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The Army psychiatrist accused of a mass shooting at Fort Hood has met with his lawyer at a Texas hospital where he's under guard.

South Korea on Tuesday said the existing inter-Korean exchanges and cooperation will go forward as usual and not be affected by an earlier naval clash with the Democratic People's Republic of Korea .

North Korea has completed reprocessing spent fuel rods to make more fuel for nuclear weapons.

Nov 9 - South Koreans launch thousands of leaflets, attached to balloons, over the border into North Korea denouncing political prison camps.

Berlina s Brandenburg Gate is lit up for a concert by the band U2 on Thursday, Nov.

French President Nicolas Sarkozy's special envoy began talks Monday with North Korea on establishing diplomatic relations and the international standoff over Pyongyang's nuclear programs.

The United States and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea will likely hold bilateral talks in early December, South Korea's Yonhap News Agency on Monday quoted a senior government official as saying.

North Korean leader Kim Jong-il urged his country's armed service members to improve their combat capabilities, saying they must be prepared to protect their socialist nation, the North's official news agency reported Sunday.

WALLS designed to keep people in or out a ' whether in Berlin, Nicosia, Israel, or Korea a ' are always the product of fear: East German leaders' fear of a mass exodus by their citizens seeking freedom and dignity; Greek and Turkish Cypriot leaders' fear of continued war; Israelis' fear of terrorism; or the North Korean leadership's fear of ...

The film "Korea: Out of the North" is a 52-minute edited English version of "On The Border" and was aired in BBC in May last year.

It seems investors have been getting carried away with the idea that America and the rest of the developed world are in the early stages of an economic recovery.

Nuclear impasses with Iran and North Korea are the dominant issues for Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on her trip to Europe and Asia, which begins with a stopover in Germany to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the Berlin Wall's fall.

As North Korea began gingerly to open its doors to Westerners during the terrible famine of the 1990s, a foreign aid worker remarked that when it came to understanding life in that isolated country, many "have snapshots, nobody has seen the movie." Barbara Demick, a longtime correspondent in Asia for the Los Angeles Times, has written a book that ...

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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.