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Kim Jong Il reportedly tells Chinese envoy Pyongyang seeks denuclearization.

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North Korea repeats disarmament pledge

President Obama has written a personal letter to North Korean leader Kim Jong Il that was hand-delivered by the U.S. envoy to the country, theWashington Post reports. The contents — and until now, even the existence — of the letter were kept closely guarded by the administration, which requested that diplomatic partners refrain from discussing [...]

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Obama Wrote Personal Letter to Kim Jong Il

Washington – President Barack Obama has written a personal letter to North Korean leader Kim Jong Il as part of an intense effort to draw the reclusive nation back to nuclear disarmament talks, a senior State Department official said Tuesday.
The letter was delivered to North Korean officials last week by Obama’s special envoy for North [...]

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Washington – Obama Writes Letter to NKorean Leader

A number of analysts here are convinced that not all the photos being released of North Korea’s leader, Kim Jong-il, are really photos of Kim Jong-il. Instead, they say, a look-alike has been standing in for him on some of the 122 trips he’s reportedly made this year to the countryside, factories, cultural events, military units, [...]

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Did President Clinton Meet N. Korea’s Kim Jong-il or a Look-Alike?

The United Arab Emirates seized a ship several weeks ago that was bound for Iran and carrying North Korean weapons in violation of a UN embargo, Western diplomats said on Friday.
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‘U.A.E. seized North Korea arms ship bound for Iran’

Ambassador Yutaka Iimura met Israeli President Peres and complained about North Korea. Peres compared that country with Iran.

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Japanese Envoy, Pres. Peres See North Korea-Iran Similarities

Washington – Former president Bill Clinton’s central role in the return of two journalists detained by North Korea has once again cast a spotlight on his vast web of financial and political contacts, a network that troubled senators who weighed whether to confirm his wife as secretary of state.
In the case of the detainees, Clinton [...]

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Washington – The Power Of Bill Clinton’s Rolodex

Barack Obama is more impressive than him on stage when delivering a speech, and his biography is more fascinating, but all things being equal, there is nobody quite like Bill Clinton. The picture of the former president sitting alongside the despotic leader of North Korea, Kim Jong-il, in Pyongyang on Tuesday was worth more than a thousand words in a diplomatic briefing. This is how one conducts diplomacy: getting on a plane and departing in order to talk with the other side, president to president, as if they were old acquaintances.
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ANALYSIS: Bill Clinton’s Korea trip is lesson in diplomacy for Obama

Los Angeles, CA – In a tearful reunion, the two American journalists jailed in North Korea since March embraced their families at an airport hangar in Los Angeles Wednesday morning after returning home with the help of former President Bill Clinton.
Clinton walked off the private plane a few minutes later, shaking hands with the [...]

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Los Angeles, CA – Emotional Reunion As Freed U.S. Journalists Land Back Home [video]

Pyongyang – North Korean media say leader Kim Jong Il has pardoned two American journalists and ordered their release during the visit of former U.S. President Bill Clinton.
The news comes after former U.S. president Bill Clinton, traveled to North Korea today to secure the freedom of imprisoned American journalists Laura Ling and Euna Lee, who [...]

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North Korea – Two U.S. Journalists Released After Meeting With Clinton