One recent defector says she and others like her do not feel much sorrow at Mr.Kim's passing.

VOA: standard.2009.08.21

In an affidavit,U.S.officials said Gwendolyn Myers described her contacts with Cuban agents, such as passing secrets by exchanging shopping carts at the supermarket.

VOA: standard.2009.06.06

A new report this week from China showed that its economy became the world's 3rd largest in 2007, passing Germany.

VOA: special.2009.01.16

But the intense heat of passing through the Earth's atmosphere likely damaged those molecules.

VOA: special.2011.06.22

Jackson's music streamed out of buildings, apartments and passing cars, and mourners set up memorials on streets and in city parks.

VOA: standard.2009.06.27

He also praises Colombian President Avaro Uribe for lowering his country's coca production, resulting in less cocaine passing through Mexico into the United States.

VOA: standard.2010.07.02

Moments before Discovery's launch, NASA camera caught the space station passing through its orbit above Florida.

VOA: standard.2010.04.05

and his wife was known as "agent 123." U.S.officials did not comment on the kind of information the Myers are accused of passing to Cuba.

VOA: standard.2009.06.06

"It feels amazing. I wouldn't be human if I didn't say it feels amazing" But Ohno added that passing Bonnie Blair's total has not been his focus.

VOA: standard.2010.02.23

The NATO move is in response to last year's spy scandal in Estonia in which one of that country's defense officials was jailed for passing alliance secrets to Moscow.

VOA: standard.2009.04.30

We can't keep shifting a growing burden to future generations. With each passing year, health care costs consume a larger share of our nation's spending, and contribute to yawning deficits that we cannot control,".

VOA: standard.2009.06.13

The addition of Franken will provide the Democrats with 60 votes in the U.S.Senate, giving President Barack Obama and party leaders a better chance of passing controversial legislation such as health care reform and a cap-and-trade bill aimed at curbing greenhouse gas emissions linked to global warming.

VOA: standard.2009.06.30

In the end, many experts predict that liberal Democrats will back down in the health care debate in the hope of passing some sort of reform that will help the president and Democrats in next year's midterm congressional elections, and in the next presidential election in 2012.

VOA: standard.2009.09.28