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The seizure at Bangkok’s airport of 35 tons of North Korean arms being shipped by plane raises a disturbing question: How many weapons is North Korea managing to ship undetected to Iran and other clients worldwide?
The United States has set no timetable with North Korea on its return to nuclear arms talks, a senior US envoy said Monday in Moscow after ice-breaking meetings in Pyongyang.
South Korea is preparing to ship medical supplies worth more than 15 million dollars to help North Korea fight an outbreak of swine flu, officials said Monday.
North Korea leader Kim Jong-il has had a key role in helping his country's football team qualify for the 2010 World Cup, according to the officials. The official said Kim Jong-il personally guided the team at the stadium during the crucial draw with Iran in April last year. -MNA
Thailand today brought the crew of an impounded cargo plane carrying North Korea weapons before a criminal court. The circumstances of the seizure – like why a plane with illicit arms stopped in US ally territory for refueling – is raising questions.
Seoul (AFP) Dec 14, 2009 - North Korea is still seeking recognition as a nuclear power despite trying to normalise relations with the United States, South Korea's top military officer said Monday.
(RTTNews) - Stephen Bosworth, US President Barrack Obama's special envoy dealing with North Korea's nuclear issue, asserted Washington's stand that it will not sign a peace treaty with Pyongyang until it abandons its controversial nuclear weapons program.
BANGKOK — The seizure in Thailand of some 35 tons of war weaponry from North Korea and the arrest of five foreigners charged with illegal possession of arms may prove a blow to efforts by the United States to negotiate a halt to Pyongyang's nuclear ambitions, observers said Sunday.
The U.S. envoy for North Korea said on Monday no timetable had been set for talks on nuclear disarmament with the isolated state to resume.
A Thai court Monday extended the detention of a five-man crew of a plane carrying weapons out of North Korea, the first known airborne arms cargo seized under the latest UN sanctions against Pyongyang.
A veteran State Department expert on Northeast Asia, Evans Revere says that the expectations for special envoy Stephen W. Bosworth's initial visit to Pyongyang were "probably pretty low."
MOSCOW (AP) — The special U.S. envoy to North Korea says he has been encouraged by his meetings with North Korean officials.
Thai authorities on Monday sought to unravel the mystery of the ultimate destination of a plane that landed in Bangkok with a huge cache of weapons from North Korea, exported in defiance of a U.N. embargo on arms from the communist state.
PYONGYANG, North Korea, Dec. 14 (UPI) -- North Korea may want normal relations with other countries, but South Korea's top military official says it also wants recognition as a nuclear weapon state.
The seizure in Thailand of some 35 tons of war weaponry from North Korea may prove a blow to efforts by the United States to negotiate a halt to Pyongyang's nuclear ambitions.
Dec. 14 (Bloomberg) -- A Thai court approved a 12-day detention for five crew members of a plane carrying weapons from North Korea that was seized in Bangkok two days ago.
