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Retired basketball star Dennis Rodman called Kim Jong Un an "aweseome" man after a visit earlier this year. His trip there this week follows a prediction by Rodman that he would persuade Kim to release Korean-American missionary Kenneth Bae. But Rodman says that's not the purpose of his visit.
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A survey shows that most of them believe three meals a day has helped boost the leader's popularity, despite the country's continued economic woes.
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The emotional meetings by family members separated by six decades of mutual suspicion between the two countries were suspended in 2010.
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A multimillion-dollar deal to provide ski lifts for a resort in North Korea has been cancelled, after Switzerland's government decided the deal violated U.N. sanctions forbidding the export of luxury items to the country.
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Next month the two sides will discuss possibly resuming the meetings between relatives from North and South who have been separated since the 1950-53 Korean War.
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Pyongyang, Seoul and Washington marked the end in 1953 of a brutal Cold War conflict that claimed hundreds of thousands of lives.
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U.S. citizens who want to buy stuff from North Korea have to send a letter to the government asking for special permission. We got copies of those letters.
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The USS Pueblo, captured by North Korea in 1968, is expected to be the centerpiece of the country's "Victory Day" ceremonies marking the armistice that officially ended hostilities with the South.
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A Spaniard born to privilege, Alejandro Cao de Benos is now a staunch defender of North Korea, where he lives half the year and works to promote its ideology.
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The action stems from the seizure of the vessel carrying Cold War-era weapons as it attempted to transit the Panama Canal.