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ASIA: North Korea after Kim Jong Il
TO HIS many victims, and to anyone with a sense of justice, it is deeply wrong that Kim Jong Il died at liberty and of natural causes. The despot ran his country as a gulag.
North Korea vows to close border with South
SEOUL: North Korea
on Monday said that it would go ahead with its threat to effectively close its land border with the South, including expelling..
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Why reopen North Korea nuclear talks now?
The next round of six-party talks on ending North Korea's nuclear weapons programmes will be held on December 8 in China, US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said.
The talks will take place after North Korea said it would cut off much of the traffic across the heavily armed border with its wealthy neighbour in anger at the hardline policies of Seoul's new conservative leader.
Below are some questions and answers on what North Korea stands to gain and why regional powers will be holding the talks in the closing weeks of US President George W Bush's term.
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