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08 December 2009 7:37 AM | Tagged: us envoy heads korea push nuclear talks
SEOUL, Dec 8 – US President Barack Obama’s first envoy to North Korea flies to Pyongyang on Tuesday to try to coax the prickly state back to the nuclear talks it quit a year ago, but without offering it any new incentives. A senior US official said

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08 December 2009 6:07 AM | Tagged: us special envoy stephen bosworth heading north korea talks
SEOUL After a year of tensions, President Obama is sending a veteran diplomat to on Tuesday for the highest-profile talks between Pyongyang and Washington since he took office pledging to reach out to America's adversaries.A key question is whethe

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08 December 2009 5:27 AM | Tagged: us envoy heads north korea push nuclear talks
SEOUL - President Barack Obama's first envoy to North Korea flies to Pyongyang Tuesday to try to coax the prickly state back to the nuclear talks it quit a year ago, but without offering it any new incentives. A senior U.S. official said Stephen Bo

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08 December 2009 3:27 AM | Tagged: obama sending envoy north korea
SEOUL, South Korea - After a year of tensions, President Barack Obama is sending a veteran diplomat to North Korea on Tuesday for the highest-profile talks between Pyongyang and Washington since he took office pledging to reach out to America's adve

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07 December 2009 9:17 PM | Tagged: north korea grilled rights council
GENEVA - North Korea made a rare appearance before a U.N. human rights organization on Monday, facing accusations of widespread abuses such as forced labor, public executions and torture. The communist state, which also was accused of allowing its p

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06 December 2009 10:17 AM | Tagged: us envoy south korea pyongyang nuclear talks next
INCHEON, South Korea - The U.S. envoy for North Korea arrived in the South on Sunday ahead of a visit to Pyongyang aimed at convincing the communist state to end its boycott of wider nuclear disarmament talks. Stephen Bosworth, the first envoy sent

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04 December 2009 9:27 PM | Tagged: north korea talks arms stalemate
WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama's envoy for North Korea makes a rare visit to the reclusive communist state on Tuesday pursuing a mission analysts say has little chance of breaking the stalemate over Pyongyang's nuclear arms program. Ambassador

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03 December 2009 9:29 AM | Tagged: world cup south korea coach huh jungmoo south africa draw
South Korea coach Huh Jung-moo wants tobe grouped with South Africa at the 2010 World Cup although he maintains there willbe no easy route to the knockout stage.The 2002 semi-finalists are lookingforward to a seventh successive appearance on the glo