North Korea has become a fully fledged nuclear power, with the capacity to wipe out cities in Japan and South Korea. ...
AP | JEAN H. LEE | Posted 05.15.2009 | World
SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea said Tuesday it was restarting its rogue nuclear program, booting U.N. inspectors and pulling out of disarmamen...
Evelyn Leopold | Posted 05.14.2009 | World
Washington's inconsistencies in dealing with North Korea, during the past eight years, mean that Pyongyang will want more rewards in response to demands it dismantle its bomb-making infrastructure.
AP | EDITH M. LEDERER | Posted 05.14.2009 | World
UNITED NATIONS — Eight days after North Korea's rocket launch, the U.N. Security Council on Monday unanimously condemned the action, demanded an...
AP | JAE-SOON CHANG | Posted 05.11.2009 | World
SEOUL, South Korea — North Korean strongman Kim Jong Il is officially back on center stage following a reported stroke, but has promoted a trust...
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...
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...
Allison Kilkenny | Posted 05.07.2009 | World
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.
John Marshall | Posted 05.07.2009 | Comedy
Evelyn Leopold | Posted 05.06.2009 | World
Why did North Korea do it? One theory is to grab the attention of the Obama administration in an effort to garner direct talks and ties to Washington.
AP | JENNIFER LOVEN | Posted 05.03.2009 | World
LONDON — Concluding his first international summit, President Barack Obama hailed agreements at the emergency meeting of world powers Thursday a...
Richard C. Bush III | Posted 05.02.2009 | World
I have done it again. I have provoked the international community to take North Korea. The American imperialists are worried about our preparations for a satellite launch, despite its other crises.
Eric Margolis | Posted 05.01.2009 | World
North Korea's annual springtime kabuki ritual of threats, counter-threats, sabre-rattling and troops movements seems fated to continue.
New York Times | Posted 04.24.2009 | World
North Korea said Tuesday that if the United States pushed for United Nations sanctions against it after its planned rocket launching, that would spell...
National Journal | Posted 04.23.2009 | Politics
President Obama's nomination of Christopher Hill to be ambassador to Iraq has prompted fierce criticism from a handful of senior Republican senators i...
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...
Peter Henne | Posted 04.07.2009 | World
Every neighborhood has that bratty kid, who insists on being allowed to play with the big kids, throwing a tantrum if refused. North Korea is the bratty kid of North Asia.
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 ...
New York Times | Choe Sang-Hun | Posted 03.19.2009 | World
North Korea threatened on Monday to test what its neighbors believe is a ballistic missile capable of reaching United States territory, even as Hillar...
AP | MATTHEW LEE | Posted 03.15.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton hopes to appoint a special envoy to deal with U.S. policy on North Korea before she leave...
AP | Posted 03.05.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Hillary Rodham Clinton is looking to Asia as she plans her first trip abroad as secretary of state. Diplomats briefed on the plann...
AP | JAE-SOON CHANG | Posted 02.21.2009 | World
SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea and Iran, two nations with nuclear aspirations the U.S. wants to thwart, both signaled Wednesday that they were...
AP | Kwang-Tae Kim | Posted 01.08.2009 | World
BEIJING — Negotiators in the latest round of talks on North Korea's nuclear program sat down for a second day Tuesday to discuss ways to overcom...
Eric Margolis | Posted 12.08.2008 | Politics
Obama's honeymoon will be brief. He faces the extraordinary challenge of dealing with a nation that has plunged into bankruptcy and exported financial crises around the globe.
Times Online | Richard Lloyd Parry in Tokyo | Posted 05.24.2009 | World