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  • North Korea may have 200 mobile missile launchers

    North Korea may have up to 200 mobile missile launchers, or twice the number previously estimated by South Korea's authorities, South Korean media reported Friday. South Korea's state-run Korea Institute for Defense Analyses (KIDA) said that in line with a report submitted to the US Congress by the Pentagon, North Korea has probably accumulated up to 200 so-called transporter erector launchers ...

  • Report Sanctions delaying N. Korea nuke program

    New York - North Korea is still trying to import and export nuclear and ballistic missile-related items but financial and trade sanctions are slowing progress on development of their prohibited weapons, U.N. experts say in a new report. Key parts of the expert panel's report, obtained Friday by the Associated Press, provide further information on North Korea's attempts to evade four ...

  • UN Implicates Azerbaijan Kazakhstani In North Korea Arms Embargo Violations

    A United Nations report has implicated Azerbaijan and a Kazakhstan airline executive in violations of arms embargos against North Korea. The Associated ...

  • Carter has no plan to visit DPRK spokeswoman

    Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter has no plan to visit the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) for the release of a U.S. citizen who was sentenced 15 years of compulsory labor by Pyongyang, his spokeswoman said on Thursday. "President Carter has not had an invitation to visit North Korea(DPRK) and has no plans to visit," Carter's spokeswoman Deanna Congileo said in ...

  • North Korea names General Jang Jong-nam as new armed forces minister

    North Korea has replaced the hardline general who headed its armed forces ministry, in a further reshuffling of the top brass by young leader Kim Jong-un. General Jang Jong-nam was named "minister of the People's Armed Forces" by state news agency KCNA in a report, the third official to take the role since Kim Jong-un formally assumed power in North Korea just over a year ...

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There Will Be Blood [Blu-Ray]

There Will Be Blood [Blu-Ray]

For the first 15 minutes of Paul Thomas Andersons There Will Be Blood, not a word is spoken. We are brought into the film with a slowly dawning shot of three hilltops that emerges along with a dissonant roar of music by Radioheads Jonny Greenwood, which is then immedi ... ...

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  • UN panel says sanctions delaying development of North Korea’s nuclear program

    North Korean leader Kim Jong-un visits the "February 20 factory of the Korean People's Army" in this photo released by North Korea's Central News Agency on May 17, 2013. ...

  • N. Korea Vows to Strike South Korean Islands

    North Korea is once again threatening the United States and South Korea -- this time over joint naval drills taking place in the Yellow Sea. The drills come ahead of a joint summit in Washington by the leaders of the two allies. North Korea says it will hit back if any of the shells fall on its side of the disputed maritime border during scheduled South Korean-U.S. military drills. If the ...

  • Sandra Scott Travels The best place to see North Korea

    DMZ security checkpoint As part of our DMZ tour we went to Dora Observatory where it is supposed to be the best place to see North Korea. First we had to go through a security checkpoint that had Korean soldiers on one side of the entrance and American soldiers on the other. We were told to bring our passports but no one checked them probably because the only non-military vehicles allowed are ...

  • N. Korea should open up and ask for food aid

    N. Korea should open up and ask for food aid . MAY 18, 2013 05:30. . North Korea is releasing its rice reserves to feed its residents. For the past three months, the North has been using its military rice provisions in its major cities such as Pyongyang, Hyesan and Chongjin to ration 15 ...

  • U.S. Response to North Koreas Threats

    A North Korean political poster in inter-Korean military demarcation area. The poster says there is only one country on the Korean Peninsula. (Photo: Linqong, ...

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