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An original 1939 Ministry of Information

Globe Trot: No need to panic

International |  “Keep Calm and Carry On” is a good Monday slogan, and originally part of a 1939 British war propaganda campaign. But it actually never went public during…

Former NBA star Dennis Rodman speaks to the media at the Pyongyang Airport in Pyongyang, North Korea.

Midday Roundup: So call me, maybe

Newsworthy |  Unlikely messenger. Former professional basketball star Dennis Rodman, who visited North Korea last week, said the communist nation’s leader, Kim Jung Un,

Bob Woodward

Midday Roundup: Is that a threat?

Newsworthy |  You’ll regret it. Veteran Washington newsman Bob Woodward claims a White House spokesman threatened him not to run a story in which he planned to say…

REALITY? North Koreans in Pyongyang celebrate on Feb. 14 the nuclear test
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Keeping their people in chains

North Korea |  North Korea's nuclear program draws world attention away from its toll of human misery

North Koreans watch news reports of their country's third underground nuclear test.

North Korean nuke test

North Korea |  Brushing off warnings from the United Nations, North Korea on Tuesday launched its third nuclear test in the remote, snowy northeast section of the peninsula.

Book Review: Truth or fiction from North Korea?

Book Review: Truth or fiction from North Korea?

Books |  Adam Johnson’s novel The Orphan Master’s Son (Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2012) traces the twisted yet fantastical life of a young North Korean nobody…

A SAFER WORLD: Kim Jung Yi in the kitchen
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Grateful escape

North Korea |  Two North Korean refugees sleep every night in their own struggling restaurant—and count it a blessing

SAME SIDE, DIFFERING TACTICS: Horowitz (left); KCC members pray outside the White House (right)
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Prayer and politics

North Korea |  A worldview split leads to sharp differences on how to fight oppression in North Korea

Alveda King

Signs and Wonders: Dr. King and abortion, gays and Uganda, North Korea and persecution, dogs and death

Newsworthy |  March for Life. Today is the public inauguration of President Obama for a second term. Most of the Sunday news programs ran previews of the event, but most of…

A 2005 photo of the Ain Amenas gas field in Algeria, where al-Qaeda terrorists raided and took hostages Wednesday.

Globe Trot: Algeria, North Korea, Syria, Paris protests, mapping North Africa

International |  “Terrorists should be on notice,” said Defense Secretary Leon Panetta today in London, following the Algerian army’s raid to release an unknown number…

North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un

Laughing with the Chinese

Media |  It’s usually unwise to underestimate the human capacity for gullibility, an idea reinforced by The Onion ’s most recent coup. The satirical newspaper is…

ESCAPE ROUTE: The Tumen River (above), which separates China and North Korea
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The new underground railroad

Q&A |  North Korean refugees desperate for help have learned to find a Christian or a church, says reporter Melanie Kirkpatrick

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