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North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, left, and former NBA star Dennis Rodman watch North Korean and U.S. players in an exhibition basketball game at an arena in Pyongyang, North Korea earlier this year. Pic: AP.

Rodman to Kim: ‘Do me a solid’ and free American

By AP News Thu, May 09, 2013 1:59PM UTC 0 Comment

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Former NBA star Dennis Rodman is tapping his friendship with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un to ask for the release of a Korean-American man sentenced to 15 years of hard labor in the North. “I’m calling on the Supreme Leader of North Korea or as I call him ‘Kim’,...

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NKorea urges foreigners in SKorea to evacuate

By AP News Tue, Apr 09, 2013 2:51PM UTC 0 Comment

South Korean army soldiers on a military truck move during an exercise against possible attacks by North Korea in Pocheon, South Korea. Pic: AP.

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea is urging all foreign companies and tourists in South Korea to evacuate because it says the rival Koreas are on the eve of a nuclear war. Analysts see a direct attack on Seoul as extremely unlikely. The warning Tuesday from the North’s Korean Asia-Pacific Peace Committee is similar...

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North Korea vows to restart nuclear facilities

By AP News Tue, Apr 02, 2013 6:01PM UTC 0 Comment

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. Pic: AP.

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 against the United States and South Korea. The North’s plutonium reactor was shut down in 2007 as part of international nuclear disarmament...

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NKorea calls nukes country’s ‘life’ at meeting

By AP News Mon, Apr 01, 2013 11:42AM UTC 0 Comment

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — A top North Korean decision-making body issued a pointed warning Sunday, saying that nuclear weapons are “the nation’s life” and will not be traded even for “billions of dollars.” The comments came in a statement released after North Korean leader Kim Jong Un presided over the plenary meeting of the...

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NKorean propaganda mill serves up soft side of Kim

By AP News Sun, Mar 31, 2013 2:03PM UTC 0 Comment

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, right, smiles with the Korean People's Army senior officers. Pic: AP.

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The outside world focuses on the messages of doom and gloom from North Korea: bombastic threats of nuclear war, fantasy videos of U.S. cities in flames, digitally altered photos of leader Kim Jong Un guiding military drills. But back home, North Koreans get a decidedly softer dose of propaganda: Kim...

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