North Korea Calls for Peace Treaty Talks With U.S.

Jan. 11, 2010 SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea on Monday proposed talks with the United States to reach a formal peace treaty that would replace the truce that halted the Korean War 57 years ago, indicating that it would not give up its nuclear weapons until Washington signed such an accord. North Korea said peace talks should be held either as part of the six-nation talks that focus on ending its nuclear weapons program or as a separate negotiation. But the North also warned that it would not return to six-nation talks — from which it withdrew last April — unless the United Nations lifted sanctions imposed after the North’s nuclear and ballistic missile tests last year. The North had previously proposed peace negotiations with the United States and South Korea.. » read more

Korean Navies Exchange Fire

Nov. 10, 2009   Seoul, South Korea (CNN) -- North and South Korea said their naval forces clashed Tuesday in disputed waters, and each blamed the other for what is the first such violent incident in seven years. South Korean Rear Adm. Lee Ki Sik said the nation's forces issued three verbal warnings to a ship from the Communist north once it had crossed a demarcation line late Tuesday morning. The South Koreans then fired a warning shot, but when the North Korean vessel continued southward, the South Koreans opened fire.. » read more

'We Could Feel Your Love' (with video)

Thursday, August 6, 2009   BURBANK, Calif., Aug. 5 -- Almost any airplane hangar could double as a soundstage, and in the gray light of Wednesday's dawn, Hangar 25 at Bob Hope Airport began to feel more than a little like another Southern California morning on the set. The vast, antiseptic space was designated for the day's great reunion scene. Camera crews were ushered to risers behind velvet ropes.. » read more

North Korea Ready for Talks Over Nuclear Weapons

Monday 27, July 2009  Pyongyang seeks to end standoff with US and address foreign tensions over missile launches.     Beijing - North Korea said today it was open to talks about the rising tension over its nuclear weapons programme, a marked shift in tactics after months of ratcheting up foreign anxieties with nuclear test and missile launches. A North Korean soldier keeps watch at the border, about 34 miles north of Seoul. (Photo: Jo Yong-Hak / Reuters)     The statement appeared to be a call for direct talks with the United States, a longstanding goal of the regime. It comes days after the North Korean leadership traded jibes with the US secretary of state, Hillary Clinton, at a regional summit in Thailand.. » read more

Defying U.S., N. Korea Fires Barrage of Missiles

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The Geopolitics of the US-North Korea Standoff

June 29, 2009 The nuclear test by North Korea (DPRK) on 25 May unleashed a predictable torrent of pronouncements, mostly hypocritical and few suggesting anything approaching a meaningful analysis of the geopolitical struggle of which it was one event among many. There are many important, yet unanswered, questions of which the principle one is perhaps why, and how, did the Obama administration seemingly drift into confrontation with North Korea, with unpredictable but ominous consequences?  How did Obama, who was elected on a platform of change and hope so quickly get enmeshed in the worst legacy of his predecessor? That, of course, stretches beyond the Korean peninsula to the Middle East; it is unfortunately  not inconceivable that he will be remembered in history as having turned Bush’s two wars into four, by adding Pakistan and Korea.  Obama had inherited a negotiation process which, although it had been stalled and derailed by hardliners in Washington, could with relative ease, had there been firm and unified leadership, been brought to a swift conclusion - "It could be worked out, in my opinion, in half a day" said Jimmy Carter.[1] The situation on the Korea peninsula is quite unlike the intractable problems the US faces, for instance, in the Middle East.  In Kim Jong Il, Obama has a counterpart who is strategic and in control of policy.. » read more

NKorea Threatens to Harm US if Attacked

June 22, 2009 by Jae-Soon Chang AP North Korea boasted of being a "proud nuclear power" and threatened Monday to harm the U.S. if attacked as tensions mounted over a possible crackdown on exports of suspected missile parts from the North. Photo: Collage made of pictures of North Korean leader Kim Jong Il on display at an unification observation post near the border village of Panmunjom. (AP) President Barack Obama said the US is ready to cope with "any contingencies" involving North Korea and vowed not to "reward belligerence and provocation.. » read more

The U.S. and North Korea: The Need for an About Face

June 10, 2009  The current drift in U.S. policy toward North Korea is exposing the weakness of President Obama’s foreign policy team, specifically the absence of both a lead strategic voice and an advisor with North Korean expertise. North Korea has been a nagging problem for over 50 years. We know very little about the country and have few intelligence resources on it.. » read more

North Korea Puts Long-Range Missile on Launch Pad, Reports Say

Monday 01 June 2009 The test firing could come within weeks, possibly when the South Korean president meets with Obama on June 16. photo North Korea soldiers patrol a region near the Sinuiju River bank. (Photo: AP)     Seoul - North Korea has positioned its most sophisticated long-range ballistic missile at a launch site for a test firing that could come within weeks, a newspaper here reported Monday.     Pyongyang, which last month raised tensions worldwide by conducting a nuclear test, could even fire its missile when South Korean President Lee Myung-bak meets President Obama in Washington on June 16, according to the report.     In recent days, North Korea has ordered all shipping traffic from waters off its west coast, a ban it said was effective through July.. » read more

B-2 STEALTH BOMBERS BEING DEPLOYED !

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