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Are US Journalists Being Used as Pawns by North Korea?
North Korea said today that it would use nuclear weapons in a "merciless offensive" if provoked, just two days after sentencing two American journalists to twelve years in a gulag-type prison labor camp.
By Sara Terry • • 50m ListenNorth Korea said today that it would use nuclear weapons in a "merciless offensive" if provoked, just two days after sentencing two American journalists to twelve years in a gulag-type prison labor camp. Guest host Sara Terry explores the motives behind North Korea's recent aggressive actions. Should President Obama try to re-start negotiations or take a hard-line stance with the secretive communist power? Also, the first Guantanamo detainee is transferred to the US, and Fourteen years after the death of nine anti-oil nigerian activists, oil giant Royal Dutch Shell says it will pay $15.5 million in compensation.
Banner image: South Korean conservatives burn a North Korean flag during a rally in Seoul demanding that the US journalists be freed. Photo: Jung Yeon-Je/AFP/Getty Images
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3 storiesFirst Guantanamo Detainee Transferred to US for Trial
The first detainee from Guantanamo Bay has been transferred to stand trial in a US civilian court in New York. The transfer of Ahmed Ghailani comes three weeks after President Obama laid out his plans for closing the prison camp by January of next year. Adam Zagorin is senior correspondent in Washington for Time magazine.
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North Korea has sentenced two American television reporters to twelve years in a prison labor camp, prompting an international outcry.
Read the story35 minShell Oil Pays $15.5M for Human Rights Abuses in Nigeria
In 1995, Nigerian author Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight other anti-oil activists were convicted and hanged in Nigeria. A court case scheduled to begin in the US next week alleged that Royal Dutch Shell helped the Nigerian government capture and hang the men.
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