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Motivations For North Korea's Actions A Mystery

NPR Programs: Morning Edition  Thu, 05/27/2010 - 10:07pm

A range of theories exists as to why North Korea may have torpedoed a South Korean navy vessel in March -- but it's all speculation.

U.S. intelligence officials freely admit they don't understand the country very well.

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Bomb Plot Suspect Tied To Alleged U.K. Terrorists

NPR Programs: Morning Edition  Sun, 01/24/2010 - 11:00pm

Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, accused in the attempted Christmas Day airliner attack, had contacts with at least two suspected terrorists while a student in London, investigators tell NPR.

Intelligence officials have linked him to a suspect in a 2006 plot against airliners and to a man implicated in a plan to behead a Muslim soldier.