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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 2009
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state sponsors of terror list stories: 6 news summaries

(Newser) - North Korea’s sentencing of two US journalists to hard labor further complicates relations between the nations, the Christian Science Monitor reports. The White House seeks tougher UN sanctions against North Korea after it tested a nuclear bomb last month, and experts say the sentences’ timing is no coincidence. “... More »

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Hillary Clinton • North Korea • Al Gore • nuclear weapons • journalist • negotiations • UN sanctions • state sponsors of terror list • Euna Lee • Laura Ling

 US May Yank 
 N. Korea Off 
 Terror List 

Strategy to restart nuclear diplomacy

Oct 10, 08 5:49 AM CDT
(Newser) - The US is expected to provisionally remove North Korea from the State Department's list of state sponsors of terrorism, possibly as early as today, reports the Washington Post. It may be the Bush administration's last "carrot" to offer as diplomatic efforts to persuade North Korea to abandon its... More »

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North Korea • State Department • nuclear weapons • Pyongyang • uranium enrichment • Kim Jong Il • plutonium • state sponsors of terror list • Christopher R. Hill

OPINION

Bush's North Korea Deal Is 'Total Intellectual Collapse'

Bolton: US caved to Kim in act of 'theater'

Jun 30, 08 12:36 PM CDT
(Newser) - The latest US deal with North Korea—taking the North off its state terror list in exchange for a nuclear declaration—is a travesty and intellectual capitulation in pursuit of burnishing President Bush's legacy, former UN ambassador John Bolton writes in a predictably scathing piece in the Wall Street Journal.... More »

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North Korea • John Bolton • nuclear facilities • George W. Bush • state sponsors of terror list

 N. Korea Blows Up
 Nuclear Tower 

Move both symbolic and practical, since tower would take year to rebuild

Jun 27, 08 6:52 AM CDT
(Newser) - North Korea demolished the biggest symbol of its nuclear program today, destroying the water tower of its Yongbyon plutonium facility, which had been used to extract plutonium to build nuclear weapons until it was decommissioned last year. But the huge implosion wasn’t just symbolic—the tower would take at... More »

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North Korea • Yongbyon • six party talks • nuclear disarmament • plutonium • state sponsors of terror list

Bush to Ask Congress to Take N. Korea off Terror List

In return, Pyongyang will permanently disable reactor

Jun 25, 08 1:13 PM CDT
(Newser) - President Bush will ask Congress tomorrow to remove North Korea from the “terrorist watch list,” reports Steve Clemons in the Washington Note, a move meant to build confidence with Kim Jong-Il and China in the quest to bring the North back from its nuclear pariah status. In return,... More »

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North Korea • Dick Cheney • Robert Gates • Condoleezza Rice • John Negroponte • state sponsors of terror list

Recovered Data Links Venezuela to FARC Rebels

US, studying evidence, won't yet call Chavez
a terror sponsor

Mar 12, 08 8:50 PM CDT
(Newser) - Possible links between Hugo Chavez’ Venezuelan government and the Colombian FARC guerrilla group concern Washington, but US officials aren't yet saying the nation will be declared a state sponsor of terrorism, Reuters reports. Colombia said computers seized in a March 1 raid on a FARC base in Ecuador contain evidence... More »

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terrorism • Venezuela • Colombia • Ecuador • FARC • Hugo Chávez • state sponsors of terror list

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