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Google Executive Chairman Eric Schimidt (C) makes his way after checking in at Beijing International airport in Beijing on January 7, 2013, before his trip to North Korea. Former New Mexico governor Bill Richardson and Google chairman Eric Schmidt will head to North Korea on a 'private humanitarian mission,' Richardson's office said on January 5, 2012. AFP PHOTO / WANG ZHAO (Photo credit should read WANG ZHAO/AFP/Getty Images)

Google Exec Calls For Open Internet Access Following North Korea Visit

Google chairman Eric Schmidt’s glimpse of the Web being used at a top university in Pyongyang makes him part of a tiny elite that has seen the Internet in North Korea.

2013/01/10

Google Executive Chairman Eric Schimidt (C) makes his way after checking in at Beijing International airport in Beijing on January 7, 2013, before his trip to North Korea. Former New Mexico governor Bill Richardson and Google chairman Eric Schmidt will head to North Korea on a 'private humanitarian mission,' Richardson's office said on January 5, 2012. AFP PHOTO / WANG ZHAO (Photo credit should read WANG ZHAO/AFP/Getty Images)

Google Exec Checks Out How North Koreans Use Internet

Students at North Korea’s premier university showed Google’s executive chairman Tuesday how they look for information online: they Google it.

2013/01/08

Google Executive Chairman Eric Schimidt (C) makes his way after checking in at Beijing International airport in Beijing on January 7, 2013, before his trip to North Korea. Former New Mexico governor Bill Richardson and Google chairman Eric Schmidt will head to North Korea on a 'private humanitarian mission,' Richardson's office said on January 5, 2012. AFP PHOTO / WANG ZHAO (Photo credit should read WANG ZHAO/AFP/Getty Images)

Google Exec Arrives In North Korea

Google’s executive chairman is starting a visit to North Korea that has prompted controversy and fascination.

2013/01/07

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North Korean Leader Kim Jong Il Has Died

Kim Jong Il, North Korea’s mercurial and enigmatic leader whose iron rule and nuclear ambitions dominated world security fears for more than a decade, has died. He was 69.

2011/12/18

japan nuclear reactor meltdown

Low-Level Radioactive Particles To Reach California By Friday

Wind patterns will bring a radioactive plume from the crippled Japanese nuclear reactors to the Aleutian Islands by Thursday and to the West Coast by Friday, according to projections.

KCBS–2011/03/17

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