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241. Japan and North Korea also have plenty of wartime history, while the long-running issue of Japanese nationals abducted by Pyongyang continues to smolder without resolution.

242. This week Stephen Bosworth, America's point man on North Korea, was in Seoul, the latest leg in a dogged mission to revive the six-party process.

243. Mr Roh was famed abroad for his attempts to build rapprochement with communist North Korea.

244. In 1994, under the "Agreed Framework, " the international community agreed to supply North Korea with light-water nuclear reactors on condition it mothball its plutonium-based atomic program.

245. North Korea is quite probably the most militarized state on earth.

246. LAST July North Korea fired ballistic missiles into the Sea of Japan.

247. North Korea is only one national television station and a radio.

248. China traditionally feared any fragility and volatility in North Korea.

249. Japanese negotiator Kenichiro Sasae told reporters that North Korea would have give ground.

250. A particularly alarming prospect is that of Chinese and American troops facing each other in North Korea with no prearranged mechanism for defusing a great-power stand-off.

251. North Korea and Iran are where China's local imperatives and great-power interests collide.

252. And then there is the ever-present imponderable: the possible need, at some point, to finance the horrendous costs of reunification with destitute North Korea when that state collapses.

253. As in the case of North Korea - another client state - Beijing disingenuously argues its influence with Myanmar only goes so far.

254. Inchon is 40 kilometers away from the border between South Korea and North Korea.

255. Once vilified by his rivals as a Communist, Mr. Kim flew to Pyongyang, the capital of North Korea, in 2000 to meet that nation's leader, Kim Jong-il, in the first summit meeting between the Koreas.

256. September 2005 agreement North Korea signed with the five nations in September 2005 lays out a framework for gradual moves toward a peace agreement, in tandem with disarmament.

257. His visit came amid reports that North Korea had fired another short-range missile, the sixth since it conducted a nuclear test on Monday.

258. The US-led United Nations command said it had asked North Korea for high-level military talks "to de-escalate the situation".

259. In April, North Korea launched a test rocket that the United States(sentencedict.com/north korea.html), Japan and others said was cover for a ballistic missile test.

260. The very liberalisation that North Korea requires will itself be destabilizing.

261. North Korea, a longstanding ideological ally, has had increasingly testy relations with China in recent years.

262. In mid-February, North Korea said it was preparing to launch a communications satellite and it later announced a launch plan for April 4-8.

263. North Korea is known to work closely with Iran on building nuclear-capable missiles. No one knows where their co-operation stops.

264. The lowest-ranked of the 32 World Cup finalists are North Korea who climb one place to 105th.

265. Popular belief dictates that a rogue nation like North Korea should be punished and isolated.

266. Tighter financial sanctions could further deprive North Korea of already scarce hard currency.

267. The Washington Post reported earlier that Richardson, who has been to North Korea before as a special U.S. trouble-shooter, was invited by people involved in North Korea's nuclear program.

268. Japanese media report says North Korea has fired a short-range missile toward the Sea of Japan. NHK reported the launch Tuesday.

269. Senior South Korean officials are now telling journalists the South may stiffen its policy toward the North even further soon, if North Korea continues to stonewall the investigation.

270. As Ms Glaser of the CSIS puts it, China still sees North Korea more as a strategic asset than a liability.