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Seeing the captured USS Pueblo, monuments to father and son rulers, and scrubbing workers. Visiting North Korea is like peering in the window of a store that closed long ago but where old merchandise mysteriously remains. I walk through the aisles feeling privileged, fascinated and curious, a little nervous, but not scared.
If you go About 300 U.S. tourists travel to North Korea annually between Aug. 1 and Oct. 31, the period coinciding with the Arirang Festival (commonly called "mass games") in the capital city of Pyongyang. This is the only time American tourists are allowed, according to Walter Keats, president of Asia-Pacific Travel in Kenilworth, Ill. Truly independent travel is not permitted; visitors are ...
North Korea briefly activated radar for its surface-to-ship missiles Sunday, forcing South Korean naval vessels to move away from a disputed western sea border where the two countries' navies clashed last week, news reports said.
France's special envoy to North Korea, Jack Lang, said Friday following a five-day visit to the reclusive state that Pyongyang had agreed to an "exchange" with Paris on human rights issues.
SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea threatened on Friday to take “merciless military measures” along a disputed maritime border with South Korea, escalating tensions as President Barack Obama began a weeklong trip to Asia.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Nuclear impasses with Iran and North Korea are the dominant issues for Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on her trip to Europe and Asia, which begins with a stopover in Germany to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the Berlin Wall’s fall.
President Obama pressed on with his mission to repair America's global standing, telling Asians he was determined to engage them as equal partners in the economy, diplomacy and security. Moving into the substance of his eight-day journey through Asia, Obama was quick to spurn North Korea's nuclear belligerence, warning Pyongyang that the U.S. and its Asian partners would "not be cowed" by the ...
A North Korean cargo ship entered South Korean waters Saturday a sign that trade has been unaffected by a recent deadly naval clash off their western coasts, an official said.
The United States on Friday urged North Korea to abandon its "bellicose rhetoric" in the wake of a naval clash with South Korea just days before President Barack Obama's ongoing trip to Asia.
President Barack Obama says the U.S. and the world will not "be cowed" by North Korea's threats and nuclear belligerence.
President Obama arrives in South Korea next week (November 18-19) as he wraps up his tour of Asia. Opening markets and dealing with North Korea's nuclear weapons are high on the agenda.
South Korea kept its military on high alert Saturday after North Korea vowed to take "merciless" action following a naval clash four days earlier.
North Korea threatened to punish South Korea following their brief-but-bloody naval firefight, though analysts said Thursday that chances of retaliation appeared slim ahead of planned talks between the U.S. and Pyongyang.
President Obama is in Shanghai Sunday on his first visit to China. The formal agenda includes trade relations, security issues, human rights and climate change. He's hoping to win China's help in efforts to stop nuclear programs in North Korea and Iran. The huge trade imbalance between the two countries is also likely to be a topic. Host Liane Hansen talks with NPR's Louisa Lim.
North Korea warned it will aggressively defend itself in disputed waters where a bloody naval clash with rival South Korea...
In his visit to Beijing this week, President Barack Obama is expected to tread lightly when pressing China to let its currency rise against the dollar.
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