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Common Core State Standard
RH.CCS.7 Grades 6-12: Students are asked to locate a country or geographical area on a map, connecting information with a specific location. Then, students answer a series of quiz questions based on a current news event happening in that location. Students must combine their prior knowledge with information presented in the question to determine the correct answers.

North Korea garbage bombs its southern neighbor -- 06/03/2024

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Q: North Korea last week began sending balloons carrying bags of trash and other waste over the heavily fortified border toward South Korea, where the defense minister called it "unimaginably petty and low-grade behavior." Where is North Korea, which shares the East Asia’s Korean Peninsula with South Korea?

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Q: North Korea’s trash barrage was an apparent retaliation for South Korean activists sending balloons north carrying anti-regime leaflets, pop music recordings, cash, and even some banned snacks. North Korea’s ruling family was placed in power in 1946 by which nation?

A. China

B. Japan

C. Mongolia

D. Soviet Union



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