North Korea
May 25, 2013
North Korea has decided that dialogue is the best way to remain at the diplomatic table ahead of various bilateral meetings scheduled for June.
May 24, 2013
BEIJING--A top North Korean envoy delivered a letter from leader Kim Jong Un to Chinese President Xi Jinping on May 24 and told him Pyongyang would take steps to rejoin stalled ...
May 23, 2013
BEIJING--North Korea is willing to take China's advice and enter into talks, Chinese state television cited an envoy of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un as saying, following...
May 23, 2013
SHENYANG, China--In a sign that Beijing's sanctions on North Korean banks are taking their toll, Pyongyang summoned several senior bank officials working in northeast China to...
May 23, 2013
BEIJING--European aid groups said their banks in Europe had stopped sending money to North Korea in the wake of U.S. sanctions on Pyongyang's main foreign exchange bank,...
May 23, 2013
PYONGYANG--After months of ignoring Chinese warnings to give up nuclear weapons, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un sent a high-level confidant to Beijing on May 22, in a possible ...
May 22, 2013
Japan is gearing up to reopen talks with North Korea for the first time since November, and will focus on resolving the abduction issue once and for all, as well as seeking to...
May 22, 2013
PYONGYANG--A North Korean state media dispatch shows that leader Kim Jong Un has named a hardline general as his new military chief.
May 22, 2013
PYONGYANG—A “special envoy” for North Korean leader Kim Jong Un left Pyongyang on May 22 for China, the country’s only major political and economic benefactor.
May 21, 2013
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe raised the bar with Pyongyang on May 20, saying all Japanese believed to have been abducted by North Korea must be repatriated to resolve the...
May 21, 2013
WASHINGTON--President Barack Obama and Chinese President Xi Jinping will hold their first meeting since Xi became president in March when they sit down for a June 7-8 summit in ...
May 21, 2013
WASHINGTON--The Pentagon on May 20 appeared to play down North Korea's six short-range missile launches over the past three days, describing tensions on the Korean peninsula as ...
May 21, 2013
BEIJING--North Korea released a Chinese fishing boat on May 21 after it was taken from waters between the two countries, the boat's owner said, in an incident that had proved a ...
May 20, 2013
SEOUL--The Kaesong industrial complex, an important cash cow for North Korea that was jointly set up with South Korean investment, is again on the cusp of being scrapped,...
May 20, 2013
BEIJING--The Chinese Embassy in Pyongyang asked North Korea to release a private Chinese fishing boat and its crew soon after its owner reported the detention 10 days ago,...
May 20, 2013
SEOUL--North Korea fired a short-range missile from its east coast on May 20, a day after launching three of these missiles, a South Korean news agency said, ignoring calls for ...
May 19, 2013
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe sent his special Cabinet adviser on an unnanounced visit to Pyongyang last week in the hope of resolving the abduction issue once and for all.
May 18, 2013
UNITED NATIONS--North Korea is still trying to import and export nuclear and ballistic missile-related items but financial and trade sanctions are slowing progress on...
May 18, 2013
The United States and Japan have reduced the alert levels for their destroyers in a further sign that the military threat from North Korea is ebbing away.
May 18, 2013
SEOUL--North Korea fired three short-range missiles from its east coast on May 18, South Korea's Defense Ministry said, but the purpose of the launches was unknown.