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All rights reserved. http://news.yahoo.com/i/2181 world World - North Korea en-us Sat, 21 Nov 2009 06:46:39 GMT 5 142 18 http://news.yahoo.com/i/2181 http://l.yimg.com/a/i/us/nws/th/main_142b.gif http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/nkorea/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091121/ap_on_re_as/as_koreas_buddhist_ceremony ap/20091121/as_koreas_buddhist_ceremony AP world Sat, 21 Nov 2009 06:46:39 GMT AP - South Korean Buddhist monks headed to North Korea on Saturday for a joint ceremony with monks there, showing the countries continue civil exchange despite a bloody naval skirmish earlier this month. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/nkorea/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091120/wl_afp/nkoreanuclearweaponschina afp/20091120/nkoreanuclearweaponschina AFP world Fri, 20 Nov 2009 05:02:30 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/nkorea/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091120/wl_afp/nkoreanuclearweaponschina"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20091120/capt.photo_1258688392043-1-0.jpg?x=92&y=130&q=85&sig=Q3TL9qFfUUWx6xboUnMsLw--" align="left" height="130" width="92" alt="Chinese Defence Minister Liang Guanglie (pictured in 2008) will visit North Korea soon, state-run media said on Friday, amid efforts to draw Pyongyang back to nuclear disarmament talks. Liang's trip, which also will take him to Japan and Thailand, will begin on Sunday and run through December 5, the China News Service reported, without giving a specific itinerary.(AFP/DDP/File/Clemens Bilan)" border="0" /></a>AFP - Chinese Defence Minister Liang Guanglie will visit North Korea soon, state-run media said on Friday, amid efforts to draw Pyongyang back to nuclear disarmament talks.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/nkorea/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091120/wl_afp/nkoreanuclearweaponschina"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20091120/capt.photo_1258688392043-1-0.jpg?x=92&y=130&q=85&sig=Q3TL9qFfUUWx6xboUnMsLw--" align="left" height="130" width="92" alt="photo" title="Chinese Defence Minister Liang Guanglie (pictured in 2008) will visit North Korea soon, state-run media said on Friday, amid efforts to draw Pyongyang back to nuclear disarmament talks. Liang's trip, which also will take him to Japan and Thailand, will begin on Sunday and run through December 5, the China News Service reported, without giving a specific itinerary.(AFP/DDP/File/Clemens Bilan)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/nkorea/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091120/ap_on_re_us/un_un_north_korea_rights ap/20091120/un_un_north_korea_rights AP us Fri, 20 Nov 2009 04:27:14 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/nkorea/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091120/ap_on_re_us/un_un_north_korea_rights"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091120/capt.c8a49b65d5ac4394a196e1d4aca8dd02.south_korea_un_north_korea_rights_sel102.jpg?x=130&y=108&q=85&sig=iq_2M7dlgogFzRDUvFTNKA--" align="left" height="108" width="130" alt="A South Korean child watches a television program reporting North Korean prisoners at a unification observation post near the border village of Panmunjom, the demilitarized zone (DMZ) that separates the two Koreas since the Korean War, in Paju, South Korea, Friday, Nov. 20, 2009. A key U.N. committee expressed 'very serious concern' Thursday at widespread reports of torture and other grave human rights violations in North Korea and strongly urged the government to put an end to the violations. The letters on the screen read ' North Korea will be the only country that kills people like it kills dogs or pigs without holding trials.' (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)" border="0" /></a>AP - A key U.N. committee expressed "very serious concern" Thursday at widespread reports of torture and other grave human rights violations in North Korea and strongly urged the government to put an end to the violations.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/nkorea/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091120/ap_on_re_us/un_un_north_korea_rights"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091120/capt.c8a49b65d5ac4394a196e1d4aca8dd02.south_korea_un_north_korea_rights_sel102.jpg?x=130&y=108&q=85&sig=iq_2M7dlgogFzRDUvFTNKA--" align="left" height="108" width="130" alt="photo" title="A South Korean child watches a television program reporting North Korean prisoners at a unification observation post near the border village of Panmunjom, the demilitarized zone (DMZ) that separates the two Koreas since the Korean War, in Paju, South Korea, Friday, Nov. 20, 2009. A key U.N. committee expressed 'very serious concern' Thursday at widespread reports of torture and other grave human rights violations in North Korea and strongly urged the government to put an end to the violations. The letters on the screen read ' North Korea will be the only country that kills people like it kills dogs or pigs without holding trials.' (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/nkorea/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091120/wl_nm/us_rights_un nm/20091120/us_rights_un Reuters world Fri, 20 Nov 2009 02:05:10 GMT Reuters - A special committee of the U.N. General Assembly condemned North Korea and Myanmar on Thursday for what it said were widespread human rights violations in the two Asian countries. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/nkorea/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091119/wl_asia_afp/skoreausdiplomacy afp/20091119/skoreausdiplomacy AFP world Thu, 19 Nov 2009 19:11:40 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/nkorea/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091119/wl_asia_afp/skoreausdiplomacy"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20091119/capt.photo_1258643308851-7-0.jpg?x=95&y=130&q=85&sig=048EBoJgt0eFZPn78.44YA--" align="left" height="130" width="95" alt="US President Barack Obama, seen here at a US military airbase in Osan, south of Seoul, has said a US envoy will visit North Korea early next month, as he joined South Korean President Lee Myung-Bak in urging the communist state back to nuclear talks.(AFP/Jung Yeon-Je)" border="0" /></a>AFP - President Barack Obama announced Thursday a US envoy would visit North Korea early next month, as he joined South Korean President Lee Myung-Bak in urging the communist state back to nuclear talks.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/nkorea/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091119/wl_asia_afp/skoreausdiplomacy"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20091119/capt.photo_1258643308851-7-0.jpg?x=95&y=130&q=85&sig=048EBoJgt0eFZPn78.44YA--" align="left" height="130" width="95" alt="photo" title="US President Barack Obama, seen here at a US military airbase in Osan, south of Seoul, has said a US envoy will visit North Korea early next month, as he joined South Korean President Lee Myung-Bak in urging the communist state back to nuclear talks.(AFP/Jung Yeon-Je)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/nkorea/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/csm/20091119/wl_csm/obyekorea csm/20091119/obyekorea The Christian Science Monitor world Thu, 19 Nov 2009 09:00:00 GMT The Christian Science Monitor - There was no doubt it. President Barack Obama got by far the loudest cheers of his six-day East Asian odyssey Thursday in a rousing 15-minute talk before about 1,000 troops. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/nkorea/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091119/wl_asia_afp/lifestylenkoreagrooming afp/20091119/lifestylenkoreagrooming AFP world Thu, 19 Nov 2009 08:14:54 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/nkorea/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091119/wl_asia_afp/lifestylenkoreagrooming"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20091119/capt.photo_1258618440921-1-0.jpg?x=79&y=130&q=85&sig=hSr1SecSdwCwvaZoELC89A--" align="left" height="130" width="79" alt=""To keep your hair tidy and simple... is a very important matter for setting the ethos of a sound lifestyle in the country," Rodong Sinmun, the ruling-party newspaper, reportedly said in its Saturday edition(AFP/File/Mark Ralston)" border="0" /></a>AFP - State media in communist North Korea, which is grappling with severe food shortages and a crumbling economy, has taken time out to urge its people to keep their hair tidy.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/nkorea/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091119/wl_asia_afp/lifestylenkoreagrooming"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20091119/capt.photo_1258618440921-1-0.jpg?x=79&y=130&q=85&sig=hSr1SecSdwCwvaZoELC89A--" align="left" height="130" width="79" alt="photo" title=""To keep your hair tidy and simple... is a very important matter for setting the ethos of a sound lifestyle in the country," Rodong Sinmun, the ruling-party newspaper, reportedly said in its Saturday edition(AFP/File/Mark Ralston)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/nkorea/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091119/ts_nm/us_obama_korea nm/20091119/us_obama_korea Reuters topstories Thu, 19 Nov 2009 07:29:34 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/nkorea/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091119/ts_nm/us_obama_korea"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20091121/capt.photo_1258750756568-1-0.jpg?x=98&y=130&q=85&sig=WdA5Qd2LFY19k8M.c0xFwQ--" align="left" height="130" width="98" alt="US President Barack Obama speaks during a town hall meeting at in Shanghai, on November 16. President Barack Obama will wait until after Americans mark Thanksgiving on November 26 to announce whether or not to he will send reinforcements to Afghanistan, his spokesman Robert Gibbs said Friday.(AFP/File/Mandel Ngan)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - U.S. President Barack Obama said he was willing to help North Korea repair its economy and end decades of international isolation if Pyongyang stopped a cycle of threats and finally moved toward nuclear disarmament.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/nkorea/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091119/ts_nm/us_obama_korea"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20091121/capt.photo_1258750756568-1-0.jpg?x=98&y=130&q=85&sig=WdA5Qd2LFY19k8M.c0xFwQ--" align="left" height="130" width="98" alt="photo" title="US President Barack Obama speaks during a town hall meeting at in Shanghai, on November 16. President Barack Obama will wait until after Americans mark Thanksgiving on November 26 to announce whether or not to he will send reinforcements to Afghanistan, his spokesman Robert Gibbs said Friday.(AFP/File/Mandel Ngan)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (Reuters) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/nkorea/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091119/wl_asia_afp/usnkoreaskoreatalks afp/20091119/usnkoreaskoreatalks AFP world Thu, 19 Nov 2009 07:38:54 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/nkorea/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091119/wl_asia_afp/usnkoreaskoreatalks"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20091119/capt.photo_1258643308851-7-0.jpg?x=95&y=130&q=85&sig=048EBoJgt0eFZPn78.44YA--" align="left" height="130" width="95" alt="US President Barack Obama, seen here at a US military airbase in Osan, south of Seoul, has said a US envoy will visit North Korea early next month, as he joined South Korean President Lee Myung-Bak in urging the communist state back to nuclear talks.(AFP/Jung Yeon-Je)" border="0" /></a>AFP - US President Barack Obama left South Korea for home Thursday, a US embassy spokesman said, wrapping up his four-country debut Asian tour.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/nkorea/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091119/wl_asia_afp/usnkoreaskoreatalks"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20091119/capt.photo_1258643308851-7-0.jpg?x=95&y=130&q=85&sig=048EBoJgt0eFZPn78.44YA--" align="left" height="130" width="95" alt="photo" title="US President Barack Obama, seen here at a US military airbase in Osan, south of Seoul, has said a US envoy will visit North Korea early next month, as he joined South Korean President Lee Myung-Bak in urging the communist state back to nuclear talks.(AFP/Jung Yeon-Je)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/nkorea/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091119/ap_on_re_as/as_obama_north_korea_talks ap/20091119/as_obama_north_korea_talks AP world Thu, 19 Nov 2009 04:11:37 GMT AP - President Barack Obama says his envoy on North Korea will travel to the country early next month for the first bilateral talks with the communist regime since he took office. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/nkorea/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091119/ap_on_re_as/as_apnewsalert ap/20091119/as_apnewsalert AP world Thu, 19 Nov 2009 03:58:11 GMT AP - Obama: US working with allies on ways to send Iran 'clear message' on nuclear program. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/nkorea/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091119/ap_on_re_as/as_lee_north_korea ap/20091119/as_lee_north_korea AP world Thu, 19 Nov 2009 03:47:43 GMT AP - South Korea's president says he and President Barack Obama have agreed to offer North Korea a "grand bargain" aimed at ending the North's nuclear program. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/nkorea/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091118/wl_nm/us_korea_north_un nm/20091118/us_korea_north_un Reuters world Wed, 18 Nov 2009 22:22:39 GMT Reuters - North Korea appears to be taking elaborate measures to evade U.N. sanctions aimed at its nuclear and missile activities, arms trading and import of luxuries, U.N. experts say in a new report. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/nkorea/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091118/ts_nm/us_korea_obama nm/20091118/us_korea_obama Reuters topstories Wed, 18 Nov 2009 22:14:35 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/nkorea/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091118/ts_nm/us_korea_obama"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20091121/capt.photo_1258750756568-1-0.jpg?x=98&y=130&q=85&sig=WdA5Qd2LFY19k8M.c0xFwQ--" align="left" height="130" width="98" alt="US President Barack Obama speaks during a town hall meeting at in Shanghai, on November 16. President Barack Obama will wait until after Americans mark Thanksgiving on November 26 to announce whether or not to he will send reinforcements to Afghanistan, his spokesman Robert Gibbs said Friday.(AFP/File/Mandel Ngan)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - U.S. President Barack Obama will discuss luring a reluctant North Korea back to nuclear dealings and a long-delayed trade pact with Seoul in talks with President Lee Myung-bak on Thursday at the end of his Asian tour.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/nkorea/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091118/ts_nm/us_korea_obama"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20091121/capt.photo_1258750756568-1-0.jpg?x=98&y=130&q=85&sig=WdA5Qd2LFY19k8M.c0xFwQ--" align="left" height="130" width="98" alt="photo" title="US President Barack Obama speaks during a town hall meeting at in Shanghai, on November 16. President Barack Obama will wait until after Americans mark Thanksgiving on November 26 to announce whether or not to he will send reinforcements to Afghanistan, his spokesman Robert Gibbs said Friday.(AFP/File/Mandel Ngan)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (Reuters) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/nkorea/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20091118/wl_time/08599194022200 time/20091118/08599194022200 Time.com world Wed, 18 Nov 2009 15:40:00 GMT Time.com - President Obama wants China's backing for harsh sanctions if Tehran remains defiant, but Chinese interests militate against escalating the standoff http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/nkorea/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091118/wl_nm/us_korea_north_newscaster nm/20091118/us_korea_north_newscaster Reuters world Wed, 18 Nov 2009 05:49:07 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/nkorea/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091118/wl_nm/us_korea_north_newscaster"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20091118/i/r2282496147.jpg?x=130&y=94&q=85&sig=1fNSNlCQ.XJqA1fld1Cd9Q--" align="left" height="94" width="130" alt="Ri Chun-hee, the main newscaster for North Korea's state TV, during a broadcast from Pyongyang, in an undated image taken by North Korean media and published in April, 2008. REUTERS/Chosun Magazine/Handout" border="0" /></a>Reuters - The one certainty in unpredictable North Korea is that if the state detonates a nuclear device or leader Kim Jong-il visits a duck farm, Ri Chun-hee will be on TV boasting about the amazing accomplishment.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/nkorea/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091118/wl_nm/us_korea_north_newscaster"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20091118/i/r2282496147.jpg?x=130&y=94&q=85&sig=1fNSNlCQ.XJqA1fld1Cd9Q--" align="left" height="94" width="130" alt="photo" title="Ri Chun-hee, the main newscaster for North Korea's state TV, during a broadcast from Pyongyang, in an undated image taken by North Korean media and published in April, 2008. REUTERS/Chosun Magazine/Handout" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (Reuters) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/nkorea/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091117/ap_on_re_af/piracy ap/20091117/piracy AP world Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:01:03 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/nkorea/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091117/ap_on_re_af/piracy"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091117/capt.c60bb1b187e446dda848874b3032301a.spain_piracy_lon112.jpg?x=130&y=91&q=85&sig=nuy.CSYq2qTNUFsacZBaOw--" align="left" height="91" width="130" alt="FILE - In this undated photo released by the family of crew member Pablo Costas, second left, stands aboard the Spanish trawler Alakrana with other crew members at sea in an unkown location. Spain's Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero said Tuesday Nov. 17, 2009 Somali pirates have freed the Spanish trawler with crew of 36 after holding them hostage for more than six weeks. Zapatero said the tuna boat Alakrana is sailing toward safer waters. All of its crew members are safe and sound.' (AP Photo/Family of Pablo Costas, HO)" border="0" /></a>AP - Pirates freed 36 crew members from a Spanish trawler Tuesday, and a self-proclaimed pirate said the hostage-takers were paid $3.3 million in ransom. Spain's prime minister did little to deny a payment was made &mdash; one reason the lucrative attacks are on the rise.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/nkorea/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091117/ap_on_re_af/piracy"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091117/capt.c60bb1b187e446dda848874b3032301a.spain_piracy_lon112.jpg?x=130&y=91&q=85&sig=nuy.CSYq2qTNUFsacZBaOw--" align="left" height="91" width="130" alt="photo" title="FILE - In this undated photo released by the family of crew member Pablo Costas, second left, stands aboard the Spanish trawler Alakrana with other crew members at sea in an unkown location. Spain's Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero said Tuesday Nov. 17, 2009 Somali pirates have freed the Spanish trawler with crew of 36 after holding them hostage for more than six weeks. Zapatero said the tuna boat Alakrana is sailing toward safer waters. All of its crew members are safe and sound.' (AP Photo/Family of Pablo Costas, HO)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/nkorea/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091117/wl_nm/us_somalia_tanker nm/20091117/us_somalia_tanker Reuters world Tue, 17 Nov 2009 09:53:39 GMT Reuters - A Virgin-Islands owned chemical tanker carrying 28 North Korean crew members has been hijacked by Somali pirates off the Seychelles, the multinational naval force operating in the area said on Tuesday. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/nkorea/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091117/pl_nm/us_china_usa_northkorea nm/20091117/us_china_usa_northkorea Reuters politics Tue, 17 Nov 2009 09:29:32 GMT Reuters - China's Vice Foreign Minister He Yafei said on Tuesday that Beijing expects the United States to hold a bilateral meeting soon with North Korea and said his government would welcome such a move. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/nkorea/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/csm/20091117/wl_csm/odu1117 csm/20091117/odu1117 The Christian Science Monitor world Tue, 17 Nov 2009 09:00:00 GMT The Christian Science Monitor - • A daily summary of global reports on security issues.