Copyright (c) 2008 Yahoo! Inc. All rights reserved. http://news.yahoo.com/i/2181 World - North Korea en-us Fri, 04 Jul 2008 09:38:25 GMT 5 142 18 http://news.yahoo.com/i/2181 http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/us/nws/th/main_142b.gif http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/nkorea/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080704/ap_on_re_as/koreas_nuclear ap/20080704/koreas_nuclear AP Fri, 04 Jul 2008 09:38:25 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/nkorea/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080704/ap_on_re_as/koreas_nuclear"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20080704/capt.cps.mxc18.040708101611.photo00.photo.default-512x341.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=VmrMGjk.HPM3KfjYuQ5m.Q--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="Deputy US Secretary of State Christopher Hill speaks to reporters in a hotel in Beijing June 30. North Korea said Friday it could not discuss the next stage of denuclearisation until its negotiating partners fulfil their duties.(AFP/File/Peter Parks)" border="0" /></a>AP - North Korea said Friday it will not take further steps to dismantle its nuclear program until the U.S. and its other negotiating partners award fuel oil and political benefits promised under an aid-for-disarmament deal.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/nkorea/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080704/ap_on_re_as/koreas_nuclear"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20080704/capt.cps.mxc18.040708101611.photo00.photo.default-512x341.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=VmrMGjk.HPM3KfjYuQ5m.Q--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="photo" title="Deputy US Secretary of State Christopher Hill speaks to reporters in a hotel in Beijing June 30. North Korea said Friday it could not discuss the next stage of denuclearisation until its negotiating partners fulfil their duties.(AFP/File/Peter Parks)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/nkorea/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080704/wl_asia_afp/nkoreanuclearweaponsstatement afp/20080704/nkoreanuclearweaponsstatement AFP Fri, 04 Jul 2008 08:50:14 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/nkorea/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080704/wl_asia_afp/nkoreanuclearweaponsstatement"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20080704/capt.cps.mxc40.040708104955.photo00.photo.default-512x341.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=HEb7GUnPBiQtzKql7Pkkeg--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="Deputy US Secretary of State Christopher Hill speaks to reporters in a hotel in Beijing June 30. North Korea said Friday it could not discuss the next stage of denuclearisation until its negotiating partners fulfil their duties.(AFP/File/Peter Parks)" border="0" /></a>AFP - North Korea said Friday it would not push ahead with an international deal to scrap its nuclear programme until negotiating partners fulfil their side of the bargain.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/nkorea/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080704/wl_asia_afp/nkoreanuclearweaponsstatement"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20080704/capt.cps.mxc40.040708104955.photo00.photo.default-512x341.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=HEb7GUnPBiQtzKql7Pkkeg--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="photo" title="Deputy US Secretary of State Christopher Hill speaks to reporters in a hotel in Beijing June 30. North Korea said Friday it could not discuss the next stage of denuclearisation until its negotiating partners fulfil their duties.(AFP/File/Peter Parks)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/nkorea/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080703/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/us_nkorea_nuclear ap/20080703/us_nkorea_nuclear AP Thu, 03 Jul 2008 21:28:44 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/nkorea/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080703/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/us_nkorea_nuclear"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20080704/capt.cps.mxc18.040708101611.photo00.photo.default-512x341.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=VmrMGjk.HPM3KfjYuQ5m.Q--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="Deputy US Secretary of State Christopher Hill speaks to reporters in a hotel in Beijing June 30. North Korea said Friday it could not discuss the next stage of denuclearisation until its negotiating partners fulfil their duties.(AFP/File/Peter Parks)" border="0" /></a>AP - The Bush administration says it has $20 million available to pay for disabling North Korea's main nuclear facility.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/nkorea/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080703/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/us_nkorea_nuclear"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20080704/capt.cps.mxc18.040708101611.photo00.photo.default-512x341.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=VmrMGjk.HPM3KfjYuQ5m.Q--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="photo" title="Deputy US Secretary of State Christopher Hill speaks to reporters in a hotel in Beijing June 30. North Korea said Friday it could not discuss the next stage of denuclearisation until its negotiating partners fulfil their duties.(AFP/File/Peter Parks)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/nkorea/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080702/pl_afp/usnkoreairannuclearpoliticsbush afp/20080702/usnkoreairannuclearpoliticsbush AFP Wed, 02 Jul 2008 23:02:36 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/nkorea/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080702/pl_afp/usnkoreairannuclearpoliticsbush"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20080702/capt.cps.mwt52.030708004812.photo00.photo.default-442x512.jpg?x=112&y=130&q=85&sig=NmCTpRXpUOGBiPwBtpNrHQ--" align="left" height="130" width="112" alt="US President George W. Bush at the White House in Washington, DC. Bush said Wednesday that "military options remain on the table" in nuclear disputes with North Korea and Iran but underlined that he preferred a diplomatic resolution.(AFP/Saul Loeb)" border="0" /></a>AFP - US President George W. Bush said Wednesday that "military options remain on the table" in nuclear disputes with North Korea and Iran but underlined that he preferred a diplomatic resolution.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/nkorea/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080702/pl_afp/usnkoreairannuclearpoliticsbush"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20080702/capt.cps.mwt52.030708004812.photo00.photo.default-442x512.jpg?x=112&y=130&q=85&sig=NmCTpRXpUOGBiPwBtpNrHQ--" align="left" height="130" width="112" alt="photo" title="US President George W. Bush at the White House in Washington, DC. Bush said Wednesday that "military options remain on the table" in nuclear disputes with North Korea and Iran but underlined that he preferred a diplomatic resolution.(AFP/Saul Loeb)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/nkorea/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/usnews/20080702/ts_usnews/verificationwillbethenexthurdleforthenorthkoreanucleardeal usnews/20080702/verificationwillbethenexthurdleforthenorthkoreanucleardeal U.S. News & World Report Wed, 02 Jul 2008 19:31:59 GMT U.S. News & World Report - In a process marked by setbacks and only partially fulfilled obligations, the denuclearization of North Korea could be entering its most challenging period this summer as U.S. experts sift through thousands of pages of data and finalize painstakingly agreed arrangements on how to verify the secretive North's atomic activities. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/nkorea/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080702/wl_asia_afp/nkoreanuclearweaponsjapankidnap afp/20080702/nkoreanuclearweaponsjapankidnap AFP Wed, 02 Jul 2008 15:53:55 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/nkorea/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080702/wl_asia_afp/nkoreanuclearweaponsjapankidnap"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20080702/capt.cps.mwq78.020708164740.photo00.photo.default-512x446.jpg?x=130&y=113&q=85&sig=JHzl5Kt5IKjH6atJtanDEA--" align="left" height="113" width="130" alt="Shigeru (R) and Sakie Yokota, parents of Megumi Yokota who was abducted by North Korean agents in Niigata, northern Japan in 1977, address a press conference in Tokyo. The couple dismissed Pyongyang's move to reopen investigations into the case and urged Tokyo to maintain pressure on the regime.(AFP/Yoshikazu Tsuno)" border="0" /></a>AFP - The parents of a Japanese schoolgirl who was snatched by North Korean agents in 1977 Wednesday dismissed Pyongyang's move to reopen investigations into the case and urged Tokyo to maintain pressure on the regime.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/nkorea/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080702/wl_asia_afp/nkoreanuclearweaponsjapankidnap"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20080702/capt.cps.mwq78.020708164740.photo00.photo.default-512x446.jpg?x=130&y=113&q=85&sig=JHzl5Kt5IKjH6atJtanDEA--" align="left" height="113" width="130" alt="photo" title="Shigeru (R) and Sakie Yokota, parents of Megumi Yokota who was abducted by North Korean agents in Niigata, northern Japan in 1977, address a press conference in Tokyo. The couple dismissed Pyongyang's move to reopen investigations into the case and urged Tokyo to maintain pressure on the regime.(AFP/Yoshikazu Tsuno)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/nkorea/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080702/pl_afp/nkoreanuclearweaponsus afp/20080702/nkoreanuclearweaponsus AFP Wed, 02 Jul 2008 02:16:27 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/nkorea/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080702/pl_afp/nkoreanuclearweaponsus"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20080702/capt.cps.mwn20.020708041423.photo00.photo.default-347x512.jpg?x=88&y=130&q=85&sig=1ciXRmr1LhDgk_ZjGbienA--" align="left" height="130" width="88" alt="South Koreans watch the public demolition of North Korea's cooling tower at its Yongbyon nuclear complex on June 27.(AFP/Jung Yeon-Je)" border="0" /></a>AFP - The United States emphasized Tuesday it would not accept North Korea as a nuclear weapons state, saying that disbanding the hardline communist state's atomic arms program was critical.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/nkorea/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080702/pl_afp/nkoreanuclearweaponsus"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20080702/capt.cps.mwn20.020708041423.photo00.photo.default-347x512.jpg?x=88&y=130&q=85&sig=1ciXRmr1LhDgk_ZjGbienA--" align="left" height="130" width="88" alt="photo" title="South Koreans watch the public demolition of North Korea's cooling tower at its Yongbyon nuclear complex on June 27.(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/20080702/ap_on_go_ot/us_nkorea_food_aid ap/20080702/us_nkorea_food_aid AP Wed, 02 Jul 2008 01:17:23 GMT AP - Relief workers distributing thousands of tons of U.S.-supplied food in North Korea have unprecedented freedom of access in the insular country to ensure the food goes to the people who need it, says the project's chief U.S. negotiator. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/nkorea/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080701/pl_nm/g8_bush_dc nm/20080701/g8_bush_dc Reuters Tue, 01 Jul 2008 23:08:33 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/nkorea/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080701/pl_nm/g8_bush_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20080702/2008_07_01t190813_362x450_us_g8_bush.jpg?x=104&y=130&q=85&sig=zOCQrLrigp5MR6YdpBx28A--" align="left" height="130" width="104" alt="US President George W. Bush waves as he boards Air Force One to depart Jackson-Evers International Airport in Jackson, Mississippi, July 1, 2008. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - President George W. Bush will meet with leaders of Japan, China and South Korea on the sidelines of the Group of Eight summit next week to discuss efforts to force North Korea to abandon its nuclear weapons program, the White House said on Tuesday.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/nkorea/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080701/pl_nm/g8_bush_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20080702/2008_07_01t190813_362x450_us_g8_bush.jpg?x=104&y=130&q=85&sig=zOCQrLrigp5MR6YdpBx28A--" align="left" height="130" width="104" alt="photo" title="US President George W. Bush waves as he boards Air Force One to depart Jackson-Evers International Airport in Jackson, Mississippi, July 1, 2008. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (Reuters) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/nkorea/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080701/pl_nm/korea_north_hill_dc nm/20080701/korea_north_hill_dc Reuters Tue, 01 Jul 2008 22:23:04 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/nkorea/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080701/pl_nm/korea_north_hill_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20080702/2008_07_01t191807_450x300_us_korea_north_hill.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=FInQ8gxF5KZ1EVHjL_LGpg--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="Assistant Secretary of State and chief nuclear envoy Christopher Hill speaks to journalists at a hotel in Beijing June 24, 2008. (Claro Cortes IV/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Christopher Hill sought on Tuesday to blunt criticism that North Korea failed to detail its suspected proliferation and uranium enrichment programs, as required under a disarmament-for-aid deal.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/nkorea/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080701/pl_nm/korea_north_hill_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20080702/2008_07_01t191807_450x300_us_korea_north_hill.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=FInQ8gxF5KZ1EVHjL_LGpg--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="photo" title="Assistant Secretary of State and chief nuclear envoy Christopher Hill speaks to journalists at a hotel in Beijing June 24, 2008. (Claro Cortes IV/Reuters)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (Reuters) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/nkorea/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080701/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/us_nkorea_asia ap/20080701/us_nkorea_asia AP Tue, 01 Jul 2008 21:19:04 GMT AP - North Korea and the nations bargaining to rid it of nuclear weapons could widen their talks to energy and Asian regional security issues, the top U.S. nuclear negotiator said Tuesday. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/nkorea/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080701/wl_nm/korea_north_un_dc nm/20080701/korea_north_un_dc Reuters Tue, 01 Jul 2008 20:29:00 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/nkorea/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080701/wl_nm/korea_north_un_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20080702/2008_07_01t170300_450x284_us_korea_north_un.jpg?x=130&y=82&q=85&sig=8VHhI8IDBL9eeyDPYu4Olg--" align="left" height="82" width="130" alt="North Koreans work on rice fields at the propaganda village of Gijungdong, in the northern section of the demilitarised zone (DMZ) separating two Koreas, as seen from an observation point in the southern section of the DMZ, about 34 miles north of Seoul, June 18, 2008. (Jo Yong-Hak/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Members of the executive board of the U.N. Development Program would like the agency to resume its work in communist North Korea, from which it pulled out last year amid U.S. charges of financial mismanagement.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/nkorea/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080701/wl_nm/korea_north_un_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20080702/2008_07_01t170300_450x284_us_korea_north_un.jpg?x=130&y=82&q=85&sig=8VHhI8IDBL9eeyDPYu4Olg--" align="left" height="82" width="130" alt="photo" title="North Koreans work on rice fields at the propaganda village of Gijungdong, in the northern section of the demilitarised zone (DMZ) separating two Koreas, as seen from an observation point in the southern section of the DMZ, about 34 miles north of Seoul, June 18, 2008. (Jo Yong-Hak/Reuters)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (Reuters) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/nkorea/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080630/pl_nm/korea_north_meeting_dc nm/20080630/korea_north_meeting_dc Reuters Mon, 30 Jun 2008 18:55:30 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/nkorea/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080630/pl_nm/korea_north_meeting_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20080630/2008_06_30t122713_450x394_us_korea_north_meeting.jpg?x=130&y=113&q=85&sig=s_3gwzn6Y9TPKgUx4V0FLg--" align="left" height="113" width="130" alt="A cooling tower is demolished at a North Korean nuclear plant June 27, 2008. (Kyodo/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Envoys from six countries plan to meet in Beijing next week to discuss how to advance an accord under which North Korea promised to abandon its nuclear weapons and programs, a U.S. official said on Monday.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/nkorea/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080630/pl_nm/korea_north_meeting_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20080630/2008_06_30t122713_450x394_us_korea_north_meeting.jpg?x=130&y=113&q=85&sig=s_3gwzn6Y9TPKgUx4V0FLg--" align="left" height="113" width="130" alt="photo" title="A cooling tower is demolished at a North Korean nuclear plant June 27, 2008. (Kyodo/Reuters)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (Reuters) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/nkorea/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080630/ap_on_re_as/nkorea_us_aid ap/20080630/nkorea_us_aid AP Mon, 30 Jun 2008 17:43:23 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/nkorea/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080630/ap_on_re_as/nkorea_us_aid"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080630/capt.2c1baad6303644e38bddac8482cc83e7.north_korea_us_aid_tok104.jpg?x=97&y=130&q=85&sig=wbVW0eY7bd8xMLqJxtpyuQ--" align="left" height="130" width="97" alt="In this June 29, 2003 file photo released by World Food Program, food aid supplied by the United States is unloaded from a vessel at Nampo port, southwest of North Korea's capital of Pyongyang. A U.S. ship carrying thousands of tons of food aid arrived in North Korea after the impoverished nation agreed to open up to widely expanded international assistance, the U.N. food agency said Monday, June 30, 2008. The U.S. aid was not directly related to the ongoing nuclear talks between Washington and Pyongyang, and U.S. officials have repeatedly asserted they do not use food for diplomatic coercion. (AP Photo/World Food Program, Gerald Bourke, HO)" border="0" /></a>AP - Thousands of tons of food from the U.S. has started flowing into North Korea, the U.N. food agency said Monday, as aid groups warned that the impoverished nation faces food shortages not seen since 2001.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/nkorea/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080630/ap_on_re_as/nkorea_us_aid"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080630/capt.2c1baad6303644e38bddac8482cc83e7.north_korea_us_aid_tok104.jpg?x=97&y=130&q=85&sig=wbVW0eY7bd8xMLqJxtpyuQ--" align="left" height="130" width="97" alt="photo" title="In this June 29, 2003 file photo released by World Food Program, food aid supplied by the United States is unloaded from a vessel at Nampo port, southwest of North Korea's capital of Pyongyang. A U.S. ship carrying thousands of tons of food aid arrived in North Korea after the impoverished nation agreed to open up to widely expanded international assistance, the U.N. food agency said Monday, June 30, 2008. The U.S. aid was not directly related to the ongoing nuclear talks between Washington and Pyongyang, and U.S. officials have repeatedly asserted they do not use food for diplomatic coercion. (AP Photo/World Food Program, Gerald Bourke, HO)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/nkorea/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080630/pl_afp/nkoreausfoodwfpdenial afp/20080630/nkoreausfoodwfpdenial AFP Mon, 30 Jun 2008 17:37:12 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/nkorea/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080630/pl_afp/nkoreausfoodwfpdenial"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20080630/capt.cps.mwe96.300608193647.photo00.photo.default-384x512.jpg?x=97&y=130&q=85&sig=bLsXsIAkRAlt1UBhzj3XsQ--" align="left" height="130" width="97" alt="File photo shows North Korean children at a nursery eating bread made with cereals provided by the United Nations World Food Programme in the communisty state's Sohung county. The United States on Monday insisted the arrival in North Korea of a first shipment of US food aid had no link to Pyongyang's long-awaited declaration last week on its nuclear program.(AFP/World Food Programme/File/Lena Savelli)" border="0" /></a>AFP - The United States on Monday insisted the arrival in North Korea of a first shipment of US food aid had no link to Pyongyang's long-awaited declaration last week on its nuclear program.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/nkorea/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080630/pl_afp/nkoreausfoodwfpdenial"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20080630/capt.cps.mwe96.300608193647.photo00.photo.default-384x512.jpg?x=97&y=130&q=85&sig=bLsXsIAkRAlt1UBhzj3XsQ--" align="left" height="130" width="97" alt="photo" title="File photo shows North Korean children at a nursery eating bread made with cereals provided by the United Nations World Food Programme in the communisty state's Sohung county. The United States on Monday insisted the arrival in North Korea of a first shipment of US food aid had no link to Pyongyang's long-awaited declaration last week on its nuclear program.(AFP/World Food Programme/File/Lena Savelli)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/nkorea/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080630/pl_afp/nkoreausfoodwfp afp/20080630/nkoreausfoodwfp AFP Mon, 30 Jun 2008 15:30:38 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/nkorea/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080630/pl_afp/nkoreausfoodwfp"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20080630/capt.cps.mwe96.300608193647.photo00.photo.default-384x512.jpg?x=97&y=130&q=85&sig=bLsXsIAkRAlt1UBhzj3XsQ--" align="left" height="130" width="97" alt="File photo shows North Korean children at a nursery eating bread made with cereals provided by the United Nations World Food Programme in the communisty state's Sohung county. The United States on Monday insisted the arrival in North Korea of a first shipment of US food aid had no link to Pyongyang's long-awaited declaration last week on its nuclear program.(AFP/World Food Programme/File/Lena Savelli)" border="0" /></a>AFP - The UN World Food Programme said on Monday it will extend its work in North Korea to cover more than five million people after the US resumed food aid shipments.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/nkorea/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080630/pl_afp/nkoreausfoodwfp"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20080630/capt.cps.mwe96.300608193647.photo00.photo.default-384x512.jpg?x=97&y=130&q=85&sig=bLsXsIAkRAlt1UBhzj3XsQ--" align="left" height="130" width="97" alt="photo" title="File photo shows North Korean children at a nursery eating bread made with cereals provided by the United Nations World Food Programme in the communisty state's Sohung county. The United States on Monday insisted the arrival in North Korea of a first shipment of US food aid had no link to Pyongyang's long-awaited declaration last week on its nuclear program.(AFP/World Food Programme/File/Lena Savelli)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/nkorea/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080630/pl_nm/usa_china_dc nm/20080630/usa_china_dc Reuters Mon, 30 Jun 2008 11:53:20 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/nkorea/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080630/pl_nm/usa_china_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20080630/2008_06_30t093938_450x305_us_usa_china.jpg?x=130&y=88&q=85&sig=TY.T.qE8q0EqOxoF1lR71Q--" align="left" height="88" width="130" alt="Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice (L) talks with Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao during their meeting in Beijing June 30, 2008. (Oded Balilty/Pool/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Monday pressed China and African powers to back international action on Zimbabwe, while also raising hopes of fresh nuclear talks soon with North Korea.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/nkorea/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080630/pl_nm/usa_china_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20080630/2008_06_30t093938_450x305_us_usa_china.jpg?x=130&y=88&q=85&sig=TY.T.qE8q0EqOxoF1lR71Q--" align="left" height="88" width="130" alt="photo" title="Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice (L) talks with Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao during their meeting in Beijing June 30, 2008. (Oded Balilty/Pool/Reuters)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (Reuters) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/nkorea/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080630/wl_nm/korea_north_food_dc nm/20080630/korea_north_food_dc Reuters Mon, 30 Jun 2008 08:43:00 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/nkorea/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080630/wl_nm/korea_north_food_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20080630/2008_06_30t084651_450x321_us_korea_north_food.jpg?x=130&y=92&q=85&sig=ND0T6YEZ0Zjfc1OzH5z6JQ--" align="left" height="92" width="130" alt="Labourers work at a biscuit factory in Sinuiju county, north of Pyongyang in this handout picture shot in this March 24, 2007 file photograph. (Handout/WFP/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - The U.N. World Food Program, which has warned of a humanitarian crisis in North Korea due to a food shortage, said on Monday it reached a deal with Pyongyang to rapidly expand aid, and that a U.S. ship carrying wheat had arrived.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/nkorea/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080630/wl_nm/korea_north_food_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20080630/2008_06_30t084651_450x321_us_korea_north_food.jpg?x=130&y=92&q=85&sig=ND0T6YEZ0Zjfc1OzH5z6JQ--" align="left" height="92" width="130" alt="photo" title="Labourers work at a biscuit factory in Sinuiju county, north of Pyongyang in this handout picture shot in this March 24, 2007 file photograph. (Handout/WFP/Reuters)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (Reuters) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/nkorea/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080630/wl_afp/skorearussiankoreaintelligence afp/20080630/skorearussiankoreaintelligence AFP Mon, 30 Jun 2008 05:57:56 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/nkorea/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080630/wl_afp/skorearussiankoreaintelligence"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20080630/capt.cps.mwb08.300608075012.photo00.photo.default-309x512.jpg?x=78&y=130&q=85&sig=ziwvw4al.Ozr1y05PU_9iw--" align="left" height="130" width="78" alt="File photo of police officers blocking the entrance to Red Square in Moscow. Russia has expelled four South Korean spies who had been collecting information on North Korea, a newspaper said Monday(AFP/File/Yuri Kadobnov)" border="0" /></a>AFP - Russia has expelled four South Korean spies who had been collecting information on North Korea, a newspaper said Monday.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/nkorea/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080630/wl_afp/skorearussiankoreaintelligence"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20080630/capt.cps.mwb08.300608075012.photo00.photo.default-309x512.jpg?x=78&y=130&q=85&sig=ziwvw4al.Ozr1y05PU_9iw--" align="left" height="130" width="78" alt="photo" title="File photo of police officers blocking the entrance to Red Square in Moscow. Russia has expelled four South Korean spies who had been collecting information on North Korea, a newspaper said Monday(AFP/File/Yuri Kadobnov)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/nkorea/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080629/wl_asia_afp/nkoreanuclearjapanus afp/20080629/nkoreanuclearjapanus AFP Sun, 29 Jun 2008 05:39:16 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/nkorea/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080629/wl_asia_afp/nkoreanuclearjapanus"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20080629/capt.cps.mvv42.290608073835.photo00.photo.default-512x431.jpg?x=130&y=109&q=85&sig=DIdCSJAKUe8lU2JABgK7dQ--" align="left" height="109" width="130" alt="Japanese Foreign Minister Masahiko Komura, seen here on June 27, on Sunday warned against North Korea's drive to divide Japan and the United States following a dramatic turn in Washington-Pyongyang ties last week.(AFP/File/Kazuhiro Nogi)" border="0" /></a>AFP - Japanese Foreign Minister Masahiko Komura on Sunday warned against North Korea's drive to divide Japan and the United States following a dramatic turn in Washington-Pyongyang ties last week.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/nkorea/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080629/wl_asia_afp/nkoreanuclearjapanus"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20080629/capt.cps.mvv42.290608073835.photo00.photo.default-512x431.jpg?x=130&y=109&q=85&sig=DIdCSJAKUe8lU2JABgK7dQ--" align="left" height="109" width="130" alt="photo" title="Japanese Foreign Minister Masahiko Komura, seen here on June 27, on Sunday warned against North Korea's drive to divide Japan and the United States following a dramatic turn in Washington-Pyongyang ties last week.(AFP/File/Kazuhiro Nogi)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP)