Kaesong, North Korea News

An inter-Korean meeting was held in Kaesong on Nov. 3 to mark the lapse of 100 years since the patriotic deed done by martyr An Jung Gun.

Doubles, toil and trouble in Pyongyang By Donald Kirk SEOUL - The next time some big-time foreign visitor calls on Kim Jong-il in Pyongyang, he should probably bring some nasty little gizmo for checking DNA.

Korea will not have to import beef suspected of BSE contamination. Even after the Korea-EU free trade agreement takes effect, Korea will not have to import beef products suspected of having been contaminated by bovine spongiform encephalopathy, or mad cow disease.

It is an invariable will of the DPRK to positively achieve national reconciliation and unity, cooperation and exchange as clarified in the north-south declarations.

Seoul, Oct 13 The Democratic People's Republic of Korea has accepted South Korean proposals to resume talks on family reunions and prevention of floods on the common border, official sources affirmed there Tuesday.

By Yoo Jee-ho South Korea yesterday proposed to North Korea two separate talks to discuss the prevention of flooding at a river that runs across the border as well as the resumption of reunions for separated families.

Small and medium-sized businesses at the joint Korean Kaesong Industrial Complex are short-staffed. According to data the Korea Industrial Complex Corporation submitted to Grand National Party lawmaker Kim Gi-hyeon on Wednesday, small factories at the industrial park have asked for more North Korean workers since October 2007, with 969 vacancies as ...

Yu Seong-jin, who was freed on Aug. 13 after 136 days of being held incommunicado in North Korea, has recounted his ordeal in North Korea in an interview with the Chosun Ilbo.

'What part of this product is wrong? It looks perfect.' 'See this scratch? South Koreans don't buy this kind of product.' 'Are you sure? It looks OK.' In summer last year, South Korean workers dispatched by Sunglim Jeonggong struggled to teach North Korean workers at the Kaesong industrial complex.

A memoir of the late former President Roh Moo-hyun, which includes 90 pages of unfinished writings as well as unpublished interviews, was released yesterday.

North Korea withdrew its demand for a hefty wage hike for its workers at a joint industrial complex with South Korea, the latest conciliatory gesture that could help revive reconciliation on the divided peninsula.

Changes have been brought to North Korea's media policies. The changes have drawn much attention since the regime has used the media as a tool of propaganda, which reflects the regime's determination.

South and North Korea have agreed on the scale of wage hikes for North Korean employees at the Kaesong Industrial Complex.

According to the document, postmortems showed that the 56 had all been shot by North Korean border guards when attempting to cross illegally into China.

Inside North Korea: Will these people see change? A wedding party in Kaesong city near Panmunjom in the Demilitarized Zone between North and South Korea.

North and South Korea restored regular traffic across their heavily fortified border for their jointly run industrial park Tuesday in the latest sign of improved relations between the two, officials in Seoul said.

Hyundai pays for detention North Korea presented South Korea with a hotel bill for US$16,000 after detaining and interrogating one of its citizens in an inn for 137 days, an official said yesterday.

As tens of thousands gather in Seoul to mourn the death of the former president, his 'Sunshine policy' is breathing life into fresh North-South talks.

On August 23, South Korean President Lee Myung-bak met with a DPRK delegation at the presidential Blue House during their visit to mourn South Korean former president Kim Dae-jung. The delegation conveyed a message from DPRK leader Kim Jong-il to the South Korean president, expressing the intention to develop a DPRK-South Korea cooperative ...

Hyundai Asan Corp. is seeking to resume tours to North Korea's Kaesong and Mount Kumgang next month.