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• Obama: N. Korea hostility a weakness, not strength

  -- President Barack Obama says aggressive actions by North Korea are a sign of weakness not of strength.The president says he and Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda agreed to continue discussion on how to confront belligerence from Pyongyang . Those acts   Read more »

• Failed launch a setback for N. Korea leader

  North Korea -- North Korea's much-touted satellite launch ended in a nearly $1 billion failure, bringing humiliation to the country's new young leader and condemnation from a host of nations. The UN Security Council deplored the launch but stopped short of   Read more »

• Clinton sees risk of further NKorea provocation

  -- Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton says history shows North Korea may follow a planned long-range rocket launch in violation of a U.N. ban with "additional provocations."Clinton did not elaborate in her comments Tuesday on what that provocation might   Read more »

• Obama urges N. Korea to "pursue peace"

  from his side, and as a protective father eager to erase the threat of nuclear annihilation.Obama spoke most directly to North Korea's leaders, saying the internationally isolated country needs to change its ways because continuing down the same path will   Read more »

• Obama warns N. Korea on rocket launch plan

  South Korea -- Warning North Korea from its doorstep, President Barack Obama said Pyongyang risks deepening its isolation in the international community if it proceeds with a planned long-range rocket launch.The North has said the rocket launch is a way to   Read more »

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• NORTH KOREA — IN DEEP, DEEP, DEEP trouble — STARVATION (see video)

  Get Greta's breaking news alerts via email This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. ©2012 FOX News Network, LLC. All rights reserved. Programming information subject to change. 42 m ago from FOX News Read more »

• N. Korea Puts Nuclear Arms in Constitution

  Korea identifies itself as a nuclear power in its revised constitution, according to a copy displayed on the country's official web portal. The constitution was revised at last month's meeting of the rubber-stamp Supreme People's Assembly, and the preface 12:38 AM from Rantburg Read more »

• Seoul holds N. Korea spy posing as refugee: official

  woman who arrived posing as a refugee and used sex to secure military secrets was jailed for five years. In April a North Korean agent who tried to murder an outspoken anti-Pyongyang activist in Seoul with a poison-tipped weapon was jailed for four years. 5/31/12 from Channel News Asia Read more »

• In the News - U.S. to 'never' accept N. Korea as nuclear state: State Dept.

  it will never recognize North Korea as a nuclear state. “The United States has long maintained that we will never accept North Korea as a nuclear power,” a spokesperson for the State Department told Yonhap News Agency. The official’s comments came in response   from Wordpress.com: United Nation Read more »

• In the News - N. Korea 'can't have' status of nation with nuclear weapons: Seoul

  state.” “At first, nuclear-weapon state status is in line with the terms of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), but North Korea itself has admitted that it is not a member of the NPT,” foreign ministry spokesman Cho Byung-jae said. North Korea backed   from Wordpress.com: United Nation Read more »