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Tourists are allowed into North Korea only on organised tours closely monitored by the state.
He has also invited North Korea's reclusive leader, Kim Jong Il, to Tehran, his capital.
Ladies and gentlemen, the President just spoke about the Korean emotion that we call jeong in Korea.
South Korea may be ethnically homogeneous, but turf politics has historically divided the electorate along geographical lines.
' It's something that's very close to us because we're very close with South Korea.
But at the Pentagon, officials quietly worry about a bigger problem with North Korea.
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North Korea has been banned from such tests since a 2006 resolution by the U.N.
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In Asia, Hong Kong's Hang Seng dropped 2.5%, and South Korea's Kospi lost 1.2%.
And so we would, of course, want North Korea to abandon its nuclear ambitions.
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North Korea has links with terrorist groups and has sold conventional weaponry to Hezbollah, for instance.
However, China, North Korea's foremost ally, often returns North Korean refugees, ruling them economic migrants.
North Korean refugees tend to make their journey to South Korea by first heading to China.
However, the number of North Korean refugees arriving in South Korea dropped by 40% last year.
Ordinary Japanese were upset at North Korea demonstrating its new firepower in their backyard.
Where he has sought to restrain foreign governments Russia, Iran, North Korea he has been unsuccessful.
He won't touch Japan or South Korea, where the returns are only 2% on equity.
North Korea, for instance, is a country with a significant "branding problem, " to put it mildly.
Washington wants to discuss security issues, specifically the South China Sea, North Korea, and Taiwan.
Korea's Seung-Hoon Lee collected a surprise silver with Russian Ivan Skobrev taking the bronze.
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Seoul-based North Korea expert Han Byung Hoon says Kim Jong Il faces three tasks.
Hong Jae Chul, president of the Seoul-based Christian Council of Korea, an alliance of conservative churches.
"We want (South Korea) to enter the stage of starting discussions on" same-sex marriage.
Today North Korea agreed to return to six party negotiations on ending its nuclear weapons program.
He says three years of six party talks with North Korea have led nowhere.
Singapore's main index slumped 2.2% to 2924.95 while Korea's Kospi was 1.6% lower at 1956.44.
South Korea was determined to take the matter to the United Nations Security Council.
This is especially poignant to Korea, a society that is changing faster than many others.
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The research climaxed in October 2006 when North Korea first tested a half-kiloton nuclear device.
One of his areas of specialty at the State Department was North Korea's nuclear program.
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