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...North has been complicated by Pyongyang's June 8 sentencing of two Americans to 12 years of hard labor. Euna Lee, 36, and Laura Ling, 32, were filming a report for Current TV, a San Francisco - based network co-founded by former Vice President Al Gore, on North Korean refugees in China. They were working near the border city of Dandong in northeastern China when they were arrested on March 17. The two were convicted of illegal entry into North Korea - accounts differ as to whether the women inadvertently crossed the border - as well as unspecified "hostile acts...
...regime that acts more like a Mafia family than a government, kidnapping has been a tactic North Korea has used for decades. Relations between Japan and North Korea are inflamed precisely because of revelations that for years the North kidnapped Japanese and then used them to train North Korean spies in Japanese language, culture and history. At a moment when Washington is pledging to get tough, Pyongyang "will absolutely view the two young journalists as bargaining chips," a South Korean diplomatic source says...
...Deputy Secretary of State James Steinberg on a recent visit to Seoul was to reinforce the U.S. military commitment to its long-standing ally, at a time when the "possibility of small-scale skirmishes [between North and South] is high," says Chang Kwoun Park, a navy captain at the Korean Institute for Defense Analyses in Seoul...
...China, officials say, has made it plain to the U.S. that it is plenty angry with the North. U.S. diplomats believe China is willing to broaden the economic sanctions already in place against North Korean companies suspected of proliferation. News that the five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council agreed on the terms of a resolution on North Korea bolstered the view that China is prepared to help. (Read "Spotlight: North Korea's Nuclear Test...
...weapons and nuclear matériel from states such as North Korea, Iran and Syria. The program has had its successes. Last September, acting on intelligence from the U.S., India denied overflight rights to an aircraft that took off in Burma and was thought to be transporting North Korean missiles or other weaponry to Iran. The flight never made it to Tehran, U.S. intelligence officials say. But until very recently, even South Korea hesitated to embrace interdiction of North Korean boats. And no one in the region believes the Chinese will participate in such an overtly hostile policy...