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The cardinal directions are: north, south, east, and west.
I'm at the north gate.
If it is always so hot, I will move somewhere to the north.
I'm facing the north.
It's not easy to get to the North Pole.
We turned left at the corner and drove north.
According to the radio, a storm is imminent in the North.
The bus was heading north.
The town is located in the extreme north of Japan.
The village lies 20 miles north of this town.
The plant ranges from the north of Europe to the south.
This street runs due north.
Canada is to the north of the United States.
My house is north of the city.
Diplomatic relations have not yet been established between Japan and North Korea.
They sent him to North America.
The wind is blowing from the north.
Because of the difference in climate, the same crop is not cultivated in the North and East of the country.
We went due north.
Fork-users are mainly in Europe, North America, and Latin America; chopstick-users in eastern Asia and finger-users in Africa, the Middle East, Indonesia, and India.
Mrs. North is very proud of her children.
Canada is on the north side of America.
Compass needles point to the north.
The road goes north from here.
They went on an expedition to the North Pole.
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The Yangtze was part of a vast waterway known as the Grand Canal that linked Hangzhou with Beijing 1,000 miles to the north.
He resolved to build a new and more spectacular capital to the north, in Beijing.
Then look toward the north.
So he headed north and reinvented himself.
Breen, try north-nor'-west.
She arrived back from a holiday up north from the family bach.
You were up north?
I thought you was up north. Where's um.oh, Evan.
I'd like to have a barn to the north, by the fence, with plenty of room for chickens.
The North side of the complex is quieter.
Tenth parallel north, latitude 150.
In retaliation for the betrayal of Fileas Fogg, Farandola offers his help.. to the North Milliganians, who are at war with the southerners.
In the great Gold Rush, Alaska was the hope and dream of men, the ruthless siren of the Far North, beckoning thousands to her icy bosom. Beckoning thousands to her unknown regions.
Far into the icy north, deep into the silent nowhere, came an undaunted lone prospector.
Or in the North-East Polder, where a lot of students hid.
You'll have your fill. This is North Africa.
Thank you. I prefer North African dresses.
The North American unit and I have been under his command for quite a while now.
In a Union encampment just North of Chattanooga.
A faraway city in the North, on New Year's Eve.
I always thought polar bears lived in the frozen north.
Frozen north, my eye!
This stretch is north of Oregon.
It was stolen on the north side tonight.
Permit me, then, to drink to the new boss of the North Side.
The Big Boy just handed me the whole North Side but it's too much for one man to handle alone.
Fred, you go down to the North Road.
Cover every inch of ground, north, south, east, west.
The north africans are as pissed off as ever, and so is Frankie's crew.
You know all the stuff that's going on between your brother and the north africans?
Together with the Officers from the North, I have already received the training 5 months ago and received a high evaluation.
But for a King to have an engagement with a North Korean Officer, what decency is there?
America, China, Japan and Russia are all paying close attention to the situation between the South and North.
Because of WOC and the facilitating relationships between the North and South.
He hated it the most when WOC united the North and South. So, if we were to join the WOC, won't it be definite that he will continue creating trouble for the Royal Family?
The UNDC meeting has indicated that it is okay for the North and South joint team to participate.
In the next month, he will be the Team Leader for the joint officer team of the North and South, and compete against the officers from 16 countries attending the third WOC.
Nice to meet you too. I am from now on, not a King of South Korea, but a Team Leader of the joint South and the North Korea team.
Have the North's people arrived?
This North and South team will need to have good luck.
They helped us during the 625 Korean War, how can we-- Oh, you guys are from the North so you're probably not clear about it.
Also, between the South and North, continue to pressure them.
News and current affairs
North Korea may also have a few bombs.
At the same time, Bush's emphasis on a one-dimensional, militarized approach to global problems has fueled unrest and instability throughout the Islamic world, leading to increased terrorism in Turkey, North Africa, Saudi Arabia, and Southeast Asia.
Afghans can contribute in a tangible way here by reopening the North-South route connecting the resource rich economies of Central Asia to densely populated India and Pakistan.
But, because the overall value of the euro has to be a balance of the eurozone's north and south, one can argue that 1.4 is within a reasonable range.
American unilateralism is much less in evidence in the world's other hot spots, such as North Korea and Iran, both because of the costs of the war in Iraq and the realities of the situation in those other regions.
In Bush's second term, some of the most extreme unilateralists have departed from the government, and the president has approached difficult problems like North Korea or Iran with a more multilateral approach than during his first term.
There was a time when north-south migratory flows in the western hemisphere were limited to Mexico and the Caribbean.
This is why the Bush administration has shied away from military confrontations with North Korea and Iran, despite its veneration of Israel's air strike on Iraq's Osirak reactor in 1981, which set back Saddam Hussein's nuclear program by several years.
Their ability to do so confirms that Iran is not a closed totalitarian state like North Korea.
Whatever happens, and whoever turns out to be the new leader, North Korea most likely faces an unstable future.
North Korea's fragility is suggested by the fact that even such an important political event as the Worker's Party conference, held for the first time in three decades, was abruptly postponed earlier in September.
The regime is under growing pressure from those at the bottom of North Korean society, and recognizes its own inability to handle the situation.
For example, for the first time, North Korea's prime minister publicly apologized for a policy error - the failure of the currency redenomination.
For the dynamics of the relationship between North Korea's people and its rulers seems to be changing fundamentally.
Witness the upheaval in North Africa and the Middle East.
They do not form a formidable presence, as in Nigeria, where some Muslim-majority states in the north have even implemented Sharia Law, making them more or less Islamic states.
A total of almost 1.5 million young soldiers from both North and South Korea face off against each across the heavily armed Demilitarized Zone.
Events and structural forces, however, have affected and changed the nature of the North Korean system since 1991.
Nowadays, every North Korean seems to like money and know its value.
The engagement policy pursued by the South Korean government in recent years also contributed to changes in North Koreans' perceptions of the outside world and of their own abject economic situation.
In these desperate circumstances, North Korea's leaders clung to their strategy of developing nuclear weapons as a last resort to defend the security of their regime.
But, regardless of whether the nuclear issue is resolved, the spread of market forces in North Korea will continue to change every aspect of life there in the coming years.
So, even before the recent reports of North Korean leader Kim Jong-il's health problems, North Korea was already a country marked by growing uncertainty.
Nevertheless, the reports about Kim's ill health hit like a rude wake-up call about the precarious nature of conditions in North Korea.
The problem is that North Korea has no experience with collective leadership.
One-man rule has been so completely embedded in North Korea's political culture and system that it is difficult to expect collective leadership to succeed.
Under a North Korean collective leadership dominated by the military, the power of the country's economic bureaucrats will be marginal, at best.
Others take a flagrantly sexist stance, arguing that a woman president would be a non-starter as long as the North Korean regime continues to threaten national security.
But she must convincingly outline practical strategies to resolve South Korea's most serious problems, including high unemployment, worsening educational performance, and North Korea's nuclear weapons program.