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With admissions getting more competitive every year, spots at top American colleges are becoming a globally coveted commodity. In South Korea, one elite prep school has become the envy of many upper-crust U.S. prep schools with its success.

North Korea accused Washington of seeking to "provoke a second Korean War" as the regime prepared to hold maritime military exercises off the eastern coast. U.S. and regional authorities were watching closely for signs that North Korea might fire short- or mid-range missiles during the June 25 to July 10 timeframe cited in a no-sail ban for military drills sent to Japan's Coast Guard.

Underground magazine Rimjingang is undermining the North Korean government's efforts to control the flow of information out of the country. Its undercover North Korean citizen journalists report on topics banned in the official press and smuggle their work out for publication.

Some experts think the United States and North Korea's neighbors should be discussing what to do in the event of instability or even regime collapse in North Korea. But openly mentioning any such planning would antagonize Pyongyang, and therefore any multilateral discussions including China and the United States are out of the question.

President Obama and South Korean President Lee Myung-bak, meeting at the White House, agree that a new U.N. resolution seeking to halt North Korea's development of nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles must be fully enforced.

South Korea's "Sunshine Policy" of engagement with North Korea is being criticized and dismantled under a new administration. But the architect of that policy, former President Kim Dae-jung, says it still has the support of the majority of South Koreans.

North Korea convicted two American journalists and sentenced them Monday to 12 years of hard labor, intensifying the reclusive nation's confrontation with the United States. Washington said it would "engage in all possible channels" to win the release of Laura Ling and Euna Lee.

North Korea's leader Kim Jong Il reportedly has picked his third son, Kim Jong Un, to succeed him. In his mid-20s, the younger Kim is believed to have been educated in Switzerland, where he learned to ski and speak English, French and German. But he lacks political experience.

The U.S. and South Korea put their military forces on high alert Thursday after North Korea renounced the truce keeping the peace between the two Koreas since 1953. The North also accused the U.S. of preparing to attack, and warned it would retaliate to any hostility with "merciless" and dangerous ferocity.

North Korea threatened military action Wednesday against U.S. and South Korean warships plying the waters near the Koreas' disputed maritime border, raising the specter of a naval clash just days after the regime's underground nuclear test.