North Korea Restricts Domestic Markets, Food Aid While Saber-Rattling Abroad
As it noisily goads the outside world with missiles and a nuclear test, North Korea is quietly tightening screws at home....
As it noisily goads the outside world with missiles and a nuclear test, North Korea is quietly tightening screws at home....
AP | Posted 07.22.2009 | World
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama said the United States is "prepared for any contingencies" involving North Korea _ including the regime's re...
AP | MARK NIESSE | Posted 07.22.2009 | World
HONOLULU — Comforted by the U.S. military's missile defense systems, Hawaii residents doubt a North Korean missile would light up the clear isla...
AP | JAE-SOON CHANG | Posted 07.09.2009 | World
SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea has warned fishermen and boat captains to stay away from the country's east coast, Japan's coast guard said Mon...
John Marshall | Posted 06.29.2009 | Comedy
"We're not made of missiles," said Kim Jong-Il. "There's only so much sabre-rattling we can do. Can't we get mentioned somewhere? Since when are nuclear weapons not on the same radar as Susan Boyle?"
Stuart Whatley | Posted 06.28.2009 | World
Following its initial hullabaloo, the current standoff may be a foreign policy windfall for the Obama administration by uniting typically disparate regional players
AP | HYUNG-JIN KIM | Posted 06.26.2009 | World
SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea has restarted a weapons-grade nuclear plant and fired five short-range missiles in two days, news reports and S...
Wall Street Journal | Posted 06.20.2009 | World
The curtain is about to rise again on the long-running nuclear tragicomedy, "North Korea Outwits the United States." Despite Kim Jong Il's explicit th...
Reuters | Posted 05.12.2009 | World
The five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council and Japan have reached an agreement on a draft statement about North Korea's long-range rocket...
AP | JEAN H. LEE | Posted 05.09.2009 | World
SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea's rubber-stamp parliament appointed Kim Jong Il to a third term Thursday as leader of one of the world's most r...
Huffington Post | Stuart Whatley | Posted 05.07.2009 | World
Despite the initial hullabaloo that followed North Korea's Sunday test launch of a Taepodong-2 missile, the UN security council has so far failed to i...
Huffington Post | Posted 05.06.2009 | World
Below is the joint statement released by the United States and the European Union. The launch of a missile by North Korea defies UN Security Council ...
Huffington Post | Posted 05.05.2009 | Politics
Below is the statement released by President Obama from Prague, Czech Republic on the rocket launched by North Korea: North Korea's development and...
AP | HYUNG-JIN KIM | Posted 04.30.2009 | World
SEOUL, South Korea — Japanese, South Korean and U.S. missile-destroying ships set sail to monitor North Korea's imminent rocket launch, as Pyong...
Huffington Post | Jessica Gusman | Posted 04.27.2009 | World
Japan's military has begun to ready itself for a threatening North Korea missile launch, reports AP. On Friday the government ordered two missile-equ...
AP | JEAN H. LEE | Posted 04.26.2009 | World
SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea's positioning of a rocket on its east coast launchpad has ratcheted up tensions with Washington on Thursday, wh...
Reuters | Posted 04.25.2009 | World
North Korea has positioned what is believed to be a Taepodong-2 long-range ballistic missile on its launch pad at a facility in Musudanri, Japan's Kyo...
AP | HYUNG-JIN KIM | Posted 04.13.2009 | World
SEOUL, South Korea — Japan hinted it could down an incoming North Korean rocket, but analysts said the communist country will go ahead with a pl...
AP | JAE-SOON CHANG | Posted 04.12.2009 | World
SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea told two U.N. agencies it plans to launch a communications satellite between April 4-8 _ an unprecedented discl...
AP | JEAN H. LEE | Posted 04.09.2009 | World
SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea agreed Tuesday to allow South Koreans working in a joint industrial zone in North Korea to cross the border aft...
Washington Post | Posted 08.14.2009 | World