Eric Talmadge

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North Korean ship symbolizes hopes for Japan ties

Eric Talmadge · July 3, 2014 4:44 am

North Korea preparing to try 2 American tourists

Eric Talmadge · June 30, 2014 11:52 am

FILE - Int his Thursday, May 29, 2014 file photo, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe attends the Upper house diplomacy and Defense committee session in Tokyo. Japan and North Korea appear to be on the verge of a breakthrough on a bizarre legacy of the Cold War, a secret, government-ordered program that led to the abduction of more than a dozen and possibly several hundred Japanese citizens in the 1970s and 80s by North Korean infiltrators and spies. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara, File)

Hope, risk surround Japan-N. Korea abduction deal

Eric Talmadge · June 5, 2014 9:19 am

Russian President Vladimir Putin heads to speak at a navy parade marking Victory Day in Sevastopol, Crimea in this May 9, 2014 file photo. Angry with the West's response over Ukraine, Russia is moving rapidly to bolster ties with North Korea in a diplomatic nose-thumbing that could complicate the U.S.-led effort to squeeze Pyongyang into giving up its nuclear weapons program. Russia's proactive strategy in Asia- which also involves cozying up to China and had been dubbed "Putin's Pivot" - began years ago as Moscow's answer to Washington's much touted rebalancing of its military forces in the Pacific. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev, File)

Putin looks east to bolster ties with North Korea

Eric Talmadge · June 4, 2014 8:51 am

US deploys first advanced drones to Japan

Eric Talmadge · May 30, 2014 9:51 am

National Security

North Korea: New kind of nuke test still an option

Eric Talmadge · May 1, 2014 1:21 pm

AP Exclusive: Foreign food aid drying up in NKorea

Eric Talmadge · April 25, 2014 8:35 am

North Korean spectators watch from the stands of Kim Il Sung Stadium as runners line up a the start of the Mangyongdae Prize International Marathon in Pyongyang, North Korea on Sunday, April 13, 2014. The annual race, which includes a full marathon, a half marathon, and a 10-kilometer run, was open to foreign tourists for the first time this year. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder)

North Korea’s capital hosts international marathon

Eric Talmadge · April 13, 2014 9:40 am

There was the 26th Mangyongdae Prize Marathon at Kim Il Sung Stadium, Pyongyang, on Suday, April 14, 2013. The players started their competition at Kim Il Sung Stadium. (AP Photo/Jon Chol Jin)

Pyongyang opens marathon to tourist-runners

Eric Talmadge · April 2, 2014 3:56 pm

Mandatory Kim Jong Un haircuts a baldfaced lie?

Eric Talmadge · March 27, 2014 2:57 pm

A crew member of a Royal Malaysian Air Force CN-235 aircraft rests after long hours working in a search and rescue operation for the missing Malaysia Airlines plane over the Straits of Malacca, Thursday, March 13, 2014. Planes sent Thursday to check the spot where Chinese satellite images showed possible debris from the missing Malaysian jetliner found nothing, Malaysia's civil aviation chief said, deflating the latest lead in the six-day hunt. The hunt for the missing Malaysia Airlines flight 370 has been punctuated by false leads since it disappeared with 239 people aboard about an hour after leaving Kuala Lumpur for Beijing early Saturday. (AP Photo/Lai Seng Sin)

Details on ships, planes searching for missing jet

Eric Talmadge · March 13, 2014 2:37 pm

NKorea elections: 0 pct drama, 100 pct mandatory

Eric Talmadge · March 7, 2014 9:54 am