The World

10 ESSENTIAL STORIES

By Harriet Barovick, Ishaan Tharoor, Alexandra Silver, Claire Suddath, Frances Romero, Kayla Webley and Josh Sanburn Monday, Aug. 30, 2010

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    CONTRACTORS 30,000

    FOREIGN TROOPS 150,000

    AFGHAN SECURITY FORCES 249,000

    SOURCES: WALL STREET JOURNAL; REUTERS; COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS

    * What They're Tweeting in North Korea:

    Seems as if everyone's on Twitter these days, even isolated dictatorships. The Hermit Kingdom has taken to social media, apparently launching a Twitter account under the name uriminzok ("our nation"). Its tweets tend to be aimed at South Korea and the U.S. Of course, most North Koreans cannot access Twitter--or the various clips Pyongyang has begun to post on YouTube--because of censorship.

    prostitute of the U.S.

    --North Korea, commenting on its neighbor to the south

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