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A North Korean cargo ship visited a South Korean port Monday, showing that trade between the rival countries is continuing despite their bloody naval skirmish last week.
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.
North Korea claimed Tuesday that it has successfully weaponized more plutonium for atomic bombs, a day after warning Washington to agree quickly to direct talks or face the prospect of a growing North Korean nuclear arsenal.
The North Korean government was the source of high-profile cyberattacks in July that caused Web outages in South Korea and the United States, news reports said Friday.
U.S. and North Korean officials wrapped up unofficial talks Tuesday with other northeast Asian countries about regional security, but with no reports of major breakthroughs.
The Treasury Department has frozen the assets of a North Korean bank and one of its executives for being involved in the sale of ballistic missiles and other weapons technology.
The U.S. defense secretary said Thursday that North Korea continues to pose a grave threat to international peace and pledged to protect South Korea with Washington's full military might, including its nuclear weapons.
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.
South Korea is providing North Korea with optical cables and other equipment to help modernize military hot lines between the two nations, officials in Seoul said Wednesday.
North Korea appears keen to improve ties with the U.S. and its neighbors in Asia and perhaps rejoin nuclear disarmament talks, China's premier said Saturday, urging fellow leaders not to let the opportunity slip away.
U.N. sanctions on North Korea must remain in place even if the communist nation comes back to international nuclear disarmament talks, South Korea's foreign minister said Thursday.
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.
North Korea's leader is offering to return to multinational disarmament talks in a renewed effort to draw Washington into one-on-one talks that the United States has yet to fully embrace.
Hundreds of family members separated for half a century by the Korean War bade tearful farewell to each other Monday after briefly reuniting under a program resumed amid warming ties between the North and South.
President Barack Obama is nominating a new special envoy on North Korean human rights issues.
Somali pirates tried but failed to hijack a North Korean cargo ship when crew members fought back with molotov cocktails and sped away, a maritime official said Tuesday.
North Korean leader Kim Jong Il reportedly said Friday his country is ready to engage in multilateral talks, the latest move in a diplomatic chess game with the U.S. and regional powers seeking to rid Pyongyang of nuclear weapons.
A North Korean dam was nearly full before a large amount of water was released without warning earlier this month, causing a deadly river surge in South Korea, a news report said Sunday.
North Korean leader Kim Jong Il is in good health and has not named his third son as his successor, the communist country's No. 2 leader said in an interview with a Japanese news agency Thursday.
Somali pirates tried but failed to hijack a North Korean cargo ship when crew members fought back with improvised fire bombs and sped away, a maritime official said Tuesday.
It has imprisoned American journalists, held the world hostage with missile tests, mocked Hilary Clinton’s outfits and in 2002 was branded a member of the “Axis of Evil,” but North Korea is indeed open to foreign visitors.
China on Thursday rejected claims by two U.S. journalists that North Korean guards had crossed into Chinese territory to grab and drag them back into North Korea.
The United States has moved to freeze the assets of two North Korean entities for alleged involvement in the country's nuclear and missile programs.
Authorities are investigating whether Australian law was broken after an Australian-owned ship was seized in the United Arab Emirates carrying North Korean weapons bound for Iran, an official said Sunday.
Transcript: U.N.'s Ban Ki-moon On Nukes, Reform, His ImageUnited Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon sat down with Wall Street Journal editors and reporters for a wide-ranging, 90-minute interview last month in New York. In this edited transcript, Mr.
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.
North Korea sends missile warning.North Korea is turning up the tension meter on the Korean Peninsula with fresh challenges to South Korea's newly installed government.
Clear Evidence Implicates Assad Personally in North Korean Nuclear DealPresident Bashar Assad was personally involved in Damascus' nuclear deal with Pyongyang.
The Blotter: U.S. Navy Triumphs Over Pirates on the High SeasThe U.S. Navy says it helped regain control of three vessels over the weekend that had been under the control of Somali pirates for almost five months.
Evidence Of A Syrian Nuclear Cover-Up? |Sky News photosNew satellite images of a suspected Syrian nuclear reactor site bombed by Israeli jets appear to show it has now been bulldozed. Image taken before the 'attack' Pic by DigitalGlobe The commercial images show what look like bulldozer or tractor scrape marks across the locatio …
Former POWS struggle with torture debateMarion Oltman spent the last eight months of World War II in a Nazi prisoner-of-war camp, and tears still fill his eyes when he recalls those desperate days. After working all day to fill craters left from Allied bombing, each prisoner got a boiled potato and a slice of bread wi …
Syrians Disassembling Ruins at Site Bombed by Israel, Officials SaySyria has begun dismantling the remains of a site Israel bombed Sept. 6 in what may be an attempt to prevent the location from coming under international scrutiny, said U.S.
AFP: Top North Korean official to visit Syria amid nuclear fearsA top North Korean official is to visit Syria, the country's official media said on Saturday, amid fears the two countries are collaborating on a secret nuclear programme. Choe Thae-Bok, chairman of the communist country's rubber-stamp Supreme People's Assembly, left on Saturda …
Analysts Find Israel Struck a Nuclear Project Inside SyriaIsrael's air attack on Syria last month was directed against a site that Israeli and American intelligence analysts judged was a partly constructed nuclear reactor, apparently modeled on one North Korea has used to create its stockpile of nuclear weapons fuel, according to Amer …
Kim Jong Il: Renaissance ManKim Jong Il's recent proclamation that he's an "internet expert" seems strange considering that his country's approach to the WWW makes internet-wary China look like Silicon Valley. Nevertheless, this is just one quirky area-of-expertise claimed by the DPRK dictator.
IDF seized nuclear material before Syria air strike...Some North Koreans killed during strike?There have been lots of rumors about the recent Israeli airstrike in Syria. What makes the story seem strange is that both the Israeli gov't & the Syrian gov't have refused to say what happened!
Samaritan's Purse Airlifts Emergency Supplies for N. Korea Flood VictimsThis morning Franklin Graham, president of North Carolina-based Samaritan's Purse, received a remarkable phone call from Pyongyang.
Mr Kim has the neighbours inIF YOU don't entertain much, your guests may be unreasonably chuffed when you do ask them round.
Koreas to Hold Summit in Pyongyang Aug. 28-30After seven years, South and North Korea will be having bilateral talks in a summit to be held at the end of August. It's not clear yet what the agenda of the talks will be.
Visiting Korea's DMZVisiting the DMZ in Korea is a unique, once in a lifetime experience.
Japan asks Pakistan to end missile cooperation with North KoreaIt is to be mentioned that North Korea and Pakistan secretly shared information on Missile technology, in fact the Ghazi and Shaheen missles are a modification of North Korean missiles, both misslies resembles each other.
Bulletin of Atomic Scientists: 5 Minutes to Midnight.We stand at the brink of a second nuclear age. Not since the first atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki has the world faced such perilous choices. North Korea's recent test of a nuclear weapon, Iran's nuclear ambitions, a renewed U.S.
North Korean Evangelist Sentenced to DeathThis has just been reported this afternoon on CNN ... An international organization that assists persecuted Christians around the world, launched a worldwide campaign July 10th to free a North Korean man awaiting public execution for being a Christian.
Federal Reserve launders money for North KoreaThe Federal Reserve is supposed to be apolitical- but Garret Johnson shows over at Bits of News that that is far from true. Recent decisions to launder money for North Korea have been taken in the interests of US foreign policy.
NKorea Launches Missiles Off Its CoastNorth Korea fired missiles into waters off its coast in an apparent test launch Thursday, drawing a rebuke from the United States amid a stalemate in international talks on the communist country's nuclear weapons.
chemical capabilities of Palestinian and Hizballah rocketsPalestinian militant groups and Hizballah have demonstrated some alarming new rocket and missile capabilities with longer ranges in the recent hostilities, and some militants claim capabilities not yet demonstrated, including chemical and biological warheads.
N. Korea nukes: buying time?WASHINGTON — Two months before North Korea tested its first nuclear weapon, President Bush was asked about a Treasury Department investigation of North Korean counterfeiting of $100 bills, which had ruptured talks on ending Pyongyang's nuclear programs.
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