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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 ...
North Korea Warns of War if Punished for Ship Sinking
By not in system - AOL NewsSEOUL, South Korea (May 20) -- North Korea said Thursday that South Korea fabricated evidence implicating the North in a torpedo attack in order to pick on the North and any attempt at retaliating for the warship's sinking would be answered with "all-out war." South Korean President Lee Myung-bak vowed "stern action" for the attack after a multinational investigation issued its long-awaited results Thursday, concluding the North fired a torpedo that sank the Cheonan navy ship March 26 near the Koreas' tense sea border. "If the (South Korean) enemies try to deal any retaliation or punishment, ...
South Korea: North's Role in Sinking Warship 'Obvious'
By Theunis Bates - AOL News(May 19) -- South Korea's foreign minister today declared it was "obvious" that North Korea fired a torpedo that sank one of its warships in March, killing 46 sailors. Foreign Minister Yu Myung-hwan has told reporters that there was now "enough evidence" proving the involvement of his country's northern neighbor in the attack -- which tore the 1,200-ton corvette Cheonan in two -- to warrant taking the incident to the U.N. Security Council. A detailed report compiled by a multinational team of investigators will be released Thursday. AP South Korean Foreign Minister Yu Myung Hwanhas said ...
Koreas Exchange Fire Over Disputed Sea Border
By Lauren Frayer - AOL News(Jan. 27) -- North Korea fired artillery shells into a disputed border area today off the divided peninsula's west coast, and South Korea returned fire with smaller weapons, news agencies on both sides reported. The North claims the attack was part of an annual military drill, and says the firing will continue, according to its state-run news agency. The South fired back but with smaller weapons, its Yonhap news agency said. "Our military immediately fired back in response," an unnamed Seoul presidential official told AFP. No injuries or damage were reported. Lee Jin-man, AP A South ...
Obama Has Little to Show From His Trip to Asia
By Steve Pendlebury - AOL News(Nov. 19) -- President Obama returns from his four-nation tour of Asia with few concrete accomplishments in hand. Even so, the White House defended the trip as an important step toward changing America's image overseas. The president got more attention back home for his deep bow to Japan's emperor than for anything else he did during the eight-day journey. His critics blasted the gesture as a sign of weakness. But Obama believes taking a more deferential approach than his predecessor puts the U.S. in a stronger position internationally. "This strategy is a conscious rejection of the Bush ...
Koreas Clash at Crucial Time
By Dana Chivvis - AOL NewsWith fingers pointing in both directions, confusion is the overarching theme as North and South Korea try to sort out why their navies engaged in a brief fight in the waters west of the Korean Peninsula on Tuesday. "If it was intentional, it doesn't look like it was that well planned," said Scott Snyder, director of the Center for U.S.-Korea Policy at The Asia Foundation. "I think it's going to be perceived as a successful defense of South Korea's claimed maritime territory." The two sides have clashed on the water before, in 1999 and 2002. But unlike today, both of those incidents followed ...
North Korea Could Unleash 'Catastrophic Destruction'
By David Wood - Politics DailyWhile Iran's political drama intensifies, the U.S. military is keeping a hard eye on North Korea – a far more immediate and unpredictable menace. ...
Bush Arrives for Last Asia Visit
By Mark Impomeni - Politics DailyPresident Bush touched down in Seoul, South Korea, for the first stop on his trip to Asia, his last visit to the region as president. The president will be talking trade and troops with his South Korean counterpart, Lee Myung-bak. South Korea is awaiting action by the U.S. on a free trade deal between the two nations, but the agreement is not likely to come up for a vote in Congress before the November elections. The president praised and thanked South Korea for its commitment of troops to Iraq, more than 900 troops served in the Multi-National Force in that country, and is seeking a similar ...
US Negotiators Drop North Korea Demands
By Mark Impomeni - Politics DailyAfter months of negotiations over North Korea's failure to completely disclose all of its nuclear weapons programs, United States negotiators have apparently given up their demand that the communist regime provide a full accounting of its illicit nuclear activities. Rather than provide a declaration of all its past nuclear development and proliferation activities, North Korea and the United States agreed to softer language that would require the North only to "acknowledge" U.S. concerns about its nuclear program.Last fall at the Six Party Talks between the United States, North Korea, China, ...
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