N. Korea hosts reception for RI envoy: North Korea hosted a

N. Korea hosts reception for RI envoy: North Korea hosted a
reception for a special envoy of Indonesian President Megawati
Soekarnoputri and expressed hope for closer bilateral relations,
Pyongyang's official media said on Wednesday. Foreign Minister
Paek Nam-sun said at Tuesday's reception with envoy Nana Sutresna
that ties between the two countries had developed since North
Korean leader Kim Jong-il met his Indonesian counterpart in March
last year, Pyongyang's official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA)
said. "It is the invariable stand of the DPRK (North Korea) to
further expand and develop the relations in political, economic
and cultural and all other fields," Paek was quoted as saying. --
AFP

Bosnian Serb gets 17 years for Srebrenica massacre: A former
Bosnian Serb army commander was jailed for 17 years by The Hague
war crimes tribunal on Wednesday after confessing to his role in
the 1995 Srebrenica massacre of more than 7,000 Muslim men and
boys. Dragan Obrenovic, one of two former commanders to admit his
role in Europe's worst massacre since World War II in a plea
agreement in May, pleaded guilty at the UN court to one count of
crimes against humanity the same month. "The trial chamber hereby
sentences you to a period of 17 years' imprisonment," presiding
judge Liu Daqun told Obrenovic as he stood to hear his sentence
for admitting persecution on political, racial and religious
grounds. -- Reuters