How To Use Pyongyang In A Sentence
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Further evidence of China's increasing dismay with Pyongyang comes in a cable in June 2009 from the US ambassador to Kazakhstan, Richard Hoagland.
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ISIS argues that among the biggest threats posed by Pyongyang's perceived advancement in uranium-enrichment is the North's historical willingness to export its nuclear technologies.
U.S. Expects to Restart Bilateral Talks With Pyongyang by January
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Small kiosks selling snacks and bottled drinks are to be seen along Pyongyang's pavements.
Times, Sunday Times
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Cheney said recent information gleaned from a top former Pakistani nuclear scientist provided compelling evidence that Pyongyang has an active atomic weapons program.
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The next step could be the establishment of diplomatic relations between Washington and Pyongyang.
Times, Sunday Times
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Two weeks ago, Japan's foreign minister pleaded with the U.N. to do more to block Pyongyang's illicit-drug exports to Japan.
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Moreover, inflows of food have correlated with Pyongyang's crackdown on the fledgling markets and reinstitution of the government-run public distribution system as the regime uses food rations to reassert political control.
Food For North Korea's Poor, but Not for Its Government
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DPRK Academy of Sciences, Korea Computer Center (KCC), Pyongyang Information Center (PIC) and Silver Star, which is currently under the KCC.
North Korean Economy Watch
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PYONGYANG, March 8 (Itar-Tass) - Citizens of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea go to the polls today to elect deputies to the country's one-chamber Supreme People's Assembly.
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Maehara said before engaging in dialogue with the North, it was first necessary that Pyongyang show it is serious about carrying out its own promise to denuclearize.
Japan, S. Korea Urge Actions from North Korea
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Washington financial sanctions on North Korean - linked companies suspected of money - laundering counterfeit U.S. dollars for Pyongyang.
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The United States, South Korea and Japan have expressed reluctance to talk with North Korea at the present time, fearing that would reward Pyongyang for what they call provocative behavior.
US: North Korea Likely to Be Hiding More Nuclear Sites
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But Pyongyang's fulfilment of its promise to carry out the test suggests that the world may have to get used to a new and unpredictable nuclear power.
Times, Sunday Times
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He most recently served as chief secretary of the Pyongyang City Committee of the Korean Workers 'Party and, in recent months, attended numerous public functions with Kim Jong Il, including a trip to the remote city of Hamhung and the opening of an indoor swimming pool in Pyongyang.
North Korea's Kim Shakes Up Top Posts
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journalists have been sent to Pyongyang and are undergoing a direct investigation '' by the North's spy agency and military, Yonhap quoted a source in China it described as privy to North Korean affairs.
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The invitation from Kim was sent to the Kremlin early this month, Itar-Tass news agency said Wednesday in a report datelined Pyongyang.
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He is scheduled to consult with South Korean officials on Monday and then take a U.S. military plane to Pyongyang.
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As a special envoy for Chinese President Hu Jintao, Tang Jiaxuan arrived in Pyongyang at noon July 12, kicking off his two-day official good-will visit to the DPRK.
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Pyongyang watchers will pore over pictures of the funeral for clues as to what is going on.
Times, Sunday Times
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The trek from Pyongyang, across some 10,000 kilometers of Siberian desolation, took 10 days.
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His chapter on North Korea is especially devastating, recounting the State Department's persistent mistakes and even duplicities in hapless pursuit of a pledge from Pyongyang to end its nuclear weapons program.
Mission Accomplished
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Lee Myung-bak on Wednesday expressed a desire for dialogue with Pyongyang, saying Seoul's tough military posture alone will not ease tensions on the Korean peninsula.
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Pyongyang said after its second nuclear test in May that it will not return to multination talks aimed at ending its atomic ambitions.
North Korea Agrees to Resume Tourism From South
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Pyongyang was also voicing mounting impatience with what it deemed laggard progress on the reactor project.
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I have seen one nuclear blast shelter, at the bottom of a very steep escalator in a Pyongyang subway station, where three gigantic blast doors, each about two feet thick, are recessed into the wall.
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Liem had previously visited Pyongyang in 1977 as a private citizen.
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PYONGYANG, March 8 (Itar-Tass) - Citizens of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea go to the polls today to elect deputies to the country's one-chamber Supreme People's Assembly.
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Their historic encounter in the North Korean capital of Pyongyang in June 2000 has initiated a thaw in relations that could lead, in time, to a confederation of the two Koreas and eventual reunification.
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Washington is skeptical of Seoul taking a conciliatory approach to Pyongyang.
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With the right enticements, Pyongyang can be persuaded to promise to give up its nuke program.
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During the Korean War, both Pyongyang and Beijing repeatedly accused the US of employing bacteriological weapons.
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He is scheduled to consult with South Korean officials on Monday and then take a U.S. military plane to Pyongyang.
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In such talks, Pyongyang would demand, as it has before, large sums of economic aid and political recognition for its totalitarian regime in exchange for promises not to use its weapons.
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The breakoff of contact with Seoul is the latest form of a pressure tactic that Pyongyang used successfully against Washington several times during the six-nation denuclearization process from 2003 to 2009.
U.S.: Pyongyang Move Surprised China
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There are concerns that Beijing and Seoul, both of which show some understanding toward Pyongyang, may call for an assurance that is too concessive.
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Pyongyang limited itself to rhetoric, and was cautious even in its comments about the dramatic developments in the South.
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Increasingly isolated politically and weakened economically, Pyongyang has resorted to an international politics of survival.
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A strict blackout was imposed in Pyongyang, and the populace was crowded into underground shelters as air raid sirens wailed.
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Human-rights groups have been especially critical of what they call an escalation in army violence against ethnic minorities this year, and many U.S. congressional leaders are leery of Myanmar's ties with Pyongyang.
Clinton Encourages Myanmar
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As tensions have spiraled between Pyongyang and the US, Anti-American sentiment has exploded in South Korea.
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The grimness and uniformity of daily life in Pyongyang and in provincial areas is clear from the photographs.
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At Chemulpo, only a few miles westward from the Korean capital of Seoul, London barely had time to recover from his ailments when he learned that the Russian advance had nearly reached Ping Yang (Pyongyang, capital of North Korea, today), nearly 200 miles to the north.
JACK LONDON'S WAR
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Pyongyang is Korea's oldest city but little of its history has been preserved
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But these days, with Pyongyang preparing for a Workers 'Party convention that could trumpet the rise of leader Kim Jong Il's youngest son, Kim Eun Ho and other defectors who speak regularly to North Koreans hear plenty of opinions reflecting what he described as a broad sentiment against hereditary succession.
N. Koreans may be frustrated with government and likely rise of Kim Jong Eun
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Now the six-party dialogue is beginning to inject a new dose of realism into Pyongyang's policy.
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Pyongyang, which tested a long-range rocket this month, says it now plans to strengthen its nuclear capabilities and will pull out of the multination talks aimed at persuading it to scrap its nukes.
CNN Transcript Apr 14, 2009
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As anticipated, the resumed negotiations failed to bring about a substantial breakthrough because both Pyongyang and Washington did not budge from their obstinate positions.
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The Pyongyang invitational, which was suspended from 1993 to 1998, was renewed last year and welcomed players from Japan, China, Mongolia, Iran and India.
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One day Korea may well reunify, and the journey from Seoul to Pyongyang will be a languid day trip taken by families carrying picnic baskets filled with kimchi.
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Pyongyang watchers will pore over pictures of the funeral for clues as to what is going on.
Times, Sunday Times
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Pyongyang's heating has been so bad this winter that residents complain they cannot remember the last time they were able to have a shower, says a diplomat.
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When does liability overshadow whatever convenience Beijing derives from having Pyongyang tie us in knots?
Matthew Yglesias » Trouble in North Korea
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Last week, North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency dismissed him as a "ghostlike" presence "never recognized" by Pyongyang.
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U.S. officials this week will make a personal appeal to a top North Korean diplomat, Ri Gun, who left Pyongyang Tuesday for a rare trip to the U.S.
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Video Even if Pyongyang doesn't seek to sell weapons-grade materials such as reprocessed plutonium, Pentagon officials say just the possibility it might sell nuclear-weapons designs poses a security challenge to the U.S.
Tests Point to Spread of Weapons Trade
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Yet the Pyongyang that Yu captured is one that is ready to celebrate, and this year marked not just the anniversary but also the named succession of Kim Jong Un, Kim Jong Il's youngest son.
North Korean Workers' Party 65th Anniversary Celebration (PHOTOS)
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Pyongyang, though, disputes the border and has repeatedly warned that it would strike back with "an unpredictable, self-defensive blow" that would be "deadlier" than its response to the artillery drills on November 23rd.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
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The "hawkishness" about her that many here have commented about would seems to me to be an attempt to counter the (wrong) perception that a female would not have the cojones big enough to deal with the likes of Mahmoud in Tehran, Kim in Pyongyang or Hugo in Caracas.
Hillary Joining Webb For Measure Opposing War With Iran
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On Friday, Pyongyang also fired a short - range missile off its east coast.
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In any of the places where men discuss truly monstrous and dangerous plans, in Kim Jong Il's Pyongyang or Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's Tehran, watching this hyperventilated criticism of Israel for a shoot-out on a boat must strike them as laughable.
Beating Up on Israel
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Pyongyang promised to reinvestigate the whereabouts of the 10 from scratch during summit talks in May in Pyongyang.
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Yet the real disaster will be if Pyongyang continues on its present road to nowhere.
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Barnes then jibed, ‘Are you getting hot for the next one - the humanitarian attack on Pyongyang?’
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Seoul, too, feels obliged to register its displeasure with Pyongyang.
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PYONGYANG/BEIJING, March 9 (AP) - (Kyodo)—North Korea warned Monday that any move to intercept what it calls a satellite launch and what other countries suspect may be a missile test-firing would result in a counterstrike against the countries trying to stop it.
North Korea needs a damn good kicking.
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Nothing can be offered now to reward Pyongyang for its deliberate provocation.
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For decades a foreign proletariat toiling in dingy factories from Vladivostok to Karl-Marx-Stadt helped bankroll Pyongyang's transformation into a proud monument to ethnic self-reliance, so that someday a Bruce Cumings could boast that it is anything but the ugly Communist capital one might expect.
Mother of All Mothers
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The planned summit trip, along with a visit to China by South Korea's nuclear envoy set for Thursday, indicates an improvement in ties, driven by the need to liaise on policy toward Pyongyang during the potentially volatile transition to new leadership in North Korea.
South Korea's Lee Plans China Visit
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Of course, no matter the fantasies of Pentagon scientists and planners, such futuristic solutions will not replace U.S. reliance on massive firepower, even in labyrinthine cities, as was true with Tokyo during World War II, Pyongyang during the Korean War, Ben Tre in Vietnam, and the Sunni city of Fallujah during the current war in Iraq.
Easter Lemming Liberal News
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The United States, South Korea and Japan have expressed reluctance to talk with North Korea, concerned that doing so would seen as rewarding Pyongyang for what they call provocative behavior.
North Korea Condemns US, Japan, South Korea for Forming 'Alliance'
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The report from Pyongyang was monitored in Tokyo by Kyodo News.
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The tricks are simple crowd pleasers: A Pyongyang city bus filled with waving passengers appears to levitate and then disappear; an acrobat seems to float through a magical skyscape of clouds.
North Korea stages its biggest magic show ever
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It is also believed Pyongyang will unveil a new missile.
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Liem had previously visited Pyongyang in 1977 as a private citizen.
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One immediate concern is that China's Peoples Liberation Army will decide to intervene, hoping to avoid massive refugee flows across the Yalu River into China and to stabilize whatever government exists in Pyongyang.
'The Great Successor'
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One ignores the political situation at one's peril," said Hay, who has worked out of his office off Kim Il-sung square in central Pyongyang for the past seven years.
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Once Pyongyang had given up its atomic weapons the next step would be economic integration through shared projects and co-operation.
Times, Sunday Times
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A source familiar with the trilateral meeting said the three countries decided to reject North Korea's call for including energy and economic assistance to Pyongyang in the envisaged statement.
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Pyongyang's unbending attitude only makes it even more difficult to resolve the dispute through peaceful means.
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Pyongyang also said it would "weaponize" its existing plutonium, which outside experts believe is enough to build about six or seven bombs, and said there was "no reason" for it to give up its pursuit of weapons of mass destruction.
Pyongyang Will Build Weapons, Defy U.N.
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The former President's "sunshine" policy of engaging North Korea through unstinted economic aid remarkably improved relations between Seoul and Pyongyang.
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And I tasted gyros in Cyprus, kimchi in Pyongyang, and injera in Addis Ababa.
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That agreement resulted in Pyongyang's accession to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, but in the end Moscow did not build the promised reactors.
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The North Korean capital, Pyongyang, was captured a month later, and the UN forces advanced towards the frontier with China.
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Pyongyang has in the past cut the military hotline, stranding South Korean workers at the complex.
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Three officials from the foreign ministry in Pyongyang, and an attaché from the North Korean embassy in London, met Irish economic and political experts in meetings arranged by the Department of Foreign Affairs.
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The agency, in a dispatch from Pyongyang, said Russian and North Korean officials have already concluded a draft joint declaration that reportedly contains a broad range of issues.
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And I tasted gyros in Cyprus, kimchi in Pyongyang, and injera in Addis Ababa.
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In 1866 the U.S.S. General Sherman sailed up the Taedong River to Pyongyang.
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A North Korean newsreader says the country "successfully conducted one more underground nuclear test, " demonstrating what Pyongyang calls its "self-defensive nuclear deterrent" to the entire world.
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Uninvited people were barred from even setting foot on the wide and well-tended road leading to his Pyongyang residence.
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A group of internationally prominent figures, known as the Elders, is seeking to ease tensions on the Korean peninsula and draw attention to the ongoing food shortages in North Korea with a trip to Pyongyang.
Group of Prominent Elder Statesmen Seeks to Ease Korean Tensions
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If President Barack Obama is serious about achieving a tangible and lasting accord with the North Korean regime, it would be helpful to engage North Korea creatively through all available diplomatic channels, seek to broaden the isolationistic nation's international space, and indicate a marked difference in Pyongyang, it is important to note that the North Korean regime did not proceed with any missile launch during
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Japan-Korea ties will hinge on what Tokyo expects and can ultimately get out of Pyongyang, especially in security assurances versus war reparations.
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The "hawkishness" about her that many here have commented about would seems to me to be an attempt to counter a perception that a female would not have the cojones big enough to deal with the likes of Mahmoud in Tehran, Kim in Pyongyang or Hugo in Caracas.
Poll: Obama, Romney Ahead In Iowa
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Soon after landing at South Korea's Incheon Airport, Tuesday, Assistant Secretary of State Christopher Hill confirmed he will be heading to the North Korean capital, Pyongyang, Wednesday.
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In a sign that relations with South Korea are likely to remain rocky, the North and South ended their first working-level military talks in two years Thursday with no progress as negotiators stumbled over the deadly sinking of a South Korean warship blamed on Pyongyang, Seoul's Defense Ministry said.
Kim Jong Un PHOTOS: North Korea Prints Pics Of Heir Apparent
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The Olympic torch was paraded through the streets of Pyongyang to flag-waving masses on Monday with North Korea promising its main benefactor China an "astonishing" show certain to be free of protest.
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They also called on Roh to quit dithering over how to punish Pyongyang.
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Put another way, 24 million people are being held hostage to Pyongyang and Washington politics.
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For decades a foreign proletariat toiling in dingy factories from Vladivostok to Karl-Marx-Stadt helped bankroll Pyongyang's transformation into a proud monument to ethnic self-reliance, so that someday a Bruce Cumings could boast that it is anything but the ugly Communist capital one might expect.
Mother of All Mothers
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U.S. officials this week will make a personal appeal to a top North Korean diplomat, Ri Gun, who left Pyongyang Tuesday for a rare trip to the U.S.
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The phrase dining capitals of the world conjures up places like Paris, Rome, New York, Tokyo, uh, Pyongyang?
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