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A secret North Korean document obtained by Western intelligence states the late dictator Kim Jong-Il conceived and directed a program to kidnap foreigners and bring them back to his communist country to force them to become spies against their home countries, The Washington Times has learned. (Associated Press/Korea News Service)

Kim Jong-il of North Korea ordered foreign kidnappings to create spies: secret document

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., listens to witnesses testify on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Sept. 9, 2014, during a Senate Homeland Security Committee hearing on federal programs that equip state and local police with military equipment. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) ** FILE **

Claire McCaskill on CIA torture report: ‘Gut check time for our democracy’

By David Sherfinski - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Dec. 2, 2014 file photo, cars enter Sony Pictures Entertainment headquarters in Culver City, Calif. Sony Pictures said the investigation into the cyberattack that crippled its computer systems is continuing and denies a report that it is poised to name North Korea as the culprit. (AP Photo/Nick Ut, File)

Sony denies it will soon name North Korea as hacker

By Brandon Bailey & Lindsey Bahr - Associated Press

In this Wednesday, April 9, 2014, image made from video, North Korean leader Kim Jong-un holds up a parliament membership certificate during the Supreme People's Assembly in Pyongyang, North Korea. (AP Photo/KRT via AP Video, File) ** FILE **

‘Kim Jong-Un’ banned as name in North Korea

By Douglas Ernst - The Washington Times

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South Korean Christians allowed to put up Christmas tree near border with atheist North Korea

By Douglas Ernst - The Washington Times

FILE - In this July 25, 2013 file photo, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, center, arrives at the cemeteries of fallen fighters of the Korean People's Army (KPA) in Pyongyang, North Korea. South Korea's spy agency says it has an explanation of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's mysterious 6-week-long public absence. An aide for a South Korean lawmaker says the National Intelligence Agency told legislators on Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2014, that a foreign doctor operated on Kim in September or October to remove a cyst from his right ankle. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E, File)

North Korea slams U.S. as ‘tundra of human rights’

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

Mideast Nuclear Missiles Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

JOHN BOLTON: Obama’s Iran policy has global implications

By John R. Bolton

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N. Korean student with ties to Kim Jong-un regime escaped kidnap attempt in Paris

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North Korean leader Kim Jong-un (Associated Press) **FILE**

KANG: Legitimacy and justice on the Korean peninsula

By Grace Kang

Director of National Intelligence James R. Clapper (Associated Press)

James Clapper describes secret mission to North Korea

By Jessica Chasmar - The Washington Times

Obama: Relationship with North Korea unchanged, despite ‘small gestures’ like prisoner release

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Sept. 1, 2014 file photo, Kenneth Bae speaks to the Associated Press in Pyongyang, North Korea. The US announces Saturday the release of Americans Bae and and Matthew Todd Miller who were detained in North Korea, saying they're on way home. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E, File)

Kenneth Bae, Matthew Todd Miller released by North Korea

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

North Korean Ebola policies hit tourism businesses

By DIDI TANG - Associated Press

Jeffrey Fowle, center, smiles as he stands with his family and with attorney, Timothy Tepe, far right, at his home in West Carrollton, Ohio, Wednesday, Oct. 22, 2014. Mr. Fowle was arrested and held for nearly six months in North Korea after leaving a Bible at a nightclub. Christian evangelism is considered a crime in North Korea. (AP Photo/David Kohl)

Ohio man held in North Korea hoped to aid church

By ANDREW WELSH-HUGGINS - Associated Press

This Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2014 photo shows passengers boarding an Air Koryo plane bound for Beijing, at the Sunan International Airport in Pyongyang, North Korea. North Korea would seem like the last place on Earth that has anything to worry about from Ebola. But it's virtually gone on DefCon 1 over what it sees as a looming invasion from the outside world that threatens to infiltrate its borders and relentlessly attack its people unless dramatic measures are taken immediately. It has banned tourists, put business groups on hold and is looking even more suspiciously than usual at every foreign face coming across its borders. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E)

N. Korea cracking down on a distant threat: Ebola

By Eric Talmadge - Associated Press

In this Nov. 6, 2013 photo, North Korean farmers line up with wagons to load cabbage at a field north east from the capital Pyongyang during cabbage harvesting season across North Korea. A funding crunch for aid to North Korea has become so severe 500,000 rural schoolchildren are as of April 2014, no longer receiving assistance and aid to millions more could soon dry up, according to a report obtained by The Associated Press. The report underscores the flight of international donors to countries with less political baggage and more willingness to let aid workers do their jobs.(AP Photo/David Guttenfelder)

AP Exclusive: A week on the road in North Korea

By ERIC TALMADGE - Associated Press

FILE - In this Sept. 1, 2014 file photo, Matthew Miller, an American detained in North Korea, serving a six-year sentence, speaks to The Associated Press in Pyongyang, North Korea. Why did North Korea free Jeffrey Fowle, and only him, when two other Americans, Miller and Kenneth Bae, remain in prison there? Probably because Pyongyang considered him the most minor of the three offenders, and may believe that releasing him could improve abysmal U.S. relations and even temper growing international criticism of its human-rights record. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E, File)

NK experts: US must apologize to free detainees

By Eric Talmadge - Associated Press

AP News in Brief at 5:58 a.m. EDT

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In this Sept. 1, 2014, file photo, Jeffrey Fowle, an American detained in North Korea speaks to the Associated Press in Pyongyang, North Korea. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E, File)

North Korean detainee reunites with family in Ohio

By Andrew Welsh-Huggins - Associated Press