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The highest-level talks between the United States and North Korea since President Barack Obama took office unfolded Wednesday in Pyongyang, with a virtual lock-down on information.
Washington hopes to coax nuclear-armed North Korea back into six-party disarmament negotiations, but the government in Pyongyang wants one-on-one talks with the U.S. U.S. special envoy Stephen Bosworth arrived in Pyongyang, the North Korean capital, on Tuesday for three days of high-level meetings that officials hope will draw an isolationist and nuclear-armed nation back to stalled six-party ...
In wintry Pyongyang this week, the challenge for President Barack Obama's first envoy to North Korea is how to convince its obsessively secretive leader that he would be mad not to talk with the outside world about disarming.
The United States assured North Korea of "a robust channel" for direct talks if it rejoins six-nation nuclear negotiations, as a senior U.S. envoy was in Pyongyang on Wednesday to try to salvage the stalled international talks.
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.
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 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.
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.
Private markets on which North Koreans rely heavily for necessities have been paralysed since the communist state's shock currency revaluation last week, a report said Wednesday.
North Korea is expected to suffer a serious grain shortage this year, well short of what it needs, a U.N. official who recently returned from the impoverished state said on Wednesday.
US envoy Stephen Bosworth arrived in North Korea Tuesday for high-level talks to try to persuade it to return to six-party talks.
SEOUL, South Korea -- President Obama's special representative to North Korea arrived in Pyongyang, the North's capital, on Tuesday, the highest-level American official visit in more than a year. The rare trip is part of an effort to halt the North's reactivated nuclear weapons program and persuade the North Koreans to return to nuclear disarmament talks.
A look at North Korea's nuclear program:
Dec. 9 (Bloomberg) -- The North Korean won has plummeted 96 percent against the dollar after the government revalued the currency last week, according to reports by Yonhap News Agency and a South Korean aid group.
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