North Korea
March 19, 2013
Intensifying nationalism across East Asia and the temptation for national leaders to focus on domestic issues makes solving the myriad challenges facing the region difficult,...
March 18, 2013
BEIJING--China said on March 18 U.S. plans to bolster missile defenses in response to provocations by North Korea would only intensify antagonism, and urged Washington to act...
March 18, 2013
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has put the entire world on edge with his reckless, self-centered behavior.
March 17, 2013
YANGON--Google Inc. Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt, who visited North Korea in January, will become the first high-profile tech company executive to visit Myanmar in the wake...
March 16, 2013
UNITED NATIONS--More than a fourth of all North Korean children are stunted from chronic malnutrition, and two-thirds of the country's 24 million people don't know where their...
March 16, 2013
WASHINGTON--U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel announced plans on March to bolster U.S. missile defenses in response to "irresponsible and reckless provocations" by North Korea,...
March 16, 2013
SEOUL--North Korea, usually blamed for hacking others, has accused the United States of staging cyber attacks against its Internet servers after reports of disruptions to its...
March 14, 2013
BEIJING--A U.N. Security Council resolution that slapped a fourth round of economic sanctions on Pyongyang is spooking North Korean merchants operating in northeastern China...
March 14, 2013
SEOUL--North Korean leader Kim Jong Un supervised a live artillery drill close to a disputed sea border with South Korea, state news agency KCNA reported on March 14, in the...
March 13, 2013
SEOUL--North Korea's first public, senior-level mention of South Korea's first female president ended up being a sexist crack. The body that controls North Korea's military...
March 13, 2013
VIENNA--A month after North Korea's nuclear test, a monitoring agency said on March 12 it was highly unlikely to find any "smoking gun" radioactive traces from the blast,...
March 12, 2013
SEOUL--North Korea's young leader urged front-line troops to be on "maximum alert" for a potential war as a state-run newspaper said Pyongyang had carried out a threat to...
March 12, 2013
NEW YORK--The U.S. Treasury is imposing sanctions against North Korea's Foreign Trade Bank, the country's main foreign exchange institution, for its role in supporting...
March 11, 2013
SEOUL--South Korea and the United States began annual military drills on March 11 despite North Korean threats to respond by voiding the armistice that ended the Korean War and ...
March 09, 2013
SEOUL--North Korea formally rejected a U.N. Security Council resolution on March 9 that demands an end to its nuclear arms program, signaling it would defy international...
March 09, 2013
The United Nations Security Council on March 7 unanimously adopted a resolution to impose additional economic sanctions against North Korea for its third nuclear test last...
March 08, 2013
UNITED NATIONS/ SEOUL--The United Nations imposed new sanctions on North Korea aimed at curtailing its nuclear and ballistic missile programs and China, the isolated regime's...
March 07, 2013
SEOUL--Fresh U.N. sanctions are unlikely to halt North Korea's nuclear program given that seven years of previous measures from the world body and more than 50 years of U.S....
March 07, 2013
SEOUL, South Korea--North Korea on Thursday vowed to launch a pre-emptive nuclear strike against the United States, amplifying its threatening rhetoric hours ahead of a vote by ...
March 07, 2013
SEOUL--North Korea is conducting a series of military drills and is getting ready for state-wide war practice of an unusual scale, South Korea's defense ministry said on March...