* Pyongyang’s long-range missile will be ready for launch in a month, claims paper
SEOUL: North Korea has deployed more artillery near its volatile sea border with South Korea amid growing tensions, a South Korean daily said Friday.
The number of guns, mostly 100-mm artillery pieces, sited on islands and along the coast in the [...]

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Much has been written about the rise of Chinese nationalism and its implications for the stability of Northeast Asia. But Korean nationalism could prove to be just as destabilizing.
The two Koreas, even combined, are no match for China’s economic and military might. But the latent intensity of nationalism on both sides of the peninsula’s demilitarized [...]

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One day, when North Korean leader Kim Jong Il’s secret diary comes to light, historians will know for sure whether he genuinely tried to make peace with his neighbors to the south. North Korea has promised to reveal its nuclear military secrets by the end of the year, and Kim recently told visiting South Korean [...]

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A few years ago, Chris Devonshire-Ellis, a Beijing-based business and tax consultant, was in the bar at Pyongyang’s Koryo Hotel when he ran into another foreigner. “The guy’s name was Vlad,” Devonshire-Ellis says. “He’d come from Moscow on a train to sell tractors to the North Koreans. He had all these guys around him. Turns [...]

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US Wary of Summit to End Korean War
Chosun Ilbo, South Korea - 12 hours ago
… armistice — which also include China — to declare the war formally over at a time when North Korea has yet to start disabling its nuclear facilities …
Koreas Look Down Tricky Road to Peace The Associated Press
Neighboring Countries React Differently [...]

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While the United States has hailed the latest deal to end North Korea’s nuclear weapons programmes as a big step forward, analysts warned Thursday that total disarmament remained a very dim prospect. Doubts remain over whether the secretive regime in Pyongyang is genuinely prepared to give up its atomic ambitions, or whether it is [...]

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Former Undersecretary of State for Arms Control John Bolton told The Washington Times yesterday that Yongbyon “is an old facility at or near the end of its useful life.” Therefore, North Korea’s decision to give up that reactor “doesn’t amount to much of a concession.” The real issue, he said, is whether Yongbyon is the [...]

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Kim Jong-il’s nuclear retreat
Telegraph.co.uk, United Kingdom - 4 hours ago
… Japan, South Korea and Russia. While Mr Roh is soon to become political history, the protracted struggle to eliminate the North’s nuclear capabilities …
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NKorea agrees to declare all nuclear programmes
AFP – 19 minutes ago
The text was only finalised Wednesday and unveiled by host China once the six nations gave the go-ahead. South Korea welcomed the deal, saying it paved the …
North Korea to disable key nuclear plants Bangkok Post
US backs plan to disable North Korean nuclear sites Los [...]

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