Playing Ball With North Korea
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Pyongyang appears to have been well-rewarded for cooperation on nukes, but its follow-through on denuclearization will shape the outcome
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The United States will play an exhibition game against China on June 2 in San Jose, Calif.
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A timeline of nuclear weapons development in North Korea:
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North Korea has a few more cards to play if it wants to turn up the tension generated by a series of missile tests. It could fire more missiles, threaten to stage a nuclear test, stage troop exercises near the border with South Korea or send up fighter jets in an attempt to harass U.S. spy planes.
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With North Korea&#39;s nuclear tension in a 22-month impasse, Seoul is seeking to take on a more active role to resolve the issue.
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KAESONG, North Korea  - An industrial park  offering cheap labor, handy transport links and next door to  major Asian markets should be a powerful lure for manufacturers  looking for a competitive edge.
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U.S. and South Korean war games on the  divided peninsula have the effect of holding a gun to North  Korea's head and could hamper efforts to negotiate an end to  its nuclear weapons development, Pyongyang said.
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Negotiating with North Korea is rarely anything but bumpy. But in recent months, Japan once got close to getting Pyongyang&#39;s commitment to rejoin the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT)-but Tokyo blew it.
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2) Do you believe the South Korean team&#39;s assertion that they were told to file a protest after the meet? 3) Should videotape be used to review possible scoring errors?
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South Korea is working with its  diplomatic partners to try to hold nuclear talks with North  Korea this month, but recent North Korean comments suggested no  grounds for optimism, the South's foreign minister said on  Friday. There are plans to hold a fourth round of nuclear  negotiations among the two Koreas, the United States, China,  Japan and Russia by the end of September as the countries  agreed at the previous session in June.
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Fancy a sleek made-in-North Korea SUV? How about a pair of boxing gloves from the famously pugnacious communist country? They're potentially just a click away.
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After months of mixed signals, North Korean leader Kim Jong Il says his country has nuclear weapons. Here's how the U.S. hopes to persuade him to give them up
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Analysis: North Korea watchers are divided by the Dear Leader's promise to shut down a controversial nuclear reactor.  Is Kim playing straight or still playing games?
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Nuclear-armed North Korea is notorious for selling its missiles overseas but the hardline communist state also has a more improbable export -- cute cartoon figures.
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Impoverished North Korea's first steps to take apart its nuclear arms program may reap the reward of food aid from the South when the two hold their first high-level meeting in months on Tuesday.
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Friendship is one thing, competition quite another. That was apparent when reporters asked Juwan Howard and Liu Wei about playing against friends, Chris Webber and Yao Ming, in the China Games.
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Dream Team no longer: The U.S. squad is learning a hard lesson in how the rest of the globe plays ball