| CNN.com delivers up-to-the-minute news and information on the latest top stories, weather, entertainment, politics and more. | American, 85, back from North Korea | | Merrill Newman was detained in October. North Korea said it had "deported" the veteran of the Korean War after state media published what was described as his apology. |
| Group: Labor camps growing | | North Korea is showing no signs of scaling back its fearsome labor camp system, with torture, starvation, rape and death a fact of life for tens of thousand of inmates, according to human rights group Amnesty International. |
| Opinion: Awaken to N. Korea's horrors | | The deliberate policies of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and his late father, Kim Jong Il, may have killed millions of North Koreans, either by starving them to death or sending them to die in a system of political prisoner concentration camps unlike any since the regimes of Hitler and Stalin. |
| The Web's year of the hoax | | "Sometimes, with these stories, we all want them to be true," says Brian Stelter, CNN's senior media correspondent. But there's more to it. Fun little Internet stories, it turns out, have become big business. |
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