Word: koreas
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...Karadzic's absence from the courtroom is permitted under the ICTY's rules for the start of the trial, he must be in attendance once the prosecution starts presenting evidence the first week of November or have an attorney represent him. On Monday, Judge O-Gon Kwon of South Korea said he could impose a legal team on Karadzic to allow the proceedings to continue. But this could actually lead to further delays. "If they enforce a lawyer upon him, they would have to allow that person at least two years just to get acquainted with the case," Goran Petronijevic...
...North Korea's first soccer games in Europe in 43 years ended in 0-0 draws against Congo and the French club Nantes. North and South Korea have both qualified for the 2010 World...
...North Korea continued its one-step-forward, one-step-back approach to diplomacy this month, encouraging and alarming nations trying to get Pyongyang to the table to discuss nuclear disarmament...
...this year's eighth annual world press freedom index. Atop the list, which is compiled based on questionnaires completed by hundreds of media experts and journalists worldwide, are a Scandinavian quartet - Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden - and Ireland. The bottom three spots are occupied by Turkmenistan (173rd), North Korea (174th) and, for the third year in the row, Eritrea (175th). The report calls these nations "the infernal trio ... where the media are so suppressed they are non-existent." In between those poles, a few other regions made notable moves this year. Though it's long been a pace-setter...
...rare pictures from inside North Korea...