Pyongyang

Pyongyang

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  What's the threat? North Korean rhetoric, reality

  According to its official statements, North Korea is ready to go to the brink. But how serious are Pyongyang's threats? This week, new U.N. 

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  Launch, sanctions, nukes: NKorea may repeat cycle

  North Korea's nuclear agitations follow a well-worn route. It starts with a long-range rocket launch. The United Nations punishes the act with ... 

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  After UN acts, NKorea vows 'nuclear deterrence'

  North Korea swiftly lashed out against the U.N. Security Council's condemnation of its December launch of a long-range rocket, saying Wednesday that ... 

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  NKorea's Kim wants better living standards, arms

  North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on Tuesday called for improving the economy and living standards of his impoverished nation with the same urgency that ... 

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  AP Exclusive: Photos show NKorea nuclear readiness

  North Korea has repaired flood damage at its nuclear test facility and could conduct a quick atomic explosion if it chose, though water streaming out ... 

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  NKorea says it has detained a US citizen

  North Korea said Friday that an American citizen has been detained after confessing to unspecified crimes, confirming news reports about his arrest ... 

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  AP PHOTOS: A photo journey through North Korea

  My window on North Korea is sometimes, quite literally, a window — of a hotel room, the backseat of a car, a train. Fleeting moments of daily life ... 

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  N. Korea displays Kim Jong Il a year after death

  North Korea unveiled the embalmed body of Kim Jong Il, still in his trademark khaki jumpsuit, on the anniversary of his death Monday as mourning mixed ... 

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  North Koreans mourn Kim Jong Il 1 year later

  North Koreans stopped in their tracks at midday to silently honor former ruler Kim Jong Il, whose death one year ago Monday swept his 20-something son ... 

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  UN Security Council condemns NKorea rocket launch

  The U.N. Security Council condemned North Korea's successful rocket launch on Wednesday and said it will urgently consider "an appropriate response. 

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  N. Korea rocket preparations might be a bluff

  Rocket sections are apparently being trucked into North Korea's northwest launch site, but some analysts are asking whether it's just a calculated ... 

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  NKorea threatens to attack SKorea over leaflets

  North Korea's military threatened Friday to strike a South Korean border area where anti-Pyongyang activists plan to launch leaflets from balloons ... 

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  NKorea says South, US are within its missile range

  North Korea on Tuesday warned that the U.S. mainland is within range of its missiles and said that Washington's recent agreement to let Seoul possess ... 

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  German film wins top prize at Pyongyang film fest

  A German film about an English teacher's struggle to introduce soccer at a strict school in late 19th century Germany has won the grand prize at the ... 

• NKorea parliament holding closely watched session

  North Korea's rubber-stamp parliament is convening a new session that is drawing attention because it is the second in less than six months. 

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  AP Exclusive: Images show NKorea launch pad halt

  North Korea has stopped construction on a launch pad where intercontinental-range rockets could be tested, an interruption possibly due to heavy rains ... 

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  Is North Korea experimenting with change?

  Deep in the North Korean countryside, in remote villages that outsiders seldom reach, farmers are now said to be given nearly one-third of their ...