North Korea, last Cold Warrior standing at Games
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North Korean athletes will enter the 2008 Beijing Olympics with pluck, a soldier-like fighting spirit and a completely different concept of international sport to the one embraced by former Cold War allies.
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LOS ANGELES  - Viewership of the summer  Olympics cooled off for NBC on Thursday as the competition in  Athens winds down.
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North Korea is a totalitarian state where simply mishandling a portrait of leader Kim Jong Il is considered a crime. That doesn't mean there is no internal debate as the regime weighs whether to dismantle its nuclear weapons program.
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Crumbling sport stadiums still  stand in many African capitals, the enduring symbols of China's  Cold War courtship of the world's poorest continent during the  1960s and 1970s.
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âI can confirm British Ambassador, David Slinn and other foreign diplomats (Sweden, Germany, Czech Republic, Poland, Russia and Mongolia) were today taken by North Korean officials to Samsu in the north-east of the country, where a hydro electric power
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North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il has still not decided whether to give up his nuclear weapons despite a disarmament pledge under an international deal, a senior analyst said Wednesday.
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Geopolitically, the choice made sense. How could they not give the Winter Games to a place whose czar once declared that his two best generals were January and February? The Russians, who have more snow and ice than any country on the planet, have never staged this quadrennial sleighride. Clearly, they were overdue. But when the International Olympic Committee tapped ...
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City cops braced for laptop jihad International terrorists with a grudge against the winter sports community are believed to be clearing their diaries in preparation for the 2010 Winter Olympic Games, to be held in Vancouver.â¦
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The U.S. pointman on North Korea on Wednesday left open the possibility Pyongyang could be removed from the U.S. list of state sponsors of terrorism before it completely gives up its nuclear programs.
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Russia and China - former Cold War foes - will hold an unprecedented military exercise in the second half of 2005. The war game, involving naval ships and aircraft, will take place on Chinese territory, Russian Defence Minister Sergei Ivanov said.
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Bluffs and bluster, then capitulation and compromise. North Korea has decades of experience dancing a diplomatic tango with its allies and enemies to get what it wants &#151; and leaving the rest of the world guessing as to the real intent of the isolated communist regime.
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South Korea finished the final day of the 2004 Athens Olympics on a high note, adding one gold and a silver. The medals gave the country a ninth-place rank on the overall medal standings within the targeted top 10 finish.
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DOHA, Qatar  -- In a politically charged showdown, North Korea will play South Korea in soccer at the Asian Games.
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by ming Thursday, Dec 23 2004, 7:10am. 44 North Koreans who scaled the walls of the Canadian Embassy compound in China last September have been allowed to leave for an undisclosed third country.
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TOKYO - First he struggled through 40 years of life in North Korea as a deserter. Then he spent a month in an American military prison for abandoning his US Army post for the isolated communist state.
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Athletes from North and South Korea marched as one into the dazzling opening ceremony of the 15th Asian Games on Friday, delivering another message of hope for the divided peninsula.
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U.S. and Asian negotiators have struck a tentative deal with North Korea over freezing its nuclear weapons program in exchange for energy assistance.The agreement, announced by U.S. and Chinese officials after marathon overnight discussions, marks a major breakthrough in long-stalled six-nation talks.