North Korea is escalating tension on the peninsula to record levels by completing a second nuclear test earlier this week, following its first one ...

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N. Korea Declares Gaeseong Contracts Null

2009-05-21

The Gaeseong industrial park project is, once again, at a critical juncture, as North Korea unilaterally announced on May 15 that it had terminated ...

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N. Korea’s Renewed Nuclear Threat

2009-05-07

North Korea has been raising tension on the Korean Peninsula through a series of hard-line comments. In a Foreign Ministry statement on April 29, ...

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Obama and North Korea: First 100 Days

2009-04-30

U.S. President Barack Obama marked 100 days in office on April 29. During his inauguration speech last January, President Obama pledged to present ...

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N. Korea Takes a Series of Saber-Rattling Measures

2009-04-23

North Korea is apparently reactivating its nuclear facilities, raising concerns about the possibility of a repeat of the 2002 nuclear crisis. ...

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Kim Jong-il’s Third Term Begins

2009-04-16

North Korea’s Supreme People’s Assembly convened its first session on April 9 and reappointed Kim Jong-il as chairman of the National Defense Commission, ...

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Shift in Diplomatic Landscape following N. Korea’s Rocket Launch

2009-04-09

North Korea launched its Eunha-2 rocket from the Musudan-ri launch pad on the North’s northeastern coast at 11:30 a.m. on April 5. The first booster ...

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N. Korea’s Imminent Rocket Launch

2009-04-02

With North Korea’s planned rocked launch approaching, neighboring countries are busy devising countermeasures. On “Fox News Sunday” on March ...

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