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North Korea and weapons of mass destruction

North Korea increases rhetoric, threatens pre-emptive nuclear strike

North Korea is threatening, for the first tiem, to launch a pre-emptive nuclear strike against the United States and South Korea. Though South Korea has heard this rhetoric before, critics say these threats should be taken with great caution.

North Korea halts nuke disabling

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North Korea nuclear progress greater than expected

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Tensions in Asia: North Korea Claims a Nuclear Missile Test

Conflict & Justice

North Korea is claiming it test fired a trio of nuclear missiles yesterday. The claimed tests are raising tensions in the region and Japan has already called for a UN Security Council meeting to discuss the situation.

The World

North Korea withdraws from nuclear talks. Again.

Global Politics

We turn now to the BBC’s Jonathan Marcus for an overview of of North Korea’s actions and the international response.

The World

North Korean nuclear talks

Global Politics

U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice met face-to-face today with her North Korean counterpart in Singapore in the highest-level meeting between the U.S. and North Korea in years, as Anchor Marco Werman speaks with the BBC’s Jonathan Head in Singapore.

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North Korea soldier kills South Korean tourist

Global Politics

A North Korean soldier shot and killed a South Korean tourist today at the Kumgang mountain resort in North Korea, highlighting just how tense relations between the two Koreas still are