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The North Korean leader, Kim Jong Il, has a network of 1,000 foot deep emergency escape tunnels connecting Pyongyang with key sites around the country, a top-level defector claims, the Times of London reported.
The top U.S. envoy for North Korea, Stephen Bosworth, has arrived in Pyongyang for meetings aimed at determining whether North Korea will return to six-party talks on its nuclear program.
A US envoy is set Wednesday to pursue efforts to bring North Korea back to stalled six-nation nuclear disarmament negotiations, but experts said Pyongyang has a different agenda for the rare top-level visit.
SEOUL -- President Obama's special envoy to North Korea traveled Tuesday to Pyongyang to find out whether the North Koreans, after a long bout of provocative behavior, are willing to return to international talks aimed at dismantling their nuclear weapons.
A look at high-profile U.S. visits to North Korea since 2000: -- October 2000: U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright visits Pyongyang, meets with North Korean leader Kim Jong Il.
President Obama's envoy began a rare trip to North Korea on Tuesday for the highest-level talks with the communist nation in more than a year as a senior U.S. official warned of strong sanctions against Pyongyang unless it rejoins international nuclear talks.
US envoy Stephen Bosworth arrived in North Korea Tuesday for high-level talks to try to persuade it to return to six-party talks.
President Barack Obama's first envoy to North Korea arrived in Pyongyang on Tuesday to try to coax the prickly state back to the nuclear talks it quit a year ago, but without offering it any new incentives.
U.S. President Barack Obama's first envoy to North Korea flew to Pyongyang on Tuesday to try to coax the prickly state back to the nuclear talks it quit a year ago, but without offering it any new incentives.
SEOUL -- After a year of tensions, President Obama is sending a veteran diplomat to North Korea on Tuesday for the highest-profile talks between Pyongyang and Washington since he took office pledging to reach out to America's adversaries.
The top U.S. envoy for North Korea was headed for Pyongyang on Tuesday for the highest-level talks between the two countries since President Barack Obama took office.
US envoy Stephen Bosworth arrived Tuesday in North Korea for the first high-level talks between the Obama administration and Pyongyang, official broadcast media said.
After a year of tensions, President Barack Obama is sending a veteran diplomat to North Korea on Tuesday for the highest-profile talks between Pyongyang and Washington since he took office pledging to reach out to America's adversaries.
North Korea's capital has a network of secret tunnels stretching for dozens of kilometres to be used by leader Kim Jong-Il and top officials as escape routes in case of emergency, a top defector said.
Mobile phone subscriptions are spreading fast and due to reach 120,000 early next year in communist North Korea, where an Egyptian provider started a service a year ago, a press report said Tuesday.
A US envoy arrived in North Korea Tuesday to try to coax it back to nuclear disarmament negotiations, in what will be the first high-level dialogue between the Obama administration and the communist state.
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