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• N. Korea: no talks means war
  North Korea's military ambitions are causing alarm among its neighbors. North Korea is sticking to its demand for direct face-to-face talks with the United States, saying Washington's push for a multilateral dialogue only makes the prospect of armed conflict more likely. [Exclusion] [Spin]
• Parties to Reprimand Lawmakers Visiting Iraq
  [US dominance] [Pro-Americanism] [Friction]
• Unofficial N. Korea spokesman outlines Kim's view
  Kim Myong Chol [NK military]
• U.S., North won't budge on dialogue
  [US NK negotiations]
• KCNA refutes U.S. absurd call for "multilateral talks"
  [Exclusion] [US NK Negotiations] [NK US policy] [Partisan]
• U.S. joint military exercise under fire
  [Joint US military]
• US rejects direct N Korean talks
  [US NK Negotiations] [Exclusion]
• N. Korean Threat Ratchets Up Tension in DMZ
  Minor Confrontations Can Easily Turn Deadly Along the Most Heavily Guarded Border in the World .Doug Struck [NK military]
• U.S. dangerous air force strategy against DPRK under fire
  [Belligerence]
• DPRK ready to repel any U.S. military attack
  Pyongyang, March 9 (KCNA) -- The "plan for military strikes" at the nuclear facilities and military bases of the DPRK mapped out by the U.S. Department of Defense envisages not only cruise missile strikes and massive air raids, etc. but the use of tactical nuclear weapons.
• U.S. call for "multilateral talks" under fire
  [Exclusion]
• N. Korea keeps tensions high
  [Media] [Spin] [Belligerence] Sunday, March 9, 2003 The U.S. has moved B-52 bombers to Guam to boost its Pacific forces. North Korea has again ratcheted up tensions on the Korean Peninsula by indicating it will conduct another missile test, possibly as early as this weekend. U.S. officials tell CNN they believe North Korea will conduct another test of its KN-01 short-range anti-ship missile, which is under development. (Photo shows B 52)
• U.S., N. Korea 'held secret talks'
  [US NK negotiations] Thursday, March 6, 2003 TOKYO, Japan -- U.S. and North Korean representatives met secretly and informally last month to discuss Pyongyang's nuclear program, a Japanese newspaper has reported. But U.S. officials in Washington have played down the report, saying the Americans involved were private citizens and did not represent the Bush administration, Reuters news agency says. The talks -- the first meeting between representatives of both nations since January -- centered on how North Korea could verify abandoning its nuclear program, the Asahi Shimbun newspaper report. The meetings, held at the North Korean embassy in Berlin on February 20 and 21,
• Bush upbeat on Korea
  [US NK negotiations] [Exclusion]
• Military Exercises in South Korea Shed Light on Shifting Outlook
  [Media] [Joint US military] [Pro-Americanism]
• Next question: how to stop nuclear blackmail
  {David E. Sanger} [Blackmail]
• Minister says North's test of a missile was a failure
  [Belligerence] [Rocketry] Mr. Cho also told the Assembly that the interception of a U.S. spy plane on Sunday by North Korean fighter jets was a carefully calculated action. "Their most advanced fighters were deployed secretly. Auxiliary fuel tanks were installed and fire-support radar was turned on," Mr. Cho explained. North Korea's actions were a complaint about reinforced U.S. surveillance
• No Decision Made on Numbers for US Troops in Seoul
  [Fall back]
• Musing on an Exodus of G.I.'s, South Korea Hails U.S. Presence
  [Withdrawal] [Fall back] [Spin]
• North Korean Tension
  [Public opinion] [US NK negotiations]
• North Korean Fliers Said to Have Sought Hostages
  [Belligerence] [Espionage] [Rocketry]
• USFK to Remain North of Han River
  [Fall back]
• U.S. long-range fighter bombers to be forward-deployed
  {KCNA}[Belligerence]
• KCNA refutes Bush's bellicose remarks
  [NK US policy] [Joint US military] [Preemptive]
• Joint U.S.-S. Korea military exercises under fire
  [Joint US military]
• U.S. presses planning to realign its forces
  [Fall back]
• Legislators off to Iraq despite U.S. appeal
  [Iraq] [Friction] Four National Assembly members from the two major parties said yesterday they would leave for Iraq today to promote a peaceful settlement of the crisis there. One of the four, who asked not to be identified, complained of pressure from the Foreign Ministry and from their respective party chairmen to cancel the trip. He said he had learned from a government official that the U.S. Embassy here had requested that the Blue House stop their travel
• Bush 'optimistic' on N Korea diplomacy
  [Friction][Spin]
• South Korea, in Surprise, Demands U.S. Forces Stay in Place
  [Fall back]
• Bush Seeks Global Pressure on North Korea
  [Fall back] [Withdrawal]
• Relocation Should Wait Until Nukes Settled
  [Fall back]
• Top minister wants U.S. forces to stay as 'tripwire'
  [Fall back]
• N. Korea 'preparing missile test'
  [US Joint military] [Belligerence]
• Bush criticised over N Korea
  [Partisan] [Bush policy] [US NK negotiations] A group of senior US Democrats has urged the Bush administration to begin direct talks with North Korea, warning that the secretive state poses a far greater threat of becoming a hostile nuclear power than Iraq.
• Force is next resort, Bush tells Pyongyang
  [Belligerence] [US NK negotiations] President George Bush gave notice yesterday that the US will resort to military force against North Korea if diplomacy fails to stop it building a substantial nuclear arsenal.
• Criticism Of Bush's Policy On Korea Sharpens
  {James Dao}[Bush policy] [Partisan] [US NK negotiations] WASHINGTON, March 5 - In the Democrats' sharpest critique of President Bush's foreign policy, a group of Clinton administration officials joined Senate Democrats today in attacking the handling of North Korea. The group called for immediate direct talks with Pyongyang to prevent a nuclear arms race in Asia.
• Roh Tells Bush `Don't Go Too Far'
  [Friction]
• NK-US Tension Escalates With Interception
  [Spin] [Belligerence] [Joint US military] [Espionage]
• N. Korea Calls for Direct Talks on Bilateral Nonaggression Pact [NK US policy]
• U.S. Denies Reports It Will Tolerate Nuclear North Korea
• Foes Giving In To N. Korea's Nuclear Aims
• Powell Makes Few Gains On Asia Tour
  Secretary Unable to Win Pledges Of Support on North Korea, Iraq [Friction]
• U.S. urged to accept DPRK's proposal for concluding non-aggression treaty
  [NK US policy]
• U.S. test nuclear war against DPRK flayed
  [Joint US military]
• U.S. said to amend North policy
  It may accept Pyeongyang as nuclear state, try to bar sales
• 'Don't go too far' South Korea leader tells Bush
  [Friction] [Espionage] [Belligerence] [Blair] [US NK Negotiations] Tensions rose on the Korean Peninsula after it was revealed that North Korean fighter jets threatened to attack a US naval spyplane. But President Roh said that the high-altitude encounter was predictable, because the United States had increased its aerial surveillance of North Korea's reopened nuclear facilities.
  "It was a very predictable chain of events," he said in his presidential palace, the Blue House. "A very strong threat against a counterpart can be a very effective means of negotiation," he said, of the increased US surveillance. "I am urging the US not to go too far."
• US boosts forces near N Korea
  [Belligerence]
• U.S. Reassures Seoul After Deploying Bombers In Region
  [Belligerence] [Friction]
• U.S. Sending 2 Dozen Bombers In Easy Range Of North Koreans
  [Belligerence]
• NK-US Tension Escalates With Interception
  [Belligerence] [Joint US military]Already, the U.S. has decided to attach fighter jets to its reconnaissance planes in future missions on the East Sea
• N. Korea Reaction to U.S. Spy Plane Purposely Forceful, Analysts Say
  [Belligerence] [Espionage]
• U.S. to protest midair challenge by MiGs
  collision between a Chinese fighter jet and an American EP-3 spy craft in April 2001,
• Minju Joson on "Foal Eagle" exercise
  [US Joint military] [Preemptive]
• U.S. hit for falsifying truth
  [Agreed Framework] [NK US policy]
• U.S. sinister plot for development of nukes of next generation flailed
  [Preemptive]
• US condemns 'reckless' N Korea
  [Belligerence] [Espionage]
• Korean Paralysis
  he United States is in a bind with North Korea. Pyongyang comes closer every day to beginning full-scale production of nuclear weapons, while diplomacy remains stalled. That is not entirely Washington's fault, but the need to begin direct negotiations with the North is increasingly urgent [US NK negotiations] [Partisan] [Bush policy]
• North Korea Mig's Intercept U.S. Spy Jet
  [Espionage] [Belligerence]
• Peace Activists Become Human Shields in Iraq
  [Peace efforts] [Imperialism] ``We also hope our efforts to resist the U.S.-led war can serve as a stepping-stone for preventing the dispatch of Korean forces to the war against Iraq,'' a member of the group said.
• N. Korean MiGs Intercepted U.S. Plane
  [Belligerence] [Espionage]
• KCNA on sheer sophism of U.S. and Japan
• U.S. smear campaign against DPRK blasted
  [Missile Defense]
• U.S. Stresses Peaceful Solution After Flare-Up With North Korea
  [Belligerence] [Peace efforts] [Spin]
• Infiltrators of North Korea: Tiny Radios
  {James Brooke} [Subversion] [Evangelicalism] [Isolation]
• North Korea Says a U.S. Attack Could Lead to a Nuclear War
  [Joint US military] [Belligerence]
• pro-U.S. rally
  Some 100,000 people, left, representing 114 conservative civic bodies stage a in front of City Hall [Pro-Americanism] [Anti-Americanism] [Photo]
• Talk of US Preemptive Strike on NK Unfounded
  [Preemptive] [Friction]
• Conservative Civic Bodies Stage Pro-US Rally
  [Pro-Americanism]
• Lines of age, beliefs drawn in the street
  [Pro-Americanism]
• DPRK Warns It Will Abandon Armistice Agreement in Case U.S. Imposes Sanction
• Statement of Spokesman for Panmunjom Mission of KPA
  The Panmunjom mission of the Korean People's Army is authorized to declare that the KPA side will be left with no option but to take a decisive step to abandon its commitment to implement the Armistice Agreement as a signatory to it and free itself from the binding force of all its provisions, regarding the possible sanctions to be taken by the U.S. side against the DPRK from anywhere after bolstering its forces in and around the Korean Peninsula to attack the DPRK as the AA-banned blockade against it, a spokesman for the Panmunjom mission of the KPA said in a statement on February 17.
• U.S. Searched DPRK Cargo Ship Violently: Captain of "Sosan"
  [Yemen]
• DPRK Presses Demand for Direct Talks with U.S.
  [NK US policy] [US NK Negotiations]
• North Korea Warns of Dangers of Nuclear War
  {Don Kirk} [Anti-Americanism] [Pro-Americanism] [Joint Korean] [Peace efforts] [Religion] [Nationalism] [Preemptive] North Koreans at religious services called for South Korea to work with North Korea. "If war breaks out, the South cannot be safe," one of the North Koreans was quoted as saying. "The entire nation will face disaster."
  South Korean leftists enacted the same message in a street drama that highlighted an anti-war protest on Saturday evening. ... a row of female dancers pranced and danced on the stage to a song whose only English words were an obscene reference to the United States.
• Rallies In Seoul Differ On U.S., Highlighting A Generation Gap
  [Friction] [Anti-Americanism] [Pro-Americanism]
• Civic Groups Stage Pro-U.S. Rally to Back American Troops
  [Pro-Americanism]
• Koreans Stage Rally in Washington to Support U.S. Troops Presence
  [Pro-Americanism]
• U.S. urged not to misinterpret DPRK's stand
  [NK US policy] [Blackmail] [Spin] The United States is painting the DPRK's self-defensive countermeasure to cope with its escalating military threat and pressure on the DPRK as "brinkmanship tactics" in a bid to build up public opinion. This only betrays the political imbeciles' ignorance of the reality.
• U.S.-planned sabre rattling under fire
  [Preemptive] [Joint US military] [Belligerence]
• Settlement of nuclear issue through DPRK-U.S. talks called for
  [US NK negotiations] [Exclusion]
• USFK Bases to Be Relocated in Four Years
  [Fall back]
• Korea, U.S. Ready to Discuss Transfer of Wartime Command
  [US military dominance]
• GNP urged to stop begging for U.S. Forces' continued presence
  [Pro-Americanism]
• More U.S. aerial espionage committed against DPRK
  [Espionage]
• Nelson Offers "Simultaneous Model" For Engagement In North Korea
  [US NK Negotations] Nebraska's Senator Ben Nelson will call on the Bush Administration to adopt a "simultaneous model" of engagement with North Korea to resolve the standoff over negotiations on the rogue nation's nuclear weapons program.

• A Tale of US Military Presence
  {Hong Soon-il} [Withdrawal] [History]
• Projected U.S.-S. Korean joint military drills under fire
  [Joint US military]
• U.S. sabre-rattling under fire
  [Joint US military]
• Soldiers (leaving for)Afghanistan
  [photo][Imperialism]
• U.S. bid for a pullout seen unlikely to pass
  [Withdrawal]
• Powell Pledges Continued US Presence
  [US military dominance]
• North Fires Surface to Ship Missile
  [Rocketry] the firing was most likely part of annual training that takes place from December to April.... Pyongyang gave advanced notification to Japan.
• NYT: US Has Not Ruled Out Sanctions
  [Friction] [Sanctions] [Drugs] [WMD]
• DPRK-targeted war exercises condemned
  [Joint US military]
• DPRK unfazed by any threat of tougher economic blockade
  [Sanctions] [Bluster]
• U.S. commits aerial espionage on DPRK
  [Espionage] [Preemptive]
• N Korean wrath at war games
  [Spin] [Media] [Rocketry] [Joint US military] North Korea has followed up a surprise missile launch with a belligerent warning for its citizens to be ready for war at any time. ..."The United States can launch a pre-emptive attack on us at any time," said the statement, which was also read out on North Korean radio. "This requires our military and people to mobilise all our resources to be fully ready for any contingencies." The US military announced last week that it will conduct the regular annual war games with South Korea next month.
• A Peaceful Resolution of the North Korean Nuclear Issue
  {James A. Kelly} , Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs Remarks to House International Relations Committee Washington, DC February 13, 2003 [US NK negotiations]
• Powell Press Conference in Seoul
  Secretary Colin L. Powell Hyatt Hotel - Regency Ballroom Seoul, Korea, February 25, 2003 [Aid weapon] [US NK negotiations]
• Powell, In Asia, Is Dealt A Setback On North Korea
  {James Dao} SEOUL, Tuesday, Feb. 25 - The Bush administration suffered a setback in its North Korea policy on Monday, as officials in China, Australia and South Korea urged the United States to begin direct talks with North Korea about its nuclear weapons programs, a strategy Washington has repeatedly rejected. [Friction] [US NK negotiations]
• U.S. Approach On North Korea Strains Alliances In Asia
  (Howard W. French} Feb. 23 - With little of the clamor generated by preparations for war with Iraq, the showdown between the United States and North Korea over that country's nuclear weapons program is severely testing Washington's oldest Asian alliances. [Friction] [Japanese remilitarisation] [Bush policy]
• U.S. Considers Conventional Warheads On Nuclear Missiles
  [Belligerence] [US military]
• U.S. war moves denounced in S. Korea
  [Peace efforts] [Iraq]
• U.S. Forces' pullback from South Korea called for
  [Withdrawal] [Joint Korean]
• Projected large-scale U.S.-S. Korea joint military exercises under fire
  [Joint US military] [Belligerence] [Role of SK military]
• Senior U.S. officials' remarks refuted
  [Exclusion]
• And now for North Korea..
  [Spin] Powell visit to Asia increasingly paranoid regime of Kim Jong Il
• Tensions Remind U.S. Troops In South Korea Of Their Mission
  [Predications] [Spin] if a full-scale war were to break out between North and South, American military planners say, there could be more than a million casualties in the first two weeks
• Powell Links Aid to North Korean Concessions
  [Aid weapon] [US NK negotiations]
• Powell's Meaningful Seoul Visit / NK Fighter's Air Space Violation
  [Friction]
• Goh Envisions Change in ROK-US Ties
  [SOFA] [SK NK relations]
• U.S. plan for military drills under fire
  [Joint US military] [Belligerence]
• Rumsfeld was on ABB board during nuclear deal with North Korea
  [Admission]
• U.S. searches for new base
  [Fall back]
• One step for a soldier, one problem for UN
  [Belligerence] [US military dominance] [Role of SK military]
• Lawyers want papers on June road deaths
  [US offences]
• We will go our own way, says Rodong Sinmun
  [NK US policy] [Blackmail]
• Powell To Visit Asia To Seek Support On North Korea And Iraq
  [Friction]
• Korean Issue Shapes Powell's Asia Agenda
  [Friction]
• LaPorte: Alliance Will Be Reviewed
  [SOFA] [US military dominance]
• Powell Shifts Focus to North Korea
• KCNA on U.S. hostile policy toward DPRK
• Bush replies to letter carried by Roh envoy
  [SK US relations]
• U.S. general hints at end to wartime control transfer
  [US military dominance]
• Curbs on North Korea
  [Sanctions] [Iraq] [Double standards] [Public opinion] We must impose sanctions on North Korea as soon as possible.
• S. Korea and U.S. to stage joint war exercises
  [Joint US military] [Belligerence]
• Rodong Sinmun on U.S. military policy
  [Bluster]
• U.S. force to stay put for now
  Defense chief, U.S. envoy say pullout not planned Defense Minister Lee Jun said yesterday that it was premature to talk about relocating U.S. military forces here to areas south of the Han River. Stationing the troops north of the Han has been seen as a "trip wire" that would automatically trigger U.S. involvement if North Korean forces invaded the South [Fall back] [PYR]
• U.S. forces seen as key in bilateral ties
  [Fall back]
• Talks on US Troops in South Korea Will Begin in April
  [Fall back] [SOFA]
• Spokesman for Panmunjom mission of KPA issues statement
  [Belligerence] [Sanctions] on Armistice Agreement
• U.S. urged to defuse nuclear crisis
  [Religion]
• High vigilance against U.S. cynical ploy called for
  [Belligerence] [Trust]
• U.S. accused of turning away from proposal for non-aggression treaty
  [Peace efforts] [Belligerence] [NK US policy]
• President-Elect Vetoes Attack On North Korea
  [Peace effort] [Friction]
• N Korea acting in 'self-defence'
  [Blackmail]
• N. Korea: U.S. Stance 'Illogical'
  [Strategic incoherence]
• DPRK Warns Of Possible Withdrawal From Armistice Agreement
  [Belligerence]
• U.S Not To Hold Bilateral Talks With DPRK: Rice
  A senior Bush administration official said Sunday that the United States will not hold bilateral talks with the Democratic People's Republic of Korea over the nuclear crisis "We cannot allow the North Koreans to step back into a bilateral discussion with the United States," [US NK Negotiations] [Exclusion]
• U.S. plans sanctions against Pyongyang
  [Remittances] [Friction]..According to the paper, other sanctions would include cutting off remittances to North Korea from Korean-owned pachinko parlors in Japan and cracking down on drug trafficking from the reclusive state. Plans to reduce food shipments are also being considered.
• U.S. aide sees change in alliance
  [SOFA]
• U.S. blockade would break war armistice, North says
  [Belligerence] [US NK negotiations]
• U.S. Plan For Penalties Draws A Threat From North Korea
  [Belligerence] [Sanctions] [Spin] [Exceptionalism]
• A Hard Line On North Korea
  [Public opinion] Letter to Editor NY Times The only way to put a halt to the North Korean government's deceptiveness and prevent it from seriously threatening Americans is through force that is both swift and powerful. And the sooner the better.
• North Koreans Give Voice To Deep Anti-U.S. Feelings
  {James Brooke} [Anti-Americanism] [Spin] [Victim] [Indoctrination] [Abductees] [Culture gap] strident voice North Koreans are notoriously shrill about their animosity toward the United States. But random interviews today with 10 North Koreans - a composer, a band director and his assistant, a tourism director, and half a dozen park guides - underlined how pervasive and deeply held anti-Americanism is in "the hermit nation." Failed economy
  Indoctrination here is so deep that when five Japanese citizens returned to Japan last fall, 25 years after they had been kidnapped by North Korea, the Japanese government had to resort to a cult deprogrammer to get them to abandon plans to return to Pyongyang
• NK Threatens to Scrap Armistice Agreement
  [US NK relations]
• Envoy Hints at Changes to Korea-US Alliance
  [SOFA] [SK US relations]
• Roh Tilting Toward China, Russia
  [PYR] [SK US relations] [Roh Moo-hyun]
• North Korean Scud Freighter Crew Tell Their Story
  [Yemen][Exceptionalism][Rocketry]
• N. Korea 'will win nuke war'
  [Bluster][NK Military]
• U.S. Planning Sanctions Against North Korea
  {James Dao} [Sanctions] [Belligerence] [Exceptionalism] Washington, Feb. 16 - The Bush administration is developing plans for sanctions against North Korea, that would include halting its weapons shipments and cutting off money sent there by Koreans living in Japan, in the event that North Korea continues its march toward developing nuclear weapons, senior administration officials say.
• Raising pickets and banners, demonstrators chant slogans opposing the U.S. move to attack Iraq in a rally in Dongsung-dong, Seoul, Saturday.
  [photo] [Iraq]
• Thousands Join Global Anti-War Protests
  [Iraq] [US NK relations]
• Spending by USFK Accounts for 24% of Nation's Defense Budget
  [US military dominance] If and when South Korea decides to do away with its oldest and closest ally, it will not only lose the $3 billion the U.S. forces spend here, it will also have to bear the additional cost of increasing its fire power to deter its true enemy, North Korea.
• Blunders of the snack shop 'spy'
  [Espionage] [Human rights][Exceptionalism] But according to the prosecution's 80-page affidavit, his intelligence-gathering amounted to little more than a clutch of newspaper articles allegedly passed on to his handlers. Unable to bring a charge of espionage, the FBI instead accused Yai of failing to register as an agent of a foreign government. Nonetheless, if convicted, he faces up to 20 years in jail if convicted.
• No War Peace Action Korea
  Korean peace group protest against US plans to invade Iraq
• Rumsfeld says troop level talks coming
  [Withdrawal] [Fall back]
• Seoul disputes U.S. alarm about missiles
  [Rocketry][Friction]
• U.S. aide hears sharp words on troops
  [James Kelly] [Withdrawal] [Anti-Americanism]
• US 'not pressing for N Korea sanctions'
  [Sanctions] [Friction]
• US Soldier Found Guilty of Sexually Assaulting Fellow KATUSA
  [SOFA] [US offences]
• Roh Moo Hyun says: No War in Korea in No Way
  [Roh Moo-hyun] [Friction]
• U.S. policy toward nuclear issue of Korean Peninsula under fire
• Seoul disputes U.S. alarm about missiles
  [Rocketry] [Friction] [Information]
• Ministry to establish SOFA-related office
• South Korea Opposes U.S. Attack on North
  [Friction] [Belligerence]
• North Korea Wants Arms And More Aid From U.S.
  [NK US policy] [Espionage] The director of central intelligence, George J. Tenet .. said today that North Korea had settled on a twofold strategy of keeping its nuclear weapons program even as it seeks to improve ties with Washington.
• Reversals In U.S.-South Korea Links, And Some Jagged Fault Lines
  {Howard W. French} [SK US relations] [Friction]
• KATUSA Files Suit Against 3 US Soldiers for Sexual Assault
  [US offences]
• Tenet: North Korea has ballistic missile capable of hitting U.S.
  [Rocketry]
• 57% of Koreans want U.S. forces cut or withdrawn
  [Withdrawal] [Public opinion] [SK attitude NK][Threat]
• Nuclear capabilities stressed by Powell
• Seoul delays buying 48 Patriot missiles
  [Rocketry]
• U.S. forces overseas reviewed
  [US military]
• The Other Korea
  [Friction] [SK US relations]
• N. Korea 'Ready To Talk' On Nukes
  [US NK negotiations] [NK US policy] [EU] [Britain]
• U.S. To Ask Atom Agency To Chastise North Korea
  [IAEA] {Exclusion]
• Roh Defensive About Future of US Troops
  [Withdrawal] [SOFA]
• US Forces Will Remain in S. Korea: Hubbard
  [Withdrawal]
• KCNA on U.S. contradictory assertion about "direct dialogue"
  [NK US policy]
• Rally at U.S. mission opposes war on Iraq
  [Iraq]
• S. Korea, US to Set Up Consultative Body on Nuke Issue
• U.S. criticized for arms buildup
  [Belligerence]
• US threatens blockade of North Korea
  {Michael Sheridan} [Sanctions] [Bizarre]
• Anti-American slogans never go out of fashion in Pyeongyang
  [photo] [Spin] notice colourful clothes
• Politics and war plans: the U.S. troop debate Officials
  [Withdrawal]
• Cheney to visit Seoul during Asian swing
• Roh's Envoys Face Criticism
  [Friction] ..[Chyung Dai-chul] [Withdrawal] [Collapse]
• Envoy's Remarks Cause Dismay in US
  [Friction] [Collapse]
• Delegation Denies Report It Favors N.K. Possessing Nuclear Weapons
  [Friction] [Collapse] [Spin]
• Rhetoric abounds as U.S., North keep tensions at a boil
• U.S. and South Korea diverging on North: Allies seem to waver as crisis deepens
  {Howard W. French} [Inscrutable] [Strategic incoherence] [Bush policy] [Collapse][Unification] senior South Korean envoy said that, if it had to choose, the incoming government would prefer that North Korea had nuclear weapons to seeing North Korea collapse.
  The impression I got is that for Roh and his generation, the ultimate goal is to reunite their country and get us off the Peninsula."
• U.S. arms buildup assailed
  [Belligerence]
• Korean Defiance Piles Pressure On Bush
  [US NK negotiations] [Iraq]
• Fears Of Missile Launch Mount Among North Korea's Neighbors
  [Belligerence] [Rocketry]
• USFK Denies Reports on Increased War Readiness at Osan
  [Belligerence]
• Lawmakers deny pullout reports
  [Withdrawal] [Fall back]
• FBI Watched Spy Suspect for 7 Years
  [Espionage] [Human rights] [Diaspora]
• US Troop Reduction Reports Denied
  [Withdrawal] [Fall back]
• U.S. schemes to deploy more forces in Pacific
  [Belligerence]
• KCNA urges U.S. to respond to direct talks with DPRK
  [Exclusion]
• U.S. hit for bolstering its armed forces around Korean Peninsula
  [Belligerence]
• Bush's anti-DPRK vituperation under fire
  [Bush policy] [Double standards] [Belligerence]
• Bush Administration Defends Its Approach On North Korea
  [Bush policy] [Belligerence] [Preemptive] [Spin]
• US Ready to Give N. Korea No War Pledge
  [US NK negotiations][Spin]
• Rumsfeld Tells Seoul US May Pull Out Forces: Report
  [Withdrawal] [Fall back] [Belligerence] the transfer of USFK bases north of the Han River, including the main Yongsan Base, to locations south of Pyongtaek, some 70 kilometers south of Seoul.
• Alleged North Korean spy held in L.A.
  [Espionage]
• Hahn Hwa-kap Says U.S. Wants N.K. Issue Be Solved Within 6 Months
  [US NK Negotiations]
• KCNA ridicules U.S. behaviour unbecoming for "superpower"
  [Exclusion] [US NK Negotiations] [NK US policy]
• U.S. moves for new war against DPRK accused
  [Preemptive] [Bluster]
• US shrugs off N Korea threat
  [Preemptive] [Belligerence] [Spin]
• No U.S. sanctions and blockade will work on DPRK
  [Sanctions] [Bluster]
• U.S. air force in S. Korea in "semi-war state"
  [Belligerence]
• US is told: turn on us and you get total war
  [NK US policy][NK military]
• Daily drills, nightly blackouts: North Korea is certain it's next on the US list
  Jonathan Watts in Pyongyang [ewa] [Spin] [Belligerence]
• N Korea threatens US with first strike Pyongyang asserts right to pre-emptive attack as tensions rise over American build-up
  {Jonathan Watts) [Preemptive] [Belligerence]
• N. Korea Issues War Warning
  [Preemptive] [Belligerence] [Spin]
• Man Charged With Spying FOR N. Korea
  [Espionage] [Human rights] [National Security Law] Note different spelling of name Yai rather than Yeh ; charged as 'unregistered agent of North Korea'
• Powell Answers Questions On North Korea
  [US NK negotiations] [Blackmail] 'And while Washington has said repeatedly that it welcomes talks with North Korea, it has emphasized that it will not be "blackmailed" into true negotiations.
• North Korea Intensifies War Of Words With U.S.
• Another Crisis: North Korea
  [Public opinion] [Diversion] [US NK Negotiations]
• American Soldiers Driving Drunk Face Tougher Punishments
• Roh's Envoy Meets US Vice President Cheney
  [Chyung Dai-chul]
• US Military Buildup Around Peninsula / Price Cut in Government Rice Purchase
  [Friction] [Belligerence] [US NK Negotiations] [Nuclear]
• Roh's envoy says U.S. open to talks with North
  [Friction] [US NK negotiations] [SK US relations] [Chyung Dai-chul]
• SOFA committee turns to troops' traffic offenses
  [SOFA]
• U.S. talk about "dialogue" dismissed as hypocritical
  [NK US policy] [Agreed Framework]
• U.S. anti-DPRK international pressure campaign assailed
  [Blackmail] [Nuclear] [Axis]
• U.S. begins bolstering its forces in Korean Peninsula
  [Belligerence]
• U.S.-proposed "multilateral" talks blasted
  [Exclusion]
• Pro-North Korea Activist Arrested in U.S. by FBI Agents
  [Human rights] [National Security Law] [Diaspora] [US NK relations]
• A Ticking Clock On North Korea
  [US NK Negotiations][Bush policy] NY Times calls on US to drop preconditions and negotiate
• U.S. Official Says North Korea Could Sell Bomb Material
  [Nuclear] [Terrorism]
• USFK Says No Request Made for Additional Forces
  [Belligerence] [US military dominance]
• htm#1"> U.S. hit for false information
  [John Bolton] [NPT] [US NK negotiations]
• No comment by officials on reports of U.S. buildup
  [Belligerence] [Friction]
• U.S. aide says alliance must be 'modernized'
  [Chyung Dai-chul] [SOFA] [Friction]
• Here's looking at you!
  [Culture gap]
• N. Korea hits out at U.S. Military moves
  [Belligerence]
• U.S. Official Sees Talks With North Korea On Nuclear Program
  [Nuclear] [US NK Negotiations] [Richard Armitage]
• Pyongyang Says U.S. Plans To Dominate Peninsula
  [Imperialism] [Belligerence] [NS US policy] [Collapse]
• U.S. Bombers On Alert To Deploy As Warning To North Koreans
  [Belligerence][Spin] [Media]
• U.S. to Boost Forces Around Korean Peninsula: Wall Street Journal
  [Belligerence]
• 2,900 US Soldiers Could Stay
• President-elect's Envoy Arrives in Washington
  [Chyung Dai-chul]
• U.S. Considering Withdrawal of Troops from Peninsula: Rep. Ham
  [Withdrawal]
• KCNA terms Bush's state of union address declaration of aggression
  [Bush policy]
• SOFA panel will meet tomorrow on changes
  [SOFA]
• Public Favors Negotiating With North Korea
  Press release of PIP poll [Public opinion] [US NK relations] [US NK negotiations]
• U.S. military asking for more troops here
  [Belligerence] [Friction] [US military dominance]
• US Says No Carrots to N. Korea This Time: Hahn
  [Friction] [US NK negotiations] [Hahn Hwa-kap]
• US military will reinforce Korea
  [Belligerence]
• "J. Kelly Failed to Produce 'Evidence' in Pyongyang"; Framed up "Admission" Story
  [James Kelly] [Admission] [IAEA] [Agreed Framework] [Delay] [Imperialism] [Asymmetrical power]
• Roh aide flies to U.S. for talks on the North_
  [Chyung Dai-chul] [Friction]
• DPRK Rejects U.S. Conditional Proposal of Talks
  [Losyukov] [NPT] [NK US policy]
• Tensions rise over North Korea
  [Nuclear]
• S. Korea envoy on N. Korea mission
  [Chyung Dai-chul] [Friction] [Belligerence]
• What North Korea Wants
  [NK US policy]
• South Korean Envoy Plans To Discuss Crisis With U.S.
  [Chyung Dai Chul] [Friction]
• Admiral Seeks Deterrent Force In Korea Crisis
  [US military] [Belligerence]
• Photo exhibition on GIs' murder of schoolgirls opens
  [US offences] [Anti-Americanism]
• KCNA assails U.S. secret military exercise
  [US military] [Preemptive]
• U.S. dangerous attempt at preemptive attack under fire
  [Preemptive]
• U.S. secret operation against S. Korea disclosed
  [Media] [Public opinion] [Anti-Americanism] [Pro-Americanism]
• Bush hit for slandering DPRK
  [Bush policy] [Bluster] [NK US policy] [Heritage]
• Family works for early release of spy in U.S. prison
  [Friction] [Espionage]
• North Korea: 'Nuke crisis not our fault'
  [NK US policy] [Nuclear] [US NK negotiations] [Independent states]
• Pentagon: N. Korea Not Mobilizing Army
  [NK military] [Spin] [Reclusive]
• North Korea Presses Demand For Direct Talks With U.S.
  [NK US policy] [Nuclear] [US NK negotiations]
• KCNA blasts U.S. "tailored containment" strategy
  [Sanctions] [Collapse]
• DPRK Foreign Ministry spokesman on Powell's remarks
  [Admission] [Exclusion] [Preemptive] [Axis][ Kumchangri] [Victim] [Bush policy] [Agreed Framework]
• U.S. Army to lengthen Korea tour of some Gis
  [US military]

• Representative Sam Farr calls on Powell to sign non-aggression pact, honour NPT
• Seoul Gives Positive Assessment on Bush's Remark on NK Nukes
  [SK US relations]
• Lawmakers Oppose US Going to War With Iraq
  [Friction]
• U.S. loudmouthed dialogue flailed
  [NK US policy] [US NK negotiations]
• Report of Korean Central News Agency
  [PYR] [Preemptive] [Joint US military]
• North Korean Foreign Ministry Spokesperson: Legally Binding Non- Aggression Treaty is Required
  [NK US policy]
• George Bush's State of the Union - Full Text on North Korea (January 28, 2003)
• Bush Administration Wants to See NK Collapse: CSIS
  [Bush Policy] [Joel Wit] [US NK Negotiations] [Friction] [Culture gap] [Collapse]
• DPRK Foreign Ministry spokesman on "multi-party talks"
  [Exclusion]
• U.S. spy plane down near Seoul
  [US Offences] [Espionage]
• Changing US perception of the Dear Leader
  [Kim Jong Il] [Black] [Bush policy] [James Kelly]
• An American Spy Plane Explodes in Air and Crashes
  [US offences] [Espionage]
• Minju Joson on U.S. plan for war against north
  [US NK relations] [Belligerence]
• KCNA dismisses proposed "exchange of statements or letters" as untrustworthy
  [NK US policy] [Agreed Framework] [Peace efforts]
• U.S. troops will leave if asked, ex-aide says
  [James Baker] [Withdrawal] [Anti-Americanism]
• U.S. Spy Plane Crashes In South Korea, Injuring 5
  [US offences] [Espionage] [Admission]
• Powell: US won't attack N Korea
• North Koreans Still Demand Direct Talks With The U.S.
  {James Brooke} [Exclusion] [US NK Negotiations]
• Seoul Looks to New Alliances
  {Howard W. French} [Friction] [SK NK relations] [Withdrawal] [US military dominance] [China]
• Negotiator At Large
  [Richardson] [Negotiating style] [Culture gap] [Religion][Powell]
• KCNA urges U.S. to pay heed to world voices
• "New plan for S. Korea-U.S. combined military operation" flailed
  [Joint US military] [Role of SK military]
• U.S. and South Korean military hawks hit for war scenario
  [Joint US military] [Role of SK military]
• Be Patient With North, Seoul's Kim Urges the U.S.
  {James Brooke} [Friction] [Arrogance][Culture gap] [Kimdj] [US NK Negotiations]
• Kim Jong Il: 'We Can Defeat U.S.'
  [NK military]
• An exit strategy for dear leader? But Siberia?
  {James Brooke} [Kim Jong Il][Arrogance] [Imperialism] [Japanese colonialism]
• James Kelly biography
  [James Kelly] (US State Department)
• UN Will Deal With NK Nuclear Issue: Bolton
  [United Nations] [John Bolton] [NPT] [Exclusion] [IAEA]
• US Carrier Kitty Hawk Leaves To Monitor N Korea - Kyodo
• Bolton Goes East - The Wrong Man For Korea
  [John Bolton]
• USFK Trailer Runs Over Woman in Inchon
  [US offences](driver was Korean)
• North issue poised for UN body
  [Nuclear] [John Bolton] [United Nations] [Exclusion]
• Negotiation through Starvation - A tale of two "Dear Leaders"
  Collin Baber - a concerned citizen [Public opinion] [Aid weapon]
• Diplomatic Disasters
  [Bush policy] [Exceptionalism]
• U.S. urged to give legal security assurances to DPRK
  [US NK Negotiations] [Arrogance] [NK US policy] [Peace efforts]
• North Korea adds fuel to nuclear crisis
  [Spin] [Iraq] [Nuclear]
• Bush does u-turn in effort to end Korea crisis
  {Suzanne Goldenberg} {Jonathan Watts} [US NK Negotiations] [Spin]
• Rumsfeld Says Iraq Diplomacy Is Nearing The End Of Its Road
  [US NK Negotiations] [Iraq]
• US Set to Bring NK Issue to UN
  [Nuclear] [United Nations] [Exclusion]
• Diplomacy Should Resolve Korean Crisis, Powell Says
  [US NK Negotiations]
• Bolton Arrives in Seoul Today to Discuss NK Nuke Issue
  [John Bolton] [NPT]
• Roh Sends US Mixed Signals, Triggering Uncertainty
  [SK US relations] [Friction]
• Spy ship Pueblo
  [Pueblo] [Espionage]
• Overcoming North Korea's 'Tyranny of Proximity' Military Planners Say a U.S. Victory Would Come at Great Human Cost, Especially to South Korea
  {Vernon Loeb} {Peter Slevin} [Admission] [US NK relation] [US military] [NK military]
• KCNA on deceptive and hypocritical balderdash about dialogue
  [NK US Policy] [PYR]
• Powell Reaffirms U.S. Desire For North Korea To Face Council
  [NPT][Exclusion][US NK negotiations]
• US Offers Aid Incentive to NK: Amb. Hubbard
  [Aid weapon] [US NK Negotiations]
• Roh's Delegation to Visit US Feb. 2
  [Friction] [SK US relations]
• DPRK to react to unreasonable "countermeasure" with toughest stance
  [Exclusion] [Nuclear] [United Nations] [Agreed Framework]
• U.S. shameless threat lambasted
  [Nuclear] [United Nations] [Agreed Framework]
• Roh Adopts Pragmatic Approach to Korea-US Relations
  [Roh Moo- hyun] [SK US relations]
• US has 'not ruled out military action against N. Korea'
  [Rumsfeld] [US NK Negotiations]
• Byrd: Bush Gives U.S. 'Bully' Image
  [Bush policy] [Partisan]
• S. Korean Says U.S. Considered Attack on North
  [Roh Moo-hyun]
• U.S. Worries North Korea Will Sell Nuclear Bombs
  [Spin] [Nuclear]
• US makes fresh offer to N Korea
  [Pro-Americanism] [US NK negotiations] [Spin]
• US rethinks S Korea forces
  [Withdrawal] [Anti-Americanism]
• Secret Diplomacy: Rules Of The Road
  {Steven R. Weisman} [US NK negotiations]
• Korea's Carefully Chosen Invective
  {Howard W. French} [Media] [Spin] [Bluster]
• Preventing The Next North Korea
  [Spin] [NPT] [Partisan] [US military]
• The Crisis Last Time
  {William J. Perry} {Ashton B. Carter} [Subversion] [Agreed Framework] [History] [Juche] [Imperialism]
• U.S., N. Korea 'talking past each other'
  [United Nations] [Spin]
• N. Korea Envoy Says Dialogue Can End Crisis-Report
  [Peace efforts] [Nuclear] [US NK negotiations]
• U.S. is chiefly to blame for worst situation in Korea
  [NPT] [Pro-Pyongyang] [Joint US military] [Agreed Framework] [PYR]
• Cookies And Kimchi
  {Nicholas D. Kristof} [Anti-Americanism] [Pro-Americanism] [Friction] [ SK NK negotiations] [Roh Moo-hyun] [Peace efforts]
• South Korea's President-Elect Rejects Use Of Force Against North Korea
  {Howard W. French} [Anti-Americanism] [Pro-Americanism] [Friction] [ SK NK negotiations] [Roh Moo-hyun] [Peace efforts]
• Bush's Talk of "Negotiation" Is Nothing But A Deceptive Trickery
• Rallies held to vow to frustrate U.S. moves
  [NPT]
• KCNA accuses U.S. of mocking at UN and international community
  [Exclusion] [NPT]
• KCNA refutes U.S. sophism about DPRK's decision
  [NPT] [Axis]
• DPRK, too, has option
  [Bluster]
• Information campaign to boycott American movie in S. Korea
  [Culture war]
• DPRK FM spokesman on U.S. rumor about dialogue
  [US NK Negotiations]
• Roh Emphasizes Solid ROK-US Relations Over NK Nukes
  [Pro-Americanism] [US military dominance] [Withdrawal]
• Powell says a deal with a guarantee to North is possible
• Rallies grow more diverse on U.S. issue
  [Anti-Americanism] [Pro- Americanism]
• Bush's Talk of "Negotiation" Is Nothing But A Deceptive Trickery
  [Aid weapon] [US NK negotiations]
• US Spy Ship Pueblo May Be Coming Home
  [James Kelly] [Espionage] [Pueblo][Peace effort]
• South Korea's Next Leader Reassures U.S.
  {Howard W. French} [Friction] [Anti-Americanism] [Roo Moo-hyun]
• North Korea and the U.S. must talk, Carter says
  [Jimmy Carter] [US NK negotiations] [Agreed Framework]
• North Korea Rejects Conditional U.S. Talks, Aid
  [US NK Negotiations][Aid weapon]
• South Korea leader visits U.S. Military base
  [Anti-Americanism] [Pro-Americanism] [SK US relations] [Roh Moo-hyun]
• North Korea spurns US deal
  [US NK negotiations] [James Kelly]
• Bush Shows Impatience With Iraq But Optimism On North Korea
  [Spin]
• Aides Declare U.S. 'Willing To Talk' In Korea Dispute
  {Howard W. French} [US NK negotiations]
• Bush says shift by North Korea could bring aid
  {David E. Sanger}[Aid weapon] [US NK negotiations]
• North Korean puzzle: U.S. Will try persuasion again
  {Steven R. Weisman} [US NK negotiations][Inscrutable]
• US May Guarantee Survival of NK Regime: Kelly
  [James Kelly] [Imperialism] [Friction]
• Powell says a deal with a guarantee to North is possible
• North Korea Demands Talks To Break Deadlock
  [Exclusion] [NK US policy] [Peace efforts]
• US Willing to Ease NK Energy Crisis
  [James Kelly] [Energy] [Friction]
• US Special Envoy meets Roh Moo Hyun, Korea's Next President
  [James Kelly] [Friction] [Inspections]
• North Korea: South Korean Perspective With Paul Kim
  [Bizarre] [Culture gap] [US NK relations]
• US reaches out to N Korea
  [James Kelly][Friction] [US NK Negotiations] [Energy]
• Playing With Words: North Korea's Media
  [Spin] [Media]
• U.S. And South Korea Upbeat On Alliance At Talks In Seoul
  {Howard W. French} [James Kelly] [Friction] [Pro-Americanism]
• U.S. Envoy Starts Discussions In Seoul On North Korea
  [James Kelly] [Friction]
• North Korean Talks? U.S. Weighs The Possible Price
  {Steven R. Weisman} [US NK Negotiations] [Richardson] [NK US policy]
• Roh to Dispatch Envoy to Wall Street
  [Friction] [Anti-Americanism] [FDI]
• Roh Meets Kelly to Set Course of Action on NK
  [James Kelly] [Friction]
• Dear God, We Thank Thee For The US Troops in Korea
  [Pro-Americanism] [Religion][Withdrawal]
• "What did you say?"
  [Friction]
• What Does North Korea Want?
  {David E. Sanger} [NK US policy] [US NK negotiations] [Richardson]
• A Surge In Saber-Rattling At The Precipice
  [Spin] [Negotiating style]
• Nuclear Mediators Resort To Political Mind Reading
  {David E. Sanger} [Inscrutable] [Culture gap]
• US seeks support on N Korean crisis
  [Friction] [James Kelly] [Sanctions]
• N. Korea blames U.S. For nuclear crisis
• Why the U.S. Changed its North Korea Stance
  [Friction][Partisan] [US NK Negotiations]
• Mediator Urges Direct Dialogue In North Korea Crisis
  [Richardson] [US NK negotiations] [Partisan]
• Treaty pullouts: U.S. Shows the way
  [NPT] [Partisan] [Agreed Framework]
• More North Korean Brinkmanship
  [NPT] [Spin]
• At The Short End Of The Axis Of Evil: Some F.A.Q.'S
  {Bill Keller} [Belligerence] [Kim Jong Il] [Bizarre][Armitage]
• Unexpected appointment in Gov. Richardson's datebook
  [Richardson] [US NK negotiations]
• North Korea Is Target Of Protests From World
  [NPT] [Exclusion]
• U.S. assails move by North Koreans to reject treaty
  [NPT] [IAEA]
• Korea Crisis: Same Song, Second Verse
  [NPT] [History]
• Washington's Disunity Complicates Dialogue
  {Steven R. Weisman} [Richardson] [Sanctions] [Partisan] [TCOG]
• North Korea Pushes Itself To Center Stage
  [NPT] [Role of SK military]
• North Korea Assailed For Withdrawing From Arms Treaty
  [NPT]
• Rodong Sinmun on U.S. strategy for domination over DPRK
  [Bluster]
• Rodong Sinmun on U.S. blockade and sanctions
  [Sanctions]
• Anti-American Rallies Could Jeopardize US Investment
  [Anti-Americanism] [Pro-Americanism] [FDI]
• Roh's Washington Envoy Has Two Important Missions
  [Friction][SK US relations]
• Nearing a Nuclear Jungle
  {Jim Hoagland} [Nuclear] [US NK negotiations] [Partisan]
• Anti-U.S. barbs drawing blood there
  [Anti-Americanism] [Pro-Americanism] [Withdrawal]
• North Korea Opens Unofficial Channel For U.S. talks {David E. Sanger}
  [US NK Negotiations] [Richardson] [Peace effort]
• Civic Groups List Demands to Alter SOFA
  [SOFA] [US Offences]
• LaPorte to Discuss Border Crossing in US
  [US military dominance] [Connections] [Friction]
• U.S.: Russia Is 'in Denial' on N. Korea -AP
  [Nuclear]
• Time to cool 'anti' rhetoric
  [Anti-Americanism] [Friction][Pro-Americanism]
• U.S. To Allow North Korea Envoy To Meet Former U.N. Ambassador
  [Richardson] [peace efforts] [US NK negotiations]
• Calling North Korea
  [US NK Negotiations]
• Defectors Want To Pry Open North Korea
  {James Brooke} [Defector report][Subversion]
• Media Reps Focus on Anti-US Feelings
  [Anti-Americanism] [Media] [US dominance][Pro-Americanism]
• US Opens Door to Dialogue With NK
  [US NK Negotiations] [Spin] [Friction] [TCOG]
• Ongoing Protests Frustrate S. Korean Politicians
  [Anti-Americanism][Pro-Americanism]
• Alien Seeks Reward for Injuries From USFK Employee Under SOFA
  [SOFA] [Human rights]
• Transition Committee Going Too Far / No More Candlelight Vigils
  [Anti-Americanism][Media][Pro-Americanism]
• U.S. agrees to talk with Pyeongyang; step is hailed here
  [US NK Negotiations] [Friction]
• S. Korean students demand conclusion of DPRK-U.S. non-aggression treaty
• KCNA accuses U.S. of increasing danger of nuclear war in Korea
• South Korea calls for closer alliance with U.S. as North Korea attempts to drive wedge -AP
  [Role of SK military] [Joint Korean][Pro-Americanism]
• N. Korea slams U.S. 'Criminal policy'
• Careful With Korea, Brash With Iraq
• U.S., in a shift, is willing to talk with North Korea about a-arms
  {Steven R. Weisman} [Friction] [US NK Negotiations][Spin]
• Washington, Seoul Agree on Joint Strategy
  [Spin] [Friction] [NPT]
• KCNA urges U.S. to drop its anachronistic policy toward DPRK
  [Bluster]
• U.S. urged to apologize and compensate for its piracy against DPRK ship
  [Yemen] [Bluster] [Sanctions]
• North Korea says 'sanctions mean a war' as world steps up diplomatic efforts -AP
  [Spin]
• Bush softening no-talks stance
  [US NK Negotiations]
• Korea is GIs' last choice overseas
  [Anti-Americanism] [US military]
• Vigils not anti-U.S., Kim tells his cabinet
  [Anti-Americanism] [Spin]
• Changing world, static alliance
  {Kim Min-seok} [SK US relations] [SOFA] [US military dominance]
• Take heed of Korea's real crisis
  {Michael H. Armacost} [Friction]
• Trip of grave importance
  [Friction]
• US Forces Cease Work Today to Understand Korean Culture
  [Culture Gap] [Anti-Americanism]
• Seoul Says Bush Worsens Nuclear Standoff
  [Friction]
• KCNA on U.S. moves for MD establishment
  [Missile defense]
• Anti-Americanism listed as one of internet ten-point news
  [Anti-Americanism] [Internet]
• U.S., Asian Allies Discuss North Korea -AP
  [TCOG]
• North Korea refuses to recognize armistice pact
  [Border] [US military dominance]
• US ready for dialogue with Pyongyang
  [US NK Negotiations] [Spin]
• North Korea: 'sanctions mean a war'
  [Sanctions][Bluster]
• U.S. 'Willing to Talk' With North Korea
  [US NK Negotiations][Spin]
• Bush Welcomes Slower Approach To North Korea
  {David e. Sanger} [IAEA] [US NK Negotiations] [Spin]
• North Korea Urged To Comply As 3-Way Talks Open In Washington
  [IAEA]
• Diplomats pile pressure on N. Korea
  [IEAE]
• TCOG Will Urge Pyongyang to End Nuclear Crisis
  [TCOG]
• Talk of War Still Far From Heartland USA
  [Spin]
• Democrats Criticize Bush on North Korea
  [US NK Negotiations] [Partisan]
• U.S. is to blame for present situation
• Nuclear issue on Korean Peninsula should be settled between DPRK and U.S.
  [Exclusion] [Nuclear]
• Half-century alliance shows signs of strain {Oh Young-hwan}
  [Friction] [Anti-Americanism] [Imperialism]
• Cooperation and conflict mark a 50-year alliance
  {Kim Min-seok} [Friction] [Imperialism] [SK US relations]
• No Support for Strikes Against N. Korea
  [US military] [US NK relations] [NK military]
• U.S. Will Refer N. Korea Nuclear Effort to U.N.
  [Nuclear] [Multilateral] [Spin] [US NK Negotiations]
• German Documentary Charges Us Used Biological Weapons In Korean War
  {Peter Schwarz} [cbw][Korean War events]
• Seoul, Washington, Tokyo Try to Reach New Policy on Pyongyang
  [Friction] [TCOG]
• Why Keep U.S. Troops in South Korea?
  {James Dao}[Withdrawal][US military] [Anti-Americanism] [Japanese remilitarisation]
• In North Korea, Every New Bomb Is a Greater Peril
  {Michael r. Gordon} [Nuclear]
• Wizard's Chess
  [Threat] [Iraq] [Imperialism]
• North Korea Issues Warning, And Seoul Seeks Compromise
  {James Brooke} [Friction] [Spin]
• Negotiating North Korea
  {Stephen Bosworth}{ Sung-Yoon Lee} [US NK Negotiations] [NK US policy]
• Another Crisis In North Korea
  [Admission] [US NK Negotiations] [Negotiating style] [Stephen Bosworth]
• S.Korea to Seek Compromise on Nuclear Issue
  [Nuclear] [Friction]
• Facing The Threat Of North Korea
  [Threat] [Non official]
• Crisis In Korea Stirs Debate In A Borough In New Jersey
  [Diaspora] [Non official]
• New Seoul leader to press U.S. And North to yield a bit
  [Friction]
• US May Require Interviews for Visas
  [Friction][Terrorism]
• Idea of the Week: How To Deal With the Rat That Roared
  [Threat] [Bizarre] [Arrogance]
• Bush Plays Down Rift With Allies Over U.S. Stance on North Korea
  {David E. Sanger} [Friction]
• Kim, Roh Urge Bush to Show Restraint on NK
  [Friction]
• U.S. warmonger's hysteria ridiculed
  [Agreed Framework] [Pro- Pyongyang]
• U.S. aerial espionage against DPRK in December
  [Espionage]
• Anti-U.S., anti-war rally held in S. Korea
  [Ant-Americanism]
• North calls for U.S. to pull troops
• Bridging U.S.-Korea differences
  [Threat] [Friction]
• An open letter to my daughter
  [US offences]
• North Korea Defends Decision To Restart Nuclear Program
  [Nuclear]
• Bush Criticizes North Korea's Leader
  {David E. Sanger}[Spin]
• Struggle against imperialism without concession called for
  [NK strategy][Imperialism] [NK US policy ]
• Rodong Sinmun on Rumsfeld's utterances about "nuclear threat"
  [Threat]
• U.S. hindrance to inter-Korean reconciliation and cooperation flayed
  [US military dominance]
• Pyongyang rally condemns U.S. campaign against DPRK
  [US offences] [Yang Hyong Sop]
• N. Korea Tries to Divide U.S., S. Korea -AP
  [Joint Korean]
• A rational North Korea (letter to editor)
• The exercise of American power
  [Nuclear] [Imperialism]
• Three-ring circus
  {William Safire} [Threat] [Bizarre]
• The Power Of Film: A Bond That Unites Koreans
  {James Brooke} [Culture War] [Joint Korean] [Anti-Americanism]
• Comments on William Safire's column
  [bizarre]
• South Korea, Once A Solid Ally, Now Poses Problems For The U.S.
  {Steven r. Weisman} [Friction] [Threat][ SK US relations]
• Roh Skeptical on US Policy Toward NK
  [Friction]
• Roh Takes Firm Approach With Bush
  [Friction]
• KCNA blasts U.S. warmongers' outbursts
  [Pro-Pyongyang]
• U.S. denies "tailored containment" policy
  [Sanctions] [Friction]
• The US Military Stops North-South Road Connection
  [US military dominance] [Connections]
• YKU Statement on North Korea's Nuclear Program
• Biggest Candlelight Vigil Planned Tonight
  [US offences] [Anti-Americanism]
• Kim, Roh Urge Bush to Show Restraint on NK
  [Friction]
• Seoul Reluctant to Follow US Hard Line on NK
  [Friction]
• U.S. senator's groundless accusation against DPRK under fire
  [Yemen] [Rocketry] [Double standards] [Pro-Pyongyang]
• Candle-light memorial service in S. Korea
  [US offences] [Anti-Americanism] [Pro-Pyongyang]
• President-elect Roh opposes containment policy
  [Friction]
• White House: North Korea Risks Isolation -AP
  [Aid weapon] [Arrogance] [US-NK negotiations]
• President Kim skeptical about U.S. embargo plan
  [Friction][Sanctions]
• Wraping up 2002: North Korea's rant to U.S.
  [Spin]