North Korea News

North Korean Ship May Have Turned Around Because Of Burma's Rejection

AP | KWANG-TAE KIM | Posted 08.01.2009 | World


SEOUL, South Korea — A North Korean ship monitored for more than a week by the U.S. Navy has changed course and is heading back the way it came,...

North Korea Warns US Of "Thousand-Fold" Military Action Day After Obama Meeting

AP | MIKE ECKEL | Posted 07.18.2009 | World


MOSCOW — Russia and China urged North Korea on Wednesday to return to the negotiating table on the fate of its rogue nuclear programs _ an unusu...

North Korea Sanctions Unanimously Expanded By U.N. Security Council

AP | EDITH M. LEDERER | Posted 07.13.2009 | World


UNITED NATIONS — The U.N. Security Council imposed punishing new sanctions on North Korea Friday, toughening an arms embargo and authorizing shi...

North Korea Threatens "Merciless Offensive" With Nuclear Weapons If Provoked

AP | KWANG-TAE KIM | Posted 07.10.2009 | World


SEOUL, South Korea — South Korea has informed the U.S. of up to 20 North Korean bank accounts suspected of being involved in counterfeiting, mon...

Kim Jong Un Named Successor In North Korea: Reports

AP | JEAN H. LEE | Posted 07.03.2009 | World


SEOUL, South Korea — One photo shows a chubby-cheeked boy with an impish grin. Former classmates at a Swiss boarding school describe a shy stude...

North Korea Test-Fires Missile, Vows To Retaliate If Provoked

AP | ERIC TALMADGE and ANNE GEARAN | Posted 06.29.2009 | World


SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea threatened to retaliate if punitive U.N. sanctions are imposed for its latest nuclear test, and U.S. officials ...

North Korea Test-Fires 2 More Missiles: South Korean Press

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...

US Destroyers Set Sail Ahead of North Korean Launch

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...

Before Clinton's South Korea Visit, North Korea Steps Up War Rhetoric

AP | JAE-SOON CHANG | Posted 03.22.2009 | World


SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea stepped up its war rhetoric Thursday, saying its troops are "fully ready" for war with South Korea, just hours ...