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Hillary Clinton, in Foreign Policy Speech, Calls for 'New American Moment'
By Alex Wagner - Politics DailySeeking to reassure -- and issue a rejoinder to -- skeptics who have questioned the success of the Obama administration's foreign policy doctrine, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Wednesday did not hold back in an address to the Council on Foreign Relations in Washington. It was a broad, far-reaching speech that ranged from the Middle East peace process and Iranian and North Korean sanctions to relations with Mexico and China. But the crux of Clinton's argument was this: America still holds unparalleled power to end conflict, establish peace and repair broken states, and now is the time ...
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 ...
North Korean Health Throw-Down: WHO Critical of Amnesty Report
By Katie Drummond - AOL News(July 16) -- Is North Korean health care "the envy" of developed countries, or a system so low on resources that doctors are now performing amputations without anesthesia? That's a question being debated by two major international health agencies this week, after the World Health Organization today critiqued a scathing report on North Korean health care issued by Amnesty International. The report, released Thursday, offered a chilling portrait of the medical facilities, employees and equipment available to North Korean citizens. Surgery often occurs by candlelight, epidemics are spurred by ...
Amputations Without Anesthesia in NKorea
By Lauren Frayer - AOL News(July 15) -- North Korea's health system is in dire shambles, with amputations being performed without anesthesia, often under candlelight in impoverished hospitals where doctors are paid in cigarettes. That's according to a report released today by Amnesty International, outlining disastrous medical conditions in the reclusive communist state and calling on donor countries to send humanitarian aid and stop using North Korea's residents in a game of "political football" with Pyongyang. The report also notes that North Korea has refused to cooperate fully with the international community in ...
NKorea: American Tried Suicide in Communist Prison
By Lauren Frayer - AOL News(July 9) -- North Korea said today that an American sentenced to eight years of hard labor for trying to enter the communist country has tried to kill himself in prison and is being treated at a hospital. Aijalon Mahli Gomes, a 30-year-old U.S. citizen from Boston, was convicted in April of entering North Korea illegally as well as of an unspecified "hostile act," and was fined $700,000 in addition to his prison sentence. Pyongyang has freed three other Americans detained on the same illegal entry charge in the past year, but Gomes' case came amid increased tensions on the Korean peninsula, ...
Justin Bieber NKorea Poll 'Not a Spoof,' Publisher Says
By Carl Franzen - AOL NewsThe Web has been rocked lately by a minor controversy involving teen singing sensation Justin Bieber that has almost nothing to do with his actual music. Now, the publisher of an online poll that ranked North Korea as the place that most wanted to see Bieber on tour this summer is hitting back at allegations his website is a "hoax" or a "spoof." The Background For the past couple of days, news outlets and Web surfers have been preoccupied with an online poll that first informs users that Bieber is about to begin a world tour -- appropriately called "My World" -- and then allows them to vote ...
NKorea: To Bomb or Not to Bomb Was the Question
By Terence Neilan - AOL News(July 7) -- If North Korea is playing political and military poker, it seems they hold all the top cards. It's been a pain in the side of every Washington administration since the war of the 1950s, and judging from recently declassified papers, it's not a problem that's going to go away anytime soon. Even a nuclear option that included bombing up to 12 military targets was considered by the Nixon administration and then-National Security Adviser Henry Kissinger, the papers revealed, after a U.S. spy plane was shot down by Pyongyang in 1969, killing all 31 crewmen aboard. It was rejected for ...
Hillary Clinton, U.N. Pressure North Korea After Attack on South
By Alex Wagner - Politics DailyFollowing a deadly submarine attack on a South Korean warship in March, presumably by North Korea, the international community has found itself in the tricky position of supporting Seoul in response, while avoiding an escalation to war between the two countries. On Monday, President Lee Myung-bak of South Korea announced that his government would suspend trade with North Korea and ban passage of North Korean ships into South Korean waters. Lee minced no words in his statement, saying that "North Korea will pay a price corresponding to its provocative acts" and that he would further ask the ...
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 ...
White House Condemns Attack on South Korean Ship; North Korea Blamed
By Tom Diemer - Politics DailyWith evidence pointing to North Korea as the culprit in the sinking of a South Korean warship, the White House has condemned the attack as an "act of aggression," calling it another example of the communist nation's "defiance of international law." South Korea said Thursday an international investigation has found overwhelming evidence that its navy ship, the Cheonan, was sunk on March 26 by a torpedo made in North Korea and launched by a North Korean submarine, the Washington Post reported. "There is no other plausible explanation," said a report compiled by investigators from the United ...
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