Pyongyang, North Korea News

There are differences in opinion in the government over whether package tours to the Mt.

Internet access in North Korea has long been severely restricted, at least on an official basis.

"Korean embroidery is beautiful. More beautiful are the Korean women." This is a passage of the visitor's book of the Pyongyang Embroidery Institute, which was written by a foreigner.

Pyongyang, November 23 -- Shortly ago, the south Korean puppets became one of the co-sponsors of the so-called "resolution on human rights situation in north Korea" at the UN General Assembly, zealously joining the United States in its conspiratorial "human rights" row against the DPRK.

DPRK top leader Kim Jong-il meets Defense Minister Liang Guanglie in Pyongyang on November 25, 2009.

CHINA'S Defence Minister has reaffirmed Beijing's defence alliance with Pyongyang, saying the relationship was ''sealed with blood'' in the Korean War.

North Korea on Saturday criticized Unification Minister Hyun In-taek for hindering efforts to improve inter-Korean relations.

Rumors are swirling in South Korea over the upcoming visit to North Korea for direct talks by U.S. special envoy Stephen Bosworth slated for Dec.

CHINESE and North Korean defence chiefs have pledged to strengthen their military alliance - dating back to the Korean War - during talks in Pyongyang, state media said on Monday.

A one-time partner of North Korean leader Kim Jong-il may have married another man and left her job as Kim's secretary, South Korean intelligence sources said.

Japan 'would like to hope that some kind of progress will be made,' Foreign Minister Katsuya Okada told reporters.

A fresh wave of cyber attacks that slowed U.S. and South Korean websites this week hit more targets Thursday, a Web security firm said, while the South's spy agency has said the hacking may be linked to North Korea.

21 KYODO North Korea on Friday blasted the latest U.N. passage of a resolution on its human rights situation as ''a trite political plot'' crafted by the United States.

If you go About 300 U.S. tourists travel to North Korea annually between Aug. 1 and Oct.

China and the United States announced Thursday they will send senior officials to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea as nations try to get the DPRK back to negotiations over its nuclear programs.

A special committee of the U.N. General Assembly condemned North Korea and Myanmar on Thursday for what it said were widespread human rights violations in the two Asian countries.

China welcomes and supports the dialogues and contacts between Washington and Pyongyang, said Foreign Ministry spokesman Qin Gang here on Thursday.

North Korea appears to be taking elaborate measures to evade U.N. sanctions aimed at its nuclear and missile activities, arms trading and import of luxuries, U.N. experts say in a new report.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton addresses a press conference after attending APEC ministerial meetings in Singapore on Nov.

North Korea built about 800 bunkers in the demilitarized zone to keep military equipment between 2004 and 2007, Radio Free Asia said Monday quoting a former North Korean colonel who has worked for a South Korean military intelligence agency after defecting during the 2000s.