Pyongyang, North Korea News

Rumors are swirling in South Korea over the upcoming visit to North Korea for direct talks by U.S. special envoy Stephen Bosworth slated for Dec.

CHINESE and North Korean defence chiefs have pledged to strengthen their military alliance - dating back to the Korean War - during talks in Pyongyang, state media said on Monday.

A one-time partner of North Korean leader Kim Jong-il may have married another man and left her job as Kim's secretary, South Korean intelligence sources said.

Japan 'would like to hope that some kind of progress will be made,' Foreign Minister Katsuya Okada told reporters.

A fresh wave of cyber attacks that slowed U.S. and South Korean websites this week hit more targets Thursday, a Web security firm said, while the South's spy agency has said the hacking may be linked to North Korea.

21 KYODO North Korea on Friday blasted the latest U.N. passage of a resolution on its human rights situation as ''a trite political plot'' crafted by the United States.

If you go About 300 U.S. tourists travel to North Korea annually between Aug. 1 and Oct.

China and the United States announced Thursday they will send senior officials to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea as nations try to get the DPRK back to negotiations over its nuclear programs.

A special committee of the U.N. General Assembly condemned North Korea and Myanmar on Thursday for what it said were widespread human rights violations in the two Asian countries.

China welcomes and supports the dialogues and contacts between Washington and Pyongyang, said Foreign Ministry spokesman Qin Gang here on Thursday.

North Korea appears to be taking elaborate measures to evade U.N. sanctions aimed at its nuclear and missile activities, arms trading and import of luxuries, U.N. experts say in a new report.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton addresses a press conference after attending APEC ministerial meetings in Singapore on Nov.

North Korea built about 800 bunkers in the demilitarized zone to keep military equipment between 2004 and 2007, Radio Free Asia said Monday quoting a former North Korean colonel who has worked for a South Korean military intelligence agency after defecting during the 2000s.

Pyongyang, November 16 -- Walter Sharp, commander of the U.S. forces in south Korea, was recently reported to have underscored the need to keep the "UN Command" in the future, too, claiming it is an "effective mechanism" to eliminate the "factor of conflict" from the Asia-Pacific region and it will "protect" the Korean Peninsula from "hostile ...

Tuesday, November 17, 2009 SEOUL: North Korea is unlikely to give up its nuclear weapons in the foreseeable future despite the upcoming talks with Washington, a former senior US diplomat who recently visited Pyongyang said on Monday.

French President Nicholas Sarkozy's special envoy to North Korea says he held long discussions with officials there on sensitive issues when he visited the communist country last week.

US PRESIDENT Barack Obama has signalled his determination to engage with Asia by accepting an offer from North Korea to send a special envoy to Pyongyang for direct talks on nuclear issues.

President Barack Obama has begun his one week, four-country visit to Asia. The fact that about half of that time will be spent in China is a measure of the importance of the U.S.-China relationship.

Russia and Singapore are in favor of continuing talks on North Korea's nuclear issue, according to a joint statement adopted during Russian President Dmitry Medvedev's official visit to Singapore.

Reporting from Pyongyang, North Korea - Visiting North Korea is like peering in the window of a store that closed long ago but where old merchandise mysteriously remains.