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North Korea

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Do you feel safe?
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US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Vietnamese Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh arrive for a photo opportunity before a meeting at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Hanoi, Vietnam, July 9, 2018.
Trump and Kim will meet again, but why in Vietnam?
Takuya Yokota in Tokyo in November 2017. He continues to speak out about North Korea's abduction of his sister in 1977.
Conflict & Justice
Japan could ease tensions with North Korea — if North Korea comes clean on its abduction of Japanese citizens
President Trump Holds Historic Meeting with Kim Jong-un
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Arts, Culture & Media
Postcard from Pyongyang
Won Hyung-joon leads the Lindenbaum Festival Orchestra and hopes one day to perform together with North Korean musicians.
Music
Why ‘Arirang’ is the perfect song for a divided Korea
Sook Ei and George Lampman met at the US embassy in Seoul in the months before the start of the Korean War.
Conflict
They got married in Seoul and a week later, China invaded
Boy on horse in carousel, looking at camera. Old, scanned photo
Conflict
On being Korean in America in the time of the ‘Axis of Evil’ and ‘Rocket Man’
A South Korean policeman takes part in an anti-terror drill as part of the Ulchi Freedom Guardian exercise in Seoul, South Korea, August 22, 2017.
Conflict
South Koreans used to brush off talk of war. Now, they’re getting worried.
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un guides a target-striking contest of the special operation forces of the Korean People's Army (KPA).
Conflict
South Korea’s creating a special military unit to assassinate Kim Jong-un
Director Morten Traavik (r) with the lead singer of Laibach, Milan Fras. Traavik brought the Slovenian band to Pyongyang in 2015 for a concert. And then he made a film about it.
Culture
Here’s an idea for engaging with North Korea. Bring in a Western rock band and make a movie about it.
Students from the Daum School on a field trip with their teacher. Their faces are blurred to protect their privacy. Many North Korean refugees have trouble adjusting to life in fast-paced South Korea, especially at school.
Conflict
North Korean students learn to deal with trauma at this Seoul school
A new multiple launch rocket system is test fired in this undated photo released by North Korea's Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) in Pyongyang March 4, 2016.
Conflict
Some Americans are panicking about North Korea. Here’s why South Koreans aren’t.
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un supervised a ballistic rocket launching drill of Hwasong artillery units of the Strategic Force of the KPA on the spot in this undated photo released by North Korea's Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) in Pyongyang, March 7,
Conflict
Trump seeks options for eliminating North Korean nuclear threat
Chinese President Xi Jinping addresses a joint news conference with US President Barack Obama in the Rose Garden at the White House in Washington, DC, Sept. 25, 2015.
Global Politics
Donald Trump and Xi Jinping will talk North Korea and trade in first face-to-face meeting
A South Korean soldier patrols at a checkpoint on the Grand Unification Bridge, which leads to the demilitarized zone separating North Korea from South Korea, in Paju, north of Seoul, April 8, 2013.
Conflict
A father remembers when Korea was one country. His son dreams of seeing the same someday.
Thanksgiving in Hibbing, Minnesota with the family of Korean-American author Marie Myung-Ok Lee.
Global Politics
A mundane Thanksgiving can be the ideal holiday gift
Seated protestors listen to a speech against a new American anti-missile defense system being located in their area. They're worried about potential health impacts.
Conflict
South Koreans raise voices against a new US anti-missile system aimed at North Korea
African Renaissance Monument - From Above
Economics
North Korea’s biggest export? Giant statues. To African dictators.
Drone
How Drones Are Reshaping the World
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North Koreans chat on mobile phones and take some pictures as they enjoy nice weather in a park in central Pyongyang on October 11, 2015.
Belief
North Korea is not as closed as you might think
North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un visits a pharmaceutical factory, in an undated photo released by North Korea's Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) in Pyongyang on November 8, 2014.
Justice
Is Kim Jong-un going to be charged with crimes against humanity?
U.S. citizen Matthew Todd Miller sits in a witness box during his trial at the North Korean Supreme Court in this undated photo released by North Korea's Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) in Pyongyang September 14, 2014.
Justice
No one really knows why a young American was sentenced to hard labor in North Korea
Global Scan
A teenage defector from North Korea grew up believing Kim Jong-il could read her mind
Michael Kirby, chairperson of the Commission of Inquiry on Human Rights in North Korea holds a copy of his report during a news conference at the United Nations in Geneva February 17, 2014.
Conflict & Justice
A UN report details atrocities in North Korea that are painful to even imagine