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	<title>The Ruth Group &#187; North Korea</title>
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	<description>Reclaiming American Democracy</description>
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		<title>Reporters Speak about North Korean Imprisonment and the Story They Wanted to Tell</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthgroup.org/2009/09/01/reporters-speak-about-north-korean-imprisonment-and-the-story-they-wanted-to-tell/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2009 04:37:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Will Kirkland</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Laura Ling]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A careful but still harrowing account by Laura Ling and Euna Lee of their five months in North Korean prisons, their attempts to eat some of their notes and video and the terrible story they went to report.
We had traveled to the area to document a grim story of human trafficking for Current TV. During [...]]]></description>
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		<title>U.S. Destroyer Shadows N. Korea Cargo Ship</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthgroup.org/2009/06/21/us-destroyer-shadows-n-korea-cargo-ship/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthgroup.org/2009/06/21/us-destroyer-shadows-n-korea-cargo-ship/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Jun 2009 20:41:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Will Kirkland</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[John S. McCain]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;A North Korean cargo ship shadowed by a United States Navy destroyer was reportedly steaming toward Myanmar on Sunday, posing what could be the first test of how far the United States and its allies will go under a new United Nations resolution to stop the North’s military shipments.
&#8220;The United States began tracking the 2,000-ton [...]]]></description>
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		<title>North Korea to Weaponize Nuclear Reactor Fuel</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthgroup.org/2009/06/13/north-korea-to-weaponize-nuclear-reactor-fuel/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthgroup.org/2009/06/13/north-korea-to-weaponize-nuclear-reactor-fuel/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Jun 2009 06:08:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Will Kirkland</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[nuclear weapons]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#8221; North Korea adamantly denied for seven years that it had a program for making nuclear weapons from enriched uranium.
But on Saturday, a few hours after the U.N. Security Council slapped it with tough new sanctions for detonating a second nuclear device, the government of Kim Jong Il changed its tune, vowing that it would [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Torture Around the World</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthgroup.org/2009/06/08/torture-around-the-world/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthgroup.org/2009/06/08/torture-around-the-world/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2009 05:55:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Will Kirkland</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Torture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Euna Lee]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[human trafficking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lakhdar Boumediene]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Laura Ling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[North Korea]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Scott Roeder]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The February 2009 U.S. Department of State&#8217;s Report on North Korea cited this in section 1.c.
The penal code prohibits torture or inhumane treatment; however, many sources continued to confirm their practice. Methods of torture and other abuse reportedly included severe beatings; electric shock; prolonged periods of exposure to the elements; humiliations such as public nakedness; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>China Suspends Relations with N. Korea</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthgroup.org/2009/06/01/china-suspends-relations-with-n-korea/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthgroup.org/2009/06/01/china-suspends-relations-with-n-korea/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2009 04:40:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Will Kirkland</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Asia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Weapons]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[China]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[North Korea]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[ &#8220;China suspended government exchanges with North Korea after Kim Jong-Il’s regime last week tested a nuclear device and fired short-range missiles, Yonhap News said.
&#8220;China has halted plans to send officials to North Korea and won’t accept visits from Kim’s government either, the Korean- language news agency said today, citing unidentified diplomatic sources in Beijing. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>North Korea Threatens War</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthgroup.org/2009/05/27/north-korea-threatens-war/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthgroup.org/2009/05/27/north-korea-threatens-war/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2009 18:04:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Will Kirkland</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Asia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[War]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[North Korea]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Pyongyang today lashed out at both Seoul and Washington, warning that it would attack South Korea if any of its ships were intercepted as part of a U.S.-led initiative to stem the world trade in nuclear weapons.&#8221;
&#8220;North Korea&#8217;s state-run news service reiterated the anger of the nation&#8217;s leaders over Seoul&#8217;s decision to join 100 other [...]]]></description>
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		<title>North Korea: Another Nuclear Test</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthgroup.org/2009/05/25/north-korea-another-nuclear-test/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthgroup.org/2009/05/25/north-korea-another-nuclear-test/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2009 17:49:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Will Kirkland</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Monday morning brings the unwelcome news that North Korea has tested another nuclear device, followed by the firing of three 80 mile missiles into the western Pacific.  Measurement and analysis of the explosion by China, Russia, South Korea and Japan is on-going.  Initial estimates put the size of the blast near that of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>US Destroyers Underway for North Korea Missile Shoot</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthgroup.org/2009/03/30/us-destroyers-underway-for-north-korea-missile-shoot/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthgroup.org/2009/03/30/us-destroyers-underway-for-north-korea-missile-shoot/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2009 01:22:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Will Kirkland</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Weapons]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Japan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[North Korea]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Taepodong-2]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[North Korea is going to shoot one of it&#8217;s medium long range ballistic missiles, a Taepodong-2, some time next week.  As currently believed to be configured it has a range of 4,500 km, fairly significant but not enough to reach Alaska, at 5,600 km, even if that&#8217;s what Pyongyang would like the U.S. to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>N Korea missile on launch pad</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthgroup.org/2009/03/27/n-korea-missile-on-launch-pad/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthgroup.org/2009/03/27/n-korea-missile-on-launch-pad/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2009 14:53:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Will Kirkland</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Asia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[War]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Weapons]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Japan]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[North Korea has placed a long-range missile capable of reaching the US on a launch pad as the Stalinist state prepares for what it claims is a satellite launch in early April.
Financial Times
Japan prepares interception missiles 
Japan on Friday ordered its military to prepare to intercept any dangerous debris that might fall on its territory [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The North Korea Back Story</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthgroup.org/2008/10/14/the-north-korea-back-story/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthgroup.org/2008/10/14/the-north-korea-back-story/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Oct 2008 14:52:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Will Kirkland</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Korea, North]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[North Korea]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Very interesting story from Sidney, Australia, about the recent North Korea-US nuclear agreement &#8212; on, then off, then on again.
Mike Chinoy, the former CNN chief Asia correspondent and author of Meltdown &#8211; The Inside Story Of The North Korea Nuclear Crisis, said a &#8220;civil war over North Korea policy&#8221; had consumed the Bush Administration, even [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Syria North Korea Assertion</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthgroup.org/2008/04/24/syria-north-korea-assertion/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthgroup.org/2008/04/24/syria-north-korea-assertion/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Apr 2008 17:21:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Will Kirkland</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bush Administration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Middle East]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[nuclear reactor]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pretty interesting to see Republican Peter Hoekstra on CNN saying that he and others felt used by Administration in its revelation to Congress that North Korea had helped Syria build a nuclear reactor.  Though Hoekstra, the ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee and Silvestre Reyes, the Chair, have known about the allegations for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>North Korea &#8211; Returns to Talks</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthgroup.org/2006/10/31/north-korea-returns-to-talks/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthgroup.org/2006/10/31/north-korea-returns-to-talks/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Oct 2006 17:38:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Will Kirkland</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Korea, North]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[China]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The mildly good news of the day is that North Korea says it will return to the 6-Party talks about its nuclear plans that fell apart last month.  One wonders if it is linked to this:
BEIJING China cut off oil exports to North Korea in September, amid heightened tensions over that country&#8217;s nuclear and [...]]]></description>
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