
	Where results make sense

Topic: Prime Minister of North Korea

Related Topics

List of Prime Ministers of North Korea

List of Presidents of North Korea

Pak Pong ju

Prime Minister of Thailand

Military of North Korea

Prime Minister of Taiwan

Flag of North Korea

President

Chief of state

President of the United States

President of Singapore

List of Presidents of Finland

President of China

Head of state

Prime Minister of Sri Lanka

	Columbia News ::: Video ::: Japanese Prime Minister Koizumi's Visit to North Korea Deemed Successful by East Asian ...
		Columbia faculty reflects on Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's visit to North Korea in September in a panel discussion sponsored by the East Asian Institute.
		North Korea's motivation for the meeting is not only bilateral ties to Japan, but also to send a signal to the United States that they are a reasonable partner who can diplomatically deal with Western countries, he says.
		He stresses the importance of reevaluating North Korea's status as a member of the "axis of evil" before the conflict with Iraq.
	www.columbia.edu /cu/news/vforum/02/trip_to_north_korea (397 words)

	USATODAY.com - Japan presses North Korea to rejoin talks (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Japan's prime minister told North Korea on Wednesday to stop denouncing Tokyo and instead rejoin multilateral talks on dismantling its nuclear weapons program as negotiators from the United States, Japan and South Korea prepared to meet in Seoul this weekend to try to revive the negotiations.
		North Korea insists the dispute has been resolved, but Japan is demanding a full accounting of the kidnap victims.
		Chinese Foreign Minister Li Zhaoxing and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice agreed in a telephone conversation Tuesday night that "the six-party talks should be resumed as early as possible," the official Xinhua News Agency said.
	www.usatoday.com /news/world/2005-02-23-north-korea_x.htm?csp=34 (668 words)

	A Time for Patient Diplomacy - Thoughts on Prime Minister Koizumi's Visit to North Korea RIETI
		Such normalization talks, which Japan and North Korea have agreed to reopen from October, are set to have a major impact on the course of security in North East Asia.
		Another decisive new factor is that North Korea has been forced to admit responsibility for the abduction of Japanese nationals and the unidentified ship in Japanese waters.
		The idea for a visit to North Korea by the Prime Minister of Japan was first broached during confidential contact by politicians in Singapore in January last year.
	www.rieti.go.jp /en/columns/a01_0056.html (821 words)

	MOFA: Summary of Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori's Visit to the Republic of Korea
		Prime Minister Mori said that he discussed the matter in his talks with President Kim and that it would presumably be taken up in the Diet after the general elections.
		Prime Minister Mori replied that he was completely in favor of an increase in travel between the two countries and that the issue was of considerable concern to him.
		Prime Minister Mori asserted that the area was of concern to all humankind, that he saw much value in Japanese and South Korean collaboration in such work.
	www.infojapan.org /region/asia-paci/korea/meet0005.html (1139 words)

	How much plutonium does North Korea have? \| thebulletin.org
		North Korean officials said that the original fuel core was still in the reactor--and to have separated as much as kilograms of plutonium, the North would have had to unload much of the fuel.
		The North said that the damaged rods it processed in the Radiochemical Laboratory in 1990 contained about 0.13 kilograms of plutonium, of which about.09 was recovered, with the rest remaining in the waste or processing equipment.
		North Korea told the IAEA during its initial visit in May 1992 that it had scaled up from laboratory experiments to an industrial-size plant without building a pilot plant.
	www.thebulletin.org /article.php?art_ofn=so94albright (6791 words)

	Asia Times: Doubts linger over North Korea's real intentions
		In March, Washington decided not to certify North Korea as being compliant with a 1994 accord that was to allow the country two proliferation-proof reactors in return for international inspections.
		North Korea's record of attempting economic reforms is a cautionary tale for politicians and businessmen alike who consider approving business deals and aid packages in exchange for political concessions.
		Their testimonies, detailing the death and torture people face in North Korea, appear to contradict the stance held by South Korean President Kim Dae-jung that the North is changing and is ready to negotiate in earnest.
	www.atimes.com /koreas/DD05Dg02.html (894 words)

	Japan - North Korea - Worldpress.org
		Japan agreed to resume negotiations with North Korea on normalization of relations by making Pyongyang admit to most of Japan’s claims concerning the abduction [of Japanese aid workers in the 1970s and ’80s] and the [North Korean] spy ship that, after an exchange of gunfire, was sunk in the East China Sea last December.
		In addition, North Korea agreed to give up its claims for compensation for Japan’s aggression on the Korean Peninsula before and during World War II, and it agreed to be compensated through financial cooperation in the same manner as South Korea was.
		In the statement drafted by Japan and North Korea, the issues of deployment and import of missiles and conventional weapons was not mentioned.
	www.worldpress.org /print_article.cfm?article_id=908&dont=yes (1445 words)

	Korea-DMZ
		As a new government was established in south Korea in 1988, the prime minister of north Korea, Hyeongmuk Yeon, suggested a Political and Military Conference led by deputy prime ministers on November 16th.
		In response to this, south Korea's prime minister, Yeonghun Kang, suggested a conference of high-ranking officials, and north Korea agreed to it.
		Finally, in another preliminary conference in July, 1990, south and north Korea agreed upon the agenda, time, and place of conference of high-ranking officials, and the first conference of high-ranking officials led by prime ministers of both countries was held in Seoul.
	www.korea-dmz.com /en/k/ki/kki400_en.asp (714 words)

	The North Korean Nuclear Crisis: Regional Perspectives
		Now, the threats from North Korea’s nuclear weapons and missile development, along with its spy infiltrations into Japan, have constituted clear and present dangers to the security of Japan and are of paramount concern for Japanese policymakers and defense planners alike.
		Although North Korea handed over the cremated remains of Yokoda Megumi to her family in November 2004, the remains were later found false after a series of rigorous tests performed by Japanese authorities.
		North Korea acknowledged a total of 15 Japanese abductees, of who five were confirmed alive and other ten were either dead or missing.
	northkorea.ssrc.org /Yun (4947 words)

	Japanese Prime Minister Visits North Korea - 2004-05-21
		The Japanese prime minister is expected to spend much of Saturday pressing North Korean leader Kim Jong Il on the abductions.
		On Saturday, the prime minister also will seek concrete answers about the fate of abductees who North Korea has said are dead or whose whereabouts are unknown.
		Takeo Yokota, whose sister Megumi was abducted by North Korean agents, tells a rally that it is not enough for the prime minister to bring the relatives of the former abductees but that those still missing must be accounted for.
	www.voanews.com /english/archive/2004-05/a-2004-05-21-17-1.cfm (830 words)

	Australia and North Korea
		North Korea's ambassador to Australia, Chon Jae-hong, said yesterday that the stand-off would end if the US vowed not to invade his country and did not hinder its economic development.
		NORTH Korea is a credible threat to Australia and Prime Minister John Howard should focus his efforts on the Asian nation rather than Iraq, the Australian Greens have argued.
		North Korea is one of the last communist holdouts, cut off from foreign trade, short of food, and politically controlled by Kim Jong-il, the supreme leader and the head of Korean Workers' Party.
	www.fortunecity.com /meltingpot/champion/65/aus_nk_2.htm (5261 words)

	Funmurphys: the Blog: North Korea, Unpardonable Country
		In 1978, North Korea decided that they needed Japanese tutors for their spies, so they kidnapped Japanese off beaches in Japan and took them to North Korea.
		North Korea denied the kidnappings until Japanese Prime Minister Koizumi visited North Korea, whereupon Kim Jong Il admitted that they had kidnapped 13 Japanese, but 8 of them died.
		North Korea says the children aren't hostages, oh my of course not, they just didn't want to leave their beloved homeland.
	www.funmurphys.com /blog/archive/000371.html (232 words)

	FOXNews.com - President Bush, Japan's Prime Minister Agree on Pushing U.N. Sanctions on North Korea - Asia \| Travel \| ...
		North Korea's Missile Test Is Call for Attention
		North Korea test-launched a series of missiles including a long-range Taepodong on Wednesday, violating its own seven-year moratorium on such launches and defying stern international warnings of retaliation.
		The presidential statement said the two "shared the view that North Korea's missile launches are a "grave provocative act" and agreed to closely cooperate to solve the issue through diplomatic efforts.
	www.foxnews.com /story/0,2933,202276,00.html (1021 words)

	Asia Times Online - The trusted news source for information on Japan
		Prime Minister Koizumi's plans to dispatch his troops regionally and globally, coming to the rescue of US military, however, go even further.
		Instead, Prime Minister Koizumi announced, Japan's SDF should finally be renamed and be called an "army", bringing back the sense of pride the troops in the defense establishment and the conservative and ultra-conservative press were missing for a long time.
		While the prime minister announced that more visits to Yasukuni were in the offing, his military is confident that the armed forces are finally getting rid of the Japan-as-military-laughing-stock image that numerous military analysts and commentators mocked in the past.
	www.atimes.com /atimes/Japan/FD03Dh02.html (1830 words)

	PM urges Korea to import more from Bangladesh
		Prime Minister Begum Khaleda Zia on Wednesday urged the authorities of North Korea to expand the existing bilateral relations particularly in the economic and business arena for the welfare of the two peoples.
		He informed the Prime Minister that the work on North Korea- aided Madhyapara Hard Rock Project would be completed by March and the hard rock mine would be commissioned in April.
		The Prime Minister spoke on various programmes of her government for development of primary and female education, health and empowerment of women.
	nation.ittefaq.com /artman/exec/view.cgi/26/15699 (405 words)

	[No title]
		Expectations are high that the visit will lead to a breakthrough in the issue of North Korea's abductions of Japanese citizens, which has prevented the two countries from moving toward normalizing relations.
		The Japanese prime minister is expected to spend much of Saturday pressing North Korean leader Kim Jong Il on the abductions.
		Takeo Yokota, whose sister Megumi was abducted by North Korean agents, tells a rally that it is not enough for the prime minister to bring the relatives of the former abductees but that those still missing must be accounted for.
	quickstart.clari.net /voa/art/db/34C61F14-CB2E-42BF-93DEB0F13F28146E.html (759 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Asia-Pacific \| Japan holds off N Korea sanctions
		North Korea last month returned the ashes of what it said were two of the missing Japanese, abducted more than two decades ago.
		South Korea and China have called for a more flexible approach to the North, arguing for more economic and diplomatic concessions to persuade it to give up its development of nuclear weapons.
		North Korea is refusing to return to talks on its nuclear programme because of what it calls Washington's "hostile policy".
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/asia-pacific/4103799.stm (322 words)

	SignOnSanDiego.com > News > Business -- South Korean prime minister urges North Korea to follow Chinese example ...
		SEOUL, South Korea – Prime Minister Han Duck-soo on Friday urged North Korea to follow in the footsteps of its communist brethren in China and Vietnam by pursuing capitalist economic reforms.
		Tensions surrounding North Korea's nuclear program, however, have occasionally led to temporary suspensions of exchanges, such as reunions of families divided by the 1950-53 Korean War, and economic aid from the South.
		North Korea also has suffered a famine caused by bad weather and economic mismanagement.
	www.signonsandiego.com /news/business/20070525-0047-koreas-economicreform.html (516 words)

	A leap into the past
		In May 2003, it was announced that the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet would be restructured, to allow the existing International Division to be expanded and a number of its existing functions transferred to a new National Security Division.
		Of the three states comprising the 'axis of evil', North Korea was, for reasons of geography and geopolitical and strategic relevance to the Asia-Pacific region, of most direct concern to Australia.
		Though any decision to impose a naval blockade on North Korea was shelved for future consideration, the meeting had helped to establish the groundwork for such an eventual decision.
	www.aiia.asn.au /news/leap.html (4344 words)

	Bush, Koizumi warn N. Korea against test - Boston.com
		Side by side, President Bush and Japanese Prime Minister Koizumi warned North Korea on Thursday to cancel any plans to test-fire a long-range missile, with Bush bluntly calling a launch unacceptable and Koizumi hinting at the punishment that would result.
		The prime minister is a huge fan of Elvis Presley, and Bush on Friday will take Koizumi to Memphis for a private tour of the late singer's estate, Graceland.
		The words on North Korea were about the only tough talk from Bush and Koizumi throughout a day of elaborate ceremony that put their virtually tension-free alliance -- and their personal friendship -- front and center.
	www.boston.com /news/nation/washington/articles/2006/06/29/bush_welcomes_visit_by_japans_koizumi (756 words)

	HARIAN UMUM SUARA MERDEKA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Copenhagen (Agencies): The leaders of Japan and South Korea urged the United States on Sunday to resume dialog with North Korea, which U.S. President George W. Bush says is part of an "axis of evil," to help stabilize the region.
		Kim also called on "the international community to lend its support to North Korea so that its efforts at reform and opening up will bring concrete results," he said.
		Koizumi and Kim were expected to brief their Asian and European counterparts on the latest developments over North Korea at a dinner Sunday evening marking the formal start of the ASEM summit, a meeting held every two years since 1996.
	www.suaramerdeka.com /harian/0209/24/eng6.htm (556 words)

	MOFA: Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's Visit to North Korea
		On 17 September, Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi visited Pyongyang in North Korea and held talks with General Secretary Kim Jong Il.
		For over half a century since the end of the Second World War, diplomatic relations with North Korea have yet to be normalized, and it can be said that it is the historical responsibility of the Government to resolve the various issues between Japan and North Korea and to normalize diplomatic relations.
		Opening Statement by Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi at the Press Conference on the Outcome of his Visit to North Korea (September 17, 2002)
	www.mofa.go.jp /region/asia-paci/n_korea/pmv0209 (194 words)

	China Presses North Korea to Return to Talks (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		North Korea's prime minister is in China, where officials say they will press him for a resumption of the multi-nation talks on his country's nuclear weapons programs.
		North Korean Prime Minister Pak Pong Ju arrived in the Chinese capital one day after a visit by U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.
		She repeated the Bush Administration's assertions that the United States does not intend to invade North Korea, but suggested that aggressive economic sanctions might be considered.
	quickstart.clari.net /voa/art/gz/2005-03-22-voa9.html (432 words)

	Japan, N. Korea end deep freeze \| csmonitor.com
		Indeed, the diplomacy seems to many analysts a bid by the Japanese to break out of a deep-freeze over North Korea often blamed privately, in Tokyo, on US inattention due to the war on terror, or on a lack of US strategy on the North.
		Moreover, a sunny summit could also benefit the North by revitalizing South Korea's now-troubled "Sunshine Policy." President Kim Dae Jung, originator of the policy that supported taking baby-steps toward normalized diplomatic relations, faces a national election this December against opponents far less willing to engage generously with the North.
		But a certainty in the US that North Korea will one day fold is not enough.
	www.csmonitor.com /2002/0916/p06s01-woap.htm (1152 words)

	[No title]
		The prime minister's decision is giving an impetus to political horse-trading between the two groups in the U.S. administration.
		The North Korean side also made a decision because it thought it is now ready to discuss matters with me. There are many things we cannot understand unless we talk face to face.
		It is extremely unusual for a former administrative vice minister to be appointed as minister and not as ambassador.
	www.stanford.edu /dept/SUL/wwwsul/test/depts/asrg/dailysum/Daily_Summary_2002/sept_02/DS020904.doc (3779 words)

	Nautilus Institute Policy Forum Online: Can North Korea's Perestroika Succeed? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Admitting that North Korea in the late 1970s and early 1980s had abducted 13 Japanese, of whom eight had died and five survived, Chairman of the DPRK National Defense Commission, Kim Jong Il, apologized for it.
		The gist of the 1995 statement by Prime Minister Murayama and of the 1998 agreement between Japanese Prime Minister Obuchi and South Korean President Kim Dae Jung was thus incorporated in the Declaration.
		However, North Korea is a country that America has just recently declared part of the 'axis of evil', and it is the country which America will turn to deal with after the attack on Iraq.
	www.nautilus.org /fora/security/0215A_Haruki.html (3000 words)

	Military News - Veteran News: US, Japan Prepared to Take 'Tough Measures' Against N. Korea
		Prime Minister Koizumi said North Korea's nuclear weapons program is a "grave challenge" to the entire world.
		North Korea has withdrawn from the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty and is moving to restart nuclear facilities suspended as part of a 1994 agreement with Washington.
		North Korea and South Korea Friday ended four days of talks by agreeing to reopen railway links between the countries and begin building an industrial park in North Korea near the border.
	www.militaryconnections.com /story.cfm?textnewsid=381 (849 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)