Sunchon, North Korea News

In the 10 months since Kim Jong-un took the reins of his desperately poor nation following the death of his autocratic father, North Korea - or at least its capital - has acquired more of the trappings of a functioning society, say diplomats, aid groups and academics who have visited in recent months.

Korean scientists have developed a newspaper-style printing technique that will allow for the exchange of digital information at a cost of one penny per unit.

In today's edition of the journal Nanotechnology , researchers from Korea's Sunchon National University and the Paru Printed Electronics Research Institute present something they're calling, curiously, the rectenna.

Last week South Korean army forces retook the southern cities of Sunchon and Yosu, seized in a Communist uprising the week before .

Prosecutors on Thursday raided the private offices of leftist lawmaker Lee Seok-ki as part of their probe into the suspected election fraud involving a regional education chief.