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  • Two years after major surgeries at the VA Medical Center in Marion, Ill., were suspended following a suspicious spike in post-surgical patient deaths, quality management and patient care problems persist at the facility, a new federal report finds.
  • Space Shuttle Endeavor Launches into Space (Video)
  • President Obama pledged the U.S. would defend South Korea after the North shot dozens of rounds of artillery onto Yeonpyeong island, near their disputed western border. Two South Korean marines were killed. The South Korean army fired back, deploying fighter jets to the area.
  • The recent emergence of Kim Jong Un as the designated successor to North Korean leader Kim Jong Il once again put the spotlight on the secretive communist nation. Yet little has been said about U.S. efforts to re-engage North Korea.
  • Keyboardist Maurizio Guarini Talks About The "Magic Period"
  • North Korea's recent belligerence — its nuclear and missile tests — may be part of a secretive internal power struggle, analysts say. But it's difficult to get information on who might be in line to succeed ailing dictator Kim Jong Il. Will it be his youngest son, with Kim's brother-in-law in the shadows?
  • As questions swirl over Kim Jong Il's health, there is no sign he has relinquished control over the secluded North Korea. Experts say that whoever succeeds Kim may feel compelled to demonstrate control through military means.
  • Airs Friday, February 17, 2012 at 9 p.m. on KPBS TV
  • Secretary of State John Kerry is in Seoul, South Korea, at a time of escalating tension on the Korean peninsula. There are expectations that North Korea might soon launch a medium-range missile.
  • Despite weeks of escalating tension between North and South Korea, and increasingly bellicose threats from Pyongyang, life in South Korea continues as normal. Most people in the capital Seoul appear to think the issue has more to do with the political situation in North Korea then a military threat to them.
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