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  • North Korea, known as the Hermit Kingdom for good reason, went to South Africa this year.

    Why Chinese Men Stink At Soccer 2010

  • North Korea, known as the Hermit Kingdom for good reason, went to South Africa this year.

    Why Chinese Men Stink At Soccer 2010

  • LUI: Secretive and closed off for decades, North Korea has been called the Hermit Kingdom, a nation of more than 23 million people isolated diplomatically and economically with a very centralized communist government led by Kim Jong-il, and linked to its biggest neighbor China by a border that's more than 1,400 kilometers long with just seven road crossings and four railway points.

    CNN Transcript Apr 5, 2009 2009

  • Restaurants come and go with little fanfare in most world capitals, but it get noticed when one opens in the so-called Hermit Kingdom where famine is threatening to return to the country.

    ABC News: Top Stories 2011

  • Shrouded in mystery and believed to be only in his late 20s, Kim marks the third generation in his family to officially reign over the so-called Hermit Kingdom.

    CNN.com 2011

  • The Hermit Kingdom fields world-class teams in women's soccer, and in between Mass Games and the occasional public execution, Pyongyang's 150,000-seat May Day Stadium moonlights as the world's largest soccer venue.

    Cheering For Chollima Rick Nisch 2010

  • Now comes the reliably pugnacious Kim Jong-Il, using his signature saber-rattling (though admittedly somewhat heightened rhetoric, even for his standards) to shift the international focus from Afghanistan, Iran, Pakistan and Sri Lanka back onto the Hermit Kingdom.

    Stuart Whatley: Why North Korea's Antics Are Good For Obama 2010

  • Choosing the latter sets a nation on a path to becoming the next Hermit Kingdom, a decision that almost every nation is unwilling to make.

    The Internet Helps Build Democracies 2010

  • SAGAL: You're going to go with the dictator Kim Gong Il, head of the Hermit Kingdom.

    Tom Robbins' Recipes 2010

  • Now comes the reliably pugnacious Kim Jong-Il, using his signature saber-rattling (though admittedly somewhat heightened rhetoric, even for his standards) to shift the international focus from Afghanistan, Iran, Pakistan and Sri Lanka back onto the Hermit Kingdom.

    Why North Korea's Antics Are Good For Obama 2010

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