(SEOUL, South Korea) — North Korea fired three short-range guided missiles into its eastern waters on Saturday, a South Korean official said. It routinely tests such missiles, but the latest launches came during a period of tentative diplomacy aimed at easing tensions.
The North fired two missiles Saturday morning and another in the …
(PYONGYANG, North Korea) — North Korea says an American citizen sentenced to 15 years hard labor has started life at a “special prison.”
No other details were immediately available Wednesday about Kenneth Bae. Pyongyang said earlier this week that Bae informed his family on Friday that he couldn’t appeal his April 30 sentence and that
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(SEOUL, South Korea) — North Korea has replaced its hard-line defense chief with a little-known army general, according to a state media report Monday, in what outside analysts call an attempt to install a younger figure meant to solidify leader Kim Jong Un‘s grip on the powerful military.
Jang Jong Nam’s appointment is the latest …
(SEOUL, South Korea) — For 20 years, fears about North Korea’s headlong pursuit of nuclear bombs have been watered down with smirking admonishments not to overestimate an impoverished dictatorship prone to bragging and …
(WASHINGTON) Projecting a united front, President Barack Obama and South Korea’s new leader warned North Korea on Tuesday against further nuclear provocations, with Obama declaring that the days when Pyongyang could “create a crisis and elicit concessions” were over.
Obama also disputed the notion that his cautious response to …
(WASHINGTON) — The U.S. called Thursday for North Korea to grant amnesty and immediately release a Korean-American sentenced to 15 years’ hard labor for “hostile acts” against the state.
Kenneth Bae, 44, a Washington state man described by friends as a devout Christian and a tour operator, is at least the sixth American detained in …
(SEOUL, South Korea) — A Korean American detained for six months in North Korea has been sentenced to 15 years of hard labor for “hostile acts” against the state, the North’s media said Thursday — a move that could
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(PAJU, South Korea) — Most South Koreans who had remained at an industrial park in North Korea had returned home early Tuesday morning, officials said, leaving a final seven behind to negotiate unpaid wages for North Korean workers.
The Unification Ministry in Seoul said 43 South Koreans began departing from Kaesong late Monday …
(PYONGYANG, North Korea) — The heart of this city, once famous for its Dickensian darkness, now pulsates with neon.
Glossy construction downtown has altered the Pyongyang skyline. Inside supermarkets where shopgirls wear …
(PYONGYANG, North Korea) — North Korea announced Saturday that an American detained for nearly six months is being tried in the Supreme Court on charges of plotting to overthrow the government, a crime that could draw the death penalty if he is convicted.
The case involving Kenneth Bae, who has been in North Korean custody since …
(PYONGYANG, North Korea) — North Korea announced Saturday that an American detained for nearly six months is being tried in the Supreme Court on charges of plotting to overthrow the government, a crime that could draw the death penalty if he is convicted.
The case involving Kenneth Bae, who has been in North Korean custody since …
(SEOUL, South Korea) — North Korea‘s military, founded 81 years ago Thursday, is older than the country itself. It began as an anti-Japanese militia and is now the heart of the nation’s “military first” policy.
(BEIJING) — China’s top general said a fourth North Korean nuclear weapons test is a possibility that underscores the need for fresh talks between Pyongyang and other regional parties.
Chief of the General Staff Gen. Fang Fenghui said Beijing firmly opposes the North’s nuclear weapons program and wants to work with others on
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