Washington has urged North Korea not to escalate tensions in the Yellow Sea following a naval skirmish between the North and South Korean navies Tuesday. More Articles

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North and South Korean naval vessels exchanged fire in disputed waters off the western coast of the Korean Peninsula on Tuesday, leaving one North Korean vessel engulfed in flames, South Korean officials said. More Articles

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SEOUL: North Korea on Tuesday signalled it could return to nuclear disarmament talks it had declared dead six months ago, but a report said it was near restoring its atomic plant underlined the secretive state would keep the stakes high.

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Kim Jong-il's third son, Kim Jong-un, will become North Korea's next leader, according to unconfirmed South Korean media reports. The BBC News website and BBC Monitoring profile this elusive young man. More Articles

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Two American journalists who have been detained in North Korea for two months on charges of illegal entry and "hostile acts" will be put on trial June 4, the Communist North announced on Thursday. More Articles

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Two U.S. journalists arrested by North Korea to face a criminal trial in May.

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DPRK liquidates agreements with S. Korea

Jan. 30 -- The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) announced today that it was liquidating all political and military agreements with South Korea, the Korean Central News Agency reported.

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North Korea says it has stopped disabling its nuclear facilities, accusing the US of reneging on a six-party disarmament deal. Work was suspended on 14 August, a foreign ministry spokesman told the state news agency KCNA.

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