SEOUL (Reuters) - The one certainty in unpredictable North Korea is that if the state detonates a nuclear device or leader Kim Jong-il ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - North Korean efforts to install one of ailing leader Kim Jong-il's sons as a hereditary successor are likely to fail, ...
North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il has praised a cooperative farm for securing its richest-ever harvest, state media said Friday, amid foreign reports of severe looming food shortages for the nation. Kim said a tenacious drive "reaped the richest-ever harvest" at the Migok ...
A South Korean minister confirmed Thursday that North Korea has suspended a propaganda campaign to promote the youngest son of leader Kim Jong-Il as his eventual successor. Instead, the communist state is calling for solidarity around the current leader, Vice Unification Minister ...
Visiting Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao met North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il late Monday amid efforts to bring Pyongyang back to nuclear disarmament talks, Beijing's state media reported. "Premier Wen Jiabao held talks with North Korea's top leader Kim Jong-Il on Monday evening," ...
China and North Korea vowed Monday to strengthen a friendship which they said preserved regional peace, as Premier Wen Jiabao pressed on with a mission to bring Pyongyang back to nuclear disarmament talks. "History has proven that developing China-North Korea relations is ...
In this image from a footage shot by APTN, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao, left, is greeted by North Korean leader Kim Jong Il upon Wen's arrival in Pyongyang, North Korea, Sunday, Oct. 4, 2009. Wen arrived Sunday here on a highly anticipated ...
SEOUL (Reuters) - Hahm Ok-yeop waited nearly 60 years to see the brother and sister she had left behind in North Korea. Now she wishes she hadn't met them again. The 74-year-old grandmother was among the 97 South Koreans who crossed the ...
South Korea Wednesday launched two new high-speed patrol boats armed with missiles to guard the border with North Korea, as the incoming defence minister warned of ongoing military tensions. The defence ministry said the 400-ton boats -- the Han Sang Guk and ...
Books about North Korean leader Kim Jong Il are displayed at a bookstore in Seoul, South Korea, Friday, Sept. 18, 2009. A news report says North Korean leader Kim Jong Il has expressed willingness to engage in "bilateral and multilateral talks." (AP ...
SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korean leader Kim Jong-il told a visiting Chinese envoy he will work to end his country's nuclear arms program through multilateral talks in an apparent breakthrough, but similar vows in the past have not been met with action. ...
TOKYO (Reuters) - North Korea's nominal No. 2 leader has called for "fruitful relations" with Japan's next prime minister, Yukio Hatoyama, but ties will depend on how Tokyo tackles issues such as compensation for Japan's 1910-1945 colonial rule, Kyodo news agency reported ...
