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North Korea Keeps Mum on Missed Deadline

North Korea has not commented publicly on its failure to meet an end-of-year deadline to provide full details of its nuclear programs.Instead, North Korean state media are carrying editorials Tuesday calling on the United States to end what they say is a... ...full story at China Confidential

from China Confidential on Tue, Jan 01 2008

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