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People walk past a roadside propaganda billboard promoting the "military first" policy and a boost to build the country's economy in Pyongyang, North Korea, Sunday, June 16, 2013. 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. (AP Photo/Alexander Yuan)
People walk past a roadside propaganda billboard promoting the "military first" policy and a boost to build the country's economy in Pyongyang, North Korea, Sunday, June 16, 2013. 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. (AP Photo/Alexander Yuan)
A woman rests under an umbrella while a man walks past her near a statue known as the Monument to the Three Charters for National Reunification, which symbolizes the hope for eventual reunification of the two Koreas, in Pyongyang, North Korea, Saturday, June 15, 2013. In past years, the monument built over the road leading to South Korea has been the site of celebrations marking a joint reconciliation declaration signed by the two Koreas on June 15, 2000. This year's events were canceled after high-level talks between the Seoul and Pyongyang governments, the first in six years, were called off earlier in the week. (AP Photo/Alexander Yuan)
In this Friday June 14, 2013 photo, a music video about a song called "Reunification, June 15th" is shown on screens of an Air Koryo jet while on its way from Beijing to Pyongyang, North Korea. Korean on the screen read "Celebration for the June 15 joint-declaration." Late North Korean leader Kim Jong Il and the late South Korean President Kim Dae Jung signed the June 15 declaration calling for the two Koreas to develop relations toward eventual reunification during a historic 2000 summit in Pyongyang. High-level talks between the Seoul and Pyongyang governments, the first in six years, were called off earlier in the week.(AP Photo/Alexander Yuan)
PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) ? 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.
The powerful National Defense Commission headed by North Korean leader Kim Jong Un issued a statement through state media proposing "senior-level" talks to ease tensions and discuss a peace treaty formally ending the Korean War. a
The rare proposal for talks between the Korean War foes follows months of acrimony over North Korea's defiant launch of a long-range rocket in December and a nuclear test in February, provocative acts that drew tightened U.N. and U.S. sanctions. The U.S. and South Korea countered the moves by stepping up annual springtime military exercises that prompted North Korea to warn of a "nuclear war" on the Korean Peninsula.
However, as tensions subsided in May and June, Pyongyang has made tentative overtures to re-establish dialogue with South Korea and Washington. Foreign analysts say impoverished North Korea often expresses interest in talks after raising tensions with provocative behavior in order to win outside concessions.
In a notable shift in propaganda in Pyongyang, posters and billboards calling on North Koreans to "wipe away the American imperialist aggressors" have been taken down in recent weeks.
There was no immediate response from Washington, but President Barack Obama's envoy on North Korea said Friday that while the U.S. is not averse to talking with Pyongyang, the bar for resuming engagement is higher in the wake of repeated threats and provocations.
Meanwhile, a recent proposal from Pyongyang for Cabinet-level talks with South Korea ? the first in six years ? led to plans for two days of meetings in Seoul earlier this week. The talks fell apart on Tuesday over who would lead the two delegations.
North Korea fought against U.S.-led United Nations and South Korean troops during the three-year Korean War in the early 1950s, and Pyongyang does not have diplomatic relations with either government. The Korean Peninsula remains divided by a heavily fortified border.
Reunifying the Korean Peninsula was a major goal of North Korea's two late leaders, Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il, and is a legacy inherited by current leader Kim Jong Un. North Korea is expected to draw attention to Korea's division in the weeks leading up to the 60th anniversary in July marking the close of the Korean conflict, which ended in an armistice. A peace treaty has never been signed formally ending the war.
Washington's top worry is North Korea's nuclear weapons program. Pyongyang is estimated to have a handful of crude nuclear devices and has been working toward building a bomb it can mount on a missile capable of striking the United States.
Earlier this year, Kim Jong Un enshrined the drive to build a nuclear arsenal, as well as building the economy, as national goals. North Korea claims the need to build atomic weapons to defend the country against what it sees as a U.S. nuclear threat in Korea and the region.
North Korea will not give up its nuclear ambitions until the entire Korean Peninsula is free of nuclear weapons, a spokesman from the National Defense Commission said in a statement carried by the Korean Central News Agency.
"The denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula does not only mean 'dismantling the nuclear weapons of the North,' the spokesman said, but also should involve "denuclearizing the whole peninsula, including South Korea, and aims at totally ending the U.S. nuclear threats" to North Korea.
The U.S. denies having nuclear bombs in South Korea, saying they were removed in 1991. However, the U.S. military keeps nuclear submarines in the region and has deployed them for military exercises with South Korea.
After blaming Washington for raising tensions by imposing "gangster-like sanctions" on North Korea, the unnamed NDC spokesman called on the U.S. to propose a venue and date for talks but warned against setting preconditions.
U.S. envoy Glyn Davies had said Friday in Washington that the U.S. isn't opposed to engagement but would not accept North Korea as a nuclear state nor reward it for "absence of bad behavior."
The key to a diplomatic solution, he said, is for the U.S. and North Korea's four neighbors involved in long-stalled nuclear negotiations with Pyongyang to send a unified message: that it must live up to previous commitments to denuclearize. Davies, who is to meet with his Japanese and South Korean counterparts next week to discuss North Korea, said there is a growing international consensus against the North's nuclear ambitions.
"We have every expectation that Beijing will use its special relationship with the DPRK to encourage Pyongyang to choose a different path," he said, referring to the North's formal name, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea in a comments made at the Wilson Center think tank.
Washington has been burned in the past by efforts to reach out to Pyongyang. Last year, months of behind-the-scenes negotiations yielded a significant food-for-disarmament deal in February 2012 ? but that was scuttled by a failed North Korean long-range rocket launch just weeks later.
Pyongyang's bid to reach out to the U.S. comes as South Korea's new president, Park Geun-hye, is to sit down for talks with China's new leader, Xi Jinping, in Beijing later this month. Park, whose North Korea policy calls for building trust while remaining firm on provocations, has been active in reaching out to Beijing. Xi, meanwhile, met with Obama in California recently.
China crucially supplied North Korea with troops during the Korean War, and has remained a key ally and benefactor since then, but has pushed Pyongyang to return to disarmament talks.
"The fact that North Korea proposed talks (with the U.S.) ahead of the South Korea-China summit signifies its intent to keep China in check," said Kim Yong-hyun, a professor of North Korean studies of Dongguk University in Seoul, South Korea.
Pyongyang also is sending a message to South Korea warning that if Seoul does not actively try to improve relations with North Korea, the regime will go directly to Washington, sidelining Seoul, he said.
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Associated Press writers Youkyung Lee and Foster Klug in Seoul, South Korea, and Matthew Pennington in Washington, contributed to this report. Follow AP's Korea bureau chief at www.twitter.com/newsjean.
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For Oak Park native Cecily Strong, her debut season as an "Saturday Night Life" ensemble member marked a "dream job" come true.
After honing her acting chops on the Chicago scene -- studying at both Second City Conservatory and iO Chicago -- she made her first appearance on "SNL" last September and completed her first season with the ensemble last month.
Strong, who now lives in New York City, described the experience as "insanely wonderful," particularly when it came to the recurring porn star sketch she appears in with cast mate Vanessa Bayer.
"Vanessa and I get to do little subtle things that I like to spot later on while watching the [porn star] sketch online," she said. "I don't watch everything afterward, though. It's terrible to hear my voice or feel like I look fat or whatever dumb things girls' mean brains tell them, but I do love to watch the porn star sketches."
With "SNL" on summer break, Strong told HuffPost she is busy working on a new sketch/improv show with fellow Second City alum Sam Richardson as well as working on some screenplays with friends "to find out if screenwriting is something I'm good at. Jury's still out," she says.
This week, Strong returned to Chicago to perform in "Knuckleheads," a sketch/improv show, with fellow "SNL"ers and former Chicagoans Tim Robinson and Aidy Bryant as part of TBS' Just For Laughs Chicago festival. The show concludes its run with two performances at UP Comedy Club Saturday evening.
HuffPost Chicago recently asked Strong to open up more about her Chicago-area roots by taking part in our My Chicago questionnaire.
What is your age? What is your occupation? I'm 29 and I'm an actress.
What was your first job in Chicago? I started doing professional theater and industrials in Chicago when I was a little squirt. My first real non-acting job was at the Buzz Cafe in Oak Park when I was 15. I had to start as a dishwasher, but eventually I worked my way up to barista and sometimes waitress.
Which Chicago "celebrity" -- living or dead, real or fictional -- would you have over for dinner? What would you talk about? I'm a huge Bulls fan. I like an emotional backstory while watching sports. In my mind, all the players on the Bulls are really nice, decent guys. Especially that Derrick Rose. So maybe I'd have them all over for dinner and I'd tell them how great I think they all are. And how much I like to yell "Deng!" I would also tell Jo Noah and Nate Robinson that I wanted to play them in a sketch when Kevin Hart hosted.
What is your favorite ?last call? bar in Chicago? Old Town Ale House for sure. They've seen me at my worst and never judged me.
Where is your favorite place to grab brunch in the city? I like doing Mother's Day brunch at Kit Kat Lounge. Otherwise, Nookies in Old Town.
What are/were your go-to spots when you have visitors in town? I guess they'd have to go see shows at iO and Second City. Maybe dinner at Old Jerusalem.
If you had to have your last Chicago meal for some tragic reason, where and what would it be? This question is sad because it means either I'm about to die or Chicago is about to disappear. But I guess I would go to Gaudi Cafe on Ashland and Erie. It's my absolute favorite restaurant. The owners are sisters named Betty and Veronica. It's BYOB which I always love, and the food is insanely good. Everyone go there! I never want that restaurant to close.
Cubs or Sox? Sox. Easy. Especially after working in the box office at iO and having to walk through drunk Cubs fans. I've never felt such blind hatred and rage at strangers. I know Sox fans are not great, but I didn't have to walk through a bunch of drunk ones every week.
Wicker Park, 1993 or Wicker Park, 2013? Hmm? can I say Wicker Park, 2000? I used to like to go into the city in high school and pretend I was cool.
Chicago-style hot dog, Chicago-style pizza or Chicago-style politics? Pizza. Lou Malnati's.
What advice would you give to a new Chicago transplant? Go watch comedy. It's the best city for it. And eat at Gaudi Cafe on Ashland and Erie.
What do you miss the most when you're not in Chicago? I love New York, but I don't like how it smells like hot pee and garbage in the summer. I feel like Chicago isn't that way. Maybe I'm just being romantic.
If you could change just one thing about our fair city what would it be? The winter wouldn't hurt so much.
Describe Chicago in one word. It's not one word. My brain is exhausted waiting in this airport because the weather in Chicago sucks, of course, so my flight got delayed and cancelled. But I think the best way to describe a Chicago attitude is that we are not into show-offs. Even though I read somewhere that we have the most vanity plates.
In 1951's "Chicago: City on the Make," Nelson Algren wrote: "Once you've come to be a part of this particular patch, you'll never love another. Like loving a woman with a broken nose, you may well find lovelier lovelies. But never a lovely so real." Through My Chicago, HuffPost is discussing what, to this day, makes the patch we call home so lovely and so broken with some of the city's most compelling characters.
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Def Leppard 's Vivian Campbell says he's being treated for Hodgkin's lymphoma. The guitarist has been receiving chemotherapy for two months, with four months of treatment remaining, The Associated Press reports.
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"I feel fortunate that my cancer sent me an alarm call in the form of 'the cough that wouldn't quit,'" Campbell said in a statement. The guitarist joined Def Leppard in 1992, after stints playing in Dio and Whitesnake. Hodgkin's lymphomia is a cancer of the white blood cells.
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The divorce has been finalized, and you've arrived at the acceptance stage. You think to yourself, "It's all done now! But wait... why do I feel so awful and lost?"
The truth is, many women feel this way post-divorce. All of the support they had is now gone, and they're left to figure out what comes next. This can leave them feeling insecure and depressed. Maybe you feel this way? Having been there myself, I have come up with five ways you can transform the feelings of loss into something positive and make the most of your situation for the future.
1. Do all the things you have always dreamed of. There's no time like the present. Why not take your new free time to do all the things you never got around to when you were married? Make a list of things you wish you had done, and go for it. After my divorce, I started singing again and decided to paint. It brought me a lot of joy, which allowed me to seek joy in the small things -- which, after all, make all the difference.
2. Travel. A change is as good as a rest! I find this to be so true. When I felt lost and scared post-divorce, I decided to take myself to Sri Lanka, which did me a world of good. Travel is an opportunity to meet new people, experience new things, and see how others live -- people who have had different experiences, and perhaps don't have as much as we do. It's an amazing way to create the feeling of well-being, and it tends to put things into perspective.
3. Purchase a new wardrobe. I did this, and it was amazing. Something deep inside of me wanted a massive change, and I felt like a shoot coming out of a seed -- I wanted to pop open! And with that, I threw out all of my black clothes -- which just made me look frumpy -- got myself a stylist and shook it all up! It was an amazing experience. And in doing this, I managed to attract my partner (and we will be getting married soon). He saw the real me for the first time. So chuck out the old to bring in the new!
4. Splurge on yourself. If you spend money on yourself, you will start to feel that you're worth it. I found that doing nice stuff for myself, even though I may not have wanted to at the time, made a really big difference to the way I felt. I would go to a spa or buy myself some roses. I would do the things that my ex used to do for me, so that I could get in touch with what it means to treat myself like my own best friend. Waiting for someone else to do this for us is like saying that you can't do it yourself, which isn't true. So go ahead and do something nice for yourself: Buy yourself dinner, some roses, or even some new earrings.
5. Get the support you need. An important way to move on after divorce is to hang around people that are right for you, who inspire you, and who will take you where you want to go. I believe that you become who you surround yourself with, and I now notice that my circle of friends has completely changed. This philosophy has tremendously helped me to move on. In fact, I don't know about you, but I didn't have much of a choice in the matter, as most of my couple friends didn't want to hang around a single chick!
In short, learn to inspire yourself and become your own best friend by doing lovely things for yourself that will nurture your soul and help you embrace how amazing you really are!
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