American sees changes in his North Korean hometown

Daniel Chun peers out of the window of the Air Koryo turboprop from China as it touches down outside Pyongyang, his former home. It has taken him less than two hours to go back nearly 60 years.

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Partytown Pyongyang? Global tour comes to NKorea

Call it skateboard diplomacy.

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Newsnight has spoken to two North Korean defectors about life inside the secretive Stalinist state, one of whom says that he was an anti-tank battalion commander in North Korea's army before fleeing.

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SEOUL --- North Korea threatened on Friday to take "merciless military measures" along a disputed maritime border with South Korea, escalating tensions as President Barack Obama began a weeklong trip to Asia.

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Washington has urged North Korea not to escalate tensions in the Yellow Sea following a naval skirmish between the North and South Korean navies Tuesday. More Articles

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SEOUL: North Korea on Tuesday signalled it could return to nuclear disarmament talks it had declared dead six months ago, but a report said it was near restoring its atomic plant underlined the secretive state would keep the stakes high.

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UNITED NATIONS - North Korea's atomic weapons were for deterrent purposes only and will be handled "in a responsible manner" to ensure there was no nuclear proliferation, a senior official said on Monday.

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North Korean leader Kim Jong Il, during his most recent meeting with party and military leaders, reportedly gave instructions that the reclusive regime prepare for a third nuclear test, this time using enriched uranium, according to reports from Free Radio of North Korea, based i …

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ABC News' Kirit Radia reports: The US shifted its policy today, saying it is now willing to meet one on one with North Korea if that is helpful to bring Pyongyang back to the nuclear negotiations.

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Former President Bill Clinton left North Korea on Wednesday morning after a dramatic 20-hour visit, in which he won the freedom of two American journalists, opened a diplomatic channel to North Korea's reclusive government and dined with the North's ailing leader, Kim Jong-il …

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In a tearful reunion, the two American journalists jailed in North Korea since March embraced their families at an airport hangar in Los Angeles Wednesday morning after returning home with the help of former President Bill Clinton. 

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Reporting from Seoul and Washington -- Former President Clinton is likely to win the release of two imprisoned American TV journalists as early as Wednesday and has already begun negotiations with North Korean officials in Pyongyang, a news service in Seoul reported today.

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The sister of an American journalist jailed in North Korea says that during a recent phone call, the woman acknowledged breaking North Korean law.

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Euna Lee and Laura Ling were apparently taken from the village of Kangan-ri, North Korea, where their healthier size and weight would have made them very obvious.

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A GROUP of independent Chinese intellectuals and academics has signed an open letter asking the government to halt aid to North Korea and help bring about regime change in the Stalinist state.

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Euna Lee and Laura Ling were recently sentenced to 12 years "reform through labor" (hard labor) by the North Korean government, a fact that many believe North Korea is using as a bargaining chip for concessions from the U.S.

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SEOUL — A North Korean cargo ship was reportedly steaming toward Myanmar on Sunday even as it was shadowed by a U.S.

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WASHINGTON/SEOUL (Reuters) - The United States is monitoring a North Korean ship for weapons and has deployed anti-missile assets to the Pacific in case Pyongyang launches more missiles, U.S. officials said on Thursday.

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North Korea today warned that it would launch a "merciless" attack if provoked by the US and its allies, hours after President Barack Obama described the state's nuclear and missile programmes as a "grave threat" to the world. More Articles

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North Korea Wants Your Tourism Dollars, Defectors Speak Out, and Videos Showing the Real Deal Inside the 21st Century Version of '1984'

I did some research to see if I could locate some videos either made by the North Korean government (those communist propaganda films are always funny) or video taken by defectors who have fled the country.

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The 68-year-old enjoys raw fish so fresh "that it is still moving" washed down with fine French wines and brandies, Kenji Fujimoto said. More Articles

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Kim Jong-il's third son, Kim Jong-un, will become North Korea's next leader, according to unconfirmed South Korean media reports. The BBC News website and BBC Monitoring profile this elusive young man. More Articles

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Hyok Kang, who escaped from his oppressive homeland in 1998, provides a unique and harrowing insight into Kim Jong-il's dictatorship, which can build nuclear weapons - but not feed its people. This Is Paradise!: My North Korean Childhood by Hyok Kang

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WASHINGTON — In the long diplomatic struggle over North Korea's nuclear programme, sanctions have rarely gotten a rise out of the regime in Pyongyang, which time and again has proved impervious to outside pressure. Except once.

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Two American journalists who have been detained in North Korea for two months on charges of illegal entry and "hostile acts" will be put on trial June 4, the Communist North announced on Thursday. More Articles

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Central News Agency, had ominous overtones..A "competent organ" - presumably the North's pervasive security apparatus - was said to have completed its "investigation"..All preliminary to an event that is sure to provide real theater in whatever passes for a courtroom in Pyongyang …

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Laura Ling and Euna Lee, Journalist for Current TV, were arrested by the North Korean military on March 17 on the border between China and North Korea..They had been in China reporting on the North Korean refugees who fled hunger at home and were living in hiding in China..The c …

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