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AFP via Yahoo! News - Tue Dec 8, 2:02 am ET
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.
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The World - Wed Dec 9, 6:41 am ET
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — President Barack Obama’s envoy began a rare trip to North Korea today 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.
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AP via Yahoo! News - Mon Dec 7, 8:06 pm ET
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.
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AFP via Yahoo! News - Tue Dec 8, 1:35 am ET
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.
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AFP via Yahoo! News - Tue Dec 8, 12:02 pm ET
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.
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AFP via Yahoo! News - Tue Dec 8, 4:54 am ET
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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Fox News - Tue Dec 8, 8:54 pm ET
North Korea acknowledged for the first time Wednesday that swine flu has hit the nation, a day after South Korea's president offered to help the impoverished neighbor fight the virus reported to have already killed dozens.
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CBS News - Wed Dec 9, 7:41 am ET
Government Confirms 9 Infected with No Deaths, External Sources Say Dozens Dead Already
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Fox News - Tue Dec 8, 2:19 pm ET
Envoy Stephen Bosworth's mission is to find out whether North Korea will return to the stalled international talks on ending its nuclear programs after carrying out an atomic test blast in May and quitting the six-nation negotiations.
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EARTHtimes.org - Tue Dec 8, 9:17 am ET
Seoul - North Korean leader Kim Jong Il has a secret network of escape tunnels underneath Pyongyang for times of emergency, a former senior North Korean official said. Hwang Jang Yop, a former secretary of the North's Workers' Party, told a South Kor...
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AP via Yahoo! News - Tue Dec 8, 1:32 pm ET
Australia was accused of censorship Tuesday for denying visas to North Korean artists whose works are on display in a regional exhibition, but the government says the art comes from Pyongyang's propaganda machine and its creators are not welcome.
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Bloomberg - Mon Dec 7, 8:29 pm ET
Dec. 8 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. envoy Stephen Bosworth , due in Pyongyang today for the Obama administration’s highest-level official contact with North Korea, won’t offer the regime new incentives to return to nuclear talks, an administration official said in Washington.
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Time Magazine - Tue Dec 8, 7:24 am ET
To jump-start stalled talks over the North's nuclear weapons, Washington sends a special envoy to Pyongyang. But the Obama Administration is not expecting a breakthrough
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Fox News - Tue Dec 8, 12:07 pm ET
December 7: U.S. special envoy to North Korea Stephen Bosworth and South Korea's nuclear envoy Wi Sung-lac pose before their meeting at the Foreign Ministry in Seoul.
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Foreign Policy Blogs - Tue Dec 8, 12:45 pm ET
Time Magazine is reporting that today U.S. special envoy Stephen Bosworth is headed to Pyongyang, North Korea to begin a day and a half of talks regarding a return to the “six-party talks” format that prevailed under the Bush Administration. According to the article, “North Korea’s dictator Kim Jong Il has previously declared the six-party talks [...]