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Poll: North Korea, China among top US enemies

Poll: North Korea, China among top US enemies

By Tue, Feb 22, 2011 6:58PM UTC View Comments Poll: North Korea, China among top US enemies

A third of Americans rate either North Korea or China as America’s greatest enemy, according to a poll taken by the Gallup organization this week.  Both nations experienced a small increase in the rating compared to a similar poll taken in 2008. Those results hardly come as a surprise. North Korea’s nuclear and missile tests...

Korea: Big chill in Kaesong

By Sun, Jan 16, 2011 12:36PM UTC View Comments Korea: Big chill in Kaesong

The Korean peninsula is in the grasp of the coldest weather in a decade, with temperatures in Seoul plunging as low as minus 17.8 Celsius. But that is nothing compared to the chill in relations between Seoul and Pyongyang over the past year, as evidenced by the failure of Pyongyang to unilaterally reopen the Kaesong*...

North Korea backs down

By Mon, Dec 20, 2010 9:31PM UTC View Comments

North Korea claimed that they would attack the South two or three times more strongly than it did on November 23 if South Korea conducted another live fire artillery exercise on Yeonpyeong Island.  Well, the exercise has taken place. The reaction? “The revolutionary armed forces of the DPRK (North Korea) did not feel any need to retaliate...

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