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  • Protesters cut up a North Korean flag during an anti-North Korea rally in downtown Seoul on Wednesday, June 12, 2013, to denounce the cancellation of the Koreas' high-level talks, which were scrapped a day before they were to begin Wednesday because the sides didn't agree on the delegation leaders, South Korea said. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)

    North Korea proposes high-level talks with U.S.

    North Korea's top governing body on Sunday proposed high-level nuclear and security talks with the United States in an appeal sent just days after calling off talks with rival South Korea.

  • South Korean police officers spray fire extinguishers after protesters burnt an effigy of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and its flag during an anti-North Korea rally denouncing the cancellation of Koreas high-level talks in downtown Seoul on June 12, 2013. (Associated Press)

    N. Korea's talks offer just a fig leaf for China, analyst says

    North Korea's cancellation of a Wednesday summit with the South shows that the communist regime's commitment to the talks was fake, probably to ease China's participation in talks with the U.S. over the weekend, an noted Korea analyst says.

  • M. Ryder

    HUNTER: Veterans who take the Hill

    Since the birth of the nation, military veterans have made innumerable contributions to the development and operation of the U.S. government. For Congress, which is accustomed to veterans, the knowledge and expertise garnered through military service remains an influential force.

  • South Korean protesters hold the pictures of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un during a rally in Seoul on Dec. 12, 2012, denouncing North Korea's rocket launch. The letters read "Out, Pro-North Korea politic." (Associated Press)

    China snubs Pyongyang by inviting S. Korean president to Beijing

    China has deliberately snubbed North Korea by inviting South Korea's recently elected president to Beijing, while officials hectored a high-level delegation from Pyongyang last week and issued no such invitation to the North's third-generation hereditary leader, Kim Jong-Un.

  • Kim Jong-un

    N. Korea 'snubbed' in Beijing, caves to Chinese demands on nuke talks

    A North Korean delegation to China appears to have been gently snubbed ahead of a meeting Friday with Chinese President Xi Jinping, according to one regional analyst, who say the visitors' treatment is part of Beijing's effort to reign in its troublesome, isolated and poverty stricken neighbor.

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  • Have driver, will travel: US golfer roams world

    The quotation from the proud father was a version of Ralph Waldo Emerson's famous words, "Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."

  • Golf Capsules

    Sang-Moon Bae won the Byron Nelson Championship on Sunday for his first PGA Tour title, beating Keegan Bradley by two strokes after blowing a four-stroke lead.

  • Venturi, US Open champion and CBS analyst, dies

    Ken Venturi, who overcame dehydration to win the 1964 U.S. Open and spent 35 years in the booth for CBS Sports, died Friday afternoon. He was 82.

  • File-This June 20, 1964 file photo shows golfer Ken Venturi getting a kiss from his wife Conni as he accepts the title holder's silver cup of the U.S. Open golf tournament, after a searing final round on the Congressional Country Club course at Bethesda, Md. The former U.S. Open champion has died just 12 days after he was inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame. He was 82. His son, Matt Venturi, says he died Friday May 17, 2013 in a hospital in Rancho Mirage, Calif. Venturi had been hospitalized the last two months for a spinal infection, pneumonia and an intestinal infection. (AP Photo/File)

    Ken Venturi dies; won U.S. Open at Congressional before CBS career

    Venturi died 12 days after he was inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame. He couldn't make it to the induction. His sons, Matt and Tim, accepted on his behalf after an emotional tribute by Jim Nantz, who worked alongside Venturi at CBS.

  • Gen. George S. Patton

    PRUDEN: Obama's indifference to incompetence regarding Benghazi

    There's an immeasurably deep cleavage between left and right in America, illustrated vividly in the way Americans regard the Benghazi scandal and outrage. It's in the DNA.

  • ** FILE ** A tourist photographs an alien outside a T-shirt and souvenir shop in Roswell, N.M., in 2007. (Associated Press)

    EDITORIAL: Attention, Earthlings

    A few friends of extraterrestrials got together the other day at the National Press Club, where there's usually a couple of guys at the bar eager for a good story, to hold a Citizen Hearing on Disclosure, a "mock congressional hearing" on human encounters with extraterrestrials.

  • South Korea President Park Geun-hye lays a wreath Monday at the Tomb of the Unknowns at Arlington National Cemetery. She meets with President Obama on Tuesday at the White House.
(associated press)

    Obama, South Korea's Park are likely to temper any tensions

    South Korean President Park Geun-hye and President Obama no doubt will look to project a unified front when the two leaders meet Tuesday at the White House to discuss how best to address the North Korean nuclear threat.

  • The last seven South Koreans stationed at a jointly run factory park in North Korea pulled out Friday, May 3, silencing the complex for the first time since it was launched nine years ago in a seemingly distant era of reconciliation. (Associated Press)

    Last South Koreans leave factory in North Korea

    The last seven South Koreans stationed at a jointly run factory park in North Korea pulled out Friday, silencing the complex for the first time since it was launched nine years ago in a seemingly distant era of reconciliation.

  • **FILE** Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (right) shakes hands with U.S. Ambassador to Japan John Roos during a joint announcement at Abe's official residence in Tokyo on April 5, 2013. Japan and the U.S. have agreed on plans for returning to Japan land adjacent to Kadena Air Base on the southern island of Okinawa that is now used by the U.S. military. (Associated Press)

    U.S. welcomes latecomer Japan to trans-Pacific trade talks

    Economists say the long-awaited addition of Japan to a pending trade agreement between the U.S. and the Asia-Pacific region was worth the wait, and the benefits will outweigh any slowdown in negotiations.

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