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Storms may brew, but in N. Korea pride over new satellite
PYONGYANG, North Korea - Hours after the rest of the world already knew, North Korea's state media triumphantly announced in a special news bulletin to the nation Sunday it had successfully launched a...
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UN condemns NKorea launch, pledges significant new sanctions
SEOUL, South Korea - The U.N. Security Council condemned North Korea's launch of a long-range rocket that world leaders called a banned test of ballistic missile technology and another "intolerable...
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North Korea's new satellite flew over Super Bowl site
TOKYO - Here's a bit of Super Bowl trivia: North Korea's newest satellite passed almost right over the stadium just an hour after it ended.
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Facing new sanction threats, North Koreans defiant as ever
PYONGYANG, North Korea - The United States and Japan have already announced plans for new sanctions over North Korea's recent nuclear test and rocket launch, and the U.N. Security Council is likely to...
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North Korea displays rockets, begonias for leader's birthday
PYONGYANG, North Korea - In North Korea, leaders have rockets named after them. And begonias.
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AP Analysis: South Korea, its rival and the power of words
SEOUL, South Korea - Don't believe in the power that words hold on the edgy Korean Peninsula?
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Analysis: In a resilient North Korea, can sanctions work?
PYONGYANG, North Korea - As the U.S. Congress passed a new set of sanctions on North Korea this week, South Korea shut down the last symbol of inter-Korean economic cooperation and the United Nations...
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North Korea escalates war of words in standoff with Seoul
PYONGYANG, North Korea - North Korea responded to an unusually harsh verbal attack by South Korea's president against the North's leader and its recent nuclear test and rocket launch with a...
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AP Explains: Another Korean Peninsula crisis; maybe not
SEOUL, South Korea - North Korea threatens nuclear annihilation, fires ballistic missiles into the sea in a show of defiance, tests a nuclear bomb and launches a long-range rocket into space as South...
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N. Koreans: Brutal work abroad better than life back home
SEOUL, South Korea - One North Korean who worked abroad says that as a waitress in China, she was forced to put up with male customers who groped her and tried to get her drunk. Two others recall the...
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Amid outside pressure, N. Korea sets date for key convention
SEOUL, South Korea - Facing mounting international pressure over its nuclear and missile ambitions, North Korea has set a date for its biggest political convention in decades next week that is expected...
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Yearning for North Korea - the nation they fled
INCHEON, South Korea - For much of the world, North Korea is a Stalinist nightmare, an isolated enclave of prison camps, poverty and hunger.
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North Korea party congress to show unity around Kim Jong Un
TOKYO - North Korea is preparing to hold a once-in-a-generation congress of its ruling party that is intended to rally the nation behind leader Kim Jong Un and could provide an important glimpse into...
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Details of N. Korea party congress secret, but goals clear
TOKYO - North Korea, the world's last great master of Cold War-era spectacle, is likely to deliver a big one when its ruling party holds its first congress in 36 years later this week.
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Things to know about North Korea's first congress in decades
SEOUL, South Korea - North Korea's elite are gathered in Pyongyang ahead of their biggest political conference in decades.
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Behind closed doors, North Korea opens ruling party congress
PYONGYANG, North Korea - North Korea on Friday opened the first full congress of its ruling party since 1980, a major political event intended to showcase the country's stability and unity under young...
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North Korea party to give Kim Jong Un top title at congress
PYONGYANG, North Korea - North Korea's ruling party is preparing to bestow its top title on leader Kim Jong Un, another sign that the third heir to North Korea's dynasty of Kims is firmly in control...
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Kim Jong Un says Pyongyang won't use nukes first
PYONGYANG, North Korea - North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said during a critical ruling party congress that his country will not use its nuclear weapons first unless its sovereignty is invaded, state...
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Ex-N. Korea army head, who Seoul said was executed, is alive
SEOUL, South Korea - A former North Korean military chief who Seoul had said was executed is actually alive and in possession of several new senior-level posts, the North's state media said Tuesday.
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5 things about Kim's congress, from North and South Korea
North Korea just wrapped up its biggest political event in decades - a lavish, four-day congress of its ruling Workers' Party of Korea intended to both strengthen the leadership of Kim Jong Un, who...
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