North Korea Missile Test

US North Korea Financial Noose Tightens

AP | JEANNINE AVERSA | Posted 08.30.2009 | World


-+ WASHINGTON — The Obama administration on Thursday imposed financial sanctions on a North Korean firm accused of involvement in the country's ...

North Korea Human Rights Abuses Must Be Addressed Alongside Nukes: Interview

CFR | Posted 08.28.2009 | World


By Jayshree Bajoria | Council on Foreign Relations An interview with Roberta Cohen, Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution The U....

North Korea: Clinton A "Funny Lady" Who Looks Like A "Pensioner Going Shopping"

Huffington Post | Stuart Whatley | Posted 08.23.2009 | World


Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and the government of North Korea have engaged in a war of words this week that teeters on the edge of farce. On M...

North Korea Labor Camp Atrocities Revealed In New Report

Washington Post | Posted 08.20.2009 | World


Images and accounts of the North Korean gulag become sharper, more harrowing and more accessible with each passing year....

North Korea Restricts Domestic Markets, Food Aid While Saber-Rattling Abroad

Washington Post | Posted 08.14.2009 | World


As it noisily goads the outside world with missiles and a nuclear test, North Korea is quietly tightening screws at home....

Korea's Missiles, Obama's Maneuvers and Neocons' Mad-libs

Jonathan Morgenstein | Posted 08.03.2009 | World


Jonathan Morgenstein

In Obama's relations with North Korea, force is an option but a last resort. That is the hallmark of the Smart Power approach: use all the instruments of national power to achieve your goals, not just the military.

North Korea Threatens To Wipe Out The U.S. "Once And For All"

AP | JAE-SOON CHANG | Posted 07.25.2009 | World


SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea condemned a recent U.S. pledge to provide nuclear defense of South Korea, saying Thursday that the move boosts ...

Kim Jong-Un, 'Brilliant Comrade' Touted In North Korean Media

AP | VIJAY JOSHI | Posted 07.13.2009 | World


SEOUL, South Korea — The youngest son of North Korea's authoritarian leader has been given the title of "Brilliant Comrade," a sign the communis...

North Korea Fires Another Missile No One Cares About

John Marshall | Posted 06.29.2009 | Comedy


John Marshall

"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?"

North Korea: Security Council Draft Resolution Leaked

Inner City Press | Posted 06.28.2009 | World


Five days after North Korea conducted an underground nuclear test, a draft resolution emerged behind closed doors at the UN Security Council. The thre...

Why North Korea's Antics Are Good For Obama

Stuart Whatley | Posted 06.28.2009 | World


Stuart Whatley

Following its initial hullabaloo, the current standoff may be a foreign policy windfall for the Obama administration by uniting typically disparate regional players

North Korea Weighs Nuclear Option as Solution to its Economic Crisis

Sheldon Filger | Posted 06.28.2009 | World


Sheldon Filger

We now may be witnessing the emergence of nuclear proliferation as an export-based strategy for capital formation.

Clinton: North Korea Will Face Consequences For Belligerent Actions

AP | LARA JAKES | Posted 06.27.2009 | World


WASHINGTON — The U.S. on Wednesday accused North Korea of "provocative and belligerent" behavior as Defense Secretary Robert Gates took on the d...

North Korea Restarts Nuclear Plant, Threatens South Korea: Reports

AP | HYUNG-JIN KIM | Posted 06.27.2009 | World


SEOUL, South Korea — South Korean and U.S. troops facing North Korea boosted their alert level Thursday to the highest category since 2006, afte...

North Korea Test-Fires New Missile, Yonhap Says

AFP | Posted 06.26.2009 | World


North Korea has fired off another missile, the latest in a series since its nuclear test two days ago, South Korea's Yonhap news agency said Wednesday...

North Korea, Do You Need a Hug?

Disgrasian | Posted 06.26.2009 | Politics


Disgrasian

Dear North Korea, What's up, guy? Listen, we heard through the grapevine that you did more nuke testing today. DUDE, what have we said about missile ...

It's Not About North Korea

Stuart Whatley | Posted 06.26.2009 | World


Stuart Whatley

As North Korea closes itself off to the outside world even more, China's unique role as an interlocutor will become even more necessary.

John Bolton: North Korea Will Test Nukes Again

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...

North Korea Threatens Nuclear, Missile Tests Unless UN Apologizes

AP | JAE-SOON CHANG | Posted 05.30.2009 | World


SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea warned Wednesday it will fire an intercontinental ballistic missile _ or even carry out another nuclear test _ ...

North Korea UN Draft Agreement Reached By Six Powers

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...

Russia: We Can Shoot Down N Korea's Missiles

News24 | Posted 05.10.2009 | World


A Russian general said on Thursday that the nation's military is capable of shooting down missiles like the one launched by North Korea over the weeke...

North Korea: Thousands Gather To Celebrate Rocket Launch

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...

Kim Jong Il Wept Over Poverty At North Korea Missile Launch: State Press

AFP | Posted 05.08.2009 | World


SEOUL (AFP) -- A triumphant North Korea on Tuesday broadcast footage of its controversial rocket launch as state press reported Kim Jong-Il wept tears...

Obama, Nukes, and the World

Allison Kilkenny | Posted 05.07.2009 | World


Allison Kilkenny

While Obama's pursuit of nuclear disarmament would be noble, double standards, favoritism, and fear-mongering are cancerous elements that rob the U.S. of respect and leverage in the nuclear debate.

North Korea: UN Security Council Divided On Response

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...