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North Korea sanctions: Are they meaningless?

Secretary of State Clinton announced new North Korea sanctions Wednesday, but many experts doubt the measures will persuade North Korea to resume talks over its nuclear program.
North Korea: Will winter shortages intensify rights abuses?

North Korea rights advocates in South Korea turned to international courts for aid in challenging abuses. They are trying to keep the issue in the public eye as a tough winter and a drastic currency revaluation raise the prospect of more crackdowns.
North Korea admits drastic currency reform, is silent on protests

Reports of protest, violence emerged from North Korea after a drastic currency reform that sets an exchange rate of 1,000 old to 1 new . A North Korean paper in Japan confirmed the reform.
Should Obama sign a peace treaty with North Korea?

It's too late to rid the country of nukes, but we can keep its program under control.
North Korea to put US journalists on trial Thursday

Laura Ling and Euna Lee, nabbed along the Chinese-North Korean border, have become players in a much larger drama.
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US tries, tries again to revive North Korean talks

US envoy Stephen Bosworth is visiting Beijing, Seoul, and Tokyo, after Pyongyang rejected six-party dialogue and threatened to test another nuclear bomb.