The North said last week that any United Nations discussion of its upcoming rocket launch would cause the breakdown of the denuclearisation talks between the two Koreas, the United States, China, Japan and Russia.

The North said last week that any United Nations discussion of its upcoming rocket launch would cause the breakdown of the denuclearisation talks between the two Koreas, the United States, China, Japan and Russia.

of London, UK), Kollner (Institute of Asian Studies, German Institute of Global and Area Studies, Germany), and Pares (a former British diplomat) present the 2008 volume of the Korea Handbook, which begins with standard reviews of domestic political and economic developments for 2007-2008 in both North Korea and South Korea, relations between the two Koreas, and the foreign relations of the two countries (chronologies for these same matters are also included).