Global Business News

Predictably, both Russia and the United States have portrayed the recent summit in Moscow as a success.

Read more: 

http://globaleconomicnews.blogspot.com/2009/08/russia-and-us-uncertain-reset.html

Related Articles:

http://globalblognetwork.blogspot.com/2009/05/misreading-map.html

http://globalblognetwork.blogspot.com/2009/05/opec-set-to-leave-output-unchanged.html

http://globalblognetwork.blogspot.com/2009/05/dangers-of.html

http://globalblognetwork.blogspot.com/2009/06/russia-considers-bail-out-for-banks.html

http://globalblognetwork.blogspot.com/2009/06/putin-urges-innovation-to-revive-russia.html

http://globalblognetwork.blogspot.com/2009/06/america-snubbed-as-china-india-and.html

http://globalblognetwork.blogspot.com/2009/05/russia-eu-summit-ends-with-differences.html

http://globalblognetwork.blogspot.com/2009/05/russia-stockpiles-diamonds.html

http://globalblognetwork.blogspot.com/2009/05/russia-parades-new-missile-defense.html

http://globalblognetwork.blogspot.com/2009/05/kremlin-crisis.html

http://globalblognetwork.blogspot.com/2009/06/admiral-mullen-calls-for-new-us-russian.html

http://globalblognetwork.blogspot.com/2009/05/russian-economy-declines-faster-than.html

http://globalblognetwork.blogspot.com/2009/05/world-undiscovered-gas-and-oil-is.html

http://globalblognetwork.blogspot.com/2009/05/facebooks-new-russian-shareholder.html

http://globaleconomicpulse.blogspot.com/2009/07/g8-final-report-card.html

http://globaleconomicpulse.blogspot.com/2009/07/g8-reaches-seminal-climate-change.html

Tags:

Russia, USA, Medvedev, Putin, Obama, Russia-US Summit, U.S.-Russia Bilateral Presidential Commission, Treaty of Versailles, NATO, Taliban, Iran, North Korea, Georgia, UN, Afghanistan, Kosovo, Germany, Global Development News, Europe, Ukraine, CFR, Armenia, Belarus, 

Chinese and U.S. officials say the two countries share a common concern over a nuclear-weapons armed North Korea and both countries say they want to avoid confrontations at sea. These were among the issues discussed in two days of high level defense talks that ended in Beijing. Under Secretary for Defense Michele Flournoy headed the U.S. delegation.

Read more: http://globaldevelopmentnews.blogspot.com/2009/06/china-us-hold-defense-talks-more.html

Tags: China, USA, Defense, Military, Ma Xiaotian, Taiwan arms sale, Somalia, The Pentagon, Under Secretary Michelle Flournoy, North Korea, UN Security Council, Global Development News, 

The son and heir apparent to North Korean leader Kim Jong-il joined a delegation of senior military officials for a top-secret, week-long visit to China in mid-June in spite of Beijing’s claims that no such trip occurred.

Read more: http://globaldevelopmentnews.blogspot.com/2009/06/north-korean-heir-apparent-makes-top.html

Tags: Kim Jong Woon, China, North Korean Heir, Kim Jong Il, Kim Il Sung, “Bright leader”, North Korea, South Korea, Japan, Taro Aso, Lee Myung-Bak, Nuclear weapons, power transition, 

UNITED NATIONS — The Security Council’s five permanent members agreed on Wednesday on a draft resolution that would ratchet up sanctions against North Korea by concentrating on its financial transactions and its arms industry, including allowing for inspections of its cargo vessels on the high seas.

Read more: http://globaldevelopmentnews.blogspot.com/2009/06/security-council-set-to-tighten.html

Tags: UN, United Nations, UN Permanent Security Council, China, Russia, USA, Britain, France, Global Economic News, North Korea, South Korea, Japan, Nuclear weapons, Economic Sanctions, Croatia, Costa Rica, Vitaly Churkin, Robert C Orr, 

The US president has said that North Korea's leaders will not receive preferential treatment following recent missile tests. Barack Obama made the comments before a ceremony on Saturday in France to mark the D-Day landings, a turning point in the second world war.

Read more: http://globaldevelopmentnews.blogspot.com/2009/06/obama-warns-n-korea-of-further-nuclear.html

Tags: China, d day, france, global development news, kim jong il, kim jong un, missiles, north korea, nuclear tests, obama, sarkozy, un, un security council

Little is known about Kim Jong-un, the man apparently chosen as heir to North Korea's dynasty.

Read more: 

http://globaldevelopmentnews.blogspot.com/2009/06/north-korean-heir-profile-kim-jong-un.html

Tags:

North Korea, Kim Jong Il, Kim Jong Un, North Korean Dynasty, South Korea, Nuclear weapons,