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Jimmy Carter Wins Release of American From North Korea
By Tom Kavanagh - Politics DailyFormer President Jimmy Carter has won the release of a U.S. citizen who was imprisoned in North Korea after entering it illegally in January, the Carter Center in Atlanta reports. North Korean leader Kim Jong-il granted amnesty to Aijalon Mahli Gomes, who had been sentenced to eight years of hard labor and fined about $600,000 for illegally crossing the country's border with China and for an unspecified "hostile act," according to CNN. "At the request of President Carter, and for humanitarian purposes, Mr. Gomes was granted amnesty," the Carter Center said in a statement. ". . . It is ...
U.S. Backs South Korea in Severing Trade With North Korea
By David Sessions - Politics DailySecretary of State Hillary Clinton said Sunday that the United States "uniequevocally supports" a decision by South Korean leaders to sever nearly all trade with North Korea after what they called a deliberate sinking of a South Korean warship two months ago, the New York Times reports. South Korean President Lee Myun-bak said that his nation would deny North Korean merchant ships the use of South Korean sea lanes and ask the United Nations Security Council to punish its northern neighbor for the sinking. President Obama instructed American military commanders to coordinate with South Korean ...
Kim Jong Il's Son to Be Next Leader of North Korea, Documents Confirm
By David Sessions - Politics DailyOfficial documents obtained by a Japanese newspaper confirm that Kim Jong Il's third son, Kim Jong Un, will succeed his father as the next leader of North Korea. The three documents reveal that Pyongyang is hastily preparing for a transfer of power, and credit Kim Jong Un with participation in an April satellite launch. ...
Sen. Jim Webb Preps for Meeting With Head of Myanmar Junta
By Ria Misra - Politics DailyJust three days after the leader of Myanmar's opposition was sentenced to additional house arrest, setting off harsh criticism from the United States, the Asian nation is set to receive a surprising visitor. As part of a two-week tour of Southeast Asia, Sen. Jim Webb (D-Va.) touched down in Myanmar on Friday and is set to become the highest-ranking American official to meet with the head of Myanmar's junta, Than Shwe. ...
Hillary Clinton Counters John Bolton's Criticism of North Korea Trip
By Ria Misra - Politics DailyHillary Clinton had a response to former U.N. ambassador John Bolton's complaints about her husband's visit to North Korea to free journalists Euna and Laura Ling: a peal of laughter. In an interview with CNN's Fareed Zakaria that aired on Sunday, the secretary of state chuckled when asked about Bolton's comments, saying that Bill Clinton's trip to North Korea was in no way a negotiation with the belligerent state. Said Secretary Clinton: ...
North Korea to Get Off Terror List
By Mark Impomeni - Politics DailyPresident Bush announced today that the United States will drop North Korea from its list of state sponsors of terrorism in exchange for the communist regime's cooperation in the Six Party Talks. After months of stalling and diplomatic wrangling, North Korea turned over a declaration of all its past nuclear activities today to China, the host of the Six Party Talks, which will share the information with the U.S, Russia, Japan, and South Korea. The de-listing of the North as a terror sponsor clears the way for food and fuel aid, desperately needed by its impoverished people, to be delivered. ...
Admin. Fingers N. Korea for Syrian Reactor
By Mark Impomeni - Politics DailyBush Administration officials released evidence yesterday that the Administration says shows North Korea assisted Syria in building a nuclear reactor in that country's eastern desert along the Euphrates River. The site was destroyed last September by a surprise Israeli air raid, carried out with the tacit cooperation of the United States and Turkey. Israel's jets had to fly over extreme southern Turkey for part of their mission, and U.S. forces in Iraq likely assisted Israeli Air Defense forces with logistical aspects of the raid.Until yesterday, the most spectacular aspect of the Israeli air ...
Rice Seeks China's Help on North Korea
By Mark Impomeni - Politics DailyIn a tacit admission that developments in North Korea are not keeping pace with U.S. expectations, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, on a tour through Asia, met with Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi and asked for China's help in influencing the North Koreans. The Administration now admits that North Korea is not making progress in dismantling or declaring its nuclear weapons programs, which it had agreed to do by the end of the year in exchange for deliveries of fuel oil and the release of North Korean funds held frozen in Asian banks.At the end of last year, the Bush Administration was ...
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