May 03, 2013
BEIJING--With production stalled at an inter-Korean joint venture industrial zone, Lim Sung-nam, South Korea's lead official in the six-party talks over North Korea's nuclear development issue, met with his Chinese counterpart, special representative for Korean Peninsula affairs Wu Dawei, here on May 2.
May 03, 2013
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 in tests of nuclear and missile technology, the Pentagon said May 2 in a report to Congress.
May 03, 2013
SEOUL/WASHINGTON--North Korea sentenced an American citizen to 15 years of hard labor on May 2 for crimes against the state, prompting a U.S. call for his amnesty in hopes of avoiding him becoming a bargaining chip between the two countries.
May 02, 2013
WASHINGTON--North Korea is nearing completion of a light-water reactor that is primarily intended to generate electricity but which could add to concern over its nuclear program, a U.S.-based institute said on May 1.
May 02, 2013
SEOUL--North Korea sentenced U.S. citizen Kenneth Bae to 15 years hard labor on May 2 for committing crimes against the state, a move that will likely see him used as a bargaining chip in talks with Washington.
May 02, 2013
SEOUL--South Korea has offered 300 billion won ($272.41 million) in special loans to companies affected by Pyongyang's decision last month to close a jointly run industrial zone in North Korea, a government official said on May 2.
May 02, 2013
CANBERRA--Agents from South Korea's spy agency the National Intelligence Service (NIS) have tied to secure secret information about Australian trade, triggering the dismissal of an Australian public servant over his links to the group.
May 01, 2013
DANDONG, China--China has stepped up checks on shipments to and from North Korea almost two months after agreeing to new U.N. sanctions that demand greater scrutiny of trade, but the flow of goods in and out of the reclusive state appears largely unaffected.
April 30, 2013
SEOUL—South Korea’s parliament overwhelmingly adopted a resolution denouncing Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s remarks that “deny the past” and Cabinet ministers’ visits to war-related Yasukuni Shrine.
April 30, 2013
SEOUL--Park Hee Sung, a 78-year-old North Korean former agent who has been held in the enemy South for close to half a century, remains staunchly loyal to his homeland, the ruling Kim family and its Juche ideology of economic self-reliance.
April 29, 2013
North Korea has stopped work on preparing for the launch of a medium-range Musudan ballistic missile, according to government sources in Japan, the United States and South Korea.
April 29, 2013
PYONGYANG, North Korea--The heart of this city, once famous for its Dickensian darkness, now pulsates with neon.
April 27, 2013
SEOUL--North Korea said on April 27 a Korean-American tourist, jailed by the reclusive state since late last year, will face trial for "committing crimes" against the North, a move that could further stoke tensions with the United States.
April 26, 2013
The military chiefs of Japan and the United States on April 26 reaffirmed their commitment to cooperate closely on defense measures in order to deal with threats of missile and nuclear tests from North Korea.
April 26, 2013
SEOUL--South Korea will pull out all remaining workers from a jointly run industrial zone in North Korea, it said on April 26, after Pyongyang rejected a call for formal talks to end a standoff that led to operations being suspended.
April 26, 2013
SEOUL--Kim Kyong Hui has battled alcoholism and the killing of her lover to stand alongside her nephew, North Korea's youthful leader Kim Jong Un, as a reminder that he is the true heir of the dynasty's blood-line.
April 26, 2013
SEOUL/WASHINGTON--If North Korea's bellicose rhetoric threatening the United States and South Korea with nuclear war was aimed at dragging Washington to the negotiating table, it has likely failed.
April 25, 2013
Festering resentment over war-related and other issues has left Japan as the odd man out as China and South Korea cozy up politically to counter the threat posed by North Korea's nuclear weapons and missile programs.
April 25, 2013
A Buddhist temple in southern Japan that won an auction to buy North Korea's de facto embassy in central Tokyo has suddenly found itself up against a brick wall trying to raise funds for the purchase.
April 25, 2013
The top U.S. military officer told American troops based in Japan on April 25 that "the best way to avoid war is to prepare for it."