Pyongyang, North Korea News

A national book show opened with due ceremony at the Grand People's Study House on Monday to commemorate the 70th birth anniversary of leader Kim Jong Il.

A U.S. envoy will hold talks with North Korea on its nuclear program in Beijing next week, the first such negotiations since the death of the nation's longtime leader Kim Jong Il.

Despite the Royal Wedding last spring and the fashion frenzy it set off, this is not the year sleeves make a comeback on wedding dresses.

Shin Gambira , leader of the All-Burmese Monks Alliance, talks to supporters in January, 2012, after his release from prison.

Speaking of the JoongAng, they ran an interview with Peterson Institute for International Economics senior fellow and North Korea expert Marcus Noland , who was apparently in town for a seminar hosted by the Korea Foundation.

Major structures built to promote the personality cult of North Korea's Kim dynasty have been damaged as isolated pockets of resistance begin to grow, according to reports.

Goethe Institut stresses dialogue, collaboration between Korean and German culture This is the second of the series introducing cultural centers of different countries in Seoul.

Try walking naked down Main Street or having sex in Town Square in a country that allows you to drink alcohol and smoke tobacco and to have sex with as many partners as you wish, providing you don't marry more than one of them and none of them is under 16, and you don't do it in Town Square.

A remembrance meeting took place in China on Feb. 8 on the 70th birth anniversary of General Secretary Kim Jong Il.

Pyongyang, February 10 -- General Secretary Kim Jong Il worked heart and soul for the country's reunification and national unity, says Rodong Sinmun Friday in a bylined article.

Organizers said the five North Korean accordion players provided the soundtrack Saturday as 250 Norwegian border guards formed a human canvas by holding up colored cards in shifting patterns - a tradition in the reclusive communist country.

The winners of the 55th annual World Press Photo competition are announced in Amsterdam, naming Samuel Aranda from Spain, of Corbis Images, as the overall winner for a picture of a Yemeni woman tending to an injured relative after anti-government protests in Sana'a. This image of the aftermath of the tsunami in Japan in April, 2011 by Yasuyoshi ... (more)

Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering will advance into a special economic district in North Korea in a first among South Korean companies.

The south Korean fascist prosecution arrested members of the Association of Victims of the "Security Law" on charges of violation of the ill-famed SL.

David S. Maxwell, Associate Director of the Center for Peace and Security Studies and the Security Studies Program in the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University, fears that North Korea will continue to suffer under what he calls, "arguably one of the worst violators of human rights in modern historya the Kim Family Regime ." "Is it ... (more)

In the past two hours, Twitter has exploded with unsubstantiated rumors that theA new North Korean dictator died in Beijing today and that a coup is underwayA in North Korea.

Never underestimate the power of A Ha's hit song "Take On Me" to breathe a little life into the dark and mysterious North Korea .

South Korea-North Korea: Update. South Korea faxed to North Korea a proposal for working level talks to control pests at the 30 tombs in the northern cities of Pyongyang and Nampo that date back to the Goguryeo Kingdom of 37 BC to 668 AD.

South Korean lawmaker Park Joo-sun from opposition Democratic Unity Party, also head of the Special Committee for the Development of Inter-Korean Relations, second from left, delivers a speech after Park and fellow lawmakers visited the North Korea's Industrial District Kaesong at the Inter-Korean Transit Terminal at the border village of Paju in ... (more)

It was disclosed that the south Korean authorities kicked up an anti-DPRK campaign by floating false stories about the Pyongyang visit by pro-reunification Rev.