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Why did North Korea detain an American veteran?

SEOUL, South Korea — For North Korea watchers, the news is mysterious and the motives unknown. On October 26, an 85-year-old Korean War veteran from Palo Alto, California, became the second American detained in the past year in the world’s most reclusive state.

By Geoffrey Cain
PRI’s The World

Nov 21, 2013

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Propaganda balloons carry rumors of a North Korean porno

SEOUL, South Korea — For more than 60 years, North and South Korea have been divided along the demilitarized zone, or the DMZ. Barriers — political, legal and physical — often prevent South Koreans from communicating directly with their northern brethren.

By Geoffrey Cain
PRI’s The World

Oct 19, 2013

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Inside North Korea’s movie industry

“Glare fiercely! Hatred in your eyes!” the director shouts at a team of actors on a war-torn movie set. “Comrades! I don’t see any resentment towards the Japanese in your faces.”

By Geoffrey Cain
PRI’s The World

Jun 6, 2013

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Gulags? Missiles? Not to fear, Choco Pies are here

SEOUL, South Korea — In the classic Korean mystery film JSA: Joint Security Area (2000), a South Korean soldier strays north of the demilitarized zone at the border between North and South Korea and unexpectedly befriends a handful of North Korean enemies.

By Geoffrey Cain
PRI’s The World

May 3, 2013

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North Korea severs military hotline to South

SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea has severed its last remaining military hotline to South Korea, citing the escalating tensions on the peninsula as its reason and causing yet more international worry over the possibility of a violent confrontation between the two states.

By Geoffrey Cain
PRI’s The World

Mar 27, 2013

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What to make of North Korea’s war threats

SEOUL, South Korea — “We should settle accounts with the United States only with the gun barrel, not with words, as it regards jungle law as the rule of its survival.”

By Geoffrey Cain
PRI’s The World

Feb 2, 2013

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