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NKorea Offers To Hold High-Level Talks With U.S.

Reuters | Posted 06.17.2013 | World

By Jane Chung and Roberta Rampton SEOUL/WASHINGTON, June 16 (Reuters) - North Korea on Sunday offered high-level talks with the United...

Koreas Agree To Talk On Sunday

AP | FOSTER KLUG and YOUKYUNG LEE | Posted 06.09.2013 | World

SEOUL, South Korea — Government delegates from North and South Korea began preparatory talks Sunday at a "truce village" on their heavily armed ...

China Reportedly Tried To Convince North Korea To Give Up Nuclear Tests

Reuters | Posted 06.04.2013 | World

By Benjamin Kang Lim BEIJING, June 4 (Reuters) - China told an envoy of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un that Pyongyang should stop conducting nucle...

North Korea Ready To Reopen Jointly-Run Plant

AP | Posted 05.28.2013 | World

SEOUL, South Korea -- North Korea says South Korean businessmen can enter a jointly run industrial park in the North that has been emptied since April...

U.S. Official: NKorea Doesn't Have Nuke That Fits On Missile

Agence France Presse | | Posted 05.15.2013 | World

North Korea has yet to develop a nuclear warhead small enough to fit on a missile, a senior US official said on Wednesday, contradicting a recent US m...

UN Investigator: NKorea Prison Camps Inquiry Won't Be Deterred

Reuters | Posted 05.09.2013 | World

By Lincoln Feast SYDNEY, May 9 (Reuters) - U.N. investigators will seek the cooperation of North Korea as part of an inquiry into all...

NKorea Issues Warning Ahead Of U.S.-SKorea Summit

AP | SAM KIM | Posted 05.07.2013 | World

SEOUL, South Korea -- North Korea on Tuesday threatened the United States and South Korea over joint naval drills taking place this week in tense Yell...

U.S. Officials: North Korea Missiles Moved Away From Launch Site

Reuters | Posted 05.06.2013 | World

By Phil Stewart WASHINGTON, May 6 (Reuters) - North Korea has taken two Musudan missiles off launch-ready status and moved them from ...

Report: North Korea Working Toward Nukes

AP | ROBERT BURNS | Posted 05.03.2013 | World

WASHINGTON -- North Korea "will move closer" to its announced goal of being able to strike the U.S. with a nuclear-armed missile if it keeps investing...

North Korea Sentences American To 15 Years Hard Labor

AP | SAM KIM | Posted 05.02.2013 | World

SEOUL, South Korea — An American detained for nearly six months in North Korea has been sentenced to 15 years of labor for crimes against the st...

American Diplomacy Rises Once Again in Northeast Asia

Donald Gross | Posted 04.30.2013 | World
Donald Gross

The governments of countries most endangered by Pyongyang are now asking a critical question: What to do? Fortunately, the answer is clear.

Pyongyang Glitters While Most Of NKorea Remains Dark

AP | JEAN H. LEE | Posted 04.29.2013 | World

PYONGYANG, North Korea — The heart of this city, once famous for its Dickensian darkness, now pulsates with neon. Glossy construction downtown ...

NKorea Reiterates It Won't Give Up Nukes

Reuters | Posted 04.20.2013 | World

SEOUL, April 20 (Reuters) - North Korea reiterated on Saturday that it would not give up its nuclear weapons, rejecting a U.S. condition for talks a...

PHOTOS: NKorea's Newest Batch Of Soldiers

AP | JEAN H. LEE | Posted 04.19.2013 | World

PYONGYANG, North Korea -- North Korea's newest batch of future soldiers – scrawny 11-year-olds with freshly shaved heads – punch the air a...

Why Moscow Is Important to Pyongyang

Daniel Wagner | Posted 06.16.2013 | World
Daniel Wagner

If war were to break out, the presumed influx of refugees into Russia could create a humanitarian crisis and a burdensome price tag for the Kremlin -- just as it would for China. Russia is similarly vulnerable to any radiation that may blow from the peninsula on to Russian territory.

Obama: NKorea Will Make More Provocative Moves

Reuters | Posted 06.16.2013 | World

WASHINGTON, April 16 (Reuters) - President Barack Obama said on Tuesday he expects more posturing by North Korea and, while he does not believe the ...

PHOTOS: Nuclear Flower Power In Pyongyang

AP | ERIC TALMADGE | Posted 06.12.2013 | World

PYONGYANG, North Korea — As the world watches to see what North Korea's next move will be in a high-stakes game of brinksmanship with the United...

John Kerry Visits South Korea Amid Missile Test Fears

AP | BRADLEY KLAPPER | Posted 06.11.2013 | World

SEOUL, South Korea — U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry delivered a stark warning to North Korea on Friday not to test-fire a mid-range missile,...

North Korea Stomps Its Feet: Who Cares, Right?

Michael Evans | Posted 06.10.2013 | World
Michael Evans

I've seen this product countless times before. I remember buying it, in fact, a few years ago. I ingested it and convinced others of its potency, of its value as a product. So what's different about it this time? What's it doing back on the shelf, a seemingly old product with a new label?

Korean Factories That Ran On Cooperation Go Silent

AP | YOUKYUNG LEE and KIM YONG-HO | Posted 06.09.2013 | World

PAJU, South Korea — A few hundred South Korean managers, some wandering among quiet assembly lines, were all that remained Tuesday at the massiv...

North Korea Urges Foreigners To Vacate South Korea

AP | Posted 06.09.2013 | World

PYONGYANG, North Korea -- North Korea on Tuesday urged all foreign companies and tourists in South Korea to evacuate, saying the two countries are on ...

South Korean Official Walks Back Missile Test Talk

AP | By YOUKYUNG LEE and HYUNG-JIN KIM | Posted 06.07.2013 | World

PAJU, South Korea (AP) — A few hundred South Korean managers, some wandering among quiet assembly lines, were all that remained Tuesday at the massi...

On Guam, Islanders Skeptical Of NKorea's Threats

AP | The Associated Press | Posted 06.05.2013 | World

HAGATNA, Guam — C.J. Urquico has lived on Guam for 19 years so he's used to a military backdrop to everyday life. Navy ships visit, Air Force je...

NKorea Asks Russia To Consider Evacuating Embassy

AP | JIM HEINTZ and VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV | Posted 06.05.2013 | World

MOSCOW -- North Korea has warned diplomats in Pyongyang that it can't guarantee the safety of embassies in the event of a conflict and suggested they ...

Dangerous Amateur Hour in Pyongyang

Amb. Marc Ginsberg | Posted 06.03.2013 | World
Amb. Marc Ginsberg

It would be prudent for those who assert that Kim Jong-Un is merely spreading his military wings in a peacock-like manifestation of fancy to realize that that responding to his rhetorical and comical displays is counterproductive.