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Jan. 31 (The Hindu) - U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is to send a special envoy to North Korea next week, his office said Sunday, amid international efforts to bring Pyongyang back into disarmament talks on its nuclear weapons programme.

SEOUL, Jan. 28 (Times of India) - North Korea on Thursday fired artillery shells near the disputed maritime border with South Korea for a second day, media reports said.

Jan. 26 (Bloomberg) - North Korea reiterated that it is unwilling to return to multilateral nuclear disarmament talks while the country is subject to UN sanctions.

SEOUL, Jan. 22 (Canadian Press) — North Korea proposed Friday holding military talks with South Korea next week to discuss ways to facilitate their joint industrial park in the North, an official said.

MOSCOW December 25, 2009 (RIA Novosti) - Ukraine denied on Friday allegations that a cargo plane loaded with illegal weaponry from North Korea was charted by a Ukrainian company.

December 10, 2009 (VOA) - Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says U.S. envoy Stephen Bosworth's mission to North Korea this week was "quite positive" even though it yielded no firm commitment by Pyongyang to return to Chinese-sponsored talks on its nuclear program.  It was the Obama administration's first high-level meeting with North Korea.

SEOUL December 8, 2009 (Reuters) - President Barack Obama's first envoy to North Korea arrived in Pyongyang on Tuesday to try to coax the prickly state back to the nuclear talks it quit a year ago, but without offering it any new incentives.

December 2, 2009 (London Telegraph) - In an alleged bid to curb inflation and suppress its growing black market, North Korea implemented a currency revaluation on Monday, according to Yonhap, the South Korean news agency.

 

November 11, 2009 (Al Jazeera) - North Korea has warned South Korea that it will face "costly consequences" over a naval clash along the two countries' disputed sea border earlier this week.

October 24, 2009 (AFP) - Asian nations discussed plans at a major summit Saturday to "lead the world" by boosting economic and political cooperation and possibly forming an EU-style community.