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North Korea has celebrated the 68th birthday of Kim Jong-il, the country's "Dear Leader" with an extravagant display of gun salutes, swimming displays and flower parades.  more>>

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This undated picture, released from North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency on December 19, 2009, shows Kim Jong-il inspecting the Kimchaek Iron and Steel Complex at Kimchaek cit...  more>>

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Robert Park during an interview in Seoul in December 2009, shortly before he went into North Korea. Photograph: Lee Jae-won/Reuters An American missionary arrested a...  more>>

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Seoul -- Amid accounts of starvation, food shortages in the army and runaway Inflation, senior economic officials in North Korea have been fired in recent days, a...  more>>

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North Korea is to free an American missionary detained on Christmas Day for illegally crossing the border from China. Robert Park, of Tucson, Arizona, slipped...  more>>

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Seoul, South Korea — Recent changes to the North Korean currency have set off runaway Inflation, officials and news reports in [c...  more>>

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Visiting North Korea some years ago, I was lucky to have a fairly genial "minder" whom I'll call Mr. Chae. He guided me patiently around the ruined and starving country, explaining things away by means of a so...  more>>

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