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US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Thursday that a top US-North Korean meeting in Pyongyang was "quite positive" even though it produced no date for resuming nuclear disarmament talks.
When President Obama called for a world free of nuclear weapons in Prague, Czech Republic, this spring, many dismissed this part of his speech as idealistic rhetoric.
Good morning. Thank you for gathering at this early hour. Let me extend my special thanks to Ambassador Jorge Urbina of Costa Rica for organizing this event.
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.
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.
Seoul (AFP) Dec 8, 2009 - 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.
Washington (AFP) Dec 7, 2009 - Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan criticized the West Monday for being too quick to censure Iran's nuclear program but told President Barack Obama that Ankara was prepared to mediate with Tehran.
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.
Washington - US President Barack Obama will have to put on his best balancing act when he arrives Thursday in Oslo to accept the Nobel Peace Prize, a week after ordering a major escalation of the fight in Afghanistan. Receiving one of the world's mos...
EAST BRADFORD — U.S. Senate candidate Pat Toomey predicted in an interview Monday he will carry Chester County in the 2010 election.
The more I listened to Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal yesterday, the more convinced I am that the United States is concentrating on the wrong war.
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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TOKYO , Dec. 8 /PRNewswire/ -- Buddhist, Christian, Jewish and Muslim representatives joined voices during the Parliament of the World's Religions in Melbourne, Australia , on December 7 , calling for moral leadership by the world's religions in the effort to abolish nuclear weapons. Â Dr. Sue Wareham , former president of the Medical Association for Prevention of War ( Australia ) and board ...
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
Washington (AFP) Dec 7, 2009 - Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan criticized Monday the UN nuclear watchdog's censure of Iran as "very rushed," and insisted Tehran's nuclear program should be dealt with only through diplomacy.
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