Palacio's socially conscious lyrics focus on serious themes, many of which Americans have no idea exist just south of us.
Canadian troops currently serving in the south under US command, but who will make up one of the key components of the Nato force there in the New Year, have been hit by suicide bombers three times in recent weeks.
He also told his South Korean counterpart that the US-South Korea alliance was "instrumental in maintaining stability on the Korean peninsula", Pentagon spokesman George Little said in a statement.
The visit by Ms Park, South Korea's first female president, came as the US and South Korea mark 60 years of their military alliance.
As South Africa taught us, however, these funds will not divest unless forced to do so.
The warm south has obsessed us cold northerners at least since the time of the first Romantics.
Recent reports from South Korean and US bodies which monitor North Korea's nuclear test sites had said North Korea could be preparing for a third test.
When the glow of the holidays fades away, and there are still months of cold ahead, the warm, clear waters of the islands to the south call to us.
The Canadian Globe and Mail newspaper reported that Mr Long later spent the night in a jail cell at the Whatcom County prison, just south of the US-Canada border.
Meanwhile, in a phone call on Wednesday, US Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel told his South Korean counterpart Kim Kwan-Jin that the US would provide "unwavering" support to South Korea.
"It's going to be a massive challenge for us in South Africa, " Gatland said.
Ericsson has filed a lawsuit in the US against South Korea's Samsung Electronics for allegedly infringing its patents.
The US and South Korea also began military drills earlier in the week.
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What was unconscionable to us in South Africa in the twentieth century is just as unconscionable in the United States in the twenty-first.
In 2011, the US-South Korea Free Trade Agreement was ratified by both governments and is projected to go into effect in early 2012.
Mr Courmouzis said he had been travelling between Athens, the UK and South Carolina in the US, and had not been asked to appear.
Shooting on the film, produced by Curtis's company Working Title for BBC One and HBO Films, is taking place in the US and South Africa.
Alongside this experiment, another large detector - LUX - which is in a gold mine in South Dakota in the US will soon be coming online.
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Data released earlier this month, showed that China's exports jumped 21.8% from a year earlier, boosted by strong demand from the US and South East Asia.
Despite Lesotho's market-based economy being heavily tied to its neighbor South Africa, the US is an important trade partner because of the export sector's heavy dependence on apparel exports.
Bringing those lessons from Mexico, through Texas and finally raising us in south central Los Angeles brought many opportunities and challenges that I lived through and from which I learned.
The US, South Korea and Japan - who believe North Korea is working to develop long-range missiles capable of carrying nuclear warheads - want action such as the strengthening of sanctions.
China Unicom - which has just launched a new nationwide mobile service using the CDMA technology popular with US and South Korean networks, if almost nowhere else - already has fixed-line operations.
"We discussed the wicket with the teams who played before us (South Africa and West Indies) and thought that if we made a reasonable total we could exert pressure on Pakistan, " said Vettori.
On Friday, Russia - which shares a border with North Korea - summoned US and South Korean envoys to urge them to cancel the exercises, saying Moscow was "deeply concerned" about rising tensions in the region.
Shi Yuanhua, Koreas expert at Fudan University in Shanghai, tells China Daily that North Korea's threat to cancel the armistice is in protest against ongoing US-South Korean military drills using more powerful weapons and to "prompt Washington back to the negotiating table".
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