Kaesong, North Korea News

South Korean conservative activists burn a defaced North Korean flag and mock missiles during a rally denouncing North Korea's missile launch in Seoul, South Korea, Friday, July 3, 2009.

Hyundai will not give up on business projects in North Korea, company chairwoman Hyun Jung-eun said Saturday, despite a new ice age in inter-Korean relations.

North Korea remains one of the major flashpoints in the world. It combines a hair-raising mixture of conventional and nuclear weapons, an opaque and threatening Stalinist dictatorship, and a ticklish set of issues, encompassing imprisoned American journalists, the right to intervene on the high seas, and a potential missile threat to the region as ...

The fate of Kaesong Industrial Park and the future of talks between the Democratic People's Republic of Korea and South Korea "totally depends on South Korea's attitude," the official KCNA news agency said on Thursday.

While the North could launch short-range missiles any time, he said, officials were more interested in whether it is also preparing to test medium or long-ranges missiles.

A gray-haired man in a business suit in October last year spoke to some 300 people who gathered to mark the completion of a textile manufacturer in Pyongyang.

Pyongyang turns back the clock By Leonid Petrov On the heels of the recent United Nations Security Council Resolution, which pursued tough new sanctions against the Democratic People's Republic of Korea for launching a long-range missile and detonating a second atomic bomb, North Korea is moving aggressively against the last remaining zone of ...

Another week, another seven days of North Korea acting like complete knobs. { 2 comments read them below or add one } 1 mjw June 20, 2009 at 1:34 pm it amazes me that don kirk is still writing.. 2 snow June 20, 2009 at 3:15 pm I have some slight sympathy for the suckers who invested in Kaesong, but not much.

Members of the Fighters For Free North Korea, an anti-North civic group, send propaganda leaflets into North Korea on the ninth anniversary of the June 15 Inter-Korean Joint Declaration, which fell yesterday, at Imjin Pavilion in Paju, Gyeonggi.

A SOUTH Korean delegation left for North Korea on Wednesday to prepare for talks on the future of a jointly-run industrial estate, amid low expectations for agreement.

Last Saturday , the United Nations announced yet another round of financial restrictions and trade embargoes on North Korea in an attempt to bring the rogue nuclear-armed state to the negotiating table.

The association of South Korean businesses operating at the inter-Korean industrial park in Kaesong has applied for emergency government loans.

Certain South Korean companies that entered the inter-Korean industrial complex in Kaesong in 2007 or after have withheld wages to their North Korean staff this month in protest of the North's demand for steep raises.

The north-south working contact for the revision of contracts on the Kaesong Industrial Zone was made in Kaesong on Thursday.

Operations at a joint North Korean-South Korean industrial complex along the countries' border will not be affected by new U.N. sanctions, sources say.

Growing uncertainty over the future of the joint-Korean Kaesong Industrial Complex is driving South Korean firms operating there back across the border.

South and North Korea will hold their second working-level meeting at the North's Kaesong industrial complex Thursday, their first talks in more than 50 days.

The Democratic People's Republic of Korea and the Republic of Korea plan to hold talks in the DPRK town Kaesong on Thursday.

North Korea said Tuesday it would use nuclear weapons in a "merciless offensive" if provoked _ its latest rhetoric apparently aimed at deterring any international punishment for its recent atomic test blast.

Exports from South Korea's companies in the Kaesong Joint Industrial Complex plunged by half at the end of April amid the global economic slump and increased tension on the Korean Peninsula, a government report said Monday.