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US calls for shutting down Iran, North Korea arms networks
Reuters* U.S. arms control official takes aim at Iran, North Korea * Accuses both of trying to obtain high-tech materials * Says Iran supplying bullets that kill most Syrian civilians By Stephanie Nebehay GENEVA, May 3 (Reuters) - The United States said on...Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Iran, Weaponry, European Union, Missile Systems
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U.S. urges North Korea to grant amnesty and free Kenneth Bae
The United States urged North Korea on Thursday to grant amnesty and free an American citizen sentenced to 15 years of hard labor for alleged hostile acts against North Korea. Patrick Ventrell, acting deputy spokesman for the State Department, told...
Tags: U.S. Department of State, Punishment, United Nations, Pyongyang (North Korea)
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Global Voices: Pleas for Korean peace 60 years after fighting ended
A conference to promote peace between communist and capitalist adversaries might sound like an antiquated notion in the post-Cold War era. But in this 60th anniversary year of the signing of the Korean War armistice, which suspended the fighting but...
Tags: Career and Workplace, Unrest, Conflicts and War, China, Wars and Interventions, University of Chicago
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North Korea's former poet laureate to publish memoir in English
Rider Publishing, a Random House imprint, acquired world rights to "Crossing the Border," the memoirs of former North Korean State Poet Laureate Jang Jin-sung, the Guardian reports. In 2004, unable to reconcile his privileged position with the suffering...Tags: Kim Il Sung, BBC, Poetry, Pyongyang (North Korea)
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Thomas Pynchon's 'Inherent Vice' reported to begin filming
Paul Thomas Anderson is getting back to work, according to /film. The director of "The Master," "There Will Be Blood," "Punch Drunk Love" "Magnolia" and "Boogie Nights" is beginning to film his adaptation of Thomas Pynchon's novel "Inherent Vice." It'...
Tags: Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc., The Master (movie), Google+, Joaquin Phoenix, There Will Be Blood (movie)
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China's emotional ties to North Korea run deep in border city
ReutersBy Ben Blanchard DANDONG, China, May 1 (Reuters) - Peering at graphic pictures of supposed U.S. biological warfare efforts during the 1950-53 Korean War, Zhang Ping tugs on the sleeve of a visiting foreign reporter to complain about the barbarism visited...Tags: Korean War (1950-1953), Unrest, Conflicts and War, Museums, China, Museum Dioramas
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North Korea sentences American to 15 year hard labour
ReutersSEOUL, May 2 (Reuters) - North Korea's Supreme Court sentenced U.S. citizen Kenneth Bae to 15 years hard labour on Thursday for committing crimes against the North, according to state news agency KCNA. KCNA said the trial for a man it named as Pae Jun-... -
South Korea pledges $272 million in loans for Kaesong companies
ReutersSEOUL, May 2 (Reuters) - South Korea has offered 300 billion won ($272.41 million) million in special loans to companies affected by Pyongyang's decision last month to close a jointly run industrial zone in North Korea, a government official said on...Tags: Career and Workplace, Employees, South Korea, Business, Pyongyang (North Korea)
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Congregation participates in vigil for North Korea leading up to National Day of Prayer
Tensions in North Korea have been rising for months. With the nuclear sanctions placed on the country and its leader’s threats against his own people and the United States, those here in the Roanoke Valley came together Wednesday night to pray for...
Tags: Religion and Belief, Baptist, Christianity
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China steps up customs checks, but North Korea trade robust
ReutersBy Ben Blanchard DANDONG, China, May 1 (Reuters) - China has stepped up checks on shipments to and from North Korea almost two months after agreeing to new U.N. sanctions that demand greater scrutiny of trade, but the flow of goods in and out of the...Tags: China, International Trade, Finance, Economy, Business and Finance, South Korea
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Trapped in South Korea, veteran spies still believe in the North
ReutersBy Ju-min Park SEOUL, April 30 (Reuters) - Park Hee-sung, a 78-year-old North Korean former agent who has been held in the enemy South for close to half a century, remains staunchly loyal to his homeland, the ruling Kim family and its Juche ideology of...Tags: Arirang (movie), Unrest, Conflicts and War, Kim Jong Il, Wars and Interventions, Philosophy
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North Korea holds back seven South Koreans at industrial zone
ReutersBy Kim Do-gyun and Lim Sang-gyu PAJU, South Korea, April 29 (Reuters) - North Korea held back seven of 50 remaining South Koreans at the suspended jointly run factory zone north of the heavily armed border on Monday, citing last-minute checks on taxes...Tags: Career and Workplace, Employees
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