SEOUL, South Korea (AP) North and South Korea staged dueling war games Monday as threatening rhetoric from the rivals rose to the highest level since North Korea rained artillery shells on a South Korean island in 2010.
Lee is the AP's bureau chief for North Korea and South Korea, and has made more than 20 trips to North Korea since 2008.
See North Korea and Cuba, or for that matter compare North Korea with South Korea, or the old East Germany with the old West Germany.
On the most pressing non-proliferation issue, North Korea, Mr Bush emphasised the six-party talks America is involved in (with China, Russia, North Korea, South Korea and Japan), while Mr Kerry said he would negotiate directly with North Korea.
There are military options for South Korea beyond firing missiles, said John Delury, who studies North and South Korea at the Asia Society.
Ms. Park has said she wants to build trust with her neighbors to the north and said the international community should create a park in the Demilitarized Zone that separates North Korea and South Korea.
Interestingly, the promotions came amid a slight easing in what had become an increasingly hostile relationship between North and South Korea in the wake of the North's sinking of the South Korean navy vessel Cheonan in March.
Those talks include the United States, North Korea, South Korea, China, Japan and Russia.
Continued improvement of relations between North Korea and South Korea, leading to their eventual peaceful unification.
If North Korea attacks South Korea, it's effectively an attack on the United States.
Mixed up with the question of how to deal with North Korea are South Korea's relations with America.
When North Korea invaded South Korea, Truman took recourse to the new U.N.
Markets overall were weak due to hostilities between North Korea and South Korea, along with ongoing woes with European sovereign debt.
The Foreign Secretary said the recent escalation of tensions between North Korea and South Korea will also be discussed at the meetings.
On Sunday, North Korea rebuffed South Korea's offer last week for talks.
Neither North Korea nor South Korea has any illusions that the Europeans have influence, or indeed till now much interest, in Korean affairs.
Technically, North Korea and South Korea remain at war, as the conflict ended in an armed truce that never developed into a formal peace agreement.
Some other non-supportive issues include North Korea and South Korea.
The missile launches come during a low in relations between North Korea and South Korea as Pyongyang has rejected calls from Seoul for talks over their closed joint industrial complex.
The six-party process -- including the nations of North Korea, South Korea, the United States, Russia, China and Japan -- is the diplomatic effort to address North Korea's nuclear program.
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The latest network paralysis took place just days after North Korea accused South Korea and the U.S. of staging a cyberattack that shut down its websites for two days last week.
Their visit comes at a particularly delicate time, scarcely a month after the breakdown of the planned six-party talks (with U.S., China, Russia, Japan, North Korea and South Korea) that the White House insists is the proper venue for resolving the nuclear standoff.
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But in the late 1990s, some of the banks wanted to capitalize on hopes at that time for a reunification between North Korea and South Korea, so they parceled some of the nonperforming loans into two tranches of 293 million Deutsche marks and 217 million Swiss francs.
"We will closely follow the future behavior of the present ruling quarters of south Korea, including Park Geun-hye, " the report said, using a lowercase "s" in South because North Korea doesn't acknowledge South Korea as an independent country.
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Already, things are shifting in South Korea: the Pentagon announced in June that its 15, 000 troops on the front line along the demilitarised zone between North and South Korea will drop back to a spot a bit closer to (though still north of) Seoul, the South Korean capital.
In December 2010, he was granted rare access to travel to North Korea with former New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson as the world watched tensions mount between North and South Korea.
Japan could point to the curious case of its neighbors, North and South Korea.
Political and ideological rivals North and South Korea were drawn together in the Asian section.
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