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An independent review of allegations that United Nations Development Programme resources in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea were diverted to illicit purposes by the Government has found no evidence ...

The day's news continues to deliver a bountiful crop of theories, explanations, analyses, opinions and observations that I don't for a minute believe.

A U.N. agency accused by the United States of financial mismanagement in North Korea escaped charges of major wrongdoing in a review made public on Monday, and its chief said this brought closure to the affair.

Syria has invited U.N. inspectors to visit to probe allegations that a remote building destroyed by Israeli combat jets was a nuclear reactor built secretly with North Korean help, the International Atomic ...

The South Korean government said Monday it was delaying the planned resumption of U.S. beef imports, after a request from the ruling party and large weekend street protests.

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Kim Jong Il, top leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea , said universities should attach greater importance to foreign language studies, the Rodong Sinmun daily reported Friday.

Japanese Defense Minister ShigeruIshiba told an Asian security conference here Saturday that his country will work harder for the non-proliferation of weapons of mass destruction by exerting further efforts for ...

Former prime minister Benazir Bhutto of Pakistan, on a state visit to North Korea in 1993, smuggled crucial data on uranium enrichment to help facilitate a missile deal with Pyongyang, according to a new book ...

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Morgan Tsvangirai, Zimbabwe's opposition leader, claimed yesterday that Robert Mugabe's party no longer ruled the country.

Pakistan's top nuclear scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan salutes visitors as he arrives at a seminar on Prioritizing Science and Technology in National Agenda and Media's Role for the Paradigm Shift in Islamabad in ...

North Korea has not been linked to a terrorist attack in more than two decades, but it is still on the U.S. list of state sponsors of terrorism. Now, it may be on the verge of its coveted goal of getting removed _ for reasons having little to do with terrorism.

Meanwhile, Washington has what appears to be fresh evidence that Venezuela supported Colombian guerrillas that the U.S. considers terrorists. Yet the terrorism list does not include Venezuela, a major oil supplier to the United States.

North and South Korea's chief nuclear negotiators have met as part of efforts to restart stalled talks on Pyongyang's nuclear programs.

Seoul's Foreign Ministry spokesman Moon Tae-young says Friday's meeting in Beijing between the North's Kim Kye Gwan and the South's Kim Sook lasted for about an hour.

The spokesman says he does not have information on the talks' outcome.

The South's Kim recently took over the nuclear job and was meeting his North Korean counterpart for the first time.

Washington would remain committed to Asia no matter who wins this year's U.S. presidential election, U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates told the region's decision makers on Saturday.

Joseph DeTrani, the national intelligence director's mission manager for North Korea, said U.S. intelligence had been watching the reactor very closely and for a number of years.

The United States is pressing UN inspectors to broaden a search for secret nuclear sites in Syria to check if it has other hidden facilities beyond an alleged reactor destroyed by Israel, The Washington Post ...

Four countries last year prevented Syria from receiving equipment that could be used to test ballistic missile components, a senior U.S. official said on Wednesday.

Reports that North Korean leader Kim Jong Il had been assassinated are `false,' South Korean Unification Ministry spokesman Kim Ho Nyun said.

U.S. and North Korean officials made progress on Wednesday toward implementing a long-delayed disarmament agreement, but have yet to pin down a timetable for completing the stage of the nuclear negotiations.