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French President Nicolas Sarkozy's special envoy to North Korea said Sunday that he had long talks with officials there about sensitive issues including nuclear proliferation and human rights.
President Barack Obama says the U.S. and the world will not "be cowed" by North Korea's threats and nuclear belligerence.
Amid rising tension between North and South Korea after a naval skirmish, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Wednesday urged calm and said diplomatic efforts to resolve the nuclear standoff with the North would continue.
A senior U.S. diplomat will travel to North Korea before year's end to try to pull the Koreans back into international negotiations on nuclear disarmament, the State Department said Tuesday.
The French president's special envoy on North Korea held talks Tuesday with the country's foreign minister during a visit to Pyongyang to explore the possibility of establishing diplomatic ties with the communist regime.
North Korean leader Kim Jong Il — known for shunning air travel — has six luxurious trains equipped with reception halls, conference rooms and high-tech communication facilities, a South Korean newspaper reported Monday.
The Obama administration has decided, after months of deliberation, to accept an offer by North Korea to send a special envoy to Pyongyang for direct talks on nuclear issues, two administration officials said Monday.
Daniel Chun peers out of the window of the Air Koryo turboprop from China as it touches down outside Pyongyang, his former home. It has taken him less than two hours to go back nearly 60 years.
NASA has posted a satellite image showing huge plumes of smoke billowing across northeastern North Korea.
North Korea says the extended run of its dance-and-tumbling extravaganza known as the Mass Games has come to a close.
A senior North Korean nuclear negotiator plans to visit the United States this month at a time when the two countries are trying to resume stalled disarmament talks.
China's recent offer of aid to North Korea could undermine U.N. sanctions against Pyongyang and help feed a cycle of failed negotiations aimed at ending the isolated country's nuclear program, a former U.S. negotiator said Thursday.
The United States will not meet directly with North Korea until Pyongyang commits to rejoining six-nation disarmament talks and abides by commitments to dismantle its nuclear programs, a top U.S. diplomat said Wednesday.
North Korea's state media says that the son of evangelist Billy Graham has left the North after a three-day trip.
North Korea's suggestion that it may return to nuclear negotiations could open the way to its first talks with the Obama administration, but there are warning signs that the North has no intention of fully disarming.
North Korea has received the equivalent of about $2.2 billion under deals aimed at persuading the isolated nation to dismantle its nuclear facilities, a South Korean lawmaker said Monday, in what his office says is the first accounting of the cost of the failed strategy.
India's navy said Sunday that a Pakistan-bound North Korean ship would be allowed to leave Indian waters after a search of the vessel yielded "nothing incriminatory," news reports said.
North Korean leader Kim Jong Il told China's premier on Monday that the North was prepared to return to multination disarmament talks depending on progress in its two-way negotiations with the U.S.
The Obama administration's push to settle a tense nuclear standoff with North Korea is being spearheaded not by soldiers on a battlefield or big-name diplomats but by government officials knocking on the doors of banks throughout Asia.
A U.N. development agency has resumed operations in North Korea after a more than two-year pause following allegations of fraud.
Homemade bombs known as IEDs appear to be North Korea's latest weapon in its decades-long conflict with South Korea, the U.S. commander in Seoul said Tuesday.
North Korea's new constitution calls for respecting human rights for the first time, a possible attempt by Pyongyang to fend off international criticism about its harsh treatment of citizens, South Korean officials and an analyst said Monday.
Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao will travel to North Korea next week, Beijing's Foreign Ministry and Pyongyang's state media said Monday, amid a flurry of international efforts to convince the reclusive regime to return to stalled nuclear disarmament talks.
North Korea has shut down its largest wholesale market because of its apparent concern that big markets spread capitalist influence, a South Korean monitoring group said Monday.
The United States said Friday it was prepared to accept North Korea's offer for direct talks in an effort to persuade the North to return to stalled international nuclear disarmament negotiations.
The September 12th Failure of CognitionWe have a president who imagines he can keep this country safe by reaching out to Syria, haggling with North Korea and Iran, winking at Libya's Muammar Qaddafi and smiling at Venezuela's Hugo Chavez.
Early Monday morning, President Obama gave a speech at the first Strategic and Economic Dialogue where he spoke of a number of things pressing both the US and China.
Thuggery 101 by Victor Davis Hanson Pres. Barack Obama came into office apparently believing that his non-traditional background, charisma, and good intentions could placate dictators hostile to America and ease global tensions.
Offices of grain giants Cargill, Bunge raided in ItalyEuropean antitrust enforcers raided the Italian offices of grain giants Cargill Inc. and Bunge Ltd. in a probe of the grain and cereals business as surging food prices around the world spark widespread protests.
Strange- Unusual- Weird -Odd News-- 12 JulyA stripper who danced on the poles of Santiago subway trains to challenge the prudishness of Chilean society was arrested on Thursday during one of her lightning performances. Monserrat Morilles, 26, surprised subway riders all week stripping to skimpy underwear, but she refused …
North Korea Gets IAEA InspectorsU.N. nuclear inspectors will likely arrive in North Korea on Saturday to verify a promised shutdown of the country's nuclear reactor and source of arms-grade plutonium, the head of the IAEA said on Wednesday.
Hill warns N Korea on deadlinesNorth Korea must stick to the tight deadlines of the new deal to freeze its Yongbyon nuclear facility in exchange for a modest amount of fuel oil, Christopher Hill, the US negotiator at the six-party nuclear talks, said on Thursday.
Bush Hails Possible New N. Korea TalksPresident Bush on Tuesday welcomed an agreement to bring North Korea back to six-party arms talks and said the United States will insist the communist regime abandon its nuclear weapons program in a verifiable fashion.
North Korea agrees to return to talksNorth Korea agreed on Tuesday to return to six-party talks on dismantling its atomic weapons just weeks after staging its first nuclear test, and a U.S. envoy said he wanted to see "substantial progress" after a year-long hiatus.
Sources: NK sample shows no radiation - CNN.comTwo U.S. government officials with access to classified information tell CNN that the initial air sampling over North Korea shows no indication of radioactive debris from the event Monday that North Korea says was an underground nuclear test.
US scrambles for clues on N. Korean weapon's power - The Boston GlobeUS military aircraft and monitoring centers scrambled yesterday to determine the size and type of the weapon that North Korea detonated in what is believed to be the reclusive regime's first test of a nuclear bomb. Early estimates of the scale of the underground blast in the …
North Korean official warns U.S. actions could prompt missile attackSEOUL, South Korea - A North Korean official warned that the Communist state could test-fire a nuclear missile unless the U.S. acts to resolve its standoff with Pyongyang, South Korea's Yonhap news agency reported Tuesday.
North Korea and One-UpsmanshipIn the summer of 1988 I was in Seoul, Korea, for the Olympic Games. One day the organizing officials announced that for those who were interested there would be trips to the Demilitarized Zone that divides North and South Korea.
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