DPRK to further strengthen economic, cultural cooperation with China
The Democratic People's Republic of Korea will continue to enhance economic and cultural cooperation with China under the guidelines of a cooperation pact signed 55 years ago, the DPRK's vice premier said ...
Slide Show: North Korean Brinkmanship
North Korea is notorious for creating a crisis when it wants to squeeze concessions from the international community.
North Korea: Going, going, going again
HE MAY be a few pixels short of a picture these days, but as an auctioneer North Korea's nuclear-capable Kim Jong Il is without peer.
Wreaths Laid before Bust of Revolutionary Martyr Ryu Kyong Su
Wreaths were laid before the bust of revolutionary martyr Ryu Kyong Su at the Revolutionary Martyrs Cemetery on Mt.
Japanese missile defense test fails off Hawaii
A Japanese naval destroyer failed to shoot down a ballistic missile target on Wednesday because of a glitch in the final stage of an interceptor missile made by Raytheon Co, a U.S. military official said.
SKorea seeks to stop propaganda leaflets to NKorea
South Korean officials urged activists Wednesday to refrain from sending propaganda leaflets over the border into North Korea. But activists vowed to keep sending the flyers critical of North Korean leader Kim Jong Il into the North in huge balloons, despite the political tension the leaflets are causing between the two Koreas. The two Koreas agreed in 2004 to end decades of propaganda warfare across the Demilitarized Zone dividing the neighbors. North Korea, where leader Kim is the subject of a personality cult, accuses the South of violating the 2004 pact by allowing the leaflets, and has threatened to restrict traffic through the border starting next month in retaliation.
IAEA unable to say if bombed Syrian site was nuclear reactor
The UN atomic watchdog said Wednesday it could not yet determine if a building in a remote site in the Syrian desert bombed by Israeli planes last year was a nuclear reactor, as the United States claims.
Remains of soldier returned home -- 60 years after his death
For nearly 60 years a Central Texas soldier who fought in the Korean war was listed as "killed in action." His body was never found and his family has never gotten the chance to give him the military funeral he ...
Barnett: Obama's chance to unwind missile defense
As America's strategic dialogue with Russia shifts into reverse over our planned missile defense in Eastern Europe, President-elect Barack Obama has an opportunity to curtail this foolish turn of events, but ...
Bush flips on Iraq, N. Korea criticized
Sara A. Carter and Nicholas Kralev Tuesday, November 18, 2008 President Bush 's efforts to resolve two major foreign-policy challenges in his waning days in office have prompted double-barreled criticisms, with ...
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