BEIJING - At the busiest checkpoint along China's border with North Korea, about 200 trucks a day roll across the Yalu River and deliver merchandise to dictator Kim Jong Il's isolated regime. The Dandong checkpoint is one of nine road routes from China to North Korea along the 880-mile border.
He is a man of many names -- Puff Daddy, P. Diddy, or as his mother knows him Sean Combs -- and an equal number of talents, beginning with music but taking in fashion, food and now, fragrances.
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If your band is big enough to go to war with the mystics in the studio, you better have the resources to schedule an equally mammoth tour. And that's just what the Flaming Lips have done.
DIAMOND MOUNTAIN, North Korea — A hollow building frame, idle cranes and no construction workers in sight at this North Korean mountain resort are bitter reminders of dashed hopes for building a permanent reunion center for families separated by the Korean border.
DIAMOND MOUNTAIN, North Korea - A hollow building frame rises at this North Korean mountain resort, cranes idle with no construction workers in sight _ a bitter reminder of dashed hopes for building a permanent reunion centre for families separated by the inter-Korean border.
DIAMOND MOUNTAIN, North Korea -- A hollow building frame, idle cranes and no construction workers in sight at this North Korean mountain resort are bitter reminders of dashed hopes for building a permanent reunion center for families separated by the Korean border.