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North Korea's surprise currency revaluation last month was led by the youngest son of leader Kim Jong-Il, who is reportedly being groomed to take over the communist state, a news report said Wednesday.
U.S. business executives say they told North Korean leaders during a visit to Pyongyang last week that they must give up their nuclear ambitions if they want foreign investment in the isolated country.
Tough U.N. sanctions are putting pressure on North Korea to halt its nuclear program, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations said Tuesday.
A plane seized in Bangkok with a cache of North Korean weapons wasn't headed to Iran, a senior Thai police official said Wednesday, contradicting an report from trafficking experts.
A plane seized in Bangkok with a cache of North Korean weapons wasn't headed to Iran, a senior Thai police official said Wednesday, contradicting a report from arms trafficking experts.
United Nations U.S. Ambassador Susan Rice stressed that a visit to Pyongyang earlier this month by U.S. Ambassador Stephen Bosworth was not to open U.S.-North Korean negotiations.
The flight plan for an aircraft seized in Thailand with a load of illicit North Korean arms and ammunition shows that the mysterious plane was headed to Iran, a new report from arms-trafficking researchers says.
WASHINGTON — U.S. business executives say they told North Korean leaders last week they must give up their nuclear ambitions if they want foreign investment.
Dec. 22 (Bloomberg) -- The plane carrying 35 tons of North Korean weapons bound for Iran that was seized in Thailand this month was chartered by a Hong Kong-registered company set up in November, according to a report by arms-trafficking monitors.
The U.S. is more willing than ever to normalize relations with the Hermit Kingdom, but in exchange, North Korea has to be less crazy.... By Andisheh Nouraee The website for North Korea's Korean Central News Agency isn't usually a repository of hope. The best one can usually expect from reading it is a guilty chuckle. The rote totalitarian rigidity apparent in stories like "Every Korean Urged to ...
President Obama has written a secret letter to Kim Jong-il urging him to change his ways. Here's a look at how the 'Dear Leader' might respond
North Korea threatened South Korean ships with possible attack by designating a firing zone along their disputed sea border...
Three weeks after North Korea redenominated its currency on Nov. 30, few outside experts can say with authority what's really going on there. Confusion lingers as to just how much of the existing currency can be converted into new notes. Also, North Korea watchers have been unable to confirm ...
North Korea declared waters along its disputed sea border with South Korea a "firing zone" Monday and warned ships from the South to stay away from the area, which was the scene of a deadly clash last month.
Recent espionage incidents show that enemies in Afghanistan and North Korea aren't as digitally unsophisticated as they seem.
Dec. 21 (Bloomberg) -- North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il will probably visit China in January or February for the first time in four years, the Yomiuri newspaper said, citing unidentified people familiar with relations between the two countries.
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