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Google Head Urging North Korea To Allow More Internet, Cellphone Access
PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) — A private delegation including Google’s Eric Schmidt is urging North Korea to allow more open Internet access and cellphones to benefit its citizens, the mission’s leader...
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South Korea, US Military Begin Drilling In Response To North Korean Nuclear...
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea and the United States are staging annual military drills that North Korea says it will respond to by scrapping the armistice that ended the Korean War and...
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US, South Korea Sign New Military Contingency Plan In Case Of North Korean...
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea and the United States have signed a new military plan that lays out how the allies will communicate with each other and react to any future North Korean...
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Hagel: Decision To Send Stealth Bombers Not Intended To Provoke Reaction
WASHINGTON (AP) — America’s unprecedented decision to send nuclear-capable B-2 stealth bombers to drop dummy munitions during military drills with South Korea this week was part of normal exercises and...
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North Korean Parliament Meets Amid Growing Nuclear Tensions
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — After weeks of war-like rhetoric, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un gathered legislators Monday for an annual spring parliamentary session taking place one day after top party...
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North Korea Vows To Restart Nuclear Facilities
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea vowed Tuesday to restart a nuclear reactor that can make one bomb’s worth of plutonium a year, escalating tensions already raised by near daily warlike threats...
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UN Staff Continues Work In North Korea Despite Evacuation Warning
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. says its staff is continuing to work in North Korea while Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon studies a message from North Korea saying the world body should consider...
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North Korea Urges Foreigners To Vacate SKorea Following ‘Hostile Actions’ Of...
PYONGYANG, North Korea — North Korea on Tuesday urged all foreign companies and tourists in South Korea to evacuate, saying the two countries are on the verge of nuclear war. The new threat appeared to...
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Rodman: ‘Obama Can’t Do S***’ To Get American Released From North Korea
WASHINGTON (CBSDC/AP) — NBA Hall of Famer Dennis Rodman has tough words directed toward President Barack Obama over the American prisoner in North Korea. Speaking to TMZ, the 5-time NBA champion calls...
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North Korea Seeks US Dialogue With No Preconditions
BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN, Brunei (AP) — North Korea’s top diplomat said Tuesday that the U.S. must accept its offer for dialogue without preconditions if it wants to ease tensions on the divided Korean...
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North Korea To Put Captured US Spy Ship On Display
PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) — If there was ever any doubt about what happened to the only U.S. Navy ship that is being held by a foreign government, North Korea has cleared it up. It’s in Pyongyang....
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Report: North Korea Learning To Create Own Crucial Nuclear Parts
WASHINGTON (CBS DC) – Two American experts have gathered evidence that suggests North Korea scientists have developed the ability to produce their own sophisticated components for nuclear weapons....
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US Worried About North Korea’s Cyber, Missile Threats
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea’s military needs to improve its missile defense and cyber capabilities to better defend against persistent threats from Pyongyang, the commander of U.S. forces in...
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Family: American Detained In NKorea In Good Health
SAN FRANCISCO — The family of an elderly U.S. tourist detained for more than a month in North Korea said Saturday the Swedish ambassador has seen the man and found him to be in good health. Merrill...
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Dennis Rodman Visits North Korea
BEIJING (AP) — Former NBA star Dennis Rodman flew to North Korea on Thursday to help train the national team and renew his friendship with the North’s young leader Kim Jong Un, a visit unaffected by...
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North Korea Threatens To Strike South ‘Without Notice’
SEOUL (CBS DC) – Tensions between North and South Korea kicked up a notch after a threatening fax was sent from Pyongyang to Seoul on a special communications line between the two rival capitals. In...
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Rodman and Ex-NBA All-Stars Arrive in North Korea
PYONGYANG, North Korea — Dennis Rodman and a team of former National Basketball Association players arrived in North Korea on Monday for a game he says will be a “birthday present” for one of their...
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Dennis Rodman Apologizes For Bae Comments
PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) — Dennis Rodman apologized Thursday for comments about captive American missionary Kenneth Bae in an interview with CNN. A day after the former basketball star sang “Happy...
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Jailed American Appears Before Reporters In North Korea
PYONGYANG, North Korea — An American missionary who has been jailed in North Korea for more than a year appeared before reporters Monday and appealed to the U.S. government to do its best to secure...
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NASA Photo Shows North Korea In The Dark
WASHINGTON (CBS DC) – The image is a stunning reminder of the costs the North Koreans have paid under decades of communist dictatorship. It’s a picture of the Korean peninsula at night taken from the...
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South Korean Official: North Korea ‘Must Disappear Soon’
SEOUL, South Korea (CBS News/CBSDC/AP) — A rhetorical battle between the rival Koreas intensified Monday with a South Korean official saying North Korea “must disappear soon.” The comments, which will...
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North Korea Says It Is Holding An American Tourist
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea says it has detained an American tourist for committing an unspecified crime, the third U.S. citizen being held there. The state Korean Central News Agency said...
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US Blacklists NKorean Shipping Companies Carrying Undeclared Military Equipment
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Treasury Department has blacklisted two North Korean shipping companies that operated a ship seized by Panama last year for carrying undeclared military equipment from Cuba....
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Satellite Analysis Shows North Korea Developing Sea-Based Missiles
WASHINGTON (AP) – A website that monitors North Korea says the isolated nation may be exploring how to launch ballistic missiles from submarines or ships. The North would still be years away from...
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Watchdog: North Korea Trying To Restart Nuclear Reactor
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea may be attempting to restart its main nuclear bomb fuel reactor after a five-month shutdown, a U.S. research institute said Thursday. If true, the finding, which...
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