Sentence examples for pyongyang visit from inspiring English sources

Shigeo Iizuka, whose brother was abducted in 1978, says that the Pyongyang visit is "premature".

Many Japanese supporting a firm line on the nuclear threats and the adbuctee issue accuse Mr Tanaka, who engineered Mr Koizumi's Pyongyang visit in 2002, of being too soft on Mr Kim's regime.In this section Who will watch the watchdogs?

However, some critics feared the visit might make Pyongyang less willing to talk to the South, its rival since the country was partitioned after the second world war.

Seoul suggested the working-level talks on Thursday, a day after Pyongyang said Seoul businessmen could visit the closed complex to inspect and maintain equipment.

Not everyone can visit North Korea, talk to the stunted Pyongyang children, or watch from a bus window as their rural counterparts pick through barren fields for old roots to eat.

PYONGYANG, North Korea It's been an eventful weekend in Pyongyang.

The statement carried by Radio Pyongyang and monitored by news agencies in South Korea came just after a visit to North Korea by China's foreign minister, Li Zhaoxing, and shortly before a visit to the region by Vice President Dick Cheney that is planned for April.

"If Kim has indeed been set aside – and nobody outside Pyongyang really knows – then whoever has taken power is not seeking the limelight," said John Everard, former UK ambassador to Pyongyang .The visits to factories and military units that Kim frequently conducted have not been taken over by anyone else; they have simply stopped".

Pyongyang barely reciprocated.

Like Pyongyang, for example.

Pyongyang is simply recognizing reality.