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N. Korea urges South to accept Kim Jong-Un talks offer
AFP, Published on 20/05/2016
» SEOUL - North Korea urged South Korea on Friday to accept leader Kim Jong-Un's proposal for military talks and ease tensions that surged after the North's fourth nuclear test in January.
Two Koreas hold rare high-level talks
AFP, Published on 11/12/2015
» SEOUL - North and South Korea were set to hold rare, high-level talks Friday, with each side looking to wrestle concessions from the other on stalled cross-border programmes in which both their leaders have a political stake.
NE Asia summit shows SE Asia weaknesses
News, Thitinan Pongsudhirak, Published on 13/11/2015
» Although it papered over differences, the recent resumption of a summit meeting among China, Japan and South Korea has cooled bilateral tensions in Northeast Asia with longer-term implications for Southeast Asia.
US Sergeant Hagel meets his PLA counterparts
AFP, Published on 09/04/2014
» Over kung pao chicken and dumplings, Pentagon chief Chuck Hagel recalled his days as an infantryman in Vietnam Wednesday with young Chinese soldiers at a People's Liberation Army (PLA) training academy.
The way to end the Korean 'Cold War'
Published on 07/04/2014
» The confrontation on the Korean Peninsula has an almost fossil-like quality. North Korea, in particular, has driven the peninsula into a calcified rut so deep that all perspective has been lost. Initiatives to shift the stalemate have tended to become smaller and narrower, and easily overwhelmed by the deeply embedded instincts to preserve the status quo.
Japan demands 'concrete' action from N. Korea
AFP, Published on 01/03/2012
» Six-party talks on North Korea's nuclear programme have moved a step closer to resumption after Pyongyang's deal with Washington but there needed to be "concrete" action, Japan said Thursday.