In the Spring of that year, the Clinton administration seriously considered air strikes on North Korea's small nuclear reactor at Yongbyon.
His photos offer a fascinating peek at North Korean life and culture: Teens skating on a roller track, a woman braving a snowstorm, photos of his in-flight meal on Air Koryo, North Korea's airline.
The US flew F-22 planes from Japan to South Korea's Osan Air base on Sunday, as part of ongoing joint military exercises with South Korea, officials said.
That is why air strips from Cheju in Korea to Davao in the Philippines to Medan in Indonesia are busy turning themselves into international airports that can handle giants like the Boeing 747-400.
Also on the EU's blacklist were Ariana Afghan Airlines , North Korea's Air Koryo and Thailand's Phuket Airlines , which should mean extra traffic for more reputable types such as Malaysian Airlines , Thai Airways and Deutsche Lufthansa.
The US flew F-22 planes from Japan to South Korea's Osan Air base on Sunday, as part of ongoing joint military exercises with Seoul, officials said.
Thus, the decision to withdraw the forces was accompanied by a commitment to keep air and naval units in and around Korea-- a strong reaffirmation by the United States of its security commitment to Korea.
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The two nuclear-capable planes flew from Whitman Air force Base in Missouri to South Korea as part of a "single, continuous" round trip mission during which they dropped "inert munitions on the Jik Do Range", the statement said.
When South Korea detected the plane, six air force jets scrambled to intercept it.
Augmenting the 36, 000 U.S. troops permanently stationed in South Korea including airborne, naval and air force elements.
In the western Pacific, that would mean targeting or putting in jeopardy America's aircraft-carrier groups and its air-force bases in Okinawa, South Korea and even Guam.
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North Korea criticised Japan on Monday for conducting air-to-air refueling exercises with the American air force.
South Korea's largest airline, Korean Air, and several major hotels in Seoul, tell CNN there has been no noticeable dip in bookings.
South Korea is using aircraft and ships to collect air samples to analyse for increased radiation - which could give an indication of details about Tuesday's blast, the Associated Press news agency reported.
In South Korea, despite a recent breath of entrepreneurial fresh air, giant family-owned conglomerates, or chaebol, still dominate the domestic market.
Washington has been beefing up its joint exercises with South Korea and has added flights of its nuclear capable air craft near the Korean Peninsula, first B-52 bombers and now the B-2 stealth planes.
Seoul's air, once famously noxious, is much improved, but South Korea lags at conservation.
How likely is it that we will ever have the kind of air-tight inspection regime that prevents a hermit kingdom like North Korea from squirreling away a few fission devices?
The advanced bombers' training run from Whiteman Air Force Base in Missouri was the first such mission over South Korea to have been made public by the U.S. It was also the first time the craft have flown a round trip from U.S. to the Korean peninsula for such an exercise.
South Korea's new defence minister has said he would use air strikes against the North if it attacked civilians again.
Rodman, three members of the Harlem Globetrotters basketball team, a VICE correspondent and a production crew from the company are visiting North Korea to shoot footage for a new TV show set to air on HBO in early April, VICE told The Associated Press in an exclusive interview before the group's departure from Beijing.
There are no factories in North Korea just across the border so we knew there would be clean air.
In Korea, investigators from the Fair Trade Commission raided offices of Korean Air and Asiana, the country's two largest airlines.
One Hyundai manager told me that all North Korea had supplied when building the tourist complex was sand, water and air.
Many of Cho's buildings are in South Korea, but some of his temporary structures, such as the "Air Forest" set up in Denver, U.S., in 2008 and "Ring Dome" seen in Milan and Yokohama, have made it abroad.
The two sides are to open a direct air route between Seoul and Mount Paekdu to allow South Koreans to visit the mountain in North Korea.
The use of the B-2s, which are designed to evade radar and penetrate air defenses to drop bombs on heavily protected targets, is the strongest response yet to North Korea's recent bellicosity.
North Korea had already secretly built a nuclear reactor in Syria before Israel destroyed it in an air raid.
For instance, a Pakistani air force plane in 2002 refueled in the Chinese city of Lanzhou as it carried centrifuges to North Korea.
Korea has also been wooing mainlanders by granting visas upon arrival at Kimpo Airport, increasing Korean Air and Asiana flights to Seoul and Cheju Island and by assigning 35 travel agencies to cater to Chinese tourists, 210, 000 of whom are anticipated this year.
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