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  • 28
    Feb
    2013
    1:55pm, EST

    Jason Mojica / VICE Media via AP

    Kim Jong Un, Dennis Rodman share a laugh at basketball game in Pyongyang

    North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and former NBA star Dennis Rodman watch North Korean and U.S. players in an exhibition basketball game at an arena in Pyongyang, North Korea, on Thursday. Rodman arrived in Pyongyang on Monday with three members of the Harlem Globetrotters basketball team to shoot an episode on North Korea for a new weekly HBO series.

    According to The Associated Press:

    Ex-NBA star Dennis Rodman met North Korea's Kim Jong Un on Thursday on the third day of his improbable journey to Pyongyang, telling the leader "You have a friend for life," a delegation spokesman said.

    Rodman and Kim sat side by side at an exhibition game in Pyongyang on Thursday, chatting as they watched players from North Korea and the U.S. play in mixed teams, Alex Detrick, a spokesman for the New York-based VICE media company, told The Associated Press. Continue reading.

    Slideshow: North Korea's young leader, Kim Jong Un

    Previously on PhotoBlog:

    • Kim Jong Un inspects North Korean army unit
    • Surreal synchronized swimmers in North Korea
    • Google's Schmidt eyes North Korea's state of technology

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    You really want to throw-up when you see this well-fed, fat-faced little twerp enjoying himself so much while the rest of his countrymen starve to death, or eat grass just to stay alive . . . If Rodman is so enthused with North Korea, perhaps he should spend more time there -- like permanently. Mayb …

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  • 21
    Feb
    2013
    11:30am, EST

    Kim Jong Un inspects North Korean army unit

    In a series of undated pictures released by the official Korean Central News Agency on Feb. 21, 2013, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is shown inspecting Korean People's Army Unit 323, also known as the O Jung Hup-led 7th Regiment, in Pyongyang. 

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    By David Chance, Reuters

    SEOUL, South Korea - North Korea has bolstered its defenses against a "hostile" United States with its third nuclear test, it said on Thursday, noting that countries that had bowed to U.S. pressure to abandon their nuclear plans had suffered "tragic consequences."

    Pyongyang carried out its largest nuclear test to date last week, in defiance of U.N. resolutions, prompting warnings of tougher sanctions for the isolated and impoverished state and its young ruler, Kim Jong Un. Read the full story.

    Slideshow: North Korea's young leader, Kim Jong Un

    The youngest son of Kim Jong Il succeeded his late father in 2011, becoming the third member of his family to rule the unpredictable and reclusive communist state.

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    What I don't understand is why did we let North Korea survive in the first place. We should have bombed the stupid bastards out of existence when we had the chance back in the day. By the look of the weapons they have now, they must have been fighting the Korean War using stone age equipment.

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  • 15
    Feb
    2013
    3:36pm, EST

    Surreal synchronized swimmers in North Korea

    David Guttenfelder / AP

    North Korean synchronized swimmers perform at a mass synchronized swimming exhibition event in Pyongyang on on Feb. 15.

    David Guttenfelder / AP

    Young North Korean synchronized swimmers perform at an exhibition event in Pyongyang on on Feb. 15.

    See more photos by Associated Press photographer David Guttenfelder in PhotoBlog.

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    Get a load of that audience! . . . they look like color-coded mannequins -- great fun!!

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  • 12
    Feb
    2013
    1:00am, EST

    South Korea: North Korea conducts nuclear test

    Toru Hanai / Reuters

    Japan Meteorological Agency's earthquake and tsunami observations division director Akira Nagai points at a graph of ground motion waveform data observed in the morning in Japan during a news conference in Tokyo February 12, 2013. Seismic activities detected at around 0300 GMT in North Korea may be the result of a nuclear test, Japan's top government spokesman said on Tuesday. Read the full story.

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  • 9
    Jan
    2013
    12:14pm, EST

    Google's Schmidt eyes North Korea's state of technology

    David Guttenfelder / AP

    Executive Chairman of Google, Eric Schmidt, right, tries on 3-D glasses as he looks at North Korean-developed computer technology during a tour of the Korean Computer Center in Pyongyang, North Korea on Jan. 9. At left is Kun "Tony" Namkung, a North Korea's expert and member of the traveling delegation.

    David Guttenfelder / AP

    Eric Schmidt, back row left, and former Governor of New Mexico Bill Richardson, back row right, look at North Korean soldiers working on computers at the Grand Peoples Study House in Pyongyang, North Korea on Jan. 9.

    By Jean H. Lee, The Associated Press

    David Guttenfelder / AP

    Eric Schmidt stands on a balcony at the Grand Peoples Study House overlooking Juche Tower in Pyongyang on Jan. 9.

    A private delegation including Google's Eric Schmidt is urging North Korea to allow more open Internet access and cellphones to benefit its citizens, the mission's leader said Wednesday in the country with some of the world's tightest controls on information.

    Schmidt, the executive chairman of the U.S.-based Internet giant Google, is the highest-profile American business executive to visit North Korea since leader Kim Jong Un took power a year ago.

    On Wednesday, Schmidt toured the frigid quarters of the brick building in central Pyongyang that is the heart of North Korea's own computer industry. He asked pointed questions about North Korea's new tablet computers as well as its Red Star operating system, and he briefly donned a pair of 3-D goggles during a tour of the Korea Computer Center.

    Schmidt has not said publicly what he hopes to get out of his visit to North Korea. However, he has been a vocal proponent of Internet freedom and openness, and is publishing a book in April with Google Ideas think tank director Jared Cohen about the power of global connectivity in transforming people's lives, policies and politics. Continue reading.

    David Guttenfelder / AP

    Eric Schmidt, second from left, and former Governor of New Mexico Bill Richardson, second from right, look through an information technology text book at the Grand People's Study House in Pyongyang, on Jan. 9. At left is director of Google Ideas think tank, Jared Cohen. The textbook is titled "Aries Net Certified Technician First Edition Version 3.0."

    Related content:

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    • Thousands rally to celebrate North Korea rocket launch
    • Glimpses of North Korean life exposed by AP photographer

    Slideshow: Journey into North Korea

    David Guttenfelder / AP

    Jean H. Lee, The Associated Press bureau chief in Seoul, and David Guttenfelder, AP's chief Asia photographer, have made numerous reporting trips to North Korea in recent years. They were granted unprecedented access on their latest journey to Pyongyang and areas outside the nation's showcase capital.

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    Schmidt, the pink sweater, seriously. Did they force you? Or is that a volunteered pacifist tactic?

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  • 17
    Dec
    2012
    11:04am, EST

    North Korea marks the anniversary of Kim Jong Il's death

    Ng Han Guan / AP

    North Koreans bow before the statues of late leaders Kim Il Sung, left, and his son Kim Jong Il, at Mansu Hill in Pyongyang, North Korea, on Dec. 17.

    Ng Han Guan / AP

    North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, right, attends a ceremony to reopen the Kumsusan Palace of the Sun in Pyongyang, North Korea, on Monday, Dec. 17, 2012. Kim solemnly reopened the sprawling, granite mausoleum where his father's body lies in state as the nation marked the first anniversary of his death.

    Kyodo / Reuters

    North Koreans observe a moment of silence at Mansudae in Pyongyang, on the first anniversary of Kim Jong Il's death on Dec. 17.

    North Korea marked the first anniversary of Kim Jong Il's death Monday with sadness as well as celebration over last week's successful satellite launch. North Korea unveiled the embalmed body of Kim Jong Il, still in his trademark khaki jumpsuit, on the anniversary of his death, but cameras were not allowed inside the mausoleum, and state media did not release any images of Kim Jong Il's body.

    N. Korea displays Kim Jong Il a year after death

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    KCNA / Reuters

    North Koreans visit the statues of late North Korean leaders Kim Il Sung, left, and Kim Jong Il to offer a silent prayer in central Pyongyang on Dec. 17. Picture released by the North's official KCNA news agency.

    Ng Han Guan / AP

    A North Korean traffic coordinator stands on a roadside near portraits of late leaders Kim Il Sung, left, and Kim Jong Il during a foggy morning on Kim Il Sung Square in Pyongyang, on Dec. 17.

    KCNA / Reuters

    North Korean officials attend a memorial service for former leader Kim Jong Il in Pyongyang on Dec. 16 ahead of the first anniversary of his death.

    Slideshow: Funeral and reaction to the death of Kim Jong Il

    AP

    News of the North Korean leader's death sparks tears from his followers and concerns around the world as power is handed over to his successor.

    Launch slideshow

    Previously on PhotoBlog:

    • Thousands rally to celebrate North Korea rocket launch
    • Glimpses of North Korean life exposed by AP photographer
    • Kim Jong-Un surrounded by women soldiers

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    Little do they know that someday Walmart will take them over too...

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  • 14
    Dec
    2012
    6:42am, EST

    Thousands rally to celebrate North Korea rocket launch

    Kyodo via Reuters

    North Koreans attend a rally to celebrate the successful launch of the Unha-3 (Milky Way 3) rocket, which carried the second version of the Kwangmyongsong-3 satellite, in Pyongyang on December 14, 2012.

    South Korean navy ships have found what appeared to be debris from the rocket launched by North Korea this week. NBCNews.com's Alex Witt reports.

    Reuters reports — When North Korea's Kim Jong Un commemorates a year of his rule next week, he will be able to declare he has fulfilled the country's long-held dream of becoming a "space powerhouse".

    In a mass parade in Pyongyang on Friday, tens of thousands of soldiers dressed in olive green and standing in serried ranks, as well as bareheaded civilians, celebrated this week's successful rocket launch, hailing Kim's "victory".

    "Under the great leadership of Kim Jong Un, we are carrying out a sacred task towards our last victory so as to build strong and prosperous nation," Kim Ki Nam, a politburo member from the Workers Party of Korea, told the applauding and cheering crowds that turned out in freezing temperatures. Read the full story.

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    KCNA via Reuters

    Kim Jong-Un smokes a cigarette at the General Satellite Control and Command Center after the launch of the Unha-3 (Milky Way 3) rocket in Cholsan county, North Pyongan province on December 12, 2012.
    EDITOR'S NOTE: Photo released by the state-run North Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on December 14.

    KCNA via EPA

    North Korean leader Kim Jong Un celebrating with staff members at the Pyongyang General Satellite Control Command Center after the successful launch of the Kwangmyongsong-3 satellite on December 12, 2012.
    EDITOR'S NOTE: Photo released by the state-run North Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on December 14.

    Kyodo via Reuters

    North Korean soldiers attend a rally to celebrate the successful launch of the rocket, in Pyongyang on December 14, 2012.

    Jon Chol Jin / AP

    North Korean military band members perform during a mass rally organized to celebrate the success of a rocket launch at Kim Il Sung Square in Pyongyang on Dec. 14, 2012.

    Kyodo via Reuters

    North Koreans applaud in front of portraits of North Korea's founder Kim Il-sung (L) and late leader Kim Jong-il as they gather at a rally in Pyongyang on December 14, 2012.

    See more images related to North Korea on PhotoBlog

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    22 comments

    They all look so HAPPY in the pictures. I guess when it's "Celebrate or Die," then that's the face you get.

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  • 10
    Dec
    2012
    7:32pm, EST

    Kyodo / Reuters

    Brushing off snow-covered statues in North Korea

    A man removes snow from a monument in Pyongyang, North Korea, Dec. 10, 2012.

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  • 7
    Oct
    2012
    1:13am, EDT

    Glimpses of North Korean life exposed by AP photographer

    David Guttenfelder / AP

    People watch a dolphin show at a newly-built amusement park in Pyongyang, North Korea on Sept. 8.

    David Guttenfelder / AP

    A dolphin leaps from a tank during a show at a newly-built amusement park in Pyongyang, North Korea on Sept. 8.

    David Guttenfelder / AP

    A woman rides a roller coaster at a newly-built amusement park in Pyongyang, North Korea on Aug. 8.

    David Guttenfelder / AP

    A guest room is bathed in red light shining through a curtain at a hotel for foreign tourists in Kaesong, North Korea on Sept. 11.

    David Guttenfelder / AP

    A traffic police officer stands in a marked area in the middle of the principle intersection in Kaesong, North Korea on Sept. 11.

    David Guttenfelder / AP

    A truck, retrofitted to run on a barrel of burning wood, stops on a road in Hamhung, North Korea on Aug. 11.

    David Guttenfelder / AP

    A man holds a woman's bag and parasol as they play miniature golf at a newly-built amusement park in Pyongyang, North Korea on Sept. 8.

    David Guttenfelder / AP

    Two people dance at Majon beach near Hamhung, North Korea on Aug. 11.

    Slideshow: North Korea continues celebrations

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    Pyongyang refuses to let failed rocket launch dampen tone of festivities.

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    Associated Press photographer David Guttenfelder captures the secretive life of North Korea again with a series of images shot this August and September.

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    123 comments

    Every picture was weird in some way - from the people watching the dolphins (looking suspiciously in opposite directions), the traffic cop directing a mostly abandoned street (not even any parked cars!), the awkward shot of people dancing on the beach, the wood-burning truck, the dingy hotel room,,, …

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  • 5
    Sep
    2012
    8:05am, EDT

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    North Korea's first couple drops by to see family's new home

    An undated photo released by North Korea's official news agency on September 5, 2012 shows North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un, left, and his wife Ri Jol-Ju, 3rd left, as they chat with family members of Pak Sung-Il, 2nd right, a worker from the City Beautification Office of Pyongyang's Central District.

    The family has moved into a new apartment building in Changjon Street in the North Korean capital. The first couple met other residents of the new apartments including a worker from the Kim Jong Suk Pyongyang Textile Mill and his wife, and the family of a teacher at Pyongyang University of Mechanical Engineering.

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    Well it's a start

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  • 24
    Aug
    2012
    12:51pm, EDT

    Kim Jong Un surrounded by women soldiers

    Kcna / KCNA via Reuters

    North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un visits the Thrice Three-Revolution Red Flag Kamnamu (persimmon tree) Company under the Korean People's Army Unit 4302 in this undated picture released by the North's official KCNA news agency in Pyongyang on August 24, 2012. KCNA did not state precisely when the picture was taken.

    By Phaedra Singelis, NBC News

    In the latest photo distributed by the official North Korean News Agency (KCNA), leader Kim Jong Un is seen in a pose we've seen before, locking arms with others, but this time they are young women soldiers. His wife appears to have accompanied him on this visit, though she is not pictured here.

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  • 21
    Aug
    2012
    8:01am, EDT

    Compare and contrast war games in Japan, Israel and North Korea

    Koji Sasahara / AP

    A line of Japan Ground Self-Defense Force tanks flare up a smoke screen during the annual live-firing exercise and demonstration at Higashi Fuji training range in Gotemba, southwest of Tokyo, on August 21, 2012.

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    An Israeli soldier is seen in the dust during a military exercise in the Golan Heights, northern Israel, on August 21, 2012. Israeli Armed Forces have been conducting manoeuvers amid rising tensions in the region.

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    Members of the Worker-Peasant Red Guards, the civilian forces of North Korea, train in an undisclosed location on August 20, 2012, in this picture released by the official KCNA news agency on August 21, 2012.

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