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NBA star Rodman asks N. Korea's Kim Jong Un to release jailed American
Former NBA star Dennis Rodman called on North Korean leader Kim Jong Un via Twitter to release a U.S. citizen sentenced to 15 years of hard labor.
With the beat of war drums becoming a daily ritual in North Korea and as analysts struggle to assess what makes the natives restless, three points are worth considering.
Given the antics of Kim Jung Un, it is hard to know how serious or desperate the current situation on the Korean Peninsula is.
Sen. John McCain said the United States finds itself at risk of ending up entangled in a war on the Korean peninsula "by accident."
In English slang, "pickle" means a bad situation or a state of disorder. And pickle well applies to the nuclear ambitions of North Korea, Iran and U.S. policy.
 Elections, Olympics and economic concerns top stories of 2012
U.S. politics, the London Olympics, economic developments in the United States and Europe and the unrest in the Arab world topped the news in 2012.
Authorities in South Korea said SK Group Chairman Chey Tae-won has been indicted for embezzling about $86.8 million in part to cover stock market losses.
South Korea, amid strained relations with North Korea, Tuesday closed its unification ministry's bureau of humanitarian aid to its communist neighbor.
Demetrius Andrade became the first American boxer to reach the Olympic quarterfinals Thursday with a victory in the welterweight division.
One of the top officials in South Korea's financial watchdog agency has been charged with taking kickbacks from a businessman involved in a bank takeover.
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Palestinian  Security Forces Patrol the Border With Egypt.
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A members of the Hamas security forces patrol the border area between Gaza and Egypt, in the southern Gaza Strip May 20, 2013. Egyptian police angered by the kidnapping of seven colleagues by Islamist gunmen kept a crossing into the Gaza Strip closed again for four days, stranding hundreds of Palestinian travellers, As Tunnels between Egypt and Gaza closed and border was declared as military zone. Palestinian security forces patrol around the border, witnesses said. UPI/Ismael Mohamad