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North Korea To Hold Key Conference Right Before Controversial Launch

AP | Posted 04.01.2012

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PYONGYANG, North Korea -- North Korea's ruling party has announced it will hold a political conference just before a controversial satellite launch. ...

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Pyongyang Party Celebration Preparations Underway

AP | JEAN H. LEE | Posted 04.01.2012

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PYONGYANG, North Korea — The sprawling site, which buzzes in the shadow of a giant bronze statue of North Korea founder Kim Il Sung, looks at fi...

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North Korea Invites U.N. Nuclear Monitors To Return

AP | Posted 03.20.2012

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VIENNA -- North Korea has invited the International Atomic Energy Agency to return, three years after expelling its nuclear monitors, the agency said ...

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North Korea To Punish Insincere Mourners

Posted 01.13.2012

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You'd better watch out, you'd better cry. You'd better pout, I'm telling you why: North Korea's punishing insincere mourners, according to the Daily N...

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North Korea's New Leader Seeks To Resemble Grandfather

AP | By JEAN H. LEE and SAM KIM | Posted 03.08.2012

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SEOUL, South Korea -- The resemblance is striking: the full cheeks and quick smile, the confident gait, the habit of gesturing with both hands when he...

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Kim Jong Il Funeral Held In North Korea

AP | Posted 02.26.2012

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PYONGYANG, North Korea — North Korea declared Kim Jong Il's son and successor "supreme leader" of the ruling party, military and the people duri...

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North Korea: Behind the Veil (VIDEO)

Thor Halvorssen | Posted 02.20.2012

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Hear from two of the world's most prominent North Korean dissidents and one of the world's most prominent North Korea experts.

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North Korea TV Shows Kim Jong Il Lying In State

AP | By RAFAEL WOBER | Posted 12.20.2011

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PYONGYANG, North Korea -- The body of North Korea's long-time ruler Kim Jong Il was laid out in a glass coffin Tuesday as weeping mourners filled publ...

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North Koreans Mourn Death Of Kim Jong Il

AP | RAFAEL WOBER | Posted 02.18.2012

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PYONGYANG, North Korea — North Korea prepared to lay longtime ruler Kim Jong Il to rest while the hermit state's official media on Tuesday laude...

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The Prophet Is Dead: Juche and the Future of North Korea

Amarnath Amarasingam | Posted 02.18.2012

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Little has been written about North Korea's driving state ideology - the "Juche idea" - and the clues it may hold for predicting the nature of post-Kim Jong Il North Korea

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Will Persecuted Christians Fare Better In A Post-Kim Jong Il North Korea?

HuffingtonPost.com | Jaweed Kaleem | Posted 12.19.2011

A day after authorities announced the death of North Korean leader Kim Jong Il, several Christian organizations are calling for prayers for the nation...

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Kim Jong Il's Death: Time to Stir Up Robber Baron Envy?

Steve Clemons | Posted 02.18.2012

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Now may be the time for Obama, as well as leaders in Japan, South Korea, China and Russia, to offer trips to North Korea's political and military elite -- to show them what they could have if they engineered some shifts inside the regime.

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Kim Jong Il Death: A Reclusive Leader In A Hermit State

Posted 12.19.2011

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SEOUL, Dec 19 (Reuters) - North Korean leader Kim Jong-il, revered at home by a propaganda machine that turned him into a demi-god and vilified in...

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North Korea Race To Finish Celebration Preparations As Cold Sets In

AP | By JEAN H. LEE | Posted 01.03.2012

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MOUNT KUMGANG, North Korea -- Autumn has always been the most cherished season in Korea, a time to harvest and to hike, to store up food and enjoy the...

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Why 2012 Will Shake Up Asia and the World

John Feffer | Posted 12.04.2011

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The United States has long styled itself a Pacific power. It has, however, reached the high-water mark of its Pacific presence and influence. The geopolitical map is about to be redrawn.

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North Koreans Mark Founder's Birthday

AP/The Huffington Post | Posted 06.15.2011

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PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) - Bearing bouquets and dressed in their finest, row after row of North Koreans bowed deeply on cue at the foot of a toweri...

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Propaganda: Art Of Gaddafi, Hussein And Kim Jong Il

BLTWY | Posted 05.25.2011

Gaddafi has posed beneath a giant gold fist in Tripoli, but he's hardly the first dictator to use art to create the illusion of victory. From Ramses I...

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Diplomatic Impunity

Sunil Adam | Posted 05.25.2011

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North Korea Is in China's Strategic Backyard: It Should Deal With It

Leon T. Hadar | Posted 05.25.2011

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The most effective way for the U.S. to help achieve a stable balance of power in the Korean Peninsula is not by sending more war ships, but by providing incentives to the Chinese to stop making excuses for the North Koreans.

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Hwang Jang-Yop, North Korean Defector, Laid To Rest In Seoul

AP | HYUNG-JIN KIM | Posted 05.25.2011

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SEOUL, South Korea — South Korea held a funeral Thursday for a high-profile North Korean defector who once tutored autocratic leader Kim Jong Il...

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North Korea's Economy Is a Disaster, But the Family Business Is Thriving

Sheldon Filger | Posted 05.25.2011

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As nation builders, the Kim dynasty is a train wreck. But as the managers of a very lucrative family business, they are obviously brilliant. Maybe there is something after all to their title, "Great Leader."

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Kim Jong-ryul Gives Insider Account Of Kim Jong-il In New Book

Christian Science Monitor | Donald Kirk | Posted 05.25.2011

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Firsthand exposés about the personal lives of North Korea's leaders can put the lives of their authors at risk, even if they are far away.The latest ...

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Australia Accused Of Censorship Over North Korean Art

AP | ROHAN SULLIVAN | Posted 05.25.2011

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SYDNEY — Australia was accused of censorship Tuesday for denying visas to North Korean artists whose works are on display in a regional exhibiti...

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Kim Jong Il, Looking Gaunt, Makes Rare Public Appearance

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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PYONGYANG, North Korea — A thin-looking Kim Jong Il made a rare public appearance Wednesday as North Korea paid solemn respects to his father, t...

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Kim Jong Un Named Successor In North Korea: Reports

AP | JEAN H. LEE | Posted 05.25.2011

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SEOUL, South Korea — One photo shows a chubby-cheeked boy with an impish grin. Former classmates at a Swiss boarding school describe a shy stude...

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