N.Korea gulag play draws standing ovation
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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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North Korea was awash with patriotic festivities on Saturday as the impoverished nation celebrated "Dear Leader" Kim Jong-Il's 66th birthday with rallies, gala events and flower shows, state media said.
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South Korea may join forces with the communist North as guests of honor at the world's largest book fair next year in Frankfurt.
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Overwhelmed after winning his first world title, North Korean weightlifter Cha Kum-choi stunned reporters at a news conference when he burst into a song of praise for his country&#39;s reclusive leader Kim Jong-il.
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Through protests, militant inmates in Morocco have won perks that make them the envy of the other inmates.
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The New York's Philharmonic Orchestra's historic North Korea concert is to be televised.
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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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U.N. nuclear watchdog officials said on Friday they were "satisfied" with a tour of a North Korean reactor complex that the secretive state has promised to scrap under an aid-for-disarmament deal, Kyodo news agency said.
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Video of the area where North Korea said a huge explosion had occurred last week showed dozens of workers swarming around a construction site resembling a large
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You don't have to be a gamesman to love the show at the Asia Society. The engrossing display of dice, chess sets and polo mallets is a playground for any eye.
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Embattled UN Secretary General Kofi Annan got a standing ovation from diplomats from around the world in United Nations on Wednesday, in what UN officials said was a show of support at a time of crisis.
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An exhibition showing Russian women convicted of murder engenders shock and sympathy.
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Planman Life's campus caper Rok Sako To Rok Lo has received a very favorable response with the school and college going crowd.
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Human rights campaigners have reacted with delight to news that Chile&#39;s former military dictator General Augusto Pinochet could finally stand trial.
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Putting the four decades he spent as a US Army deserter in North Korea behind him, Charles Jenkins was greeted Tuesday by cheering crowds in his wife&#39;s hometown on this wind-swept Japanese island.
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UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan received an unusual standing ovation in the 191-nation General Assembly on Wednesday following calls for his resignation from conservative US lawmakers.
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IF there&#39;s one in every crowd, among the throngs of North Koreans wanting to escape Kim Jong-il&#39;s despotism there is now Kim Ki-ho.