S. President Barack Obama's trip to may increase pressure on North Korea to return to stalled nuclear talks, but it is a long way from ensuring that Pyongyang will take permanent disarmament steps. Obama and South Korean President Lee Myung-Bak ... [China Post - 11/20/2009]

Entities: North Korea, Pyongyang, Disarmament, Seoul

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/20/2009 - 4 Documents

North Korean paper criticizes South, US "frantic moves" for war

Pyongyang, November 19 (KCNA) - The DPRK has made sincere efforts to defuse the tension on the Korean Peninsula and improve the inter-Korean relations.However, the bellicose forces of the United States and South Korea are going ahead with frantic moves ... [Individual.com - 11/20/2009]

Entities: North Korea, Korean Peninsula, Pyongyang, Escalation, South Korea

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/20/2009 - 4 Documents

N. Korea among topics of discussion as Obama wraps up Asia tour

Ending a sometimes bumpy week-long tour of East Asia, Obama said the welcoming ceremony in Seoul -- a glorious, sun-drenched mingling of music, flags and traditional garb -- was the 'most spectacular' he has seen in his travels.In his talks with South ... [Washington Post - 11/20/2009]

Entities: North Korea, Obama (Japan), David Axelrod, Disarmament

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 2 Documents

Morning Brief: Obama's stern words for Pyongyang in Seoul

Obama's stern words for Pyongyang in SeoulTop Story: U.S. President Barack Obama's much-watched three-day trip to China ended with more of a whisper than a bang. Obama and Chinese President Hu Jintao reportedly discussed a number of sensitive issues, ... [Foreign Policy Magazine - 11/19/2009]

Entities: Pyongyang, Seoul, United States, Barack Obama, North Korea

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/20/2009 - 2 Documents

(4th LD) Lee, Obama vow efforts to denuclearize N. Korea, ratify FTA

South Korean President Lee Myung-bak and U.S. President Barack Obama urged North Korea Thursday to immediately return to nuclear negotiations, vowing joint efforts to fully denuclearize the communist nation under a package deal.In a joint press conference ... [Individual.com - 11/20/2009]

Entities: North Korea, Barack Obama, Stephen Bosworth, Lee Myung-bak

First Reported 15 hours ago - Updated 15 hours ago - 2 Documents

LEE, OBAMA VOW JOINT EFFORTS TO DENUCLEARIZE N. KOREA

South Korean President Lee Myung-bak and U.S. President Barack Obama urged North Korea Thursday to immediately return to nuclear negotiations, vowing to take joint efforts to completely denuclearize the communist nation under a packaged deal.Following ... [Individual.com - 15 hours ago]

Entities: North Korea, Barack Obama, Stephen Bosworth, Lee Myung-bak, Pyongyang

First Reported 11/20/2009 - Updated 11/20/2009 - 2 Documents (in Politics)

[EDITORIAL] N.K. human rights

The international community, once again, has condemned the deplorable state of human rights abuses in North Korea.The U.N. General Assembly's human rights committee adopted a resolution condemning North Korea for its "systemic, widespread, and grave violations" ... [Korea Herald - 11/20/2009]

Entities: North Korea, Human Rights, Human Rights Council, UN General Assembly, Pyongyang

First Reported 19 hours ago - Updated 18 hours ago - 2 Documents

Give North Korea a break | John Delury

Give North Korea a break Denuclearisation will only come when bridges have been built with Pyongyang and it feels firmly set on a new economic courseNegotiations over the denuclearisation of the Korean peninsula look set to resume. Sadly, they are unlikely ... [Guardian.co.uk - 18 hours ago]

Entities: North Korea, Pyongyang, Asia Society, China, Korean Peninsula

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/20/2009 - 2 Documents

DM's DPRK trip may aid nuke talks

China and the United States announced Thursday they will send senior officials to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) as nations try to get the DPRK back to negotiations over its nuclear programs.Defense Minister Liang Guanglie will visit ... [CHINAdaily - 11/20/2009]

Entities: North Korea, Pyongyang, Stephen Bosworth, China, Korean Peninsula

Quotes

...'Their trip to North Korea is being made after consultations with the US government,' the source told agency. "They are likely to meet with key North Korean officials concerned with the US and the country's nuclear weapons programme" the source said, adding they will brief the US government on the result

US experts to visit Pyongyang before envoy [The News International - 4 hours ago]

Among Pyongyang's violations, the resolution said, are torture, inhuman conditions of detention, public executions, collective punishment and "the existence of a large number of prison camps and the extensive use of forced labour"

UN committee condemns Myanmar, N Korea over rights [Brunei Times - 5 hours ago]

A diplomatic source in Washington said, "The schedule for the North Korea visit focuses on conveying a strong message from the Obama administration that Pyongyang must first to return to the six-party talks, rather than holding new negotiations to hint at the possibility of giving the North something. "Washington seems to have judged that Bosworth has no specific reason to stay in North Korea for a longer period." Diplomats in Washington, however, say chances are high that North Korea will insist on taking part in multilateral talks in phases, including three and four-way talks, before immediately returning to the six-party dialogue. Washington, however, is determined not to hold bilateral talks with Pyongyang for long without results. Considering this, both sides could hold another round of talks."

US Envoy Bosworth to Visit N. Korea for Just 2 Days [Donga.com - 10 hours ago]

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Blogs

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The Financial Times Has Nine Times the Quality ... [J. Bradford DeLong's Grasping Reality with All ... - 12 hours ago] So says John Judis. He does, however, tell one thing that I think is a lie: that the New York Times and the Washington Post "have their strengths in foreign news." ...
John Feffer: Obama's Asia Trip: Post-Mortem [The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed - 12 hours ago] Critics of the Obama administration were delighted at the images from the president's recent trip to Asia. There was the deep bow before the emperor Akihito. ...
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N.Korea nuke talks top Obama agenda in Seoul [Ashin Mettacara - 11/19/2009] Obama and Lee pass by the South Korean Honor Guard on their way to the presidential office in Seoul. Obama later calls the ceremony "the most spectacular ceremony ...
Talk is Cheap With North Korea, But Trade ... [TAPPED - 11/19/2009] Today, Obama leaves Asia having made no headway on the issue of North Korean denuclearization. In Japan, China, and South Korea, the president reaffirmed each country's ...

Audio/Video

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Seoul seeks talks with Pyongyang [Reuters Video: Top News - 08/15/2009]
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