North Korea
February 12, 2013
SEOUL--North Korea's powerful politburo has vowed to continue firing “powerful long-range rockets,'' but a statement made no mention of Pyongyang's promise to conduct a...
February 11, 2013
The approaching university graduation season is a time when students celebrate their academic achievements and prepare for life in the real world. But one groundbreaking senior ...
February 11, 2013
SEOUL--North Korea is sending mixed signals about a possible third nuclear test in another attempt to keep the United States and its allies off balance.
February 07, 2013
SEOUL--North Korea may opt to use both plutonium and uranium devices in its third nuclear test, which is believed to be imminent, according to a senior official of the South...
February 07, 2013
SEOUL--A famine in a key North Korean grain-growing region in 2012 may have killed thousands of people at the same time as the country was staging mass celebrations to...
February 06, 2013
BEIJING--China expressed serious concern on Feb. 6 after North Korea stepped up its bellicose rhetoric and threatened to go beyond a third nuclear test in response to what it...
February 06, 2013
SEOUL, South Korea--So when will it be?
February 06, 2013
SEOUL--New York under missile attack is a remote dream for impoverished North Korea, yet that is precisely what the latest propaganda video from the isolated state shows as it...
February 05, 2013
SEOUL--North Korea stepped up its bellicose rhetoric on Feb. 5 threatening to go beyond carrying out a promised third nuclear test in response to what it believes are "hostile" ...
February 05, 2013
GENEVA--North Korea's leaders are likely to be the target of a U.N. investigation into their personal responsibility for rapes, torture, executions, arbitrary arrests and...
February 05, 2013
SEOUL--South Korea's Ministry of National Defense has released a North Korean diagram apparently illustrating the structure of its nuclear test tunnel.
February 05, 2013
UNITED NATIONS--The U.N. Security Council is united on North Korea's nuclear arms program and will undoubtedly approve tough measures against Pyongyang if it carries out a new...
February 04, 2013
North Korea internally describes the object it launched in December as a long-range ballistic missile, contradicting its claims to the outside world that it was a rocket used...
February 04, 2013
SEOUL--South Korean and U.S. troops began naval drills on Feb. 4 in a show of force partly directed at North Korea amid signs that Pyongyang will soon carry out a threat to...
February 04, 2013
Will the familiar brinkmanship script vary this time? North Korea will conduct another nuclear test, and warnings suggest it will not be a plutonium device, as in 2006 and 2009,...
February 04, 2013
The passage of a resolution by the U.N. Security Council on Jan. 22 condemning North Korea’s missile launch of Dec. 12, 2012, and expanding sanctions against the country, has ...
February 03, 2013
SEOUL--North Korean leader Kim Jong Un issued “important'' guidelines on how to bolster the army and protect the nation's sovereignty at a high-level ruling Workers' Party...
January 31, 2013
SEOUL--South Korea warned the North not to make the mistake of conducting a third nuclear test and its president summoned top security officials for an unscheduled meeting on...
January 30, 2013
SEOUL--South Korea launched its first space rocket carrying a science satellite on Jan. 30 amid heightened regional tensions, caused in part, by North Korea's successful launch ...
January 30, 2013
SEOUL--Google Inc. has helped fill the gap in one of the last remaining information black holes in the world by releasing a detailed map of North Korea that adds street names,...