There is a larger game at work here that probably centers on the difficult-to-read domestic politics of North Korea.
If I need to book domestic travel in North America, that's another story.
Despite an unsettled domestic picture, North American sales increased too, rising 1.3%.
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Mr. HARROLD: There's a domestic factor that North Korea is supposed to be spending somewhere between 20 and 25 percent of their average GDP on defense.
Mr Chang, who as head of domestic security runs North Korea's equivalent to the KGB, was elected to the powerful National Defence Commission (NDC) last year.
That would give North Korea a domestic propaganda victory, and it might also pave the way for more broader, more official, talks on the wider issues.
Amid hopes of reforming North Korea through "engagement" with Pyongyang, the U.S. and South Korea have virtually ignored the abysmal human rights conditions in the North, willingly agreeing through signed documents not to interfere in the North's domestic affairs that is, permitting Kim to run the country as he likes.
Perhaps, the unusually violent nature of shelling is indeed related to North Korea's domestic policy.
They said they believed that many of Pyongyang's recent actions were aimed at North Korea's domestic audience and to show Mr. Kim as a strong leader willing to confront his country's historic enemy.
Critics also complain that she's still short on specifics about how to deal with pressing issues including an increasingly belligerent North Korea and serious domestic anxiety about fewer stable jobs, heavy household debt and a wide income gap.
Iran and Pakistan have already used North Korean materials to develop domestic ballistic missiles.
With Chrysler now part of the German DaimlerChrysler (nyse: DCX - news - people ), Ford is the only potential domestic partner for Nissan and Renault in North America.
So far this year, Ford is achieving its modest goal of slowing its rate of decline for its North American brands in the domestic market--the brands have lost lost three-tenths of a point of market share this year, falling to 15.3%, compared with a loss of 1.1 points last year.
Only days after Pepsi closed its deal, Coke said it would acquire the North American operations of its largest domestic bottler, Coca-Cola Enterprises.
That creates a particularly appeasement-prone environment, as no newly elected leader wishes to spend political capital on a foreign policy crisis created by North Korea when many other pressing domestic issues beckon.
The weak industry conditions saw governments in Europe and North America standing up to protect their domestic solar industries from cheap Chinese imports.
North Dakota now boasts the highest rate of domestic in-migration in the country.
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The long-range rocket launched by North Korea last month was largely made using domestic technology, South Korea says.
This will take the company's arm there from being primarily a distributor of Huntsman North American-made products to being a domestic manufacturer.
"I believe this sends a clear message that acts of domestic violence will not be tolerated in our communities, North Wales Police and the courts, " he said.
Across Europe and in the United States, radicalization within rapidly growing North African and South Asian populations has stretched domestic intelligence services, especially given substantial traffic between western countries and places like Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia.
"In a five-year period we've had 39 murders in north Wales - of those, 17 have been domestic abuse-related, " said Insp Martin Pendleton.
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Both our nations face persistent and evolving domestic and transnational terrorist threats, including from terrorists based in North Africa, the Middle East, the Horn of Africa, Afghanistan, and Pakistan.
The Clinton boom was delayed until his second term when barriers to international and domestic trade were lowered by the reduction of tariffs under the North American Free Trade Act, welfare reform, and a cut in the capital gains tax rate.
Analysts note that the brinkmanship from North Korea follows a historical cycle aimed at solidifying domestic support for its regime by portraying the country as under threat of invasion, while also pressuring the new South Korean administration of Park Geun-hye and the U.S. to offer aid and other incentives in order to calm tensions.
The aim is for the company in North America to be able to break even in a domestic market with annual sales of 10m vehicles.
Shale gas now accounts for 20% of U.S. natural gas production and shale formations across North America are said to hold enough gas to meet domestic demand for a hundred years.
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Displacing domestic flights and enabling travellers from Paris and Brussels to reach the north of England by train would mean 66, 000 fewer flights a year from Heathrow, removing much of the justification for a third runway at that crowded airport.
Three-quarters of the company's sales are of nitrogen fertilizers, and it has a big position in domestic production, with two of the three largest nitrogen fertilizer plants in North America.
What if the U.S. announced it intended to implement policies to encourage, facilitate and accelerate domestic production, and reach out to collaborate on the same with our North American friends in Canada and Mexico?
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