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President Barack Obama's envoy to North Korea said his trip to Pyongyang yielded a common understanding on the need to restart nuclear disarmament talks — but no clear time frame on when the regime might return to the negotiations.
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.
Moscow (AFP) Dec 7, 2009 - Top Russian and US officials held talks in Moscow Monday dealing with the expired START nuclear weapons treaty, and a new deal could be reached by December 18, according to a Russian newspaper.
Washington (AFP) Dec 7, 2009 - Secretary of State Hillary Clinton voiced hope Monday that US envoys will persuade North Korea to resume nuclear disarmament talks and patch up relations with its five negotiating partners.
Seoul (AFP) Dec 7, 2009 - A US envoy Monday stressed unity with South Korea, on the eve of talks in Pyongyang aimed at bringing North Korea back to nuclear disarmament negotiations.
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