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19.06.2009, 16:52
If North Korea launches a ballistic missile towards Russia, the military can destroy it, but they doubt this would be needed in the first place.
28.05.2009, 03:47
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Karin J. Lee, executive director of the National Committee on North Korea: “There have to be sanctions that lead in a certain direction, and we have to see how the five parties are going to come together with one voice.”
31.05.2009, 11:01
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North Korea has been making headlines all around the world this week with its second nuclear test. Lori “The Resident” Harfenist took to the New York streets to find out what people think about the issue.
16.02.2010, 11:02
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The world’s top arms producers have descended on New Delhi with their eyes on lucrative contracts up for grabs at India’s main arms fair.
07.12.2009, 17:25
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Imagining Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad at the poker table may reveal a lot into the characteristics of this leader who revels in shocking the world with his unpredictable behavior.
06.06.2009, 10:10
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Despite the army's determination to wipe out the Taliban from the Swat Valley, there are fears the militants could seize Pakistan's nuclear weapons.
01.06.2009, 15:39
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A North Korean train carrying a long-range missile has allegedly arrived at a launch base in the northwest of the country. The South Korean military has confirmed this development.
27.05.2009, 14:05
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“Now that they have it, North Korea will never give up nuclear weapons,” says Pavel Leshakov, Head of Korean Studies at Moscow State University.
27.05.2009, 15:51
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When the news junkies were busily familiarizing themselves with the unfolding Talibanization of Pakistan, North Korea has suddenly resurfaced from obscurity with a big bang, says RT military analyst Eugene Khrushchev.
14.06.2009, 00:24
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Although North Korea is threatening to turn all its plutonium into plutonium-based nuclear bombs, not everyone believes the situation is as serious as it looks.
Published: 02 June, 2009, 22:25
The secretive North Korean leader, Kim Jong-Il, has named his youngest son as his successor, according to South Korean media reports.
It is not in the interest of the US to improve ties with N. Korea. N. Korea serves as a very effective boogeyman with which to scare the S. Koreans and the Japanese. As long as N. Korea is the way it is, it serves as a justification for US military presence in Japan and S. Korea, and this is what the US wants. Peace with N. Korea, or worse yet (at least for the US) unification, will render continued US presence and influence in the region unneccessary.