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ARTICLE: In North Korea, the military now issues economic orders , By Blaine Harden, Washington Post , November 3, 2009 Important story on NorKo: if it does indeed contain almost $6T in mineral wealth, then I guess I would expect China to allow Kim's kleptocracy to continue concentrating itself on that flow, meaning no hope that China will do much ...

A nuclear test and the resulting international outcry, the detention of two U.S. journalists for illegal entry, a spat with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton , serious food shortages.

THE United States is open to sending an envoy to Pyongyang if North Korea shows it is serious about giving up nuclear weapons, President Barack Obama's top Asia adviser said on Friday.

Jose Manuel Galego Montano, Cuban ambassador to the DPRK, and staff members of his embassy did a friendship work at the DPRK-Cuba Friendship Hwasong Co-op Farm in Ryongsong District, Pyongyang, Tuesday.

THE Hereford branch of the British Korean Veterans Association is holding eight remembrance services this week.

North Korea has asked South Korean civic organizations for urgent food aid, but it has not answered Seoul's proposal to provide 10,000 tons of corn made Oct.

The North Korean military hacked into the South Korean Army command in March and a password for the National Institute of Environmental Research website leaked out, Lt.

The United States is expected to respond to North Korea's call for bilateral talks soon amid growing impatience in Pyongyang, which recently made announcements about progress in its nuclear arms program.

The Democratic People's Republic of Korea was hoping to ease tensions on the Korean Peninsula in order to create a peaceful environment for the country's economic construction, an official newspaper said Saturday.

The Olympic flame for the Vancouver 2010 Winter Games is due to arrive in Canada on Friday at 7:15 a.m. PT aboard a Canadian Forces aircraft at Victoria International Airport, near the town of Sidney, B.C. Published: 43 minutes ago Provided by: CBC - Canadian Broadcasting Centre AFP - US forces expect insurgents to plan more spectacular attacks ...

Glorious Ranger confronts Ultraviolet Thunder over the danger a fish presents to a squirrel's nuts.

The 60th anniversary of diplomatic relations between China and North Korea earlier this month provided the occasion for a high-level Chinese visit.

After being feted in Europe, mobbed in Africa and even cheered in the Middle East, Barack Obama will test the limits of his global starpower next week in his debut presidential tour of Asia.

Agents of Israel's Mossad intelligence service hacked into the computer of a senior Syrian government official a year before Israel bombed a facility in Syria in 2007, according to Der Spiegel .

Former prisoners describe harrowing ordeals as UN prepares to scrutinise North Korea's human rights record North Korean soldiers at the international border between North Korea and China on the Yalu river.

The United States and the European Union said on Tuesday that they will strengthen multilateral measures on non-proliferation of nuclear weapons, but urging Iran and Democratic People's Republic of Korea to fulfill their international obligations on nuclear programs.

Kwang-Tae Kim Seoul - Published on Wednesday, Nov. 04, 2009 5:20AM EST T he former chairman of South Korea's oldest conglomerate, the Doosan Group, was found dead Wednesday in an apparent suicide, the latest in a string of high-profile South Koreans taking their own lives.

The Obama administration on Tuesday accused the Democratic People's Republic of Korea of violating UN Security Council resolutions to produce material useable in nuclear weapons, urging the country back to the six-party process.

Communist Party of China Central Committee General Secretary and Chinese President Hu Jintao meets with Choe Tae Bok , secretary of the Central Committee of the Worker's Party of Korea of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea in Beijing, Oct.