Clinton Warns North Korea, Names Special Envoy

Special envoy for North Korea named

By Rob Quinn, Newser Staff

Posted Feb 20, 2009 6:21 AM CST

(Newser) – Hillary Clinton warned an increasingly belligerent North Korea to cease its "provocative and unhelpful" threats toward the South today, the AP reports. In a Seoul press conference, the secretary of state named former US ambassador to South Korea Stephen Bosworth as special envoy for... Read full story »

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