Pyongyang, North Korea News

Vessels from the Republic of Korea and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea exchanged gunfire yesterday for the first time in seven years.

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton says the deadly naval skirmish between the two Koreas will not affect Washington's decision to send an envoy to North Korea.

U.S. President Barack Obama leaves on Thursday on his first Asian tour since becoming president on Jan.

US PRESIDENT Barack Obama has signalled his determination to engage with Asia by accepting an offer from North Korea to send a special envoy to Pyongyang for direct talks on nuclear issues.

The French president's special envoy on North Korea held talks Tuesday with the country's foreign minister during a visit to Pyongyang to explore the possibility of establishing diplomatic ties with the communist regime.

French president's special envoy to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea arrived in Pyongyang on Monday, the official news agency KCNA said.

Few cars cruise the streets of the North Korean capital and, in recent months, fewer and fewer bear the logos of Japanese manufacturers.

The Obama administration would hold direct talks with the Democratic People's Republic of Korea only if Pyongyang fulfilled its commitments under the six-party framework, one of U.S. President Barack Obama's top advisers said Friday.

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Lang said the establishment of diplomatic relations with North Korea andthe nuclear issue would definitely be on the agenda, noting that France wasthe only major European country that had no formal ties with Pyongyang.

North Korea has built Soviet-style apartment complexes to give a face-lift to its border town of Ryongchon where a devastating 2004 explosion occurred, according to a satellite image compiled by a U.S. researcher.

The United States is open to sending an envoy to Pyongyang if North Korea shows it is serious about giving up nuclear weapons, President Barack Obama's top Asia adviser said Friday.

The reprocessing of spent nuclear rods by the Democratic People's Republic of Korea should not be dramatized, a Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman said on Friday.

U.S. State Department spokesman Ian Kelly The United States says North Korea's plutonium production is contrary to its nuclear disarmament commitments and violates resolutions passed by the UN Security Council.

Former prisoners describe harrowing ordeals as UN prepares to scrutinise North Korea's human rights record North Korean soldiers at the international border between North Korea and China on the Yalu river.

Kwang-Tae Kim Seoul - Associated Press Published on Wednesday, Nov. 04, 2009 5:20AM EST T he former chairman of South Korea's oldest conglomerate, the Doosan Group, was found dead Wednesday in an apparent suicide, the latest in a string of high-profile South Koreans taking their own lives.

Pyongyang, November 3 -- U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs Campbell at a recent Congressional confirmation hearing stressed the need for the U.S. to reinforce the military alliance with Japan and south Korea.

Pyongyang said Tuesday that it has successfully weaponized more plutonium for atomic bombs, a day after warning Washington to agree quickly to direct talks or face the prospect of a growing nuclear arsenal, the Associated Press reported.

Senior North Korean officials held informal talks this week at two U.S. think tanks, but American participants said Friday they foresaw no breakthroughs on nuclear inspections or the resumption of six-way peace talks.

China and Japan called for efforts to denuclearize the Korean Peninsula yesterday, saying both sides "share the same goal" of making the zone nuclear-free. Both countries should push forward the process of denuclearizing the Democratic People's Republic of Korea , Wu Jianghao, deputy chief of the Foreign Ministry's Department of Asian Affairs, said ...