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AP via Yahoo! News - Fri Nov 27, 11:28 am ET
South Korea's president announced Friday he is willing to meet North Korea's leader Kim Jong Il in order to resolve the nuclear stand off on the divided peninsula and tackle other thorny issues.
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AFP via Yahoo! News - Fri Nov 27, 5:24 am ET
North Korea leader Kim Jong-Il has urged the country's navy to bolster its forces, state media said Friday, amid increased cross-border tensions caused by the inter-Korean naval clash last month.
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Newsweek - 2 hours 6 minutes ago
Private enterprise is thriving in the Hermit Kingdom, and Kim Jong Il is powerless to stop it.
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INO News - Wed Nov 25, 11:11 am ET
(RTTNews) - North Korea's leader Kim Jong Il affirmed Pyongyang's "unbreakable" friendship with Beijing Wednesday, when he met with visiting Chinese Defense Minister Liang Guanglie.
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The Madison County Journal - Fri Nov 27, 1:40 am ET
Of course, none have been quite like the one in North Korea Wednesday, Nov. 11, when the Fuller Center for Housing and North Korea's Paektusan Academy of Architecture met to celebrate a planned 50-home development and self-sustaining community at Osan-Ri in the Sunan District near Pyongyang.
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AFP via Yahoo! News - Wed Nov 25, 12:02 pm ET
North Korean leader Kim Jong Il told China's defence minister Wednesday that relations between the two nations were "unbreakable," citing their joint military ties, state press said.
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AFP via Yahoo! News - Fri Nov 27, 1:48 pm ET
South Korean President Lee Myung-Bak said he was open to any type of dialogue with his North Korean counterpart if it would help resolve the nuclear stand-off.
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Fox News - Wed Nov 25, 9:56 am ET
North Korea's leader Kim Jong Il says ties with China are "unbreakable" and has called for increased cooperation between the communist nations amid international pressure on Pyongyang to return to nuclear disarmament talks.
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Time Magazine - Fri Nov 27, 5:39 am ET
South Korea's Truth and Reconciliation Commission has been excavating 12 mass graves from the Korean War since 2005, but time may be running out
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Reuters via Yahoo! News - Wed Nov 25, 7:45 am ET
North Korean leader Kim Jong-il on Wednesday told the visiting Chinese defense minister that his isolated country's friendship with China was "unbreakable," even as ties have been tested by the North's nuclear tests.
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Park Hills Daily Journal - Fri Nov 27, 12:21 pm ET
WASHINGTON (AP) — Nuclear impasses with Iran and North Korea are the dominant issues for Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on her trip to Europe and Asia, which begins with a stopover in Germany to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the Berlin Wall’s fall.
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UPI - Wed Nov 25, 11:04 am ET
BEIJING, Nov. 25 (UPI) -- China and North Korea have vowed to strengthen their defense alliance that was first "sealed in blood" when they fought together in the Korean War.
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AP via Yahoo! News - Thu Nov 26, 7:19 am ET
South Korean soldiers and police executed nearly 5,000 citizens during the early months of the 1950-53 Korean War, fearing they could collaborate with invading North Korean troops, a government commission said Thursday.
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Bloomberg - Fri Nov 27, 10:56 am ET
Nov. 28 (Bloomberg) -- South Korean President Lee Myung-bak said today that he’s ready to meet North Korean leader Kim Jong- il “anytime and anywhere,” if it will help convince the North to give up its nuclear programs, Yonhap News Agency reported.
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Pioneer Press - Fri Nov 27, 1:13 am ET
SEOUL, South Korea — South Korean soldiers and police executed nearly 5,000 citizens during the early months of the 1950-53 Korean War, fearing they could collaborate with invading North Korean troops, a government commission said Thursday. The victims were members of the National Guidance League, or 'Bodo' League, that the then-staunchly anti-communist government created to 're-educate ...