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For more on the diplomatic fallout from the leaked State Department cables, NPR's Guy Raz talks to Christopher Hill, the former U.S. ambassador to Iraq, and former chief U.S. negotiator with North Korea.

South Korean President Lee Myung-bak took responsibility for failing to protect his country against attack and threatened retaliation against any further provocation by North Korea.

North Korea warned Friday that U.S.-South Korean plans for military maneuvers put the peninsula on the brink of war.

President Obama pledged the U.S. would defend South Korea after the North shot dozens of rounds of artillery onto Yeonpyeong island, near their disputed western border. Two South Korean marines were killed. The South Korean army fired back, deploying fighter jets to the area.

President Obama pledged Tuesday that the United States would defend South Korea after what the White House branded an outrageous attack by North Korea on its neighbor.

Steve Inskeep speaks with NPR's Scott Horsley, who is traveling with President Obama in Asia, about the Group of 20 summit in Seoul, South Korea. Horsley says the leaders agreed to develop yardsticks to help detect when a country is running too big of a deficit or too big of a surplus.

The U.S. and others say they are ready to broaden the leadership of key international institutions, but the emerging powers may not be satisfied with a share of the leadership. They may want to change the institutions themselves and the principles that guide them.

The goal of this week's two-day summit in Seoul, South Korea, is to create a joint plan to rebalance the global economy. But tensions are building over currency manipulation and trade, and the U.S. Federal Reserve’s decision to flood the economy with more money through quantitative easing hasn't helped.

President Obama on Tuesday heralded a "comprehensive partnership" between the United States and Indonesia, a fast-growing country with the world's largest Muslim population.

The recent emergence of Kim Jong Un as the designated successor to North Korean leader Kim Jong Il once again put the spotlight on the secretive communist nation. Yet little has been said about U.S. efforts to re-engage North Korea.