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North Korea Getting Into The Car Business?

NKorea says Kim Jong Il met Hyundai Group chief By KWANG-TAE KIM, The Associated Press 10:11 a.m. August 16, 2009 SEOUL, South Korea — North Korean leader Kim Jong Il held talks with the head of South Korea’s Hyundai Group, the North’s state media reported Sunday, in a rare meeting that could warm prospects for [...]

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Labor Camps – What That Really Means

Is Hard Labor Really that Bad? Wednesday, Aug. 12, 2009 By Alex Altman Before he becomes a forgotten footnote in Aung San Suu Kyi’s biography, it’s worth pausing to consider the price John Yettaw is about to pay for his unauthorized nighttime swim. On Aug. 11, Yettaw, 53, was sentenced to seven years in a [...]

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Former President Bill Clinton Headed To North Korea To Take Care Of Business

EOUL (Reuters) – Former U.S. President Bill Clinton is on his way to North Korea to try to negotiate the release of two American journalists convicted by the communist state of “grave crimes,” South Korea’s Yonhap news agency said on Tuesday. Clinton had already left for the North but had not yet arrived in Pyongyang, [...]

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Kim Jong Il Going Out With A Bang?

Will Kim Jong Il go out quietly, or with a (big) bang? The North Korean dictator made just his second public appearance on Wednesday since he reportedly suffered a stroke last August, looking gaunt and with dramatically less hair than he had in April, when the 67-year-old Dear Leader presided over a parliamentary meeting in [...]

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A North Korean ship suspected of carrying illicit weapons towards Burma

NKorea threatens to harm US if attacked By JAE-SOON CHANG Associated Press Writer North Korea reminded the U.S. on Monday that it has nuclear weapons and warned it will strike back if attacked, as a U.S. destroyer continued to trail a North Korean cargo ship suspected of carrying illicit weapons. The Kang Nam, previously involved [...]