Koreas – North Korean leader Kim Jong Il makes summit offer to South Korea (Times Online)

North Korean leader Kim Jong Il makes summit offer to South Korea (Times Online)
The North Korean leader, Kim Jong Il, has secretly invited South Korea s President to a summit meeting in Pyongyang, in a further sign of his regime s new drive to engage with the outside world, The Times has learnt.

U.S., South Korean defense ministers: North Korea still a threat (Chinapost.com.tw)
SEOUL, South Korea The U.S. defense secretary said Thursday that North Korea continues to pose a grave threat to international peace and pledged to protect South Korea with Washington’s full military might, including its nuclear capabilities.

Iran, N. Korea supplying weapons to Syria (UPI)
WASHINGTON, Oct. 23 (UPI) — Iran has acted as mediator with North Korea to deliver weapons of mass destruction and missile technology to Syria, a congressional report said.

N Korea moves spark inter-Korean summit speculation (Asia News Network)
Speculation is brewing over possible inter-Korean contact behind the scenes after North Korean officials in charge of relations with the South were found to have recently visited Beijing.

Union accuses principal in South Korea of unfair labor practices (Stars and Stripes)
OSAN AIR BASE, South Korea The union representing teachers at Osan American Middle School in South Korea has filed a federal labor complaint accusing principal Jennifer Smith of imposing extra work on teachers as punishment for a previous complaint about her made by the union to the DODEA.

N Korea moves spark inter-Korean summit speculation (Asia News Network)
Speculation is brewing over possible inter-Korean contact behind the scenes after North Korean officials in charge of relations with the South were found to have recently visited Beijing. Kim Yang-g …..

Clinton warns against N. Korea over denuclearization
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton warned Wednesday the United States will not ease its sanctions on North Korea unless Pyongyang takes steps toward complete, verifiable and irreversible denuclearization. The top U.S. diplomat said in a speech in Washington the United States will never move to normalize relations with a nuclear-armed North Korea.

Clinton warns against N. Korea over denuclearization
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Wednesday the United States will not ease sanctions on North Korea unless there are steps taken by Pyongyang toward complete, verifiable and irreversible denuclearization. The top U.S. diplomat made the remarks in a speech in Washington, though she said the United States is prepared to talk bilaterally with North Korea in the near future.

Gates: N.Korea still threat to international peace (AP via Yahoo! Malaysia News)
The U.S. defense secretary said Thursday that North Korea continues to pose a grave threat to international peace and pledged to protect South Korea with Washington’s full military might, including its nuclear capabilities. Defense Secretary Robert Gates and his South Korean counterpart, Kim Tae-young, said their two nations will never accept North Korea as a nuclear weapons state. They accused …

S Korea gov’t open to inter-Korean summit: Unification Minister (People’s Daily)
South Korea’s unification minister said Friday that his government is open to an inter-Korean summit, although he couldn’t give details on whether the two Koreas are in the process of setting up the negotiation table. “With respect to the summit, we need to take various conditions such as progress on the North Korean (the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea) nuclear issue and whether the inter …

S Korea, U.S. military officials kick off annual security talks (People’s Daily)
Senior military officials from South Korea and the United States on Wednesday kicked off their annual security talks, which are expected to focus on the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) issues and the alliance between the two nations, local media reported. The Military Committee Meeting (MCM), which brought South Korean Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Lee Sang-eui and his U.S …

US defence secretary pledges to protect SKorea from North with nuclear umbrella South Korean Prime Minister Chung Un … (The Canadian Press via Yahoo! Canada News)
SEOUL, South Korea – The U.S. defence secretary said Thursday that North Korea continues to pose a grave threat to international peace and pledged to protect South Korea with Washington’s full military might, including its nuclear capabilities.

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