North Korea News

Kim Jong Il, top leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea , has inspected the headquarters of the Ministry of People's Security, the official Korean Central News Agency reported Sunday.

A GROUP of US experts on Korean affairs will visit Pyongyang Saturday for talks with policy makers regarding North Korea's nuclear weapons programme, a news report said.

Although her daughter was released in August, San Gabriel Valley's Mary Ling still feels the emotional roller coaster she endured for more than five months.

In 1947, after George Kennan, writing under the pseudonym "X," published his famous article on "The Sources of Soviet Conduct" in Foreign Affairs , he quickly found that his concept of "containment" was distorted in the public discussion about his article that ensued.

South Korean Buddhist monks headed to North Korea on Saturday for a joint ceremony with monks there, showing the countries continue civil exchange despite a bloody naval skirmish earlier this month.

U.S. President Barack Obama and South Korean President Lee Myung Bak reaffirmed in Seoul on Thursday that they will seek a "definite and comprehensive resolution" to the North Korean nuclear issue.

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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.