North Korea said the US free citizens

Illustration. Uniformed military personnel lined up outside the Kumsusan Palace in pictures taken from the video. (Photo FROM REUTERS/KRT/via Reuters TV)

Washington (News and Us)-the United States called North Korea, on the basis of humanity to immediately release its citizens Kenneth Bae, who is accused of trying to overthrow the country's Government closed it.

United States citizens of Korea Kenneth Bae (44 years) it is one of the five tourists, who visit the city of Rajin in the Northeast, in the course of five days in November 2012 and North Korea arrested since then.

"We called for the DPRK to free Kenneth Bae soon for reasons of humanity," said State Department Spokesman United States Patrick Ventrell told reporters in a daily briefing, Monday, as quoted from Reuters.

KCNA, North Korea's official news agency Saturday, said Bae had "admitted that he committed a crime that aims to overthrow the DPRK with wicked ways". KCNA, North Korea's official name, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.

"The crime is proven by the evidence," he said, adding that the question will soon be taken to the Supreme Court for trial.

Step it up in the middle of a long diplomatic stalemate between Pyongyang and Washington over North Korea's nuclear program.

Tensions between North Korea and South Korea and its allies United States has improved in recent weeks since the United States tightened sanctions after testing nuclear weapons North Korea third in February.

New sanctions that make Pyongyang threatened nuclear attack against South Korea and the United States.

A number of United States citizens of Korea has experienced difficulties in North Korea for years, and Pyongyang has tried to use their detention to trigger visits of high-level Americans, especially former President Bill Clinton.

A United States official who spoke on condition anonymity said Bae had entered North Korea with a valid visa and that the United States does not want the case being exploited for political purposes.

"In the past there have been many examples where ... citizens United used as key political bargaining and we value individuals cannot be used to the way it was," said officials of the United States, as reported in Reuters.

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North Korea threatens U.S. bases in Japan

North Korea's Army following military exercises in a picture released by North Korea's official KCNA news agency in Pyongyang, Friday (20/3). According to KCNA picture taken on Wednesday (20/3). (REUTERS/KCNA)

The US should not forget that the base Anderson ... as well as a naval base on the main island of Okinawa, Japan, all within reach of the target assets of our precision

Seoul (Reuters)-armed forces of North Korea (North Korea), Thursday, threatening future attacks the United States military bases in Japan, in response to the use of U.S. B-52 bombers armed with nuclear weapons in military training along with South Korea.

The threat came a day after Pyongyang condemned the flight-B-52 flight as "not the unforgivable provocation" and threatened to take military action if they continue.

The Pentagon confirmed that a B-52 took off from Andersen Air Force base in Guam, had been flying over South Korea as part of an annual joint drills, but Pyongyang insists the exercise to consider it as a provocation.

"We can not tolerate the US do exercise a nuclear attack, define us as targets, and notify them as strong warning message," said a spokesman for the armed forces high command in North Korea.

"The US should not forget that the base Anderson ... as well as a naval base on the main island of Okinawa, Japan, all within reach of our precision target assets," it said in a statement broadcast by the Korea Central News Agency (KCNA).

Military tensions on the peninsula of Korea are at the highest level during the past few years, with North Korea--angry against the UN sanctions imposed after its nuclear test last month, he--threatening a second Korea War supported by nuclear weapons.

The B-52 had taken part in training with the South Korea-us earlier, but the Pentagon said it has published its use at this time to underscore the U.S. commitment to defending ally South Korea.

"Because the US has started to conduct nuclear blackmail is naked, and we will switch to the appropriate military action," said the spokesman of North Korea's military without elaborating.
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U.S. officials secretly visited North Korea last year

North Korea's leader Kim Jong-un. (REUTERS/Kyodo)

... This is one thing that I think is not worth it for me to say

Los Angeles (Reuters)-the United States officials visited North Korea twice secretly last year, in an attempt to improve relations after North Korea's leader Kim Jong-Un to assume the Office, said the Los Angeles Times newspaper, Saturday.

By citing the statement of former officials is not mentioned by name, knowing that the visit, the newspaper said the visit in April and August that aims to encourage new leaders in Pyongyang ran a moderate foreign policy.

The visit was led by Joseph DeTrani April, which at that time was the Director of national intelligence agency "National Counterproliferation Center."

It is not clear who is leading the August visit, the newspaper said.

The Times quoted officials as saying that Sydney Seiler, an analyst of the CIA veterans, who are fluent in Korea and led Korea Policy Board at the National Security Council, took part in two of the visit.

DeTrani withdrew from the Government last year and is now leading the Intelligence and national security Alliance, an industry group, said the newspaper.

"There are certain things I don't want to say, and this is one thing that I think is not worth it for me to disclose," the report said quoting a statement DeTrani in one telephone interview.

DeTrani said he and other u.s. experts had seen signs that Kim Jong-Un may be less assertive in comparison with his father, including placing a moderate figures in important government positions.

Without confirm excursions in 2012, she added take it is the need for US to conduct negotiations with officials from North Korea after the death of Kim Jong-Il, the paper said, as quoted by AFP.

U.s. officials have visited North Korea in the past. Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright made an official visit to the country in 2000.

U.S. officials visited North Korea last year 2009 was Stephen Bosworth, who endeavored to re-start the stalled negotiations with six countries of North Korea nuclear program.

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North Korea gave nuclear scientist award

Images taken from a video snippet of the KCNA, Thursday (14/12), shows the launch of a rocket Unha-2 (Galaxy 3) satellite launch site in the Western sea of North Korea in the satellite control center in North Pyongan Province of Cholsan. The Video was taken on December 12, 2012. (REUTERS/KCNA)

... in order to make North Korea as the country is unparalleled in nuclear weapons ... "

Seoul (Reuters)-North Korea has given the country's Medal and other awards for the thousands of scientists and workers who are behind the nuclear tests recently, State media said.

State Awards, medals and other benefits given to scientists, technicians, 11.592 workers and other officials for their contribution to the nuclear test, February 12, the official news agency, said the Korean Central News Agency Saturday.

North Korea's nuclear test was the third, which followed rocket launches at long-range last December that was widely criticized, prompting criticism of the round in the Security Council.

Nuclear scientists and other officials who are working on testing was also accepted and welcomed as heroes in Pyongyang last week when they win a trip to the capital.

"They are now spending a fun day in Pyongyang, providing the greatest support and privileges," said the KCNA.

The high level officials praised the scientists and workers as a true patriot and urged them to further develop nuclear technology in order to make North Korea as the country is unparalleled in nuclear weapons.

North Korea's leader, Kim Jong-un, as well as giving the country's Medal and other awards to hundreds of scientists working on the launch of the rocket.

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South Korea boost missile defenses

South Korea and the United States Marines follow Winter military exercises on Pyeonchang, some 180km from Seoul, South Korea, Thursday (7/2). North Korea has vowed to launch more rockets and nuclear test in response to UN censure of the launch of a long-range missile last December.(REUTERS/Lee Jae-Won)

... will speed up the development of ballistic missiles with a range of 800 kilometers ... "

Seoul (AFP)-South Korea, Wednesday, States will accelerate the development of long-range missiles that can reach all areas of North Korea in response to Pyongyang's third nuclear test. Yesterday the Pyongyang test fly system to confirm the success of their "mini" nuclear weapons. A free trial of it to cause seismic activity equivalent to 4.9 on the Richter scale with a roughly seven-kiloton warhead. Hiroshima atomic bomb by The Little Boy bomb on August 6, 1945, consisting of 20 kilotons.

"We will accelerate the development of ballistic missiles with a range of 800 kilometers," said a spokesman for the Ministry of Defense of South Korea, Kim Min-Seok, told reporters. Not just Pyongyang that could be achieved, but also Beijing and China's cities in the country-side Bamboo Curtain.

In October last year, South Korea has reached an agreement with the United States expanded the range of their missiles system up to three times as much. South Korea based it is essential in order to ward off missiles North Korea nuclear program and answers to Pyongyang.

The UNITED NATIONS puts soldiers in South Korea 28,500 and guarantee a "nuclear umbrella" If the adversary State Ginseng that attacked the use of nuclear weapons. In return, South Korea should be subject to the provisions of the limitation of the ability of misilnya.

Based on the agreement in last October, South Korea develop missiles capable of roaming is limited to 300 kilometers.

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The SECURITY COUNCIL condemnation of North Korea nuclear test

South Korea's Foreign Minister Kim Sung-Hwan. (INTERMEDIATE)

United Nations (Reuters)-the Security Council of the United Nations (DK-UN), Tuesday, denounced the nuclear test North Korea carried out a third time and was determined to take action against Pyongyang.

"The members of the Security Council condemned vigorously these trials, which is a violation of the resolutions of the Security Council," said South Korea's Foreign Minister Kim Sung-hwan, told reporters, Reuters reported.

South Korea currently is President of the Security Council's monthly.

Sung-hwan says now DK-UN would consider taking "appropriate measures."

Non-binding statement was agreed to by all 15 members of the DK-UN.

United States Ambassador to the UN, Susan Rice, said Washington and its allies want the Security Council passed a resolution that would "add to the sanctions"--who had previously been dropped atomic trials related by Pyongyang in 2006 and 2009.

The Council statement was agreed upon when he did, the trial closed the emergency dituanrumahi by South Korea.

The diplomat said the negotiations about new sanctions could run for weeks because China seems to reject the new measures over fears that new sanctions will lead to further reprisals by North Korea's leader.

Beijing also previously worrisome that heavier sanctions will weaken the economy and cause a flood of refugees fleeing North Korea North Korea to China.

United States, United Kingdom, France, Russia and China--the five permanent members of the 15-Member Council of State--denounced the latest nuclear test by Pyongyang.

It's called trial supervisory international nuclear test in Vienna as approximately two times larger than North Korea had done in 2009.

U.s. President Barack Obama said the "dangers of threatening activities that North Korea conducted a guarantee for taking further action that is rapid and assured by the international community."

Obama will deliver the annual State of the Union Speech on Tuesday night.

Diplomats say North Korea may indeed choose to blow up the Atomic Sealsa day because Pyongyang usually do such measures on important days in the calendar.

In Beijing, Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi on Tuesday called North Korea's Ambassador to China to deliver a protest against its latest nuclear test by North Korea.

Who said China "strongly dissatisfied and resolutely opposed" the test.

A number of diplomats from member countries of the Security Council said that the u.s. and its allies will attempt to embody the overthrow sanctions heavier than just extending the sanctions currently applied after a nuclear test by Pyongyang in 2006 and 2009.

There is no clarity about what steps, if any, that will be supported by China.

Diplomats say China's delegation at the meeting pointed out that his country closed there is the possibility of supporting a new Security Council resolution is a matter of North Korea but does not specify which aspects will they support. (T008/AK)

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Three doctor who was murdered in Nigeria citizens of North Korea

Kano, Nigeria (ANTARANews)-the three doctors who were killed in the attack with a knife in northeastern Nigeria on Sunday is a citizen of North Korea, said the police and local governments, having previously occurred regarding the nationality of the victim kesimpangsiuran.

"The three people it came from North Korea, rather than from South Korea," said the head of the regional police, Rufa'i, Yobe State Sanusi told AFP about the attack, which took place in the restive area of Potiskum.

"They are the doctors who work in Potiskum to State Governments," he added.

Abdullahi, spokesman for the Governor of the Dingle area of Yobe State, also identifies the sacrifices as citizens of North Korea and say, they were in Nigeria as part of an agreement of cooperation was signed about five years ago.

According to police, people armed with knives slit the third doctor was in a offensive towards dawn, the last such killings in the past few months.

Police had earlier identified the victim as Chinese, then South Korea, before finally saying that they came from North Korea.

The North Korea Embassy officials could not be reached for comment about the attacks they requested it.

In November, gunmen shot dead two Chinese building workers in the State of Borno, the adjacent headquarters of the hard-line group Boko Haram.

Three others also killed Chinese in separate attacks in the area.

Some Nigerians also became a victim of gorok the neck in that area in the past few months.

Although there has been no parties who claim to be responsible, the attacks were similar to those performed by the Boko Haram before against foreigners.

Violence escalates in Nigeria since the attacks killed dozens of people during Christmas celebrations 2011 which was claimed by hardline muslim group Boko Haram.

Kano, the city has a population of about 10 million people in Northern Nigeria, a region which was hit hardest in the violence.

A series of bombings and shootings swept Kano after Friday prayers on January 20, 2012, killing 185 people, in attacks claimed by Boko Haram which aimed at the police headquarters and the offices of other policemen, a police building and immigration offices.

The attacks were the most deadly operations by the Group and is aimed primarily at the police station.

Boko Haram claimed dozens of attacks in Nigeria, including suicide bombings in August at UN headquarters in Abuja that killed at least 24 people.

A series of bomb attacks in the city of Jos, central Nigeria, on Christmas Eve 2010 also claimed by Boko Haram.

Boko Haram launched a violent action in 2009 that the uprising was crushed brutally by the military which killed about 800 people and destroying mosques and their headquarters in the northeastern city of Maiduguri, Nigeria.

The Group was inactive for about a year and then appeared again in 2010 with a series of murders.

Nigeria's population of over 160 million people split in the northern region, which is mostly Muslim and the South largely Christian. (M014)

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N Korea and US agree on war dead

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22 October 2011 Last updated at 04:00 GMT The search for US Korean war dead stopped because of North Korea's nuclear ambitions The United States has reached agreement with North Korea to resume searching for the remains of American soldiers killed during the Korean War after a six-year halt.

The US said searches would start again next year in an area north of the North Korean capital Pyongyang.

Recovery operations stopped amid tension over North Korea's nuclear ambitions.

Between 1996 and 2005, remains have been found of more than 200 Americans.

US teams are due to start recovery efforts next year in an area around 100km (60 miles) north of Pyongyang where more than 2,000 soldiers and marines are believed to have gone missing during the 1950-53 war, the US Department of Defense said.

The US insisted that accounting for missing soldiers is "a stand-alone humanitarian matter, not tied to any other issue between the two countries".

The department said it had concluded arrangements with North Korea that will "ensure the effectiveness and safety" of teams heading into the isolated and impoverished country.

Stalled talks

North Korea said last month it would restart talks, and officials met in the Thai capital Bangkok for three days.

The move comes amid some signs the two sides are looking to re-engage.

US and North Korean negotiators plan to meet in Geneva next week to discuss reviving stalled international talks on ending North Korea's nuclear programme.

The two sides last met in July, in New York, to discuss a resumption of the six-party talks, which also include South Korea, Japan, Russia and China.

The talks broke down in April 2009, just before Pyongyang carried out its second nuclear test.

Just under 8,000 US service personnel remain classified as missing more than half a century after the Korean War, which ended in a truce.

But work was called off in 2005 as ties between the two nations deteriorated, with North Korea conducting its first nuclear test a year later.

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U.S.-South Korea Trade Deal a Win-Win for Jobs, Economy

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Promoting a new trade deal with South Korea, President Obama and South Korean President Lee Myung-bak toured a General Motors assembly plant in Michigan Friday, drawing attention to a prickly business relationship in a state humbled by Asian car imports, while also highlighting the president's efforts to revitalize the U.S. auto industry.

Congress approved the deal this week in a rare bipartisan achievement after negotiators overcame U.S. auto industry complaints that previous efforts at a deal failed to do enough to lift South Korea's barriers to U.S.-made cars, the Associated Press reported.

Both Obama and Lee hailed the trade agreement as a win-win for both nations, acknowledging the serious headwinds facing the global economy. "Times are tough and they've been tougher in Detroit than they have been just about anywhere else," Obama told workers gathered at the GM plant that produces the new Chevrolet Sonic subcompact. "Despite all the work that lays ahead, American industry is coming back to life and industries of tomorrow are taking root."

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In taking Lee to the nucleus of the American auto industry, Obama painted a picture of a region devastated by foreign auto competition but also underscored the resurgence he helped engineer with the $80 billion government bailout for GM and Chrysler in 2009.

"The auto industry is of enormous symbolic importance," says Michael Czinkota, associate professor of international business at Georgetown University's McDonough School of Business. "You saw the bankruptcy of Chrysler, GM, and the bare survival of Ford, so being in Michigan and saying 'We're back' and 'We can compete internationally' is a terribly important message."

The auto industry has recovered slightly, but at 11.2 percent Michigan still suffers from the third highest unemployment rate, making the state a likely battleground in Obama's 2012 campaign. Today's visit marks the president's ninth trip to the state this year, according to CBS, and Vice President Biden was in the state earlier this week.

Experts say Obama's re-election hinges on winning a broad range of states, including those closely tied to the auto industry such as Ohio, Wisconsin, and Indiana, where some of the biggest economic and political challenges exist.

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In the run-up to campaign season Obama has focused almost exclusively on jobs, and hammering out delayed trade agreements with South Korea, Panama, and Columbia is no exception. "We live in a global economy where most potential customers for American companies like GM won't be here in the U.S., they'll be all around the world," Obama said. "The more goods and services we sell abroad the more jobs we create at home. Every $1 billion in exports supports thousands of American jobs."

Obama has said the newly-brokered deal with South Korea will create 70,000 new jobs and increase U.S. exports by $11 billion. The agreement will boost the economy more than the last nine trade agreements combined, he added, emphasizing the deal between the U.S. and Korea is a balanced one. "They buy as much stuff from us as they sell to us," he said, taking a swipe at some of America's less-balanced trade relationships. "That's how a free and fair trade is supposed to be. It's not a one-sided competition."

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Despite relatively favorable ratings among voters in Michigan, White house campaign strategists aren't taking the state as a given. Obama won Michigan in 2008 with 57 percent of the vote, but could face difficulty in the state especially if former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney (a Michigan native and son of former Michigan Gov. George Romney) is Obama's opponent in the general election.

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Obama Commends Trade Pact With South Korea

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WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama hailed a just-completed trade deal with South Korea Thursday as he welcomed the country's president to the White House, offering warm praise for a solid ally in a world in flux.

At a joint news conference with South Korean President Lee Myung-bak, Obama said that the long-delayed trade pact approved late Wednesday by Congress is "a win for both our countries," and that he and Lee had agreed to move forward with it quickly.

Obama said the deal would increase U.S. exports by $11 billion and support 70,000 jobs, while opening Korea's market to U.S. goods. Alluding to an issue that held up the deal, Obama said, "I'm very pleased it will help level the playing field for American automakers."

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Obama is scheduled to take Lee with him to the Detroit area on Friday to tour a GM plant.

Lee said the trade deal, which still requires approval from South Korea's legislature, "will mark a turning point in the enduring alliance between our two nations" and called it "a historic achievement that will become a significant milestone."

Lee's state visit, officially begun Thursday morning with a South Lawn arrival ceremony full of pomp and circumstance, gave Obama a chance to celebrate a victory after going to Seoul last November to announce a free-trade pact with Lee — only to stand with his ally empty-handed because their negotiators had not been able to finish the deal.

For Obama, it was a rare bipartisan achievement amid political gridlock over his jobs agenda heading into his re-election campaign, and the president touted it as proof of his ability to work with the opposition.

"This trade deal, this Korea free trade act, shows we are happy to work with Republicans where they are willing to put politics behind the interests of the American people," Obama said.

Lee was to address a joint session of Congress Thursday afternoon before wrapping up his visit with a state dinner, the Obama administration's fifth such gala. Earlier Obama entertained Lee in a less formal setting, taking him out to eat at an upscale Korean restaurant in Virginia Wednesday evening.

It was a sign of the close relationship between the two leaders, which both underscored during their news conference.

Obama called Korea "one of our strongest allies" and praised Lee's "vision and commitment."

Lee, who took time Wednesday to visit the Korean War Veterans Memorial on the National Mall, returned the compliment, speaking of "the strong partnership and friendship between our two countries."

Obama also had strong words for communist-governed North Korea, saying that "if Pyongyang continues to ignore its international obligations it will invite even more pressure and isolation." Asked whether North Korea might one day undergo the kind of popular uprising that toppled governments in the Arab Spring, Obama suggested that someday it might.

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"I think that obviously the people of North Korea have been suffering under repressive policies for a very long time and none of us can look at a crystal ball and known when suddenly that type of government collapses on its own," Obama said. "What we know though is what people everywhere ... are looking for is the ability to determine their own destiny."

Lee joined Obama in condemning North Korea and calling on the country to "abandon its nuclear ambitions."

The U.S. and South Korea, Lee said, "speak with one voice" on the issue.

The trade deal — America's biggest free-trade agreement since the 1994 North American Free Trade Agreement with Canada and Mexico — will elevate the U.S.-South Korean alliance, traditionally defined by their opposition to North Korea. More than 28,000 U.S. troops remain based in South Korea as a deterrent.

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