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North Korea ready to resume talks on nuclear weapons

06.10.09
North Korean leader Kim Jong-il said he is ready to return to multi-national talks on its nuclear weapons programme - amid reports that it was restoring a nuclear complex... more

N Korea: We have found a new way to make nuclear weapons

04.09.09
North Korea said it was closer to a second way of making nuclear weapons - a move analysts saw as a new tactic to put pressure on the international community... more

City Spy: UKFI job sounds like a nightmare

02.09.09
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Obama: Clinton's North Korea mission wasn't an olive branch

06.08.09
Obama administration plays down suggestions of a thaw in relations with North Korea despite the release of two American journalists... more

WORLD: Bill Clinton meets Kim over fate of jailed US reporters

04.08.09
Bill Clinton met Kim Jong Il as part of a mission to free two American journalists from North Korea's notorious work camps... more

Two US journalists jailed for 'grave crime' against N Korea

08.06.09
Two American journalists have been jailed for 12 years in North Korea... more

North Korea ‘going postal’ is truly scary

29.05.09
As the North Korea story unfolds, I wonder whether we are watching a nuclear state going postal. This is very scary stuff indeed... more

WORLD: 1953 truce not valid, says Korea

27.05.09
North Korea raised the stakes in its stand-off with the South by declaring it was no longer bound by the armistice which ended the Korean War in 1953... more

WORLD: N Korea fires two missiles in show of defiance

26.05.09
North Korea has fired two more shortrange missiles off its east coast, in definace of international condemnation... more

UN fails to agree over North Korea's missile launch

06.04.09
The United Nations failed to agree a response to North Korea's rocket launch, despite pressure from Washington and its allies for action... more

Hillary Clinton slams 'provocative' N Korean missile launch

26.03.09
President Barack Obama is heading for what could be his first foreign crisis over North Korea's plans to launch a long-range missile... more

UK diplomat 'goes native' with North Korea eulogy

17.03.09
Britain's ambassador to North Korea has been accused of "going native" after writing an extraordinary eulogy of life under dictator Kim Jong II... more

China's thugs and fears over 2012 'gun guards'

08.04.08
The Olympic flame fiasco has ignited a row over foreign security services helping to police the 2012 Olympics, the Evening Standard can reveal... more

I will stop this cosy financial conspiracy

10.03.08
When Alistair Darling gives his Budget speech on Wednesday, Londoners will be interested to know what we are getting. London is the motor of the British economy. We make an estimated £17.8 billion net contribution to the Exchequer... more

Epic vision of a modern master

26.03.07
German photographer Andreas Gursky recently netted $2.4 million at a New York sale. This week brings two Gursky shows to London, to White Cube and nearby German gallery Spruth Magers.... more

Cold prism on Beirut's fire and fury

12.02.07
The shortlisted artists for Britain's most prestigious and lucrative photography prize, the Deutsche Borse Prize, address issues familiar to millions around the world today.... more

Portrait of our times

09.11.06
The Photographic Portrait Prize 2006 is a fascinating exhibition that serves as a valuable document of the early 21st century, says Sue Steward.... more

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