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North Korea's Unha-3 rocket lifts off from the Sohae launching station in Tongchang-ri, North Korea, in this image made on Dec. 12, 2012, from video. (Associated Press/KRT via AP Video) ** FILE **

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** FILE ** North Korean leader Kim Jong-un speaks at a banquet for rocket scientists in Pyongyang, North Korea, on Friday, Dec. 21, 2012, in this image made from video. (AP Photo/KRT via AP Video)

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North Korea's Unha-3 rocket lifts off from the Sohae launchpad in Tongchang-ri, North Korea, on Dec. 12. The U.N. Security Council unanimously approved a resolution condemning the rocket launch, imposing new sanctions on Pyongyang's space agency. (Korean Central News Agency via Associated Press)

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People look at 3G mobile phones in Pyongyang, North Korea, in December 2008. North Korea is loosening its restrictions on foreign cellphones and allowing visitors to bring their own phones into the country. The policy reverses a longstanding rule requiring visitors to relinquish their foreign phones at the border. (AP Photo/Xinhua News Agency, Zhang Binyang)

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Executive Chairman of Google, 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 Wednesday, Jan. 9, 2013. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder)

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Eric Schmidt (left), executive chairman of Google, and former New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson (right) arrive in Pyongyang, North Korea, on Monday, Jan. 7, 2013. Mr. Schmidt wants a first-hand look at North Korea's economy and social media in his private visit to the communist nation, his delegation said, despite misgivings in Washington over the timing of the trip. The man in the center was not identified. (AP Photo/Kyodo News)

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Chinese paramilitary policemen build a fence Dec. 8 across from North Korea, seen in the background from the Chinese border town of Tumen. In recent months, North Korean strongman Kim Jong Un has intensified a border crackdown that has sought to seal the once-porous 880-mile frontier with China, smugglers and analysts alike say. (Associated Press)

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North Korean leader Kim Jong-un (second from left in front row) and his wife, Ri Sol-ju (left), attend a ceremony on Monday, Dec. 17, 2012, in Pyongyang, North Korea, to reopen the mausoleum where his father, Kim Jong-il's embalmed remains will lie in state, as North Koreans marked the first-year anniversary of the elder Kim's death. (AP Photo/KRT via AP Video)

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Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt will travel to North Korea as early as this month on a humanitarian trip led by former New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson. (Associated Press)

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North Korean leader Kim Jong-un gives his first New Year's Day address in Pyongyang, North Korea, on Tuesday, Jan. 1, 2013. Mr. Kim called for his country to focus on economic improvements with the same urgency that scientists put into the launch of a long-range rocket last month. (AP Photo/KRT via AP Video)