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BBC News
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South Korea's incoming president wants to scrap a ministry handling relations with North Korea, his aides say.
Lee Myung-bak, who takes office on 25 February, will merge the Unification Ministry with the Foreign Ministry.
Four other ministries are b..
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MSNBC
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North and South Korea began regular freight train service across their heavily armed border Tuesday for the first time in more than a half century, in another symbolic step in their reconciliation.
The 12-car train carried construction materials to a N..
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Washington Post
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Canada's government yesterday set aside 25 million acres of wilderness -- 11 times the size of Yellowstone National Park -- for conservation, a move that environmentalists called one of North America's most important acts of nature preservation.
The la..
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CBC
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Organizers of the protests at the North American leaders' summit in Montebello, Que., say they have video that shows police disguised as masked demonstrators tried to incite violence on Monday.
About 1,200 protesters were in the small resort town near..
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CNN
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The Russian explorers who planted a flag beneath the North Pole have made a triumphant homecoming and say they do not care about foreign critics who have complained their mission was a crude land grab. "The Arctic always was Russian, and it will remain Ru..
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BBC News
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North Korea has shut down all five nuclear facilities at its main Yongbyon complex, International Atomic Energy Agency head Mohamed ElBaradei says.
IAEA monitors in North Korea had verified the four new closures, Mr ElBaradei told journalists in Malays..
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BBC News
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Canada has announced plans for six naval patrol vessels and a deep-water port in the north to assert its claim to territorial waters in the Arctic.
Other countries, including the US, say the waters are international territory.
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Daily Mail
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Russian leader Vladimir Putin has made an astonishing bid to grab a vast chunk of the Arctic, giving himself claim to its vast potential oil, gas and mineral wealth.
His audacious argument that an underwater Russian ridge is linked to the North Pole is..
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Al Jazeera
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We go to see the facilities and continue our discussions in more details," Heinonen said as he left Pyongyang on Thursday morning for the journey to Yongbyon.
However he emphasized that the visit to Yongbyon, expected to last into Friday, was not a fo..
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Times Online
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The offspring of the 12 giant rabbits were supposed to help to feed starving North Koreans. Now doubts about their fate have brought an abrupt halt to one of the more unlikely hunger-alleviating projects.
Karl Szmolinsky sold the rabbits to Pyongyang s..
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BBC News
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An American delegation led by the governor of New Mexico and former ambassador to the UN, Bill Richardson, is leaving shortly for North Korea.
Mr Richardson said he aims to secure the release of remains of US servicemen killed in the Korean war in the..
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New York Times
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Thuggish Serbian “bridge watchers” still maintain their vigil on the north side of the Ibar River here, ready to punish any ethnic Albanian who dares to cross the unofficial boundary between Serbian and ethnic Albanian territory in Europe’s unfinish..
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BBC News
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Japan is to partially lift sanctions against North Korea after it agreed to conduct a new probe into the issue of abducted Japanese nationals.
Foreign Minister Masahiko Komura said a ban on charter flights and travel between the two sides would be lift..
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BBC News
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The UN's nuclear watchdog says it will investigate US claims that Syria was building a secret nuclear reactor with North Korean help.
US officials said the alleged Syrian reactor "was not intended for peaceful purposes", after CIA officials briefed mem..
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CNN
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The New York Philharmonic Orchestra arrived in North Korea Monday to perform a historic concert in the secretive communist nation's capital. When the tour was announced in December, orchestra president and executive director Zarin Mehta billed it as "a ma..
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BBC News
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The president-elect of South Korea, Lee Myung-bak, says he will press North Korea to abandon nuclear weapons.
Such a move was a prerequisite for full economic co-operation between North and South, he said, adding that Pyongyang must improve its human r..
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BBC News
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The first regular rail service for more than 50 years has begun operating across the heavily fortified border between North and South Korea.
The flower-strewn cargo train, carrying raw materials for an industrial zone, left South Korea early in the mor..
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MSNBC
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In a rare move, President Bush has sent a letter to North Korean leader Kim Jong Il, the North’s official news agency said Thursday without giving further details about the message.
US nuclear envoy Christopher Hill delivered the letter to North Kore..
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BBC News
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The defence ministers of North and South Korea have begun talks in Pyongyang aimed at reducing tension along the disputed border.
They are also expected to discuss a joint fishing area in the Yellow Sea to end gun battles over fishing rights.
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BBC News
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North and South Korea have agreed a timetable for establishing cargo rail services between their two nations, the first for more than 50 years.
Trains will begin crossing the border on 11 December, connecting South Korea with an industrial zone in the..
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