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IOC praises Pyeongchang for Olympic preparations

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — IOC inspectors have concluded their second visit to Pyeongchang by praising organizers for making good progress on preparations for the 2018 Winter Games.

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Australia, South Korea, Iran qualify for World Cup

Australia's teammates celebrate their victory over Iraq in their World Cup soccer Asian qualifying match at the Sydney Olympic Stadium in Sydney, Australia, Tuesday, June 18, 2013. Australia won the match 1-0 and qualify for the 2014 World Cup in Brazil. (AP Photo/Rick Rycroft)

Australia, Iran and South Korea won spots at the 2014 World Cup in Brazil on a dramatic final day of Asian qualifying Tuesday.

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Crackdown filling NKorean prisons with defectors

In this picture taken on Wednesday, May 29, 2013, Park Seong-hyeok, 18, reads a book at his dormitory of the Hangyeore middle-high school in Anseong, south of Seoul, South Korea. Park was 7 when he was taken from his parents and sent to a juvenile detention center. Park’s family was within sight of freedom back in 2003, when they were arrested by Chinese authorities on the Mongolian border and sent back to Pyongyang. After a few months, he managed to escape after his uncle bribed the guards.  With the help of relatives, he made it to South Korea.  But he assumes his parents, who he has not seen in 10 years, remain imprisoned in the north. North Korea's prison population has swelled in recent years with those caught fleeing the country under a crackdown on defections by young leader Kim Jong Un, according to defectors living in South Korea and researchers who study Pyongyang's notorious network of labor camps and detention centers.  (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea’s prison population has swelled with those caught fleeing the country under a crackdown on defections by young leader Kim Jong Un, according to defectors living in South Korea and researchers who study Pyongyang’s notorious network of labor camps and detention centers.

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Incentive for Korea talks remains despite failure

South Korean workers dismantle a signboard at the venue for the Koreas' first high-level meeting at Grand Hilton Hotel in Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, June 12, 2013. The Koreas' first high-level talks in years were scrapped a day before they were to begin Wednesday because the sides didn't agree on the delegation leaders, South Korea said. The cancellation deflated tentative hopes that the rivals would improve ties following years of rising hostility. The letters read " South and North Government Level Talks, Seoul." (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea dismantled the meeting table, pulled down the placards and rolled up the red carpet. Its intended guest, North Korea, has stopped answering the phone.

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