Choi Kang is director of American studies at the Institute for Foreign Affairs and National Security in South Korea.

VOA: standard.2009.12.08

Secretary Clinton says foreign ministers also talked about security issues,including North Korea's nuclear program and the new U.S.policy of dialogue with Burma's military government.

VOA: standard.2009.11.11

But he says a significant number of foreign troops will be needed to help establish and then maintain security in Afghanistan, possibly for decades.

VOA: standard.2009.10.16

European Union foreign ministers expressed concern not only about the security situation in Afghanistan, but also about the lack of sufficient progress in political reform there.

VOA: standard.2009.10.27

Last week in New York, Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki invited diplomats from all 15 U.N.Security Council member countries, including the United States, to an unusual dinner meeting.

VOA: standard.2010.05.14

Foreign Minister Lieberman urged Ban Ki-moon not to send the Goldstone Report to the U.N.Security Council, which could refer it to the International Criminal Court in The Hague.

VOA: standard.2009.10.23

On Sunday,Emanuel said the main question now is whether there will be a credible Afghan government to help provide security and government services, if foreign troops are able to reverse recent Taliban gains.

VOA: standard.2009.10.20

Clinton says preventing the exploitation and marginalization of girls is no longer an afterthought but a core foreign policy objective of the United States, which is co-sponsoring a Security Council resolution on the issue next week.

VOA: standard.2009.09.25

"The fight against terrorists and violent extremists has been returned to its right and proper place -no longer defining, indeed,distorting, our entire national security and foreign policy, but rather serving as a vital part of those larger policies,"

VOA: standard.2009.08.06

"It depends on what the Egyptians will do out of it and how they focus the investment foreign policy-wise in key spaces which are relevant to national security issues where Egypt has a greater chance of success."

VOA: standard.2009.11.03

While Foreign Office officials will not confirm or deny the widespread media reports here that two Britons employed as private security guards in Iraq have died in captivity, various accounts point to the likelihood that Alan McMenemy and Alec MacLachlan are probably dead.

VOA: standard.2009.07.29

Blair's very vocal critics are lining up. Opposition Conservative politician and member of the Intelligence and Security committee Richard Ottaway says it appears that the most significant foreign affairs initiative Britain has dealt with since the WWII was argued and debated on a false premise and that he says that raises profound constitutional questions.

VOA: standard.2009.12.13