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China's North Korea dilemma
The U.N. Security Council is set to vote this week on a new round of sanctions on North Korea in response to Pyongyang's February nuclear test, and with China's backing, it is likely to pass. Beijing was "strongly dissatisfied and resolutely opposed" to...
Tags: South Korea, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Beijing (China), Pyongyang (North Korea), Politics
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Basketball diplomacy, Pyongyang-style
It is really not so odd that we would find Dennis Rodman partying heartily with North Korea's Kim Jong Un. After all, they have so much in common. Think of Kim as Rodman with less height, fewer piercings, more nuclear menace — and more blood on...
Tags: Carmen Electra, Richard Nixon, White House, Dennis Rodman, Chicago Bulls
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Dennis Rodman tells Kim Jong Un he has a 'friend for life'
Los Angeles TimesDennis Rodman has done some crazy things in his day, but if reports coming out of North Korea are true, he may have just topped them all. Rodman, who is in North Korea as part of an HBO documentary on "basketball diplomacy," watched a basketball game in...Tags: Dennis Rodman, Entertainment Events, LeBron James, Nobel Prize Awards, North Korea
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Dennis Rodman's worst foul
Dennis Rodman’s hanging out in North Korea with that country’s problematic, 28-year-old dictator Kim Jong Un appears as preposterous as it is bizarre. Regardless of his reason for being there (a basketball documentary), his apparent lapse of...Tags: Barack Obama, North Korea
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Watch Dennis Rodman try to broker peace with North Korea [Video]
Unfortunately your browser does not support IFrames. Dennis Rodman, former NBA star and seemingly a lifelong bad boy, can add a new moniker to his name: ambassador. Rodman has just returned from a trip to North Korea with the Harlem Globetrotters...Tags: Dennis Rodman, Kevin Durant, Chicago Bulls, This Week (tv program), Harlem Globetrotters
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Sequestration? Not Scary. Try Fiscal Death Match
The Hartford CourantI'm trying really hard to get all worked up over sequestration, but it ain't taking. Congress has been no help. They called it a weekend on Thursday and went home the day before the $1.2 trillion in automatic spending cuts was scheduled to begin....Tags: Fiscal Cliff, Budget Control Act of 2011, White House, Anne Hathaway, Eric Cantor
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North Korean leader Kim Jong Un reportedly meets Dennis Rodman
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un sat down Thursday for a rare meeting with an American – the pierced, provocative former basketball star Dennis Rodman, according to media reports. Rodman reportedly chatted with Kim as they sat side by side at a...Tags: Dennis Rodman, Travel, Vice (movie), Pyongyang (North Korea), Trips and Vacations
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Dennis Rodman in North Korea: What could possibly go wrong?
So things have been a little testy between the U.S. and North Korea lately? No need to worry -- Dennis Rodman is over there right now. This whole nuclear-test situation is probably being smoothed over as we speak. That's right. The controversial...
Tags: Services and Shopping, Elin Nordegren, Dennis Rodman, Polo Ralph Lauren Corporation, Event Planning
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Google chief urges North Koreans to get connected
BEIJING — Could Google drag North Korea kicking and screaming into the 21st century? Eric Schmidt, executive chairman of the world’s most popular search engine, on Thursday urged the world’s most Internet-shy nation to open up or...
Tags: Government, Computer Networking and Internet, Bill Richardson, South Korea, Kim Il Sung
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North Korea's missile antics
Under its new ruler, Kim Jong Un, North Korea has reverted to its old tactics of provocation and aggression with the launch this week of a long-range missile it claims was intended to put the country's first satellite into orbit. It's unclear whether...Tags: Kim Jong Il, South Korea, Unrest, Conflicts and War, United Nations, Japan
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North Korea's 'red lines'
Last April, when a North Korean missile launch appeared to be imminent, this newspaper published my commentary urging the U.S. to "get tough with North Korea." My determination that U.S. actions to date had produced little or no effect in deterring the...
Tags: Kim Jong Il, South Korea, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Pyongyang (North Korea), China
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Obama calls for 'smarter' government in State of the Union
WASHINGTON – Declaring that the nation is stronger “after years of grueling recession,” President Obama advocated an array of modest second-term initiatives Tuesday night that he said wouldn’t bust the federal budget. There...
Tags: European Union, National Government, Environmental Issues, Mitt Romney, 2012 U.S. Presidential Election
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