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Hopes are high for progress on disabling Pyongyang's nuclear programme after the hard work of a US diplomat Comments John Swenson-Wright guardian.co.uk , Reports that Washington and Pyongyang may be on the ...

By Mark Heinrich

VIENNA (Reuters) - North Korea barred U.N. monitoring throughout its Yongbyon nuclear complex on Thursday in a significant step toward scrapping a deal with five powers to scrap its atomic bomb program, diplomats said.

"The monitors were told that as of today, they are out, no more access permitted to any facilities in Yongbyon. But as of now, they are still in their guest house on the premises," a senior diplomat close to the International Atomic Energy Agency told Reuters.

Just moving in Japanese language, from South Korean daily newspaper. Norkies launched two missiles into Yellow Sea just the other day .

Two North Korean soldiers observe the south side using binoculars at the truce village of Panmunjom in the demilitarized zone border between the two Koreas since the Korean War, north of Seoul, South Korea, ...

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YAHOO! Story published at magicvalley.com on Saturday, October 04, 2008 Last modified on Saturday, October 4, 2008 2:45 AM MDT U.S. nuclear envoy Christopher Hill, right, shakes hands with his South Korean ...

As the series of corruption probes into members of the opposition Democratic Party grows, prosecutors have announced that they are currently investigating Kim Min-seok, a member of the DP supreme council.

Nuclear bond for North Korea and Myanmar By Norman Robespierre YANGON - A recent flurry of high-level contacts between North Korea and Myanmar raises new nuclear proliferation concerns between the two pariah ...

BBC Monitoring Newsfile 2008-10-02 Text of report in English by Japan's largest news agency Kyodo Washington, 1 October: The United States may move to cross North Korea off its list of terror-sponsoring ...

John McCain, the Republican nominee for president, ridicules as naive his rival Barack Obama's promise to talk to the leaders of the nation's adversaries -- among them Iran and North Korea.

In the days when Great Leader Kim Il Sung was running the country, son Kim Jong Il was at his happiest visiting the sets and stages of the film studio on the edge of the capital.

A guide imparts this glimpse into good times enjoyed by the heir before his father died in 1994, leaving the son the responsibility for near-total power that left little time for movies.

Nonetheless, the tradition lives on. The studio here churns out 20 movies a year, and this month the government held its 20th annual Pyongyang International Film Festival: nearly two week of domestic and foreign movies mostly with themes reflecting class differences or the victory of socialist or communist forces.

The Czech film Empties directed by Jan Sverak has won a special award by the international jury at the international film festival on Pyongyang, the Czech embassy informed CTK Monday.

Bavarians voted in a state election yesterday, with polls suggesting that the prosperous region's dominant conservative party - a key ally of German Chancellor Angela Merkel - may struggle to maintain its ...

Nuclear wheeling and dealing occurred on three fronts Saturday. LEE JIN-MAN/The Associated Press A South Korean tank fired during a recent exercise with the U.S. near the demilitarized zone.

The U.S. nuclear envoy for North Korea, Chris Hill, is set to visit Pyongyang in coming days for talks with North Korean officials in a bid to salvage crumbling six-party denuclearization talks, a senior U.S. ...

As the West wondered about the health of North Korean leader Kim Jong Il, and world leaders worried about the country restarting its nuclear reactor, the foreign guests from some 30 or so countries that trekked ...

North Koreans got a rare chance to see foreign films - including Britain's Oscar-winning "Atonement" and China's "Assembly" - during the 11th Pyongyang International Film Festival held in the communist capital.

The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency says North Korea has asked it to remove its seals and cameras from the Yongbyon nuclear reactor.

The National Police Agency is monitoring a total of 76 pro-North Korea websites overseas.

The head of the U.N. nuclear agency said Monday that North Korea has asked his agency to remove its seals from the Yongbyon nuclear reactor.