North Korea
May 04, 2013
PAJU, South Korea--The last seven South Koreans stationed at a jointly run factory park in North Korea pulled out May 3, silencing the complex for the first time since it was...
May 03, 2013
PAJU, South Korea--The last seven South Koreans stationed at a jointly run factory park in North Korea pulled out May 3, silencing the complex for the first time since it was...
May 03, 2013
BEIJING--With production stalled at an inter-Korean joint venture industrial zone, Lim Sung-nam, South Korea's lead official in the six-party talks over North Korea's nuclear...
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 ...
May 03, 2013
SEOUL/WASHINGTON--North Korea sentenced an American citizen to 15 years of hard labor on May 2 for crimes against the state, prompting a U.S. call for his amnesty in hopes of...
May 02, 2013
WASHINGTON--North Korea is nearing completion of a light-water reactor that is primarily intended to generate electricity but which could add to concern over its nuclear...
May 02, 2013
SEOUL--North Korea sentenced U.S. citizen Kenneth Bae to 15 years hard labor on May 2 for committing crimes against the state, a move that will likely see him used as a...
May 01, 2013
DANDONG, China--China has stepped up checks on shipments to and from North Korea almost two months after agreeing to new U.N. sanctions that demand greater scrutiny of trade,...
April 30, 2013
WASHINGTON--The United States has again sent a clear message to China not to mess with Japan on the Senkaku Islands issue.
April 30, 2013
SEOUL--Park Hee Sung, a 78-year-old North Korean former agent who has been held in the enemy South for close to half a century, remains staunchly loyal to his homeland, the...
April 29, 2013
North Korea has stopped work on preparing for the launch of a medium-range Musudan ballistic missile, according to government sources in Japan, the United States and South...
April 29, 2013
PYONGYANG, North Korea--The heart of this city, once famous for its Dickensian darkness, now pulsates with neon.
April 27, 2013
SEOUL--North Korea said on April 27 a Korean-American tourist, jailed by the reclusive state since late last year, will face trial for "committing crimes" against the North, a...
April 26, 2013
The military chiefs of Japan and the United States on April 26 reaffirmed their commitment to cooperate closely on defense measures in order to deal with threats of missile and ...
April 26, 2013
SEOUL--South Korea will pull out all remaining workers from a jointly run industrial zone in North Korea, it said on April 26, after Pyongyang rejected a call for formal talks...
April 26, 2013
SEOUL/WASHINGTON--If North Korea's bellicose rhetoric threatening the United States and South Korea with nuclear war was aimed at dragging Washington to the negotiating table,...
April 25, 2013
Festering resentment over war-related and other issues has left Japan as the odd man out as China and South Korea cozy up politically to counter the threat posed by North...
April 25, 2013
The top U.S. military officer told American troops based in Japan on April 25 that "the best way to avoid war is to prepare for it."
April 25, 2013
SEOUL--South Korea said on April 25 it was proposing formal talks with North Korea to discuss restarting work at a joint factory zone located just north of the rivals' heavily...
April 23, 2013
SEOUL/ GENEVA--North Korea insisted on April 23 that it be recognized as a nuclear weapons state, a demand the United States promptly dismissed as "neither realistic nor...