1. North Korea is one of China's staunchest allies.

2. He confessed to spying for North Korea.

3. Canada and Britain have established diplomatic relations with North Korea.

4. North Korea is said to be the world's most heavily militarized country, with over 1 million men in the armed forces.

5. North Korea is a secretive nation.

6. North Korea faces severe food shortages.

7. There was increased pressure on North Korea to abandon nuclear arms development.

8. North Korea is separated from China by Yalu River.

9. North Korea may descend into factional in - fighting.

10. China wants a puppet state in North Korea.

11. Koguryo relics are situated in North Korea and Manchuria.

12. North Korea, by contrast, is insular, centralised and destitute.

13. Yet for North Korea, intransigence is the norm.

14. North Korea is on the east of China.

15. Soviet aircraft have overflown North Korea since December 1984.

16. North Korea detonated a nuclear warhead in 2006.

17. Can North Korea Carry Out Household Contract System Roundly?

18. North Korea agreed to abandon its nuclear program in exchange for economic aid and security guarantees.

19. North Korea walked out of the talks, accusing the Japanese of insincerity.

19. is a sentence dictionary, on which you can find good sentences for a large number of words.

20. North Korea operates various versions of the Soviet Styx missile including the Chinese HY-2 version.

21. North Korea says its leader Kim Jong Il has received a personal letter from President Bush.

22. North Korea is taking the same approach to its unsanctioned markets.

23. "There is a mystery story about North Korea so no one knows what to expect," Wang said.

24. Who is next in line when the current leader of North Korea dies?

25. We have it. The smoking gun. The evidence. The potential weapon of mass destruction we have been looking for as our pretext of invading Iraq. There's just one problem - it's in North Korea.

26. Nevertheless, Beijing is acting with extreme caution even as North Korea threatens to 'totally freeze' relations with South Korea and pull out of a nonaggression pact.

27. Governments also usually don't block access to foreign mail services (there are some exceptions, such as North Korea).

28. South Korea is in deep fear that, with the sudden US forces withdrawal from its border with the North Korea, North Korea might take venturous action, causing disaster to South Korea.

29. I've no problems with the Chinese people, but their government is one of the worst in the world(only topped in vileness by maybe North Korea?).

30. With diplomacy failing to curb the ambitions and programmes of the trio of North Korea, Pakistan and Iran, it is going to be hard to dissuade the aspirants to the nuclear club.

1. North Korea is one of China's staunchest allies.

31. The record is clear North Korea has previously committed abandoning its nuclear program.

32. Xinhua said China was now communicating with North Korea about the crash.

33. The Paris - based media group said North Korea, Turkmenistan and Eritrea were the worst violators.

34. The policy of the Bush Administration to North Korea runs a adjustable and transformable course from implicitness to explicitness, from inflexibility to relative flexibility.

35. Such programs would help enmesh North Korea in greater cooperation with the outside world, with benefits that Pyongyang might be loath to abandon.

36. North Korea was already an isolated state run by the late Kin Il-sung, though it was hardly the security threat it is considered to be today.

37. The six nations involved in talks with North Korea are expected to meet later this month to discuss the verification process.

38. Diplomats say it will also make it harder for North Korea ’s main ally, China, not to accept the regime’s culpability.

39. Since the United States has made similar demands of Brazil and Iran, an LEU compromise with North Korea would have to be part of a larger policy shift in Washington.

40. North Korea introduced limited market reforms in 2002, which allowed people to buy and sell goods at free markets.

41. North Korea has stated it will resume disablement of its nuclear facilities.

42. North Korea has long demanded a security guarantee from the United States; given the volatile and aggressive nature of the regime, the U.S. has understandably been hesitant to give one.

43. North Korea remained belligerent despite Mr Obama's plea to tyrannies to "unclench your fist".

44. Another will look at the normalisation of ties between North Korea and America.

45. The government sent us six (!) minders who accompanied us all the way from Katmandu, Nepal to North Korea and back.

46. North Korea is mainly known for a totalitarian regime overseeing economic failure.

47. A lengthy illness would pose a leadership dilemma for North Korea, which has never acknowledged an incapacitating health crisis involving Mr.

48. GUANGZHOU, China: Japan and North Korea put China and South Korea to the sword at the Asian Games on Monday, inflicting demoralising defeats as the football tournament kicked into gear.

49. As with other state resources in North Korea, the railway system has military uses.

49. try its best to collect and make good sentences.

50. North Korea has admitted abducting at least 13 Japanese national in the 1970 s and 80 s.

51. The US and North Korea do not have diplomatic relations and the Clinton-Kim meeting offered a rare chance to engage in back-channel discussions.

52. Investigators said evidence overwhelmingly proves North Korea fired a homing torpedo that caused a massive underwater blast that tore the Cheonan into two on March 26.

53. North Korea on Tuesday said it fired its artillery in response to a South Korean artillery shell landing in its territorial waters.

54. Cutting broadcasts of the games could be another option, but China's state-run TV stations would probably step in to help North Korea get a television signal, Stares said.

55. Meanwhile China continues to invest in mines in North Korea and a potentially valuable docking facility in Rajin-Sonbong that gives itits first access to the Sea of Japan.

56. The growing entente cordiale between Japan and India is based on the understanding that united they contain China and divided they are contained by China and its allies, North Korea and Pakistan.

57. Although skirmishes in the Yellow Sea are a likely result, few observers think that North Korea has any real intention of starting a general war.

58. Ri Ye-Gyong did immediately clipped the bar for North Korea, but the result was settled 14 minutes before the end when Rachel Buehler finished off a goalmouth scramble.

59. Thirty hours ago Euna Lee and I were prisoners in North Korea. We feared that at any moment we could be sent to a hard labour camp.

60. According to David Votypka, the studio's creative director and general manager, North Korea was simply more suitable to the fiction of a home invasion than either Russia or China.

61. JUST over a month ago North Korea announced a currency reform.

62. North Korea will be a Qing Dynasty Confucian Orobanchaceae Guanfu product officer.

63. The so-called six-party talks on the denuclearization of North Korea remain in limbo, and Mr. Carter said official dialogue with the North "appears to be at a standstill.

64. Predictably, North Korea has responded to the UN resolution by firing off another round of bellicose threats. Searches of its vessels will provoke military retaliation, the regime says.

65. But during his last visit to North Korea in August he secured the release of an American citizen who had been arrested for illegal entry.

66. Five countries, including the US, have been in on-again, off-again talks with North Korea to provide Pyongyang with aid in exchange for disarmament.

67. North Korea, Russia, Mongolia, Kazakhstan, Kirghizstan, Tajikistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, Nepal, Bhutan, Myanmar/Burma, Laos and Vietnam.

68. Yet even in a country as batty as North Korea, it would be odd to throw a lavish get-together of the main party hacks for no reason.

69. In the people's paradise that is North Korea, disabled – even short – people are considered subhuman.

70. Even before fresh sanctions were imposed against the rogue nation this week , in response to its nuclear test on October 9th, North Korea could not feed itself.

71. The independent candidate also is especially critical of incumbent President Moo - hyun's engagement policy with North Korea.

72. She favours carrots and sticks to cajole Iran and North Korea into abandoning their nuclear ambitions.

73. North Korea and Iran, past partners in missile roguery,() seem bent on testing the world's anti-nuclear rules to destruction.

74. However, North Korea regarded it as "a violent remark regarding a pre-emptive strike against the North," also demanding the South retract the words and extend public apologies.

75. China refuses to condemn North Korea over the Cheonan sinking, to the irritation of America and others, while describing the exercises as unwarranted warmongering.

76. Japan says it will hold talks with North Korea next week on normalizing relations.

77. North Korea, Cambodia and China are the only Communist regimes left in the Eastern Hemisphere.

78. In recent six-party talks, North Korea proved to be the problematical leading player.

79. Risley says desperate times may have helped coax North Korea away from its usual reclusiveness.

80. The United States Secret Service has made definitive connections between the supernote and the government of North Korea.

81. Last month, North Korea released photos showing Kim inspecting a military unit and appearing healthy.

82. I do not personally believe that North Korea actually wants the recommencement of open conflict or that they will actually bombard Seoul or fire a nuke at Hawaii.

83. At the time, the C . I. A . publicly estimated that North Korea might already possess an atom bomb.

84. One official newspaper said it was because North Korea had reduced its annual quota for Chinese tourists.

85. North Korea protested the resolution by saying it would enrich uranium and weaponize plutonium, according to KCNA, the state-run North Korean news agency.

86. North Korea may have nuclear deterrence, these missiles are highly lethal.

87. The leadership of North Korea could be a poisoned chalice.

88. The parties reached preliminary agreement on a statement of principles in September 2005, with North Korea agreeing to end its nuclear programs in return for security guarantees and other assistance.

89. North Korea has carried out several short-range missile tests in recent years off its east and west coasts.

90. Months before, in March, North Korea torpedoed and sank a South Korean patrol ship near Yeonpyeong, killing 46.

91. On January 7, 2007, the Sunday edition of the German Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) challenged the official American statement and the accusations on North Korea.

92. And I don't think we should do either one. I think it would be proper to even talk about trading with North Korea.

93. In some reports he is said to be attending meetings in Quetta, Pakistan. His money man is said to be flying from Iran to North Korea to buy weapons.

94. BEIJING (Reuters) - China denied on Thursday claims by two U.S. journalists, jailed by North Korea for illegal entry into the reclusive state, that they were seized on Chinese territory.

95. Of the 173 nations in the Reporters Without Borders Press Freedom Index 2008, Burma ranked 170th, behind every other country except the "unchanging hells" of Turkmenistan, North Korea, and Eritrea.

96. Back at the Chinese border shops sell North Korean memorabilia to the tourists who come to gawp through telescopes at North Korea.

97. French Navy in 1866 after the invasion of North Korea withdrew from the first island of Anglesey North Ganghwa a subsidiary of Royal Library building stole these documents.

98. As a result, North Korea is scrambling for money and, in recent weeks, has resorted to small-bore tactics, such as raising rents and pushing new fees on foreign diplomats in Pyongyang.

99. North Korea has an army of more than 1.1 million, but most of its conventional equipment is Soviet era and in poor condition, lacking spare parts and often fuel.

100. Experts say do not rule out North Korea to achieve "strong Shengda Guo 2012, " the goal, now the possibility of an active reserve of food.

101. Last year, North Korea began to dismantle that complex, where it runs a nuclear reactor and reprocess fuel rods to recover plutonium, but it vowed in June to restart production there.

102. North Korea vowed to get back into the nuclear weapons business Tuesday, in response to what it called a " brigandish " abuse of the United Nations Security Council.

103. Have no choice but to declare war on North Korea evil.

104. From possibly the most secluded country in the world, is the North Korea FA's statement a war cry from world football's next rising powerhouse, or simply the deluded rant of a state run by propaganda?

105. On 30 November 2009 North Korea launched a surprise confiscatory currency reform aimed at cracking down on burgeoning private markets and reviving socialism.

106. A tin-pot dictator in North Korea got the Bomb, and the President of Iran wants to go nuclear too.

107. China's main allies in the region have been ill-chosen, with North Korea, Myanmar, and Pakistan all being perceived as bad boys for one reason or another.

108. In 2002, President George Bush labeled North Korea part of an "axis of evil, " primarily due to its aggressive military posture but also because of its abysmal human rights record.

109. And we have undertaken some design projects in Kirghizia, Vietnam, South Korea, North Korea and Laos, etc, gradually entering the international market!

110. He has been likened to A.Q. Khan, the Pakistani scientist who sold nuclear technology to North Korea.

111. The white paper declared that North Korea is the East Asia astatic substantial clause.

112. Your avowed friendly countries are like North Korea , which is a rogue nation, and Pakistan , which is sponsor of terrorism.

113. Finland, Poland, China, Mongolia, North Korea, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Belorussia, Ukraine, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Hasaksta is neighboring.

114. The president will announce what measures South Korea can take against North Korea on its own and in cooperation with the international community, the adviser said.

115. They violently dragged us back across the ice to North Korea and marched us to a nearby army base, where we were detained.

116. I think we should send a country some cup cakes. You think some cupcakes will cheer up North Korea? Kill 'em with deliciousness.

117. In October, North Korea exploded its first nuclear device , made using plutonium.

118. It is no surprise that anyone would want to leave North Korea, but the sharp increase in numbers was unexpected, particularly by the South Korean government.

119. In return, North Korea released a fishing vessel it claims strayed into its territory.

120. Tensions exist on both sides of the demilitarized zone separating north korea and south korea.

121. But other than that, North Korea has proved to be a major albatross, and there is another strong power in the region, Japan, which will do everything it can to check China's military ascendency.

122. In defiance, North Korea reportedly has started reassembling its main nuclear plant.

123. Nowadays, the war compensation issue, the kidnapped Japanese issue, the missile launching and selling issue have prevented the relationship between Japan and North Korea from normal.

124. North Korea, a nuclear-armed state, seems to be increasingly unstable.

125. Starved of cash, North Korea is drawn to other pariahs for business—even selling tunnelling advice to Myanmar's junta, another bunch of totalitarian troglodytes.

126. And in the meantime, I would strangle North Korea economically, ramping up the P.S.I.

127. The Korean War, which China entered on the side of North Korea, fixed Mao's image in the United States as another unappeasable Communist.

128. South Korean Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Ban Ki-moon has called on China to persuade North Korea not to test-fire a long-range missile.

129. Famine may revisit North Korea, parts of Africa or, disastrously for U.S. foreign policy, Afghanistan.

130. His political organization received contributions amounting to200, 000 yen ($2, 400) from a pachinko owner with ethnic ties to North Korea.

131. China finds itself once again caught between the world and North Korea, its roguish ally and trading partner.

132. Five nations have developed medium - range missiles over the same period - China, India, Iran, North Korea and Pakistan.

133. North Korea has turned over to Washington about 18,000 pages of records on its nuclear activities, including those concerning the North's reprocessing of weapons-grade plutonium.

134. "North Korea changed their behavior and words from mid-July, that's the point U.N. Security Council resolution 1874, to be implemented, " Choi said.

135. Japanese media report says North Korea has fired a range missile toward the Sea of Japan.

136. In return for food, North Korea has given China a new lease on harbour facilities in the north-eastern port of Rajin.

137. The latest United Nations Security Council resolution sanctioning North Korea for its May 25 nuclear test has driven Pyongyang to fresh paroxysms of faux fury.

138. The Public Security Intelligence Agency, Japan's main government intelligence agency, ordered its officials stationed across Japan to strengthen information gathering related to North Korea.

139. Japan's top government spokesman says it does not appear that North Korea is about to test-fire a long-range ballistic missile.

140. US Treasury official Daniel Glaser said the money belonging the Democratic Republic of North Korea or DPRK would be transferred to a Chinese account.

141. Eastern Europe ( Former Soviet Union ), Indian subcontinent, Africa, North Korea(Sentencedict), and Mongolia.

142. In return, North Korea will get energy aid equivalent to 50,000 tonnes of heavy fuel oil.

143. This is the first sandstorm in North Korea since spring this year.

144. North Korea and for years the bulk purchase of various materials.

145. In that despatch Mr Chun reportedly says some Chinese officials were willing to "face the new reality" that North Korea was of little value to China as a buffer state.

146. Obama's efforts at conciliation, our adversaries—Iran, North Korea, Hamas, among others—may spurn America's outstretched hand, or meet it with a mailed fist .

147. But Rice said North Korea has provided 19,000 pages of documents detailing production records of its nuclear programs.

148. Once North Korea come clean about this, says a diplomat, Japan will show the greatest flexibility.

149. In a statement, North Korea denounced its critics as "hypocrites" and warned of "adopting self-defensive countermeasures" if action were taken against it at the UN.

150. Quinn Hou Piandian North Korea and others will walk, along Piandian ready to step forward.

151. North Korea has also yet to test a midrange missile from its eastern coast, as many have expected.

152. Experts believe North Korea has not yet been able to miniaturise an atomic weapon to place on a missile, but it may not be far off.

153. Meanwhile, South Korea's Defence Minister Kim Tae-young called for a pre-emptive strike on North Korea if there is a clear indication the country is preparing a nuclear attack.

154. The CSW is calling for a commission of inquiry by the UN to investigate crimes against humanity in North Korea.

155. In its declaration, North Korea will state how much plutonium it possesses.

156. Dynastic succession has to go, they say: we are not North Korea.

157. In return, North Korea released a fishing vessel it claims had strayed into its territory.

158. Since the Korean War broke out in 1950, North Korea has regarded the United States as its worst enemy and the United States has seen North Korea as a rogue state.

159. North Korea is the most militarised country in the world.

160. IF EVER a ruling elite seemed to justify the Bush-era doctrine of "pre-emption", it is the Kim dynasty in North Korea.

161. North Korea has threatened to test-fire an intercontinental ballistic missile .

162. North Korea claims it placed an experimental communications satellite into space.

163. "And we will have some requirements on our side," he added, such as helping to provide 950,()000 tons of heavy fuel oil or fuel oil equivalents to North Korea.

164. Chinese now ask whether Beijing underestimates the costs of a nuclear-armed North Korea and being the largest backer of the Kim regime.

165. However, it is not only the one sided flexibility, the "military adventurism" must be left behind at first by the North Korea.

166. This is just one of the heartbreaking sights captured on film by the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) as they traveled around North Korea last month delivering aid to the most needy.

167. Korean Red Cross plans to "Gyeongui line" and "East Sea Line" to provide relief goods to North Korea by land.

168. Cartwright said he was "90%-plus" confident that the U.S. could shoot down a missile launched at the United States from North Korea.

169. Our products have been sold throughout our country and gone abroad like Vietnam, Myanmar, Iran, North Korea, Kazakhstan, Australia, Kazakstan and so on.

170. In practice, North Korea could in a jiffy declare what it possesses, if it chose to.

171. North Korea says it may be ready to move in a standoff over frozen assets it insists be unblocked before shutting down its nuclear reactor.

172. Of course, the political environment may change if North Korea continues to act belligerently or if China proves to be a real threat, as Japanese hawks fear.

173. McCormack said that after North Korea said it could not sign the draft agreement, the other members adjourned the talks and will reconvene later.

174. Known state and then by Wang Jianying zhao provide North Korea.

175. In North Korea, the broad, desolate avenues and drably dressed citizens make for a perfect tableau of authoritarianism.

176. He referred to North Korea by its official name, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.

177. The answer is simple: We will hold North Korea accountable.

178. South Korean military official tells CNN that North Korea testified another short-range missile this morning.

179. What does China really think it is going to do. Attack? Despite have the second largest economy, China is still a back water dictatorship second only to North Korea.

180. North Korea defied the U.N. Security Council today by firing off a barrage of ballistic missiles into the Sea of Japan.

181. North Korea has also long demanded that the US financial sanctions be lifted.

182. Negotiators pledged that North Korea could have a nuclear energy program for civil electricity generation by meeting strict internationally sanctioned safeguards.

183. Now North Korea is the bastard child of the international financial world.

184. Tony Banbury, the WFP's regional director for Asia, just finished a weeklong tour of North Korea, where he says malnourishment is widespread.

185. Unfortunately, teenage viewers may not understand the joke since the size of North Korea is not a factoid in gameland.

186. Two US journalists arrested in North Korea two months ago on charges of illegal entry and unspecified "hostile acts" will go on trial in early June.

187. The working group on energy will discuss the heavy fuel oil North Korea (DPRK) would receive under the agreement.

188. They do not need to resign themselves to ineffectiveness: up to a point, pressure works: China has been modestly helpful over Myanmar, North Korea and Sudan.

189. China's gravest fear is the scenario in which North Korea collapses, allowing U. S. troops stationed in the South access right up to its border.

190. Instead, the Russian government stepped in, making available a Russian bank to transfer the $25 million from a U.S. Federal Bank to North Korea.

191. The documents date back to 1986 and outline operations at the Yongbyon nuclear complex, where North Korea produced weapons-grade plutonium that was used in an October 2006 nuclear detonation.

192. Russia has placed an anti-missile defence system close to its border with North Korea, in an apparent sign of growing alarm in Moscow at Pyongyang's nuclear programme.

193. North Korea, which he referred to by its official initials, DPRK, for the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.

194. That includes the Islamic Republic of Iran. And it includes North Korea.

195. He last visited North Korea in August last year to secure the release of an American citizen who was arrested for illegal entry.

196. In separate comments, he said North Korea was "becoming a direct threat to the US", predicting Pyongyang would develop nuclear-tipped intercontinental ballistic missiles within five years.

197. The normally nationalistic Global Times cited experts who cast doubt on China's diplomatic strategy and said that North Korea had been "purposefully hard-line.

198. SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea found two U.S. journalists it has held since March guilty of illegal entry and sentenced them to 12 years hard labor, its official KCNA news agency said on Monday.

199. China and America prepare to provide North Korea with heavy fuel oil as part of the agreement for North Korea's nuclear dismantling.

200. North Korea will be included in the U.S. state sponsors of terrorism blacklist and impose sanctions.

201. 1997 - The 1993 Chemical Weapons Convention goes into effect. Russia(Sentencedict), Iraq and North Korea were notable nations who had not ratified the treaty.

202. North Korea stages an "Arirang" festival every year in which 100,000 people perform a series of mass callisthenics.

203. Dandong is a major shipping point and rail link for goods going into and out of North Korea from China.

204. The policy of the Bush Administration to North Korea runs a adjustable and transformable course from implicitness to expliciness, from inflexibility to relative flexibility.

205. North Korea has test-fired six missiles since detonating a nuclear device on Monday, with the latest being a short-range missile launch on Friday.

206. SEOUL - North Korea test-fired five short-range missiles off its east coast October 12 and banned ships from the area from October 10-20, a South Korean official said.

207. North Korea launched a multistage rocket, advancing its weapons-development program that the U.S. and other countries have tried for years to stop.

208. Therefore, Wu Bangguo said Chian has persuaded North Korea to continue dialogue.

209. The impoverished North has vowed to become “a strong and prosperous country” by 2012, the 100th anniversary of the birth of Kim Il-sung, North Korea’s founder.

210. It was only as I crossed the river that separates North Korea from China that I started to realise how desensitised I had become.

211. Rep. of Congo, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Nigeria, North Korea, Pakistan, Philippines, Rwanda, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Surinam, Syria, Vietnam, Palestine.

212. The diplomatic minuet is taking place after China sharply increased trade with North Korea over the past four years.

213. However, the above situation, Choi and South Korean military if the forecast is very different than North Korea South Korea expected loss is smaller.

214. Conservatives criticized Obama's inaugural speech last year as naive for offering to extend a hand to adversaries like Iran and North Korea if they would "unclench" their fists.

215. The capital and largest city of North Korea, in the southwest-central part of the country. It was an important cultural center and became capital of North Korea in1948. Population, 1,283,000.

216. Dandong is a charming city located at the bank of Yalu River with beautiful surroundings and mild climate. It is adjacent to North Korea, and maidenhair trees are important sign of Dandong.

217. And despite Mr. Obama's efforts at conciliation, our adversaries—Iran, North Korea, Hamas, among others—may spurn America's outstretched hand, or meet it with a mailed fist.

218. Meanwhile, South Korea's new chief delegate to multinational nuclear talks with North Korea Kim Sook told a Seoul-based radio station everything North Korea says will have to be verified.

219. Meanwhile US Deputy Secretary of State James Steinberg has said China's relationship with North Korea seems to have cooled recently, since Pyongyang's latest nuclear test.

220. China, Russia and North Korea, axil of evil. They are contrarians. Whatever the west is for they are automatically against.

221. North Korea has shown leniency to Americans in the past.

222. North Korea, a nuclear-armed state, seems to be increasingly unstable. What can the big powers do about it?

223. North Korea and South Korea should unify into one country.

224. Negotiators pledged that North Korea could have a nuclear energy program for civil electric generation by meeting internationally sanctioned safeguards.

225. Hong Kong soothsayer Alion Yeo is predicting North Korea will undergo a power struggle that will bring leadership changes around May.

226. Since its last short-range missile tests in early July, North Korea has refrained from taking any provocative actions, setting the stage for a possible return to six-nation talks.

227. The system is designed to protect U.S. allies from a potential threat posed by a rogue nation with nuclear weapons, such as Iran or North Korea.

228. North Korea has reportedly started reassembling a nuclear plant, reversing steps taken as part of an international deal to end its nuclear programme.

229. Chen outdone out from behind a fruit knife, North Korea Lu stabbed,(http:///north korea.html) assailant fled after carrying knives.

230. The Olympic torch was paraded through the streets of Pyongyang to flag-waving masses on Monday with North Korea promising its main benefactor China an "astonishing" show certain to be free of protest.

231. The great Asian proclivity for thinking in terms of the long arc of history is absent in North Korea, the only country in east Asia whose leaders have no strategic vision for the long term.

232. If accurate, this would be the first North Korea currency reform in 17 years.

233. The meeting will be in Kaesong, a South Korean investment enclave inside North Korea.

234. Unbeknownst to most of the country, the plane flew over North Vietnam , Red China, North Korea , the Middle East, South Africa , Cuba , Nicaragua , Iran , Libya , and the Falkland Islands .

235. North Korea will be on the agenda after its missile tests, as will Myanmar, since its generals persist in prosecuting Aung San Suu Kyi, the world's most famous political detainee, on trivial charges.

236. North Korea is the world's most militarized state compared to its population with a standing army of more than 1.1 million.

237. Admittedly, North Korea is not a fully paid - up member yet.

238. Before then, such tests were routine as the marine outpost on the island guards a water passage from North Korea to the South Korean port city of Incheon.

239. A more overtly nuclear-armed North Korea would also bolster Japan's already increasingly close security pact with America.

240. Rice said in addition to bringing North Korea to halt weapons development, the talks also fostered the creation of a Northeaster Asia peace and security mechanism.

241. Japan and North Korea also have plenty of wartime history, while the long-running issue of Japanese nationals abducted by Pyongyang continues to smolder without resolution.

242. This week Stephen Bosworth, America's point man on North Korea, was in Seoul, the latest leg in a dogged mission to revive the six-party process.

243. Mr Roh was famed abroad for his attempts to build rapprochement with communist North Korea.

244. In 1994, under the "Agreed Framework, " the international community agreed to supply North Korea with light-water nuclear reactors on condition it mothball its plutonium-based atomic program.

245. North Korea is quite probably the most militarized state on earth.

246. LAST July North Korea fired ballistic missiles into the Sea of Japan.

247. North Korea is only one national television station and a radio.

248. China traditionally feared any fragility and volatility in North Korea.

249. Japanese negotiator Kenichiro Sasae told reporters that North Korea would have give ground.

250. A particularly alarming prospect is that of Chinese and American troops facing each other in North Korea with no prearranged mechanism for defusing a great-power stand-off.

251. North Korea and Iran are where China's local imperatives and great-power interests collide.

252. And then there is the ever-present imponderable: the possible need, at some point, to finance the horrendous costs of reunification with destitute North Korea when that state collapses.

253. As in the case of North Korea - another client state - Beijing disingenuously argues its influence with Myanmar only goes so far.

254. Inchon is 40 kilometers away from the border between South Korea and North Korea.

255. Once vilified by his rivals as a Communist, Mr. Kim flew to Pyongyang, the capital of North Korea, in 2000 to meet that nation's leader, Kim Jong-il, in the first summit meeting between the Koreas.

256. September 2005 agreement North Korea signed with the five nations in September 2005 lays out a framework for gradual moves toward a peace agreement, in tandem with disarmament.

257. His visit came amid reports that North Korea had fired another short-range missile, the sixth since it conducted a nuclear test on Monday.

258. The US-led United Nations command said it had asked North Korea for high-level military talks "to de-escalate the situation".

259. In April, North Korea launched a test rocket that the United States(/north korea.html), Japan and others said was cover for a ballistic missile test.

260. The very liberalisation that North Korea requires will itself be destabilizing.

261. North Korea, a longstanding ideological ally, has had increasingly testy relations with China in recent years.

262. In mid-February, North Korea said it was preparing to launch a communications satellite and it later announced a launch plan for April 4-8.

263. North Korea is known to work closely with Iran on building nuclear-capable missiles. No one knows where their co-operation stops.

264. The lowest-ranked of the 32 World Cup finalists are North Korea who climb one place to 105th.

265. Popular belief dictates that a rogue nation like North Korea should be punished and isolated.

266. Tighter financial sanctions could further deprive North Korea of already scarce hard currency.

267. The Washington Post reported earlier that Richardson, who has been to North Korea before as a special U.S. trouble-shooter, was invited by people involved in North Korea's nuclear program.

268. Japanese media report says North Korea has fired a short-range missile toward the Sea of Japan. NHK reported the launch Tuesday.

269. Senior South Korean officials are now telling journalists the South may stiffen its policy toward the North even further soon, if North Korea continues to stonewall the investigation.

270. As Ms Glaser of the CSIS puts it, China still sees North Korea more as a strategic asset than a liability.

271. Japan's top government okesman says it does not a ear that North Korea is about to test-fire a long - range ballistic mi ile .

272. Another deal was struck with George Bush's government, only for North Korea to flounce out and, eventually, test short- and long-range rockets and at least one nuclear device.

273. North Korea has carried out several short-range missile tests in recent years off its east and west coasts. South Korean officials have interpreted them as routine military exercises.

274. Obama made no mention of two American journalists sentenced this month to 12 years in prison in North Korea on charges of illegal entry and harming the state.

275. On June twenty-fifth, nineteen fifty, forces from North Korea invaded South Korea.

276. The ship was found to be carrying containers of small arms made in North Korea, military hardware and sufficient explosive powder to arm thousands of short-range rockets.

277. They had already interviewed North Korean defectors living in China illicitly and said they wanted to document the smuggling route across the Tumen River which divides China and North Korea.

278. She said a North Korea - Burma military connection destabilizing to the region.

278. try its best to gather and build good sentences.

279. The risk now is that the pressure will ease, and North Korea will feel freer to make mischief.

280. IT TOOK quite literally a bomb to shift the big powers into concerted action at the United Nations Security Council against a long-defiant, boastfully nuclear-capable North Korea.

281. This will further improve the business outlets of CITIC Securities and sales distribution platform, North Korea, "financial giant" status of a further step.