A community portal about North Korea with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: North Korea, officially the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, is a North Asian country situated on the northern half of the Korean...
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A community portal about North Korea with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: North Korea, officially the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, is a North Asian country situated on the northern half of the Korean Peninsula. Its capital is Pyongyang. Its northern border is shared mainly with China. Russia shares an 18.3 km border along the Tumen River in the far northeast corner of the country. To the south, it is bordered by South Korea, with which it formed one territorial unit known as Korea until 1945, when the country was divided into two separate states following World War II.
North Korea has announced that it will close the land border and cut non-military phone links with South Korea [BBC News]. Relations between North Korea and South Korea have been cooling down rapidly since the new government in South Korea and South Koreans are disconcerted by this sudden...
Plenty of dubious reports have been made about the health of North Korea's Dear Leader Kim Jong-il. So many, in fact, that they can't all possibly be true. This may stem from Pyongyang's belief that total secrecy is a pre-condition of survival. Some information does trickle out, such as from...
MANILA (Reuters) - North Korea demanded on Thursday the United States remove it from a list of states that sponsor terrorism before further progress can be made on dismantling its nuclear program. North Korean Foreign Minister Pak Ui-chun, addressing ...
The Chosun Ilbo November 17, 2008 The North Korean regime has sustained a hereditary dictatorship for over half a century thanks to a rule of terror and its success in completely blocking communication with the ...
It is becoming clear that the agreement that the US reached with Pyongyang last month to verify North Korea's nuclear activities, which led to North Korea's ...
North Korea's late founder Kim Il Sung swore to Beijing in the 1960s that he opposed the development of nuclear weapons, a report said Monday, citing a newly declassified Chinese document.In a letter Kim wrote to then-Chinese Prime Minister Zhou Enlai in late October 1964, Kim - father of current...
PYONGYANG, North Korea, Nov. 16 (UPI) -- North Korean leader Kim Jong Il made another public appearance at a military arts festival, the Communist country's official news agency reported Sunday.
The latest revelation from the (North) Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) that Pyongyang had never agreed in writing to allow experts to take samples for ...
Complaining that the Bush administration has offered little guidance as to how to interpret the behavior of Kim Jong Il’s government, members of Congress have been putting forward their own solutions to the nuclear standoff with Pyongyang.
North Korea on Saturday rejected South Korea's proposal for talks as mere "wordplay" and insisted Seoul should first scrap military exercises. South Korea called this week for talks with North Korea to ease worsening tensions after the North ...
South Korea is likely to provide aid agreed under a deal with North Korea despite differences in the North's nuclear verification process, South Korea's Yonhap News Agency reported on Sunday, citing a diplomatic source.
PYONGYANG - While the world wonders if North Korea is in the throes of a leadership crisis over Kim Jong-il's suspected stroke, the real power struggle for ordinary people in the hermit state is coping with electricity shortages. Blackouts frequently ...
Seoul. North Korea on Saturday rejected South Korea's proposal for talks as mere "wordplay" and insisted Seoul should first scrap military exercises AFP reports. South Korea called this week for talks with North Korea to ease worsening tensions after ...
North Korean leader Kim Jong-il, who has been the subject of reports of poor health outside his reclusive country, attended an art festival given by soldiers, the state-controlled news agency KCNA said on ...