North Korea
April 15, 2013
BEIJING--North Korea took its angry rhetoric to an obscure Beijing art gallery on April 15, with its ambassador to China using an exhibition celebrating the 101st birthday of...
April 15, 2013
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on April 15 denounced North Korea for heightening tensions with its “highly provocative rhetoric” and agreed with U.S. Secretary of State John...
April 15, 2013
LONDON--A leading British university criticized the BBC on April 14 for arranging an academic trip to North Korea to make an undercover documentary, saying it had put students...
April 14, 2013
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on April 14 stressed the United States is willing to engage with North Korea as long as it takes steps to give up nuclear weapons.
April 14, 2013
WASHINGTON--North Korea’s belligerence is "mainly theatrics and bluffing," and it is doubtful the country can hit the continental United States with a nuclear missile, a...
April 14, 2013
PYONGYANG, North Korea--North Korea on April 14 rebuffed a South Korean proposal to resolve rising tensions through dialogue, dismissing it as a "crafty trick" by its rival.
April 14, 2013
SEOUL, South Korea--South Korean rapper PSY says he hopes North Koreans will enjoy his new single even as tensions remain high on the Korean Peninsula.
April 14, 2013
WASHINGTON--The United States is fully prepared to defend Japan and South Korea in response to a possible missile launch by North Korea, Ashton Carter, U.S. deputy secretary of ...
April 13, 2013
BEIJING--U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry met China's top leaders on April 13 in a bid to persuade them to exert pressure on North Korea to scale back its belligerent...
April 13, 2013
PYONGYANG, North Korea--North Korea has denied involvement in a cyberattack that shut down nearly 50,000 computers and servers at South Korean broadcasters and banks last month.
April 13, 2013
SEOUL--The United States and South Korea offered on April 13 to keep their end of a defunct 2005 aid agreement with North Korea, provided Pyongyang took "meaningful steps" to...
April 13, 2013
"Animal Farm" by George Orwell (1903-1950) is an allegorical novel criticizing the Stalinist era of the former Soviet Union. Pigs and other animals rebel against humans to...
April 13, 2013
WASHINGTON--On the brink of an expected North Korean missile test, U.S. officials focused on the limits of Pyongyang's nuclear firepower on April 12, trying to shift attention...
April 12, 2013
SEOUL--U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry dismissed as "unacceptable by any standard" weeks of bellicose warnings of impending nuclear war by North Korea and said Washington...
April 12, 2013
BEIJING—An increasingly belligerent North Korea has put longtime ally China in a bind, and it seems all its leaders can do is to call on Pyongyang to return to the...
April 12, 2013
WASHINGTON--A Pentagon spy agency report concluded for the first time that North Korea likely has a nuclear bomb that can be launched on a missile, but U.S. defense and...
April 12, 2013
LONDON--Foreign ministers from the G8 group of rich countries condemned "in the strongest possible terms" North Korea's development of nuclear weapons and ballistic missile...
April 12, 2013
The current North Korean crisis is entirely of Pyongyang's making. But it is possible that the hard-line approach taken by Washington, Seoul and other capitals to the North...
April 12, 2013
North Korea's third nuclear test on Feb. 12 reaffirmed many things for the international community. First, it confirmed that the northern part of the Korean Peninsula is a...
April 11, 2013
PYONGYANG, North Korea--North Korea delivered a fresh round of rhetoric on April 11 with claims it had "powerful striking means" on standby for a launch, while Seoul and...