North Korea: American 'deported'

North Korea: American 'deported'
World must awaken to horror camps
Hagel: Afghan minister says security pact to be signed

Posted: 07 Dec 2013 10:40 AM PST

Merrill Newman -- the 85-year-old American detained by North Korean authorities earlier this fall -- has been "deported from a humanitarian viewpoint," North Korea's state-run KCNA news agency reports.

World must awaken to horror camps

Posted: 07 Dec 2013 10:22 AM PST

The deliberate policies of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and his late father, Kim Jong Il, may have killed millions of North Koreans, either by starving them to death or sending them to die in a system of political prisoner concentration camps unlike any since the regimes of Hitler and Stalin.

Hagel: Afghan minister says security pact to be signed

Posted: 07 Dec 2013 08:53 AM PST

U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel says his Afghan counterpart assured him that an important security pact will be reached with Kabul in a "timely manner," despite a failure so far to forge a deal.