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Americans are warned against traveling to North Korea, but that hasn’t stopped some North Koreans from coming here. The US issued more than 10,000 visas to North Koreans over the past 20 years, 18 of them this year from March to June, according to a VOA analysis. The North Koreans come on a variety of different visas — business, tourist, fiancée — but are they also gathering information?

President Trump’s reluctant support for tighter sanctions against Russia, his continued apathy on possible Kremlin interference in the US election, dismissal of possible collusion, and flattery of President Vladimir Putin, raise the question: What is Trump’s Russia policy?

How close is Kim Jong Un to achieving his dream of being able to strike the continental US with a nuclear-tipped intercontinental ballistic missile? We ask the experts whether, once it is loaded atop an ICBM, North Korea’s miniaturized warhead will be able to reach its target.

Have some extra time between flights at the Johannesburg airport? Why not visit Africa’s first airport-based brewery? Customers can see the brewing process firsthand before ordering a pint at Airport Craft Brewers, the latest addition to South Africa’s burgeoning independent beer sector.

QUICK TAKE VIDEO: A diverse Iraqi town that’s home to Yazidis, Christians and Kurds is slowly coming back to life after being liberated from Islamic State. Many of the town’s residents deserted Bashiqa when IS took over in June 2014, but now many have returned. VOA checks in with residents who’ve started to rebuild.

The deadly attack in Charlottesville, Virginia, last Saturday had the hallmarks of a terror attack, including using a vehicle as a weapon of terror, a tactic used by Islamic State sympathizers in Europe. But, here in the US, does the incident meet the legal definition of domestic terrorism?