In this file photo, North Korea's First Vice Foreign Minister Kim Kye Gwan, left, is greeted by Ri Yong Ho, a vice minister of North Korea's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in North Korea, Monday, Feb. 27, 2012. (AP Photo) 

NKorea nuclear envoy to visit US

In another sign of warming relations between two wartime foes, a senior North Korean nuclear negotiator will attend a security conference in the United States, a U.S. official confirmed Thursday.

    In this photo taken Sunday, April 15, 2012, what appears to be a new missile is carried during a mass military parade at the Kim Il Sung Square in Pyongyang, North Korea. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan) 

    Analysts: NKorea's new missiles fake

    Analysts who have studied photos of a half-dozen ominous new North Korean missiles showcased recently at a lavish military parade say they were fakes, and not very convincing ones, casting further doubt on the country's claims of military prowess.

      Law enforcement officials stand on a jet bridge and a passenger jet on the tarmac at Bangor International Airport, in Bangor, Me., Tuesday, May 22, 2012. (AP Photo/Bangor Daily News, Kevin Bennett) 

      No charges filed for diverted flight

      A French citizen accused of causing a US Airways flight to be diverted to Maine by claiming she had a surgically implanted device will soon be headed back home.

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