North Korea's Mass Games a Metaphor for Life
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North Korean schoolgirl Pak Hyon-sun  lobs a grapefruit-sized ball high into the overcast Pyongyang  sky.
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Tian Zhuangzhuangâs biopic is a stately and respectful reflection on the life of Wu Qingyuan, one of the 20th centuryâs top players of go, a Japanese game said to rival chess in complexity.
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The Alaskan coastal village of Hooper Bay is about 3,200 miles from North Korea&#039;s intercontinental missile. For some in the Bering Sea town, that&#039;s a bit too close for comfort.
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The Chinese artist Cai Guo-Qiang paints with gunpowder when heâs not staging open-air âexplosion events.â At this summerâs Beijing Olympic ceremonies, heâll be playing with fire.
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The dark comedy is stirring memories of a former dictator known for rights abuses and a tough line on Pyongyang.
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SEOUL -- North Korea's neighbors scrambled yesterday to forge a common front against Pyongyang's threatened nuclear test, with South Korea warning of a regional atomic arms race that could upend the regional balance of power.
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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 negotiations with North Korea are anchored on two premises. One is not to tolerate Pyongyang&#39;s ambition to arm itself with nuclear weapons.
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The first joint army exercise between neighbors whose relationship is traditionally tense signals the redrawing of Asia's geopolitical map. Still, many sources of tension remain
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BANGKOK, Thailand - With a clash of mallets and the stomping of jumbo feet that shook the earth, the game was under way. Tense commands were shouted by pith helmeted players tied firmly to their two-ton mounts...
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In a long and speckled career overseas, I have witnessed many unusual Christmases. None were more peculiar than the two spent in the exile capital of the godless fathers of Chinese communism, whose heirs are sponsors next August of the originally pagan Olympic games.
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This is turning out to be more like a game of snakes and ladders than anything else. Or perhaps an analogy with chess would be better.
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MOUNT KUMGANG, North Korea  - In a variation on  the swords-to-plowshares theme, North Korea is swapping heavy  artillery for golf clubs.
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North Korea has warned Japan that any sanctions against the communist state would be regarded as a declaration of war. Opinion polls show about two-thirds of the Japanese public supporting economic sanctions
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In some countries, the national spectator sport is soccer or tennis. In Ukraine, the joke goes, it's elections.
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A wrenching musical play about North  Korea's prison camps drew a standing ovation from a  high-powered Washington audience -- a reaction activists said  hoped would focus attention on human rights even as the world  grapples with Pyongyang's threat of a nuclear test.
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KAESONG, North Korea  - In a rare nod to religion, communist North Korea has welcomed 500 Buddhist monks and followers from the South to a temple dating from the 11th century when Kaesong was capital of a unified peninsula.