North Korea News

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Sweden says two North Korean diplomats have been arrested on suspicion of smuggling cigarettes into the Nordic country.

"It will be just like Syria," said the strategic scholar just back from Israel and speculating about the much-debated question of whether Israel eventually will bomb Iran's nuclear installations.

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.

BEIJING: Chinese Defense Minister Liang Guanglie will visit the Democratic People's Republic of Korea on Nov 22, 2009.

Fifteen seamen from the Democratic People's Republic of Korea who were missing after their cargo ship sank off China's coast Tuesday have been saved by a Chinese maritime rescue team.

The new Japanese government should take a leadership role in helping to improve human rights conditions in North Korea, Human Rights Watch and three other nongovernmental organizations said today in a letter to Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama.

Freed . . . the Spanish tuna fishing boat Alakrana sails safely near a Spanish warship in the Indian Ocean.

A report released yesterday by the United Nations Population Fund showed that the social and economic gap between the two Koreas is widening.

Armed Somali pirates have hijacked a chemical tanker with 28 North Koreans onboard in the latest attacks along the world's most dangerous waters, a regional maritime official said on Tuesday.

The captain of a chemical tanker who was shot when his ship was hijacked earlier this week has died, Sky News reported a Somali pirate as saying.

A cargo ship from the Democratic People's Republic of Korea on Monday docked at a South Korean port, according to local media.

MOGADISHU: Somali pirates claimed Tuesday they were paid $4 million to free a Spanish trawler even as another group of ransom-hunting sea bandits seized a chemical tanker with 28 North Korean crew.

North Korea seeks to better relations with South Korea and resolve tension from a recent naval confrontation, a state-run newspaper editorial said Tuesday.

Major countries and nation-states are engaged in a "Cyber Cold War," amassing cyberweapons, conducting espionage, and testing networks in preparation for using the Internet to conduct war, according to a new report to be released on Tuesday by McAfee.

Pirates off the coast of Somalia have attacked two vessels, and at least one of those has been captured.

Presidents Barack Obama and Hu Jintao in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on Nov.

SEOUL: The Republic of Korea's President Lee Myung-bak yesterday urged local media not to overreact to military movements by the Democratic People's Republic of Korea , noting there has been no unusual situation since last week's naval clash between the two sides.

Syria's initial explanation of uranium traces UN inspectors found at a Damascus atom research reactor is unconvincing and they will take more samples in a deepening probe, the International Atomic Energy Agency said.

North Korea is unlikely to give up its nuclear weapons in the foreseeable future despite the upcoming talks with Washington, a former senior US diplomat who recently visited Pyongyang said Monday.