Report Says North Korea Is Planning a Nuclear Test

Reuters is reporting that North Korea has "almost completed" preparations for a nuclear weapons test and that the planned explosion will come soon.

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North Korea Threatens 'Fire of Retaliation' on the South

North Korea state television issued a bizarre, but ominous threat to "soon" launch a "fire of retaliation" against their South Korean neighbors and their "rat-like" president Lee Myung Bak. 

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An Organic Hamburger Won't Save the Earth; DMZ as a Wildlife Sanctuary?

James E. McWilliams on sustainable meat, The Guardian on the DMZ in Korea, The New York Times on solar energy, ClimateWire on the Mississippi Delta, and National Geographic on India's rickshaws

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North Korean Rocket Breaks Apart After Launch, Falls Into the Sea

After all the bluster and hand-wringing over North Korea's big provocative rocket launch, the missile itself broke apart shortly after liftoff, falling into the Yellow Sea.

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North Korea Has a Clumsy Way of Soothing Concerns About Its Rocket Launch

North Korea doesn't have a lot of experience dealing with the press (because it rarely does) so when it gave its most detailed defense of its rocket launch this morning, it didn't go over so well.

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A High Tech Missile Standoff Is Coming to East Asia

In the face of Pyongyang's stubborn pursuit of a ballistic missile launch next month, North Korea's neighbors are vowing to blow the rocket out of the sky.

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North Korea Plays Spoiler at Obama's Nuclear Summit

It was supposed to be a two-day summit about keeping nukes away from terrorists, instead North Korea's temper tantrum is spoiling President Obama's plans.

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Obama Issues North Korea a Warning, From a Relatively Safe Distance

The president glimpses a "time-warped" North Korea through binoculars, then tells them to knock off their "bad behavior."

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North Korea Plans 'Satellite' Launch; World Sees Missile Testing

And things were going so well with North Korea. The secretive, ornery regime in Pyongyang which agreed to stop enriching uranium and stop testing long-range missiles in exchange for food aid from the U.S. is now planning to launch a rocket. For science, though. 

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Google's New Privacy Policy Gets Heat Worldwide

Google's new privacy policy has proved pretty unpopular with state attorneys general at home, and now a French regulator says it might just violate privacy rules in the European Union, and it's also running afoul of Korean guidelines. 

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North Korea Pounds Chest as South Prepares For Drills

The North Korean military has warned of "merciless retaliatory strikes" should the South carry out as planned two hours of live-artillery drills.

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North Korea's List of Unreasonable Demands Might Actually Be a Good Thing

South Korea isn't expected to comply with North Korea's list of demands, but the rigid list might just be a sign that diplomacy isn't out of the question and that it might actually values a relationship with the United States.

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North Korea Hit Up South Korea for Money at Service for Kim Jong-Il

Like so many out-of-luck relatives at family functions, North Korea asked its richer cousin for some money today at a memorial service for Kim Jong-il.

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North Korea Demands South Korea Attend Kim Jong Il's Funeral

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Don't Worry: North Korean Missiles Tests Are Merely Routine

In one of the more disturbing things you'll hear from North Korea today, the country conducted at least one short-range missile test today, news reports are confirming. 

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Korea's Tear Gas Lawmaker Is Now a National Hero

A week after a South Korean lawmaker set off a tear gas bomb in a parliamentary session, police there haven't brought charges against him and some in the country are hailing him as a hero.

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South Korean Legislator Sets Off Tear Gas Bomb in the National Assembly

A South Korean lawmaker threw tear gas in the face of his opponents today in an attempt to stop the country's ruling party from ratifying a free trade agreement with the United States.

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The Smells, Sounds and Celebrities at the South Korean State Dinner

It was a glamorous affair despite the lack of star power

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What They'll Be Eating at Tonight's White House State Dinner

It's the first time a Korean leader has dined at the White House in 13 years

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