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July 2008
- N. Korea OKs Nuclear Inspections
  
  newser | Washington Post | Jul 12, 08 5:22 PM CDT
  
  North Korean disarmament talks took another halting step today, as the nation agreed in principle to a deal for invasive nuclear inspections, the Washington Post reports. Pyongyang has promised to finish dismantling its Yongbyon reactor by October, and will let inspectors verify that it's down. But negotiators in the six-nation deal failed to hammer out specifics, which means the process may outlive the Bush administration. More »
- S. Korean Tourist Shot Dead by N. Korean Soldier
  
  newser | Reuters | Jul 11, 08 11:24 AM CDT
  
  A North Korean soldier shot and killed a South Korean tourist when she wandered into a restricted area today, Reuters reports. The 53-year-old had been visiting the Mount Kumgang resort, just north of the border. The shooting could jeopardize thawing North/South relations, which had taken a huge step this morning, when South Korea offered a new food aid package to the North. More »
June 2008
- Big US Food Shipment Marks Korea Progress
  
  newser | Washington Post | Jun 30, 08 1:56 PM CDT
  
  After a major US food shipment arrived yesterday, North Korea has approved a plan for the UN's World Food Program to expand aid delivered to the country, and has agreed to allow UN monitors more access to track where the food ends up, the Washington Post reports. "This marks a major advance in the way we work in this country," an official said. More »
- Bush's North Korea Deal Is 'Total Intellectual Collapse'
  
  newser | Wall Street Journal | Jun 30, 08 12:36 PM CDT
  
  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 . It’s a final sign that the administration's toughness is history, argues Bolton, a longstanding hardliner on North Korea—and awful policy to boot. More »
- Softer Bush: Saving Legacy or Showing Wisdom?
  
  newser | New York Times | Jun 27, 08 8:26 AM CDT
  
  North Korea's nuclear declaration is a diplomatic milestone for a Bush administration showing a more pragmatic side on a host of issues in the home stretch, writes Steven Lee Myers in the New York Times . The conciliatory approach has extended to other issues, including reducing emissions, Israel-Palestinian peace, and Iran's nuclear activities. "I think we learned a bit," says a White House adviser. More »
- N. Korea Blows Up Nuclear Tower
  
  newser | CNN | Jun 27, 08 6:52 AM CDT
  
  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 least a year to rebuild, and without it the facility is useless. More »
- Rice: Diplomacy Key in Progress on North Korea
  
  newser | Wall Street Journal | Jun 26, 08 10:44 AM CDT
  
  Diplomacy is working with North Korea, and the US has made few concessions to bring the rogue state closer to eliminating its nuclear ambitions, Condoleezza Rice writes in today’s Wall Street Journal . "We and the other four parties will expect North Korea to cooperate with us in verifying the accuracy and completeness of its declaration," the Secretary of State writes. "And if that cooperation is lacking, we will respond accordingly." More »
- North Korea Hands Over Nuclear Data
  
  newser | BBC | Jun 26, 08 7:36 AM CDT
  
  The North Korean regime has submitted a long-awaited rundown of its nuclear program to China, 6 months after its due date. The report is expected to detail the nation's plutonium enrichment efforts, but will probably leave out details of its nuclear arsenal, reports the BBC. The White House responded by notifying Congress of its intent to remove North Korea from its list of state sponsors of terrorism in 45 days. More »
- Bush to Ask Congress to Take N. Korea off Terror List
  
  newser | The Washington Note | Jun 25, 08 1:13 PM CDT
  
  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, reports the Age, Pyongyang is today to list all its nuclear activities and permanently disable its nuclear reactor. More »
- China Admits Burying US POW From Korean War
  
  newser | Associated Press | Jun 20, 08 8:53 AM CDT
  
  China has for the first time admitted holding an American prisoner from the Korean War on its soil, AP reports. The Vermont man, just 18 when he was captured, died in China and was buried there, officials said. China authorities, who said the prisoner was mentally ill, had previously insisted no American POWs were taken from North Korea. More »
- Top Vacations Off-Limits to Americans
  
  newser | Foreign Policy | Jun 14, 08 4:53 PM CDT
  
  Here are top spots for an exotic foreign trip—except that Washington has labeled them off-limits or far too dangerous. Foreign Policy lists five: Mt. Kumgang is North Korea's "unspoiled spiritual retreat," but Americans will be quarantined by Pyongyang if they can even get in. More »
May 2008
- North Korea Hands Nuclear Docs to US
  
  newser | Associated Press | May 8, 08 2:12 PM CDT
  
  Seeming to move closer to US demands for information, North Korea handed key documents on its nuclear weapons program to an American diplomat today, the AP reports. The records provide information on the North’s silenced plutonium reactor, and would allow American officials to fact-check a still-awaited summary of the country’s nuclear workings. More »
April 2008
- Thousands Cheer Torch in N. Korea
  
  newser | Reuters | Apr 28, 08 5:28 AM CDT
  
  Tens of thousands of North Koreans took to the streets to herald the arrival of the Olympic torch today, marking a radically different greeting for the often-harried flame, Reuters reports. People waved North Korean and Chinese flags, danced, cheered, and sang military songs. The welcome contrasted sharply with waves of protests at other global relays that have driven the torch inside vehicles and behind walls of security guards. More »
- Torch Protests Continue in S. Korea
  
  newser | Reuters | Apr 27, 08 10:30 AM CDT
  
  The Olympic torch again met with a clash of protesters today as it arrived in South Korea, Reuters reports. Some South Koreans are angered by Beijing’s human rights record, but the majority are pro-Chinese, wearing their country’s flag and chanting, “No politics, only Olympics.” Despite 8,000 police officers, the rallies turned briefly violent when Chinese students kicked a South Korean protester and threw stones at anti-China demonstrators. More »
- Syria Must 'Come Clean' on Nukes, US Says
  
  newser | Washington Post | Apr 24, 08 8:31 PM CDT
  
  A covert nuclear reactor in Syria was only months away from producing uranium for weapons when Israel destroyed it in a bombing raid, US intelligence officials say. The officials briefed members of Congress on the Israeli raid in September, asserting that North Korea helped Syria build the site. The White House said Syria "must come clean" about its nuclear activities. More »
- CIA to Brief Congress on Syria-North Korea Nuke Pact
  
  newser | Reuters | Apr 23, 08 7:05 AM CDT
  
  Details of a suspected secret pact between North Korea and Syria to supply Damascus with nuclear weapons technology will be revealed in closed-door CIA briefings of lawmakers, Reuters reports. The pact is apparently linked to an Israeli air raid on a suspected nuclear site in Syria last year. The briefing comes as Washington moves closer to an agreement by North Korea to finally declare details of its nuclear program. More »
- US to Press N. Korea on Nukes: Bush
  
  newser | Associated Press | Apr 19, 08 6:25 PM CDT
  
  President Bush challenged rumors today that Washington will go easy on North Korea's nuclear program, the AP reports. Pyongyang must "provide a full declaration of its nuclear programs" and disable its reactor, Bush said at US talks with South Korean President Lee Myung-bak. "Some people are precluding, you know, jumping ahead of the game," Bush said. More »
- US Reports Some Progress in North Korean Nuke Talks
  
  newser | Reuters | Apr 9, 08 2:54 PM CDT
  
  Six-country negotiations aimed at producing a formal disclosure of North Korea's nuclear activities have advanced, Reuters reports, but aren't close to being settled. "We've definitely made some progress," said US envoy Christopher Hill today. "We still have a lot of work ahead of us. I don't want to suggest there's been any major breakthrough." More »
March 2008
- Irked North Korea Fires Test Missiles
  
  newser | Bloomberg | Mar 28, 08 3:50 AM CDT
  
  North Korea test-fired a number of short-range missiles into the waters off its west coast, according to South Korean officials, in an apparent show of anger at Washington and the new government in Seoul, Reuters reports. "We are monitoring the situation," said a South Korean presidential spokesman. The development comes at a key moment in the effort to rid North Korea of nuclear weapons, writes Bloomberg. More »
- North Korea Boots Officials from S. Korea
  
  newser | New York Times | Mar 27, 08 1:48 PM CDT
  
  South Korean officials left North Korea this morning, after receiving their eviction notice from Pyongyang. Relations have soured between the Koreas since the South demanded the North cease its nuclear activities, but the South said it was “undaunted” by the expulsion of its men. “We will deal with this issue in a pragmatic way,” said a government spokesman, without elaborating. More »