North Korea News

Fireworks will be exploding from sea to shining sea tomorrow in celebration of our nation's independence, but does North Korea's Kim Jong Il have plans for his own pyrotechnics display? And will President Obama fire back? The Washington Times reports that should North Korea launch a Taepodong-2 missile and it threatens U.S. territory, U.S. missile ...

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A leaked report purportedly drafted by authorities in Myanmar's military government describes a top-secret visit to North Korea late last year by Myanmar's top brass, during which the two sides pledged to significantly expand cooperation in military training and arms production, Radio Free Asia reports.

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North Korea fired a barrage of short-range missiles off its east coast in a possible prelude to the launch of a long-range missile toward Hawaii over the U.S. Independence Day holiday.

WASHINGTON: The United States said on Thursday that the missile test-fires by the Democratic People's Republic of Korea are "not helpful" and are "dangerous." "North Korea knows exactly what it has to do ... They need to cut out these kinds of provocative actions and return to denuclearization talks," State Department spokesman Ian Kelly told a ...

Exile Burmese media have voiced alarm in recent days at reports of growing ties between Burma and nuclear-armed North Korea.

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The world's top nuclear watchdog chose Japan's Yukiya Amano as its next head on Thursday _ and he touched on the devastation U.S. atom bombs wreaked on his country in pledging to do his utmost to prevent the spread of nuclear arms.

Visiting United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki Moon stressed the importance of implementing the U.N. resolution on Pyongyang and urged Japan to play a leading role in slashing green house gas emission in a meeting with Japanese Prime Minister here Wednesday.

The third round of talks between South Korea and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea seems to have ended without an afternoon session on Wednesday.

Unlike China's leaders, who linked market-oriented reforms to the Communist Party's survival, Kim Jong Il and his North Korean cohorts see economic openness as a threat to their power and have in recent years intensified state control over the economy.

Japanese police arrested three top businessmen on Monday on suspicion of attempting to export to Burma a measuring instrument that could be used to develop long-range ballistic missile systems, Japanese newspapers reported.

Tokyo, July 01: North Korea has issued navigation bans for 10 coastal sites along the Sea of Japan and the Yellow Sea citing military exercises, the Japan Coast Guard on Wednesday said.

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Kim Jong Il, top leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea , called for technical updating in factories to increase the nation's power, the official Korean Central News Agency said on Wednesday.

The continuation of Six-Party Talks is the best hope for a Korean Peninsula free from nuclear weapons, Foreign Ministry spokesman Qin Gang said Tuesday.

An inter-Korean naval battle around Yeonpyeong Island on June 29, 2002, resulted in North Korean casualties of 13 men killed and 25 injured, a former high-ranking South Korean military officer said yesterday.

A North Korean patrol boat tows another in flames. The latter was shot by the South Korean Navy when the two Koreas clashed in the Yellow Sea in 2002.

With North Korea reportedly getting ready for a long-range missile test, President Barack Obama says the U.S. is prepared for any threat the secretive and unpredictable regime might pose.