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The nation that is dying in silence Millions of North Koreans have starved to death while their government has covered up the truth, reports Richard Lloyd Parry
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ON A rainy afternoon in early June, a group of travellers near the
Chinese city of Changbai arrived in an abandoned quarry where the
woman in the photographs above was dying. There were two other women
and two children with her, and all were refugees from North Korea,
which lies a few miles away across the Yalu river.
The woman came from the city of Hamhung and had clearly not eaten
properly for weeks. Her hands were raw and flaking, and her limbs
were skeletal. Her breasts were withe...
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; ... agreement to meet again in January. The good news is that, if they do meet (North Korea sometimes ... rld's most heavily fortified border. The bad news is that North Korea still refuses to agree on an agenda for the talks. And the worse news is that this is about as good as it ever ...
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One raspberry too many. (North Korea's alleged nuclear weapons program) (Editorial)
The Economist (US)
; IF YOU worry that North Korea's nuclear nose-thumbing has similarities with the 1962 Cuban missile crisis, worry even more about the differences. In 1962 the Soviet nuclear missiles spotted on ships steaming for Cuba were headed off on the high seas. Had they reached Cuba undetected, the weapons
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Just testing, again.(relations between North Korea and United States)(Brief Article)
The Economist (US)
; NORTH KOREA AND AMERICA CONTACTS between North Korean and American diplomats are often terse and seldom productive. Yet on September 12th, as the leaders of America, South Korea and Japan huddled in the sidelines of the Asia- Pacific Economic Co-operation forum in Auckland to worry about North
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North Korea and Northeast Asia.(Book Review)
Pacific Affairs
; NORTH KOREA AND NORTHEAST ASIA. Edited by Samuel S. Kim and Tai Hwan Lee. Lanham (Maryland), Boulder, New York, Oxford: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. 2002. xiii, 278 pp. (Tables, graphs.) US$75.00, cloth, ISBN 0-7425-1710-1; US$29.95, paper, ISBN 0-7425-1711-X. Recently, studies of
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Talks open on standoff with North Korea
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
; Talks open on standoff with North Korea China hosts gathering to temper nuclear threats Associated Press, Washington Post Wednesday, August 27, 2003 Beijing -- Hoping for a breakthrough, diplomats from six nations converged on the Chinese capital for talks today to resolve East Asia's most urgent
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