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'LA Times' Journalist Was Granted Rare Access To Pyongyang Celebration

10:34am April 17, 2017

David Greene talk to Jonathan Kaiman of the Los Angeles Times, who was invited by the North Korean government to cover the 105th birthday celebration of the country's founder.

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Vice President Pence Visits DMZ Amid Tensions With North Korea

10:03am April 17, 2017

Vice President Mike Pence is in South Korea. David Greene talks to Joel Wit, senior fellow at the U.S.-Korea Institute at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, about North Korea.

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Morning News Brief: North Korea Missile Test, Turkish Vote, Ohio Manhunt

6:25am April 17, 2017

North Korea launched a failed missile test. Turkish voters granted the president sweeping new powers. Authorities in Cleveland search for a man who they say posted a video of a murder on Facebook.

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Ming lives in this mud brick home, three miles outside Beijing city limits.

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Beijing Mega-Region Plan Aims To Alleviate Poverty, But Some Are Wary

5:38pm April 16, 2017

by Anthony Kuhn

Set to be implemented in 2030, the plan would merge Beijing, the port city of Tianjin and Hebei province into a mega-region to push economic development. Some are skeptical resources will be shifted.

An unidentified missile is displayed during a military parade marking the 105th anniversary of the birth of late North Korean leader Kim Il-Sung in Pyongyang, the nation's capital, on Saturday.

North Korea Missile Launch Fails A Day After Military Parade

11:11pm April 15, 2017

by Emma Bowman

The unidentified missile "blew up almost immediately" on Sunday morning, near the nation's east coast, according to the U.S. military.

North Koreans Put New Advanced Missiles On Parade In Pyongyang

6:16pm April 15, 2017

by Michel Martin

Jeffrey Lewis, director of the East Asia Nonproliferation Program at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies discusses North Korea and U.S. relations.

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During a Saturday parade commemorating its founder's birthday, North Korea rolled out what appeared to be new intercontinental ballistic missiles. The country has been warned against having such weapons.

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North Korea Rolls Out Missiles During Founder's Birthday Celebrations

3:09pm April 15, 2017

by Jason Slotkin

What appeared to be new long-range and submarine-based missiles were paraded out during the nation's annual celebration of its founder, Kim Il Sung.

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Bill Richardson On North Korea's Big Display

8:04am April 15, 2017

On Saturday, North Korea marked the 105th anniversary of the founder's birth. NPR's Linda Wertheimer asks former Gov. Bill Richardson, who has negotiated with the regime, for his assessment.

In their new ad, Vicks tells the story of an adopted girl and her mother figure, Gauri Sawant, a transgendered woman who was born a boy.

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'Mummy' Is Transgender: A New Commercial Is The Talk Of India

7:00am April 15, 2017

by Chhavi Sachdev

It's a story of an orphan. And her beloved "mummy" — who is a transgender woman. The ad from Vicks has become a viral sensation.

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Rising Tensions Raise Questions About North Korea's Military Capability

4:47pm April 14, 2017

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Frank Aum, a visiting scholar at the U.S.-Korea Institute at Johns Hopkins, about North Korea's military capabilities and what a war with that country would look like.