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North Korea team at World Cup 2010

North Korea bring with them memories of 1966, but remain an unknown quantity at World Cup 2010. Balancing act: North Korea players, bound for World Cup 2010, in training Photo: REUTERS The Coach: Kim Jong-Hun (North Korean). WC...

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South Korea team at World Cup 2010

South Korea qualified easily for a seventh consecutive World Cup, but they lack the firepower to hurt the big beasts. The good times: South Korea reached the World Cup semi-finals on home soil in 2002 Photo: EPA South Korea...

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Action sequences

Americans should take more of an interest in places where wars aren't happening JOHN JUDIS had a nice comparison in the New Republic of coverage of Barack Obama's South Korea visit in two American newspapers, on the one hand,...

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Breaking the Pyongyang pattern

U.S. President Barack Obama and South Korean President Lee Myung Bak reaffirmed in Seoul on Thursday that they will seek a "definite and comprehensive resolution" to the North Korean nuclear issue. Mr. Obama urged the North to...

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U.N. committee slams Iran for post-election crackdown

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The U.N. General Assembly's human rights committee condemned Iran on Friday for a violent crackdown on protesters after presidential elections this year that the Iranian opposition says were rigged.

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World › Saipan reels after deadly shooting

Saturday 21st November, 05:24 AM JST SEOUL — The Pacific resort island of Saipan was reeling Friday from one of the most violent attacks in its history, when a gunman killed five people, including two small children and...

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Last man to lead bayonet charge dies

LOMA LINDA, Calif., Nov. 20 (UPI) -- Retired Army Col. Lewis L. Millett, 88, a Medal of Honor winner for leading what reportedly was the last major bayonet charge, has died, the Pentagon said. Millett died in Loma Linda,...

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Diplomats arrested for cigarette smuggling

STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Swedish police have arrested two North Korean diplomats on suspicion of smuggling 230,000 cigarettes into the Nordic country, the Swedish Customs Office said Friday. The pair, a man and a woman who have...

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U.N. action urges respect from N. Korea

UNITED NATIONS, Nov. 20 (UPI) -- The United Nations is preparing to review North Korea's human rights conditions next month during a special session in Geneva, Switzerland, officials said. Just weeks before the Universal...

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Top DPRK leader inspects cattle farm

PYONGYANG, Nov. 20 (Xinhua) -- Kim Jong Il, top leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), has called for more stock-breeding farms to improve people's diet after visiting a military farm recently, the official...

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