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A NUMBER of North Koreans have been arrested and could face execution for leaking information on the movements of leader Kim Jong-Il to South Korean news media, reports and sources say.

The North Korea nuclear program is a crucial problem to solve. The issues of nuclear pursuits for war have plagued the human race since the dropping of 'little boy' and 'fat man' on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

He infuriated Washington by challenging claims Saddam Hussein had a secret nuclear program, grappled with Iranian and North Korean nuclear programs, and brought luster and unprecedented scrutiny to his organization by winning the Nobel Peace Prize in 2005.

Iran has restructured its naval forces to give an arm of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard full responsibility for operations in the strategic Persian Gulf in the event of a conflict, according to a new US intelligence study.

South and North Korea will carry out a joint inspection of industrial zones in China and Vietnam in mid-December to look for ways to better develop their own factory enclave in Gaeseong, a high-ranking Seoul official said.

People watch a TV screen broadcasting footage of South Korea's first rocket launch at a railway station in Seoul.

North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il took youngest son Kim Jong-Un on a "field guidance" trip as part of his grooming to take over the Stalinist nation, a Japanese newspaper reported on Sunday.

Pyongyang, November 23 -- The bellicose forces of the south Korean military let several warships chase a patrol boat of the Navy of the Korean People's Army on routine guard duty and fire thousands of bullets and shells at it in the West Sea of Korea on November 10.

John Delury Negotiations over the denuclearization of the Korean peninsula look set to resume.

U.S. intelligence chief Dennis Blair visited Korea this week for discussions on Seoul's planned troop dispatch to Afghanistan and regional security issues including the North Korean nuclear crisis, government sources said yesterday.

Xu Caihou, vice chairman of China's Central Military Commission, met here Friday with the People's Army Concerto Company of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea .

Internet access in North Korea has long been severely restricted, at least on an official basis.

Japan launched its fifth spy satellite into orbit Saturday in a bid to boost its ability to independently gather intelligence, the government said.

CHINESE and North Korean defence chiefs have pledged to strengthen their military alliance - dating back to the Korean War - during talks in Pyongyang, state media said on Monday.

South Korean soldiers and police executed nearly 5,000 citizens during the early months of the 1950-53 Korean War, fearing they could collaborate with invading North Korean troops, a government commission said Thursday.

For his first state dinner, the president tonight is hosting India's prime minister.

21 KYODO North Korea on Friday blasted the latest U.N. passage of a resolution on its human rights situation as ''a trite political plot'' crafted by the United States.

North Korea's nuclear program is a critical threat to regional security and Peter Hayes will analyze the difficulties the U.S. under President Obama and North Korea's Kim Jong II have faced, in a program presented by the World Affairs Council.

A fresh wave of cyber attacks that slowed U.S. and South Korean websites this week hit more targets Thursday, a Web security firm said, while the South's spy agency has said the hacking may be linked to North Korea.

There are good reasons for the international investment banker community being on the nose - " the unbridled greed, the disastrous "financial engineering", the unrepentant hubris of Masters of the Universe.

DPRK top leader Kim Jong-il meets Defense Minister Liang Guanglie in Pyongyang on November 25, 2009.

General Secretary Kim Jong Il made public the famous work "Let Us Open the Road to Fresh Victory with the Revolutionary Faith, Willpower and Courage of President Kim Il Sung" on November 25 seven years ago.

Prakash Karat, general secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of India Friday met and had a talk with the delegation of the Workers' Party of Korea participating in the 11th international meeting of communist and workers' parties.

Reporting from Seoul - As he cased the security at the foreign embassies in Hanoi, the 78-year-old retiree was seized with sudden self-doubt. He was certainly no John le Carre.

Senior military officials of China and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea said they would enhance relations between the two armed forces in Beijing on Wednesday.

North Koreans are well aware that Kim Jong-il's son Jong-un has been nominated as his father's successor and worry that his rule would be even harsher than Kim senior's, Radio Free Asia said Sunday quoting a North Korean source.

North Korea is running a global arms smuggling enterprise to finance its nuclear weapons program, a United Nations panel said in a report on sanctions imposed on the regime.

Defence Minister Liang Guanglie will visit North Korea soon, state media said on Friday, amid efforts to draw Pyongyang back to nuclear disarmament talks.

Pyongyang, November 23 -- Shortly ago, the south Korean puppets became one of the co-sponsors of the so-called "resolution on human rights situation in north Korea" at the UN General Assembly, zealously joining the United States in its conspiratorial "human rights" row against the DPRK.

A US Navy serviceman has been found not guilty of raping a sex worker in a Sydney brothel.

Kim Yong Chun , minister of the people's armed forces of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea , welcomes Chinese Defense Minister Liang Guanglie during a ceremony in Pyongyang, capital of the DPRK, Nov.

North Korea on Saturday criticized Unification Minister Hyun In-taek for hindering efforts to improve inter-Korean relations.

Today is Monday, November 30, the 334th day of 2009. There are 31 days left in the year.

CHINA welcomes dialogue between Washington and Pyongyang, Foreign Ministry spokesman Qin Gang said yesterday.

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.

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.

Reporting from Pyongyang, North Korea - Visiting North Korea is like peering in the window of a store that closed long ago but where old merchandise mysteriously remains.

If you go About 300 U.S. tourists travel to North Korea annually between Aug. 1 and Oct.

A decorated Marine toured through the Morehead area during Veterans Day week. Luther Leguire spoke at the Morehead Nazarene Church and West Carter High School JROTC.

For the past 12 years, Obert Parsons has met with a group of men he hadn't seen since 1953.

President Obama is emphasizing cooperation on his first major trip to Asia, opening with a warning to North Korea that there will be tough, unified action by the U.S. and its Asian partners if the Koreans fail to abandon their nuclear weapons programs.

A NORTH Korean diplomat has been found murdered in China's eastern city of Shenyang after he went missing from his country's consulate there, a South Korean newspaper said on Friday.

South Korean President Lee Myung-bakon Friday said his government will work together with other countries engaged in six-party talks to actively promote a negotiation strategy with the Democratic People's Republic of Korea .

In 1950, almost 100,000 North Koreans, fleeing Communist troops, fled to the port of Hungnam.

Kim Yong Nam, top legislator of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea , met here Thursday with Jack Lang, special envoy of the French president, the official news agency KCNA said.

World Council of Churches - News Release Contact: +41 22 791 6153 +41 79 507 6363 media@wcc-coe.org For immediate release - 12/11/2009 16:35:07 >WCC PRESSES FOR US-NORTH KOREA TALKS The World Council of Churches has urged the United States of America and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea to hold bilateral talks within the context of resumed ...

US President Barack Obama has flown out of Washington en route to Japan where he is to begin an eight-day Asian tour aimed at boosting economic growth.

Thursday, 12 November 2009, 1:46 pm Press Release: IFEX The Taiwan Foundation for Democracy is honouring exiled North Korean journalist Kim Seong-Min with its 2009 Asia Democracy and Human Rights Award.

Diplomats on the U.N. Security Council met on Sunday to respond to North Koreaa s rocket launch, with Washington calling for "strong" action and China and Russia appealing for calm.

WASHINGTON: During US President Barack Obama's visit to China next week, the two countries need to operationalize what they have reached in the past months on developing a positive, cooperative and comprehensive relationship, a US analyst said.

Laura Ling, right, and Euna Lee, left with Hana Saldate, center, at the awards. AP photo/Henny Ray Adams, with permission Glamour Magazine held the 2009 Women of the Year awards at Carnegie Hall in New York last night, Monday November 10th 2009.

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World powers including the U.S., Russia and China are teaming up at sea to tackle the pirates plaguing Somalia's lawless coast, as a sharp increase in attacks has forced nations who may be rivals on land to make unlikely alliances.

Secretary Clinton Arrived in Singapore for APEC Meeting/ Travel to Philippines and Return to Singapore for ASEAN NORTH KOREA Ambassador Bosworth and an Inter-Agency Team will Travel to Pyongyang at an Undetermined Date/ Talks Aim to Return North Korea to the Six-Party Talks/ US Believes the Only Path Forward Defer Comments on Today's Naval Skirmish ...

VIEW: South Korea's growing soft power -Joseph S Nye Jr South Korea has the resources to produce soft power, and its soft power is not prisoner to the geographical limitations that have constrained its hard power throughout its history When the Association of Southeast Asian Nations met in Thailand last month, South Korea was an important presence.

The Army psychiatrist accused of a mass shooting at Fort Hood has met with his lawyer at a Texas hospital where he's under guard.

South Korea on Tuesday said the existing inter-Korean exchanges and cooperation will go forward as usual and not be affected by an earlier naval clash with the Democratic People's Republic of Korea .

North Korea has completed reprocessing spent fuel rods to make more fuel for nuclear weapons.

Nov 9 - South Koreans launch thousands of leaflets, attached to balloons, over the border into North Korea denouncing political prison camps.

Berlina s Brandenburg Gate is lit up for a concert by the band U2 on Thursday, Nov.

French President Nicolas Sarkozy's special envoy began talks Monday with North Korea on establishing diplomatic relations and the international standoff over Pyongyang's nuclear programs.

The United States and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea will likely hold bilateral talks in early December, South Korea's Yonhap News Agency on Monday quoted a senior government official as saying.

North Korean leader Kim Jong-il urged his country's armed service members to improve their combat capabilities, saying they must be prepared to protect their socialist nation, the North's official news agency reported Sunday.

WALLS designed to keep people in or out a ' whether in Berlin, Nicosia, Israel, or Korea a ' are always the product of fear: East German leaders' fear of a mass exodus by their citizens seeking freedom and dignity; Greek and Turkish Cypriot leaders' fear of continued war; Israelis' fear of terrorism; or the North Korean leadership's fear of ...

The film "Korea: Out of the North" is a 52-minute edited English version of "On The Border" and was aired in BBC in May last year.

It seems investors have been getting carried away with the idea that America and the rest of the developed world are in the early stages of an economic recovery.

Nuclear impasses with Iran and North Korea are the dominant issues for Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on her trip to Europe and Asia, which begins with a stopover in Germany to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the Berlin Wall's fall.

As North Korea began gingerly to open its doors to Westerners during the terrible famine of the 1990s, a foreign aid worker remarked that when it came to understanding life in that isolated country, many "have snapshots, nobody has seen the movie." Barbara Demick, a longtime correspondent in Asia for the Los Angeles Times, has written a book that ...

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ARTICLE: In North Korea, the military now issues economic orders , By Blaine Harden, Washington Post , November 3, 2009 Important story on NorKo: if it does indeed contain almost $6T in mineral wealth, then I guess I would expect China to allow Kim's kleptocracy to continue concentrating itself on that flow, meaning no hope that China will do much ...

A nuclear test and the resulting international outcry, the detention of two U.S. journalists for illegal entry, a spat with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton , serious food shortages.

THE United States is open to sending an envoy to Pyongyang if North Korea shows it is serious about giving up nuclear weapons, President Barack Obama's top Asia adviser said on Friday.

Jose Manuel Galego Montano, Cuban ambassador to the DPRK, and staff members of his embassy did a friendship work at the DPRK-Cuba Friendship Hwasong Co-op Farm in Ryongsong District, Pyongyang, Tuesday.

THE Hereford branch of the British Korean Veterans Association is holding eight remembrance services this week.

North Korea has asked South Korean civic organizations for urgent food aid, but it has not answered Seoul's proposal to provide 10,000 tons of corn made Oct.

The North Korean military hacked into the South Korean Army command in March and a password for the National Institute of Environmental Research website leaked out, Lt.

The United States is expected to respond to North Korea's call for bilateral talks soon amid growing impatience in Pyongyang, which recently made announcements about progress in its nuclear arms program.

The Democratic People's Republic of Korea was hoping to ease tensions on the Korean Peninsula in order to create a peaceful environment for the country's economic construction, an official newspaper said Saturday.

The Olympic flame for the Vancouver 2010 Winter Games is due to arrive in Canada on Friday at 7:15 a.m. PT aboard a Canadian Forces aircraft at Victoria International Airport, near the town of Sidney, B.C. Published: 43 minutes ago Provided by: CBC - Canadian Broadcasting Centre AFP - US forces expect insurgents to plan more spectacular attacks ...

Glorious Ranger confronts Ultraviolet Thunder over the danger a fish presents to a squirrel's nuts.

The 60th anniversary of diplomatic relations between China and North Korea earlier this month provided the occasion for a high-level Chinese visit.

After being feted in Europe, mobbed in Africa and even cheered in the Middle East, Barack Obama will test the limits of his global starpower next week in his debut presidential tour of Asia.

Agents of Israel's Mossad intelligence service hacked into the computer of a senior Syrian government official a year before Israel bombed a facility in Syria in 2007, according to Der Spiegel .

Former prisoners describe harrowing ordeals as UN prepares to scrutinise North Korea's human rights record North Korean soldiers at the international border between North Korea and China on the Yalu river.

The United States and the European Union said on Tuesday that they will strengthen multilateral measures on non-proliferation of nuclear weapons, but urging Iran and Democratic People's Republic of Korea to fulfill their international obligations on nuclear programs.

Kwang-Tae Kim Seoul - Published on Wednesday, Nov. 04, 2009 5:20AM EST T he former chairman of South Korea's oldest conglomerate, the Doosan Group, was found dead Wednesday in an apparent suicide, the latest in a string of high-profile South Koreans taking their own lives.

The Obama administration on Tuesday accused the Democratic People's Republic of Korea of violating UN Security Council resolutions to produce material useable in nuclear weapons, urging the country back to the six-party process.

Communist Party of China Central Committee General Secretary and Chinese President Hu Jintao meets with Choe Tae Bok , secretary of the Central Committee of the Worker's Party of Korea of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea in Beijing, Oct.

Caption: Michael Caine Gala Premiere of 'Is Anybody There?' held at the Curzon Mayfair - Arrivals.

Japanese government officials have determined that North Korean leader Kim Jong Il oversaw the Pyongyang agency responsible for abducting Japanese nationals in the 1970s and 1980s, despite Kim's claim he was not involved, sources said.

Anti-North Korea protesters chant slogans and hold signs denouncing North Korea's nuclear test, in Seoul May 25, 2009.

The U.S. Department of the Treasury today designated Amroggang Development Bank as a proliferator of weapons of mass destruction under Executive Order 13382 for being owned or controlled by North Korea's Tanchon Commercial Bank .

The North Korean city Kaesong plans to launch full-fledged talks with the U.N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization in February to get its historical sites registered as the World Heritage, according to a Kaesong official.

An increasing number of signs indicate that North Korean leader Kim Jong-il's youngest son Jong-eun has reached a significant stage in the grooming process to succeed his father.

The Democratic People's Republic of Korea Monday reiterated its call for the United States to hold direct talks with it in order to find a solution to the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula.

National Intelligence Service director Won Sei-hoon on Thursday pointedly avoided denying rumors of a behind-the-scenes meeting between the two Koreas to prepare for a summit.

The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language defines a Rogue as: 'an unprincipled person; a scoundrel or rascal; a vicious and solitary animal; an organism that shows an undesirable variation from the standard.' By that definition, the People's Democratic Republic of Korea -- PDRK -- is clearly a rogue state.

Daniel Chun peers out of the window of the Air Koryo turboprop from China as it touches down outside Pyongyang, his former home.