New SKorea gov't to axe ministry handling NKorea
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South Korea's incoming government will shut down the ministry handling relations with North Korea as part of moves to streamline the administration, officials said Wednesday.
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South Korea's new foreign minister called Wednesday for all sides to work for progress at upcoming talks on North Korea's nuclear weapons program, saying Seoul would play an active role in seeking to persuade Pyongyang to disarm.
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Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will announce a new cabinet line-up on Monday to try to shore up faltering support a month after his coalition suffered a massive election defeat.
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Anecdotal evidence of public criticism of  North Korean leader Kim Jong-il's rule may point to less  control over society after market reforms began but does not  mean Kim is losing his grip, North Korea experts said Tuesday.
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North Korea will soon start disabling its Soviet-era nuclear facility that makes arms-grade plutonium as called for in a deal the secretive state struck with regional powers, the South's foreign minister said on Wednesday.
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South Koreans will elect a new president on Wednesday who is expected to reposition Seoul closer to Washington, ending a decade in which left-leaning leaders sparred with their U.S. ally over North Korea policy.
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SEOUL, South Korea - A huge cloud that billowed up from North Korea several days ago was an intentional part of a planned demolition for a hydroelectric project, the BBC quoted the country's foreign minister as saying Monday.    Foreign Minister Paek Nam Sun was responding to a request for information from British Foreign Office minister Bill Rammell, who is visiting Pyongyang, the British Broadcasting Corp...
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North Korean officials have angrily denied reports that portraits of the country&#39;s leader are being taken down. There has been speculation about major changes at the top of North Korean politics.
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Britain is to send a minister for the first time to the reclusive communist state of North Korea to press for action over the issue of nuclear weaponry and to improve its human rights record.
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SEOUL : North Korea says it will not return to international talks on its nuclear weapons programme until the lineup of a new US administration emerges and Washington drops its &quot;hostile policy&quot; toward the communist state.
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Ban Ki-Moon, South Korea's foreign minister, is the leading candidate to replace Secretary-General Kofi Annan.
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The U.N.'s nuclear agency plans to send a team to North Korea as early as next weekend and keep two staff there to supervise and verify disarmament of the North's atomic programme, Yonhap News reported on Sunday.
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North Korean leader Kim Jong-il has taken  his former secretary as his new wife, South Korea's Yonhap news  agency reported on Sunday, citing sources familiar with the  country.
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Shakeup aims to restore public confidence in role but function as government adviser likely to stay.
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Nepal's king names a new cabinet - a day after sacking the government and imposing a state of emergency.
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South Korean lawmakers have agreed to spare the ministry responsible for relations with North Korea and reject a call for its closure made by the president-elect, local media reported on Saturday.
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YANGON - Myanmar state radio and television reported Saturday a major Cabinet reshuffle in which the foreign minister and two other ministers were replaced.