North Korea
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,...
January 29, 2013
A U.S. envoy said on Jan. 28 that North Korea is playing a dangerous game with the international community by threatening a nuclear test and urged the communist nation to scrap ...
January 27, 2013
Japan launched two intelligence satellites into orbit on Jan. 27 amid growing concerns that North Korea is planning to test more rockets of its own and possibly conduct a...
January 27, 2013
SEOUL--North Korean leader Kim Jong Un convened top security and foreign affairs officials and ordered them to take "substantial and high-profile important state measures,"...
January 26, 2013
SEOUL--North Korea threatened to attack rival South Korea if Seoul joined a new round of tightened U.N. sanctions, as Washington unveiled more of its own economic restrictions...
January 25, 2013
North Korea's next nuclear test could enable it to use a smaller, more sophisticated bomb mounted on a long-range ballistic missile to strike the U.S. mainland, Japanese...
January 25, 2013
Analysts believe Pyongyang is trying to push Washington into talks with its blunt declaration that further long-range rocket launches and a forthcoming "higher-level" nuclear...
January 24, 2013
SHENYANG, China--Tens of thousands of North Korean laborers are now employed in China, sent there by a state that sees expatriate toil as one of the few ways it can earn...
January 24, 2013
SEOUL--North Korea said on Jan. 24 it would carry out further rocket launches and a nuclear test that would target the United States, dramatically stepping up its threats...
January 24, 2013
Condemning North Korea’s rocket launch last month, the U.N. Security Council on Jan. 22 adopted a resolution to strengthen sanctions against the reclusive country.