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North Korea Calls for Peace With U.S. in New Year Message
By David Sessions - Politics DailyThe North Korean government called for an end to hostile relations with the United States in its annual New Year message, the Times of London reports. The regime's statement said it was committed to a "peace strategy" for the Korean peninsula and to ending the nuclear threats for which it has become infamous. "The fundamental task for ensuring peace and stability on the Korean peninsula and in the rest of Asia is to put an end to the hostile relationship between North Korea and the U.S.," the statement said. Pyongyang added that it hoped to achieve "a lasting peace system" and to make the ...
Hillary Clinton Tries to Ease Nuclear Proliferation Fears
By Ria Misra - Politics DailyTelling Ann Curry she has no intention of recycling those "Make History!" presidential campaign buttons wasn't the only headline Hillary Clinton made this week. On Tuesday, Clinton emerged from her meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov insisting that Russia and the U.S. were united on Iran's nuclear program even though Lavrov dismissed joining the U.S. in threatening Iran with sanctions as "counterproductive" at this point.The secretary of state called the position of Russia and the United States on Iran a "very strong, united approach." Clinton said that the United States had ...
China: Leave Myanmar -- and Aung San Suu Kyi Trial -- Alone
By Ria Misra - Politics DailyNews this week that Myanmar's opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi would be kept under house arrest until at least after next year's elections set off swift international criticism. While the United States called for her release and the EU threatened new sanctions against the regime, China adopted a different line, telling the international community to stay out of it. In a statement to Reuters on Wednesday, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu cited Suu Kyi's case, saying, "As for the related domestic case, international society should fully respect Myanmar's judicial sovereignty." ...
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 Ready to Talk, but Only With the U.S. at the Table
By Ria Misra - Politics DailyAfter exchanging barbs with Hillary Clinton over its nuclear program last week, North Korea has a new message for the United States: Can we talk? ...
Hillary Clinton Ratchets Up Pressure on North Korea's Nuclear Ambitions
By Ria Misra - Politics DailyHillary Clinton's tour through Asia continued Thursday as she sought to win friends and influence people on the subject of North Korea's rapidly developing nuclear plans. The Secretary of State's most recent remarks on the subject came as she addressed a security forum convened by the Association of South East Asian Nations. She called on ASEAN members to turn up the pressure on North Korea to de-nuclearize by enforcing U.N. sanctions against the state. In return for shelving its nuclear ambitions, Clinton has offered energy and economic help that North Korea needs. North Korea's nuclear ...
North Korea Tests Nuke and President Obama, as Biden Predicted
By Tommy Christopher - Politics DailyPresident Obama released the following statement regarding reports that North Korea conducted an underground nuclear weapons test Monday morning, along with short-range missile launches:Today, North Korea said that it has conducted a nuclear test in violation of international law. It appears to also have attempted a short range missile launch. These actions, while not a surprise given its statements and actions to date, are a matter of grave concern to all nations. North Korea's attempts to develop nuclear weapons, as well as its ballistic missile program, constitute a threat to international ...
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