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Boston Calling: North Korea crisis

Missiles in North Korea

13/04/2013

North Korea crisis

BBC World Service - Boston Calling, North Korea crisis

As Pyongyang ramps up threats directed at the US, Americans try to read between the lines.

North Korea threatens the US with a missile attack; the Associated Press news agency bans "illegal" from its lexicon and how to improve health through ethnic pride.

The United States tries to make sense of North Korea's increasingly threatening rhetoric; the Associated Press news organisation bans the term "illegal" from its lexicon; improving health through ethnic pride and Sudanese women pursue a new, more western-style of beauty.

(Image: Missiles are displayed during a military parade to mark 100 years since the birth of the country's founder Kim Il-Sung in Pyongyang, North Korea. Credit: PEDRO UGARTE/AFP/Getty Images)

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