Kim Jong Un
May 16, 2013
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is hopeful of making headway in resolving the long-standing impasse of North Korea's abduction of Japanese nationals through the surprise visit to...
May 16, 2013
A U.S. envoy for North Korea sidestepped questions on May 16 on the nature of a surprise visit to Pyongyang by an aide to Japan's prime minister, but said all sides tackling...
May 13, 2013
SEOUL--North Korea has replaced the hardline general who headed its armed forces ministry, in a further reshuffling of the top brass by young leader Kim Jong Un.
May 08, 2013
SEOUL, South Korea--Former NBA star Dennis Rodman is tapping his friendship with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un to call for the release of a Korean-American man detained in...
May 07, 2013
WASHINGTON--President Barack Obama and South Korea's new leader Park Geun-hye will seek to present a strong front against North Korea's nuclear threats when they meet at the...
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 ...
April 29, 2013
PYONGYANG, North Korea--The heart of this city, once famous for its Dickensian darkness, now pulsates with neon.
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...
April 20, 2013
BEIJING--China will send its special envoy on North Korea to the United States next week for talks on maintaining peace and stability on the Korean Peninsula, the foreign...
April 18, 2013
The Korean crisis has now become a strategic threat to America’s core national interests. Destroying the North Korean missile before it is launched is the best of bad options ...
April 17, 2013
SEOUL--Asked if there might be war, the 40ish woman with the spangly purple shirt laughed out loud. She waved her hands back and forth, as if whisking away a pesky insect.
April 16, 2013
SEOUL--North Korea issued new threats against South Korea on April 16, vowing "sledge-hammer blows" of retaliation if South Korea did not apologize for anti-North Korean...
April 16, 2013
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on April 15 completed a tour that brought him to South Korea, China and Japan. The main theme for Kerry’s first East Asian tour since he...
April 16, 2013
It is time for the United States to disengage from North Korea, writes Doug Bandow on the Cato At Liberty security blog. After years of living in fear of death from a Soviet...
April 15, 2013
SEOUL--North Korea celebrated the 101st anniversary of its founder's birth on April 15 with no signs of tension easing on the peninsula after it rejected talks with South Korea ...
April 15, 2013
BEIJING--North Korea took its angry rhetoric to an obscure Beijing art gallery on April 15, with its ambassador to China using an exhibition celebrating the 101st birthday of...
April 14, 2013
WASHINGTON--North Korea’s belligerence is "mainly theatrics and bluffing," and it is doubtful the country can hit the continental United States with a nuclear missile, a...
April 13, 2013
SEOUL--The United States and South Korea offered on April 13 to keep their end of a defunct 2005 aid agreement with North Korea, provided Pyongyang took "meaningful steps" to...
April 13, 2013
"Animal Farm" by George Orwell (1903-1950) is an allegorical novel criticizing the Stalinist era of the former Soviet Union. Pigs and other animals rebel against humans to...
April 13, 2013
WASHINGTON--On the brink of an expected North Korean missile test, U.S. officials focused on the limits of Pyongyang's nuclear firepower on April 12, trying to shift attention...