North Korea Nuclear Program

North Korea Raises Threat To Force U.S. Into Direct Talks

AP | JAE-SOON CHANG | Posted 11.03.2009 | World


SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea claimed Tuesday that it has successfully weaponized more plutonium for atomic bombs, a day after warning Washin...

Kim Jong Il, The Man With The Golden Nukes

Foreign Policy Roundtable | Posted 10.14.2009 | World


Foreign Policy Roundtable

This is no evil genius from a James Bond movie. Kim just may be an evil genius, period. The Kim family's rule has lasted so long because son, like father, is calculating and pragmatic.

North Korea May Return To Nuclear Talks

AP | Posted 10.07.2009 | World


PYONGYANG, North Korea — North Korea's leader is offering to return to multinational disarmament talks in a renewed effort to draw Washington in...

North Korea Rejects UN Non-Proliferation Resolution

english.yonhapnews.co.kr | Posted 12.01.2009 | World


SEOUL, Sept. 30 (Yonhap) -- North Korea vowed Wednesday not to be bound by the latest United Nations resolution on non-proliferation and disarmament, ...

North Korea Says Uranium Program Near Completion

AP | JAE-SOON CHANG | Posted 10.20.2009 | World


SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea said Friday it is on the threshold of mastering a new way of building atomic bombs, pressuring the United State...

The (Sing-Along) Sound of Musing: How Do You Solve a Problem Like Korea?

Rick Horowitz | Posted 09.06.2009 | World


Rick Horowitz

How do you solve a problem like Korea?

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 ...

Excremental Change

Jaime Pozuelo-Monfort | Posted 10.04.2009 | Business


Jaime Pozuelo-Monfort

Excremental Change involves cleaning first the loopholes of the system and expelling all the dirt that is inside. Ask the Pirates of Heartless Capitalism where they hide and you will find the dirt.

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...

Burma Nuclear Suspicions Rise In Light Of N Korea

AP | DENIS D. GRAY | Posted 08.21.2009 | World


BANGKOK — The recent aborted voyage of a North Korean ship, photographs of massive tunnels and a secret meeting have raised concern that one of ...

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....

UN North Korea Sanction Bars 5 Top Officials From Leaving Country

Bloomberg | Posted 08.17.2009 | World


The United Nations Security Council barred five North Korean officials from leaving their country and ordered their foreign assets frozen as punishmen...

Kim Jong Il Documentary Seen As Acknowledgment Of N Korean Leader's Age

AP | JEAN H. LEE | Posted 08.16.2009 | World


SEOUL, South Korea — Kim Jong Il's childhood in a secret guerrilla camp and early years before becoming leader of communist North Korea are the ...

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 Test-Fires 4 Short-Range Missiles

AP | JAE-SOON CHANG | Posted 08.02.2009 | World


SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea fired a barrage of short-range missiles off its east coast in a possible prelude to the launch of a long-range ...

North Korea: A Test for Progressives

Amitai Etzioni | Posted 08.01.2009 | World


Amitai Etzioni

North Korea poses a special test for progressives because unlike the invasion of Iraq, this time the United State is meeting the criteria previously posed by progressives.

Is Alleged North Korea Weapons Ship A Trap For The US?

nytimes.com | DAVID E. SANGER | Posted 07.31.2009 | World


For more than two weeks now, White House officials have been receiving frequent updates on a rusting North Korean ship, the Kang Nam 1, as it makes it...

North Korea Threatens A "Fire Shower Of Nuclear Retaliation" If Attacked

AP | KWANG-TAE KIM | Posted 07.26.2009 | World


SEOUL, South Korea _ Punching their fists into the air and shouting "Let's crush them!" some 100,000 North Koreans packed Pyongyang's main square Thur...

North Korea Threatens To Retaliate If US Attacks

AP | HYUNG-JIN KIM | Posted 07.23.2009 | World


SEOUL, South Korea — A North Korean-flagged ship under close watch in Asian waters is believed to be heading toward Myanmar carrying small arms ...

North Korea Ship Suspected Of Carrying Missiles To Burma

AP | JAE-SOON CHANG | Posted 07.22.2009 | World


SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea boasted of being a "proud nuclear power" and threatened Monday to harm the U.S. if attacked as tensions mounted...

USS John McCain Set To Intercept North Korean Ship Carrying Weapons

Fox News | Posted 07.20.2009 | Home


The USS John McCain, a navy destroyer, will intercept the ship Kang Nam as soon as it leaves the vicinity off the coast of China, according to a senio...

Kang Nam: US Navy Monitoring North Korean Ship, Say US Officials

AP | 9 Mins Ago | Posted 07.19.2009 | World


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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...