Yanji, North Korea News

An 81-year-old South Korean prisoner of war who was arrested by Chinese police after fleeing North Korea in mid-August is in danger of being forced back to the North, it was reported Thursday.

Video footage shot by two TV journalists who were detained in North Korea after filming on the Chinese border was used by China to round up on North Korean refugees.

Video footage shot by two TV journalists who were detained in North Korea after filming on the Chinese border was used by China to round up on North Korean refugees.

Chinese police have detained two hackers who stole 450 million won from online bank accounts in South Korea, the Xinhua news agency said.

Chinese police have detained two hackers who stole 450 million won from online bank accounts in South Korea, the Xinhua news agency said.

Reporting from Yanji, China - In the markets of Kilju, a city of 100,000 near North Korea's eastern seacoast, the ruling Korean Workers' Party has ordered the removal of Chinese-made cookies, candies and pharmaceuticals.

General Secretary Kim Jong Il's word "One's own strength and senses are best" is the motto of the Korean people's life and struggle today.

Map locates Chinese city of Yanji and Tumen River, near where two U.S. journalists were arrested by North Korean guards1c x 3 3/8 inches; 46.5 mm x 85 mm; In this photo taken on April 1, 2002, Takashi Sugishima , center, a former Nihon Keizai Shimbun reporter who was detained in North Korea for over two years on suspicion more... FILE - In this ...

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North Korea's new in-your-face test of a nuclear weapon poses a grave new challenge to President Obama, one with no clear path to a solution.

Country risks further international isolation as underground nuclear explosion triggers earthquake in country's north-east North Korea today risked further international isolation after it claimed to have successfully tested a nuclear weapon as powerful as the atomic bomb that destroyed Hiroshima.

The Guardian reports that Russian defense experts estimated the North Korean explosion's yield at between 10 and 20 kilotons, many times more than the 1 kiloton measured in its first nuclear test in 2006, and about as powerful as the bombs the US used against Hiroshima and Nagasaki at the end of the second world war.

Earthquake Details Magnitude 4.7 Date-Time Monday, May 25, 2009 at 00:54:44 UTC Monday, May 25, 2009 at 09:54:44 AM at epicenter Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones Location 41.285N, 129.004E Depth 10 km set by location program Region NORTH KOREA Distances 70 km NNW of Kimchaek, North Korea 100 km SW of Chongjin, North Korea 185 km SSW of Yanji, ...

Raising the stakes of its challenge to the world, North Korea early Monday conducted an underground test of a nuclear weapon far more powerful than its first nuclear test nearly three years ago.

North Korea defiantly declared Monday that it carried out a powerful underground nuclear test - a major provocation less than two months after launching a rocket widely believed to be a test of its long-range missile technology.