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South Korean military trucks drive past barricades on the road linking North Korea's Kaesong Industrial Complex at a military check point in Paju near the demilitarized zone dividing the two Koreas on June 6, 2013. North and South Korea agreed in principle on June 6 to hold their first official talks for years, signalling a possible breakthrough in cross-border ties after months of escalated military tensions.
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South Korean owners who run factories in the stalled South Korea and North Korea's joint Kaesong Industrial Complex, and workers discuss each others just outside of military barricades set up on Unification Bridge near the border village of Panmunjom, which has separated the two Koreas since the Korean War, in Paju, north of Seoul, South Korea, Thursday, May 30, 2013
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Runners rest inside Kim Il Sung Stadium in Pyongyang, North Korea on Sunday, April 14, 2013. North Korea hosted the 26th Mangyongdae Prize Marathon to mark the upcoming April 15, 2013 birthday of the late leader Kim Il Sung. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder)
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A North Korean soldier passes by roadside propaganda depicting a North Korean soldier killing a U.S. soldier in Pyongyang, North Korea, on April 10, 2013. The poster reads in Korean "Life or Death Battle. Merciless Punishment to U.S. Imperialists and Puppet Traitors."
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This picture released by North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency on March 26, 2013 and taken on March 25, 2013 shows North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un speaking with military officials during his inspection of the landing and anti-landing drills of KPA Large Combined Units 324 and 287 and KPA Navy Combined Unit 597 at an undisclosed location on North Korea's east coast.
AFP PHOTO / KCNA VIA KNS
This picture, taken by North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency on March 7, 2013 shows North Korean leader Kim Jong Un (C) inspecting the Mu Islet Hero Defence Detachment near South Korea's Taeyonphyong Island in South Hwanghae province, North Korea's southwestern sector of the front.
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This picture taken by North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency on February 16, 2013 shows North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un (4th R) and senior senior officials from the party, government and army posing before the statues of late leaders Kim Il-Sung and Kim Jong-Il at Mangyongdae Revolutionary School in Pyongyang.
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Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda speaks at a Patriot missile battery deployed in Tokyo ahead of North Korea's missile launch this week. Noda is likely to lose Sunday’s election, but a rare public discussion about defines could mean the military will gain.
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US Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice speaks to the media following Security Council consolations over the situation in North Korea on April 13 in New York City. Yesterday, Rice withdrew her name from consideration to succeed Hilary Clinton as Secretary of State.
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This picture, released from North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency on April 9, 2009 shows a Unha-2 rocket, supposedly carrying an experimental communication satellite Kwangmyongsong-2, as it is launched from Hwadae-gun in North Hamgyong province of North Korea on April 5.
This undated picture released from North Korea's official Korean Central news Agency on November 27, 2012 shows North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un (C) during a photo session with participants in the national meeting of chiefs of branch social security stations at an undisclosed location in North Korea. AFP PHOTO / KCNA via KNS ---EDITORS NOTE--- RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT "AFP PHOTO / KCNA VIA KNS" - NO MARKETING NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS (Photo credit should read KCNA VIA KNS/AFP/Getty Images)
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In this photo released by North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency Jan. 30, 2012, North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, center, inspects the North Korean Air Force unit 1017. KCNA released the photo without elaborating on when the inspection was made.
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This picture taken by North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on January 1, 2012 shows new North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un (front row-C) posing for photos with soldiers of the Seoul Ryu Kyong Su 105 Guards Tank Division of the Korean People's Army honored with the title of the O Jung Hup-led Seventh Regiment at an undisclosed place in North Korea.
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A DigitalGlobe Satellite image shows construction at the North Korea's Yongbyon Nuclear complex in North Korea on November 4, 2010, released to Reuters on November 19, 2010.
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New leader of North Korea, Kim Jong-un, rides a horse in this undated still image taken from video at an unknown location released by North Korean state TV KRT on January 8, 2012.
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North Korea's Jong Tae Se (12) and Iran's Mohamaad Nori (15) vie for the ball as Iran's Ali Karimi (8) looks on during their Group 2 soccer match for the 2010 World Cup at Yanggakdo Stadium in Pyongyang, North Korea, Saturday, June 6, 2009, The match ended a 0-0 draw.
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North Korea's new leader Kim Jong Un visits the Seoul Ryu Kyong Su 105 Guards Tank Division of the Korean People's Army in Pyongyang in a picture released by KCNA on Jan. 1, 2012
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Colossus: North Korea's military on parade. Its army is the world's fourth biggest
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Indirect Route: The journey out of North Korea is arduous. Defector Kim, center, made her way through China and Laos before arriving in Thailand
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Posters of Lenin and Stalin hang on the wall inside a government laboratory in North Korea in 1950.
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Caddies at North Korea's Pyongyang Golf Club wait for players to start their rounds in the DPRK Amateur Golf Open
Seo Myung-gon, Yonhap / AP
South Korean Marines self-propelled artillery K-9 howitzers fire during a military drill against possible attacks from North Korea on Baengnyeong Island, northwest of Seoul, South Korea, near the border with North Korea, Friday, Aug. 6, 2010.
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North Korea's leader Kim Jong Il waves his hand from a car after a meeting with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev at Sosnovy Bor Military Garrison outside Ulan-Ude on August 24, 2011.
KNCA / Reuters
North Korea's leader Kim Jong Il waves next to China's Premier Wen Jiabao after his arrival in Pyongyang, in this October 4, 2009.
Ahn Jung-won / Yonhap / AP
A North Korean coast defense ship, center rear, patrols near fishing boats in waters off North Korea's Hwanghae province, seen from South Korea's western Yeonpyong Island, near the disputed sea border with North Korea on May 31, 2009
AP / Lee Jin-man
U.S. special envoy for North Korea policy Stephen Bosworth, center right, answers reporters' questions at Foreign Ministry in Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, May 17, 2011
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In this handout from North Korea's Central News Agency, Leader Kim Jong-Il waves from a train leaving China's capital on May 7, 2010.
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North Korea’s lights would stay on longer with the South’s help
YONHAP/AP
North Korea's spent nuclear fuel rods kept in a cooling pond at the nuclear facilities in Yongbyon
David Guttenfelder / AP
"Symphony for North Korea:" The New York Phil's historic concert in Pyongyang on Feb. 26 had both fans and diplomats in raptures
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"DEFIANT:" North Korea shows off its hardware during a military parade in Pyongyang
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The cooling tower of North Korea's Yongbyon nuclear complex is demolished on June 27, 2008
ANDREAS SEIBERT / LOOKAT FOR TIME
Jenkins left North Korea in July with his two daughters to rejoin his Japanese wife
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Blitzkrieg: North Korea could send waves of troops across the DMZ
CHUNG SUNG-JUN/GETTY IMAGES
CHILLY RECEPTION: North Korea continues to defy U.S. demands
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Farm workers in North Korea may get paid for their labor
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Human-rights activists rally against North Korea in Washington, D.C.
Kim Kwang Hyon / AP
North Korean state television broadcaster announces the news that North Korea conducted a nuclear test on Tuesday, Feb. 12, 2013.
DAVID GUTTENFELDER / AP
North Korean soldiers march along a highway on the edge of Pyongyang, North Korea, on Mar. 16, 2013.
Ahn Young-joon / AP
South Korean vehicles turn back their way as they were refused for entry to North Korea's city of Kaesong, at the customs, immigration and quarantine office in Paju, South Korea, near the border village of Panmunjom, Apr. 3, 2013.
Toru Hanai / REUTERS
Japan Meteorological Agency shows ground-motion waveform from North Korea on Feb. 12, 2013
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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (L) and North Korea's ceremonial head of state, Kim Yong-Nam (C), review the honour guard during a welcome ceremony in Tehran on September 1, 2012.
David Guttenfelder / AP
Photos showing example hair styles hang inside a hair salon in Pyongyang, North Korea on Feb. 20, 2013.
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Nuclear Test Facility, North Hamgyong, North Korea.
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Activists from anti-North Korea civic group chant slogans during a rally against North Korea's nuclear test near the U.S. embassy in central Seoul on February 12.
Lee Jin-man / AP
A South Korean watches news about a possible nuclear test conducted by North Korea on a TV at Seoul train station on Tuesday, Feb. 12.
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A piece of the wreckage of North Korea's Unha-3 (Milky Way 3) rocket is seen being pulled up by the South Korean navy, in this undated image released by South Korea's Defence Ministry in Seoul on Dec. 28, 2012.
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Travelers watch a news report on North Korea's rocket launch at a railway station in Seoul on Dec. 12, 2012
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A South Korean man walks past a television report on North Korea's rocket launch, at Seoul railway station in Seoul, Dec. 12, 2012.
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South Korean conservative activists hold anti-North Korean placards during a protest denouncing North Korea's rocket launch, in Seoul.
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South Korean people watch a TV screen showing a graphic of North Korea's rocket launch, at a train station in Seoul on April 13, 2012
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Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, front left, and North Korea's leader Kim Jong-Il, front right, during a meeting at Sosnovy Bor Military Garrison, several thousand miles east of Moscow, on August 24, 2011.
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South Korean government officials and businessmen leave for North Korea's Diamond mountain at the inter-Korean immigration office in Goseong, South Korea, Wednesday, June 29, 2011.
DigitalGlobe / Reuters
A DigitalGlobe Satellite image shows construction at North Korea's Yongbyon nuclear complex on Nov. 4, 2010
Jo Yong-Hak / Reuters
Retired South Korean soldiers, once trained to infiltrate North Korea, hold flags of the participating countries in the upcoming G20 summit during a rally supporting the summit in Seoul on Nov. 10, 2010
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An undated picture, released from North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency on September 5, 2009, of North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il at the Songjin Steel Complex in Hamgyongpukdo province
Tim Sloan / AFP / Getty
New U.S. Special Representative for North Korea Policy, Ambassador Stephen Bosworth speaks on February 26, 2009 at the US State Department in Washington, DC.
AFP / Getty
The Yongbyon-1 nuclear power plant in North Korea
Courtesy of Jenn Gearey
The author, on holiday in North Korea, poses at the DMZ with border guards
AFP / GETTY IMAGES
Famine could strike again in North Korea
Ahn Young-joon / AP
A South Korean resident passes by a wall damaged by last month's North Korea's shelling on the Yeonpyeong Island, South Korea, Thursday, Dec. 16, 2010
David Deal for TIME
Christopher Hill's smart gambles have brought North Korea back to the negotiating table.
DERMOT TATLOW FOR TIME
Winter Blues: Behind North Korea's blustery façade is a population on the verge of starvation
KOREA NEWS AGENCY / AP
Weldon, left, meets North Korea's No. 2 Kim Yong Nam
(l. to r.): Reuters; Xinhua / AP
Yongbyon, a nuclear power plant in North Korea (left) and North Korean leader Kim Jong Il.
FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP
Thousands of card-choreographers demonstrate North Korea's military might
AP / Ahn Young-joon
South Korean protesters shout slogans during a rally against South Korean government's policies on North Korea in front of the Defense Ministry in Seoul, South Korea, Thursday, February 10, 2011
KNS / AFP / Getty Images
Kim Jong Il, center, inspects a mine in North Korea's South Hamgyong province in an undated handout picture released by the state Korean Central News Agency on May 21, 2009
CHUNG SUNG-JUN/GETTY IMAGES
Protesters in Seoul demand that North Korea not reactivate its old nuclear programs
Bullit Marquez/AP
A South Korean protester displays portraits of American journalists detained in North Korea as fell protesters shout slogans during a rally at a public park in Seoul
Courtesy of Deshine.com
These animated animals are part of North Korea's effort to export something aside from missiles
Jung Yeon-Je / AFP / Getty Images
U.S. special envoy Stephen Bosworth leaves his hotel in Seoul to head for North Korea on Dec. 8, 2009
Ahn Young-joon / AP
South Korean Vietnam War veterans with the national flags shout slogans during a rally against North Korea on Korea's Liberation Day in front of Tongil bridge near the border village of the Panmunjom in Paju, South Korea, Aug. 15, 2010.
Yonhap, Seo Myung-gon / AP
South Korean Navy speedboats are seen at Daechung Island near the disputed sea border with North Korea, Wednesday, Aug. 4, 2010.
AP / APTN
Missiles are carried during a massive military parade in Pyongyang, North Korea, April 25, 2007.
Wally Santana / AP
Over 100,000 participants perform in the Mass Games held in Pyongyang, North Korea.
JEREMY SUTTON-HIBBERT / WPN
Kim Jong Il, during reporting of the news that North Korea has successfully carried out an underground nuclear test, on Japanese television.
MARK RALSTON/SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST
Chinese tycoon Yang Bin wants to bring captialism to North Korea
Guards on Shilmi Island trained the recruits to penetrate North Korea
KCNA / EPA
Workers overlook iron and steel production at the Chollima Steel Complex in North Korea on November 7, 2006.
Itsuo Inouye / AP
Shigeru Yokota and his wife Sakie, whose daughter Megumi was abducted by North Korea, stage a sit-in protest outside Japan's parliament, June 24, 2005
DAVID GUTTENFELDER/AP
An illuminated monument to Kim Il Sung in Pyongyang, North Korea
EVAN VUCCI / AP
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice calls for a resumption of talks over North Korea at a press conference in Washington on Wednesday
KIM KYUNG-HOON/REUTERS
A South Korean protester smashes a mock atomic bomb during a rally against North Korea's suspected nuclear weapons program
DANIEL KANE
Ji'an lies along the picturesque Yalu river, which separates China from North Korea
Kyodo News / AP
North Korean soldiers offer flowers for North Korean late leaders Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il at Mansu Hill in Pyongyang, North Korea, Monday, April 15, 2013. North Korea celebrated Monday the 101st birth anniversary of national founder Kim Il Sung, its most important holiday of the year.
KCNA / REUTERS
Kim Jong Il inspects vegetables at the 593 Military Unit's Commander School at an undisclosed location in North Korea.
David Guttenfelder / AP
In this Feb. 21, 2013 photo, North Kroeans walk on a sidewalk under brightly lit apartment buildings on the new Changjon Street in Pyongyang, North Korea.
KCNA / REUTERS
Rockets are carried by military vehicles during a parade to celebrate the centenary of the birth of North Korea's founder Kim Il-sung in Pyongyang on April 15, 2012.
KCNA / REUTERS
Rockets are carried by military vehicles during a parade to celebrate the centenary of the birth of North Korea's founder Kim Il-sung in Pyongyang on April 15, 2012.
DoD photo / Erin A. Kirk-Cuomo
Army General Martin Dempsey declined to answer Thursday when asked if he felt DIA were right when the Pentagon intelligence agency suggested North Korea could put a nuclear warhead atop one of its missiles.
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South Korean trucks turn back after they were denied access to the Kaesong industrial park in North Korea April 3.
Lee Jin-man / AP
A South Korean protester wearing a mask of U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry poses for the media during a rally denouncing the military exercises and demanding Kerry to go to North Korea for peace talks near the U.S. Embassy in Seoul, South Korea, Friday, April 12, 2013.
DigitalGlobe / Reuters
A satellite image taken on Nov. 23, 2012 of the Sohae Launch Facility in North Korea. North Korea launched a rocket on Wednesday and the missile appears to have passed over Okinawa, Japan's government said.
AFP PHOTO / KCNA VIA KNS
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, center, inspecting the Mu Islet Hero Defense Detachment near South Korea's Taeyonphyong Island in South Hwanghae province, North Korea's southwestern sector of the front, March 7.
KCNA / REUTERS
North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un and former NBA basketball player Dennis Rodman (front L) hug in Pyongyang in this undated picture released by North Korea's KCNA news agency on March 1, 2013.
LEE JIN-MAN / AP
South Korean protesters burn the pictures of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un during an anti-North Korea rally following a nuclear test conducted by North Korea, in Seoul, South Korea, Feb. 12.
GeoEye via North Korea Tech and 38 North / AP
This Dec. 4, 2012 satellite image shows snow covering the Sohae launching station in Tongchang-ri, North Korea, including the path where trailers would be used to move the rocket stages from the assembly building to the launch pad.
Jon Chol Jin / AP Photo
North Korean youths in traditional Korean outfit play instruments in front of the Pyongyang Grand Theatre in Pyongyang, North Korea, to celebrate a rocket launch on Wednesday, Dec. 12, 2012.
KRT TV, File / AP
This April 5, 2009 file image made from KRT video, shows the launch of a missile in Musudan-ri, North Korea.
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