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http://cnn.com/video/?/video/world/2011/01/10/sudan.jimmy.carter.cnn -- Sudan's foreign affairs ministry is contradicting former U.S. President Jimmy Carter's statement about Southern Sudan's debt obligations. On Monday, Carter told CNN that Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir "said the entire...

- South Korean officials tell CNN that they're reviewing a call for resumption of talks between Pyongyang and Seoul that was published by North Korea's state-run KCNA news agency Saturday. The statement from the Democratic People's Republic of Korea suggested several steps that could be taken...

-- After a 55 year struggle, Africa's largest country, Sudan, is just days away from a referendum that may see the mainly Christian and traditional animist people in the south split from the majority Muslim north and become a new nation. With 3.4 million people registered to vote in the...

35 mins ago SEOUL/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – North Korea called on Wednesday for unconditional talks with the South but the United States suggested it must first stop provoking its neighbor, recommit to a 2005 nuclear pact and take responsibility for recent attacks. It was uncertain...

A man watches a broadcast of South Korean President Lee Myung-Bak's New Year policy address in Seoul on Monday. South Korea's president said Monday the country should respond to the attack on Yeonpyeong Island the same way the United States reacted to the September 11, 2001, attacks in New...

Small-scale skirmishes have flared repeatedly along their land and sea borders over the past six decades. - North Korea on Saturday urged better ties with South Korea, warning that a war in the peninsula would amount to a "nuclear holocaust," South Korea's Yonhap News Agency reported...

One person was killed and another seriously injured in a North York apartment fire on Christmas Eve. Firefighters were able to contain the blaze, which occurred on Swift Drive, near Eglinton Avenue and Wynford Drive. Emergency officials were contacted just before 8 p.m. The person injured in...

http://cnn.com/video/?/video/world/2010/12/23/lah.skorea.drills.conclude.cnn http://cnn.com/video/?/video/bestoftv/2010/12/22/exp.ps.richardson.north.korea.cnn Seoul, South Korea -- North Korea threatened Thursday to launch a "sacred war" after South Korea completed large military exercises...

http://cnn.com/video/?/video/world/2010/12/23/lah.skorea.drills.conclude.cnn Seoul, South Korea -- Military exercises by the South Korean army, billed as the largest land and air winter drills, ended Thursday, defense officials said The long-planned drills were held just 15 miles from South...

http://cnn.com/video/?/video/bestoftv/2010/12/20/exp.am.blitzer.south.korea.alert.cnn Seoul, South Korea -- South Korea downplayed North Korea's decision to not follow through on threatened retaliation to its live-fire military drill this week as political maneuvering, according to a key South...

South Korea's live-fire military exercises and North Korea's threat to retaliate raise fears of war in a conflict that dates 60 years. Read about the latest troubles between them. A disputed maritime border. Long-standing tensions. And on Monday, South Korea began scheduled live-fire military...

http://cnn.com/video/?/video/world/2010/11/25/lok.grant.skorea.scene.attack.cnn It's a bit like train-spotting but rather more serious. On October 10, Korea-watchers pored over live televised coverage of a massive military parade in Pyongyang, held to mark the 65th anniversary of North Korea's...

http://cnn.com/video/?/video/world/2010/12/20/nr.wolf.blitzer.korea.bpr.cnn Pyongyang, North Korea -- North Korea has agreed to a series of actions, including the return of U.N. inspectors, following discussions with Bill Richardson, former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, CNN's Wolf...

http://cnn.com/video/?/video/world/2010/12/18/north.korea.richardson.cnn Pyongyang, North Korea -- At Russia's urging, the U.N. Security Council will hold an emergency meeting Sunday morning aimed at defusing simmering tensions in the Korean peninsula. The meeting will take place at 11 a.m...

New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson is welcomed by an unidentified North Korean official upon his arrival at the Pyongyang Airport on December 16. Pyongyang, North Korea -- New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson provided North Korea with a series of proposals Saturday in what he described as a "good...

South Korea is preparing for military exercises in the seas southwest of Yeonpyeong Island. Washington -- The U.S. military is concerned that South Korea's live-fire artillery exercises planned for coming days could spark an uncontrollable clash with the North, but the State Department said...

A cable released by WikiLeaks says North Korea wanted musician Eric Clapton to perform in Pyongyang. One of the diplomatic cables published by WikiLeaks reveals that North Korean officials suggested the U.S. government make arrangements for rock icon Eric Clapton to perform in Pyongyang as a...

http://cnn.com/video/?/video/politics/2010/12/12/sotu.dennis.blair.intv.12.12.cnn South Korea will conduct a new round of naval firing drills Monday -- but it is scheduled to steer clear of border islands, defense officials told the Yonhap News Agency. The exercises, which will start Monday...

SEOUL - South Korea said on Friday it would bomb North Korea if it tries a repeat of last week's attack, with the United States warning of an "immediate threat" from Pyongyang. Kim Kwan, a retired general, was speaking at a parliamentary meeting confirming him as new defence minister, a day...

BEIJING/SEOUL (Reuters) - China, which has refused to condemn North Korea's attack on a southern island, said on Wednesday it would not favor any side but wanted to help resolve the dispute as a "responsible great power." China, North Korea's only powerful ally, protected Pyongyang from censure...