Back in his native South Korea, the Korean Foreign Ministry nicknamed him "Ban-chusa," meaning "the Bureaucrat" or "the administrative clerk."
North Korea's state-run news agency said Thursday that the country has sent a letter to the United Nations announcing that "reprocessing of spent fuel rods is at its final phase and extracted plutonium is being weaponized."
The test of a nuclear device on May 25 and the subsequent test missile-launches by North Korea have jolted the international community into universal condemnation of such flagrant violations of the relevant United Nations resolutions. Even China, North Korea's traditional ally, has expressed unprecedented firm opposition to such violations and has joined the United Nations Security Council in its resolution condemning such violations.
North Korea test-fired a fourth short-range missile off its east coast Thursday, South Korea's Yonhap News Agency reported.
South Korea's government on Monday reacted harshly to Pyongyang's latest nuclear test.
The U.S. State Department said Monday that North Korea's launch of a long-range rocket on Sunday should not be seen as a victory for Pyongyang.
Working-level military officers from North Korea and South Korea met Monday to discuss improving their lines of communication amid strained ties between the divided nations, officials said.
Inside the barbed-wire walls of Korea's Demilitarized Zone, schoolchildren in the hamlet known as "Freedom Village" competed Tuesday in foot races and showed off their traditional drumming skills
U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice pressed her North Korean counterpart Wednesday to agree a plan for verifying its nuclear activity.
North Korea has blamed South Korea for the shooting death of a tourist near a mountain resort in the communist nation, according to reports.
Back in his native South Korea, the Korean Foreign Ministry nicknamed him "Ban-chusa," meaning "the Bureaucrat" or "the administrative clerk."
North Korea's state-run news agency said Thursday that the country has sent a letter to the United Nations announcing that "reprocessing of spent fuel rods is at its final phase and extracted plutonium is being weaponized."
The test of a nuclear device on May 25 and the subsequent test missile-launches by North Korea have jolted the international community into universal condemnation of such flagrant violations of the relevant United Nations resolutions. Even China, North Korea's traditional ally, has expressed unprecedented firm opposition to such violations and has joined the United Nations Security Council in its resolution condemning such violations.
North Korea test-fired a fourth short-range missile off its east coast Thursday, South Korea's Yonhap News Agency reported.
South Korea's government on Monday reacted harshly to Pyongyang's latest nuclear test.
The U.S. State Department said Monday that North Korea's launch of a long-range rocket on Sunday should not be seen as a victory for Pyongyang.
Working-level military officers from North Korea and South Korea met Monday to discuss improving their lines of communication amid strained ties between the divided nations, officials said.
Inside the barbed-wire walls of Korea's Demilitarized Zone, schoolchildren in the hamlet known as "Freedom Village" competed Tuesday in foot races and showed off their traditional drumming skills
U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice pressed her North Korean counterpart Wednesday to agree a plan for verifying its nuclear activity.
North Korea has blamed South Korea for the shooting death of a tourist near a mountain resort in the communist nation, according to reports.
A North Korean soldier on Friday shot and killed a South Korean woman at Mt. Keumgang, a popular mountain resort in the communist nation, a government official in the South said.
When a 'Yellow Dragon' roars, Beijing listens.
Two months into office as South Korea's President, Lee Myung-bak joins CNN's Anjali Rao on Talk Asia. Below is a transcript of the interview.
North Korea delivered a verbal response Friday to a letter President Bush sent to North Korean leader Kim Jong Il earlier this month about the progress of nuclear talks, officials said.
South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun signed an eight-point peace agreement with North Korean leader Kim Jong Il on Thursday at a summit in Pyongyang, North Korea.
A U.S. team, including technical experts, will head to North Korea next week after the communist country agreed to begin disabling its nuclear weapons facilities, Assistant Secretary of State Christopher Hill said Wednesday.
North Korean leader Kim Jong Il greeted South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun Tuesday at the start of only the second-ever summit between leaders of the two nations, but Kim won't meet formally with Roh until Wednesday.
The United States said Tuesday it has backed a plan aimed at dismantling North Korea's nuclear facilities by the end of the year, The Associated Press reported.
North Korea's Kim Jong Il meets South Korean President Roh Moo Hyun for the two nations' second summit since the Korean War. But few expect any major results
Japan and North Korea will hold talks on establishing diplomatic relations next week in Ulan Bator, Japanese Foreign Ministry officials said on Tuesday. The two-day talks from September 5 will be held as part of a six-country deal to scrap Pyongyang's nuclear-arms programs in exchange for aid and diplomatic recognition.
Seven years after a historic but virtually fruitless meeting, the rivals schedule a summit. But will it be any more successful?
North Korean leader Kim Jong-il and South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun will hold a summit later this month aimed at raising relations between the two nations "to a higher level," according to a joint statement released by their respective governments on Wednesday.
If North Korea makes good on its promise to disable a nuclear reactor, Korean peninsula peace talks could be under way by the end of the year, said U.S. envoy to North Korea Christopher Hill.
Analysis: North Korea watchers are divided by the Dear Leader's promise to shut down a controversial nuclear reactor. Is Kim playing straight or still playing games?
In the latest sign of reconciliation between the two Koreas, a pair of passenger trains crossed in opposite directions between North and South on Thursday -- the first to make the journey through the heavily militarized frontier in more than half a century.
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North Korea may be preparing to conduct a second nuclear test, a U.S. official with access to intelligence information said Tuesday.
President Bush held a news conference in the Rose Garden of the White House on Wednesday, addressing topics including North Korea, Iraq and the Foley scandal. Here is a full transcript of his opening comments and a question-and-answer session.
The text of President Bush's statement Monday morning on North Korea's reported nuclear test:
North Korea claimed it conducted a successful underground nuclear test Monday, according to the country's official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA).
North Korea's official news agency reported that the United States is conducting a "reorganization" of its forces in South Korea in preparation for a "war of aggression" just days after North Korea announced that it would test a nuclear weapon.
North Korea, citing American belligerence and pressure, said Tuesday it will conduct a nuclear test.
The Security Council, Reaffirming its resolutions 825 (1993) of 11 May 1993 and 1540 (2004) of 28 April 2004, Bearing in mind the importance of maintaining peace and stability on the Korean peninsula and in north-east Asia at large,
China has described Japanese efforts to pass a U.N. resolution that would impose sanctions on North Korea for conducting missile tests an "overreaction," recommending the draft be revised.
For all the attention he is getting, North Korea's Kim Jong Il is one of the most mysterious leaders in the world.
North Korean leader Kim Jong Il has paid an "unofficial" visit to China, the country's KCNA news agency reported Wednesday.
As a presidential candidate, George W. Bush urged a modest foreign policy, not nation-building. But that changed once he took office.
The first phase of the fifth round of six-party talks focusing on North Korea's nuclear weapons program has concluded in Beijing after three days, with involved nations saying they are ready to move forward.
Following is the text of the joint statement issued Monday by six nations (China, Japan, North Korea, South Korea, Russia, United States) at talks in Beijing on North Korea's nuclear program:
North Korea on Friday linked a peace agreement to replace the armistice that ended the Korean War to defusing the nuclear standoff between Pyongyang and the international community.
Hopes have been raised over North Korea's nuclear crisis after the announcement of a resumption of six party talks, news services report.
North Korean leader Kim Jong Il has told a Chinese envoy he is committed to a nuclear-free Korean peninsula, as three nations huddle down to work out the plan for six-party talks later this month.
Delegates from North and South Korea have agreed to seek a peaceful resolution to the North's nuclear standoff with the international community, but they failed to set a date for stalled disarmament talks to resume.
South Korea has agreed to hold another day of negotiations with the North after failing to convince Pyongyang to rejoin stalled six-country talks on its nuclear ambitions.
On the first day of talks between South and North Korea in nearly a year, the delegation from the South offered the North a "significant proposal" to rejoin the six-party talks on Pyongyang's nuclear ambitions.
U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has issued a tough warning to North Korea that the United States is well able to defend itself and its allies against nuclear and missile threats.
North Korea apparently tested a short-range missile Sunday, the Bush administration said, further raising concerns about the Korean Peninsula's nuclear standoff.
North Korea apparently tested a short-range missile Sunday, the Bush administration said, the latest in a string of recent incidents to refocus international attention on the Korean Peninsula's nuclear standoff.
The United States and other parties in the six-party talks over North Korea's nuclear program are "ready to return to the table at an early date and without preconditions," U.S. State Department spokesman Richard Boucher said Tuesday.
North Korean leader Kim Jong Il says he is ready to resume six-party talks on his country's nuclear weapons program if the United States shows sincerity and if certain conditions are met.
North Korea is not ready to return to six-party nuclear disarmament talks and no longer wants a direct meeting with the United States, an unnamed North Korean spokesman has told China's official news agency.
North Korea is not ready to return to six-party nuclear disarmament talks and does not want a direct meeting with the United States, an unnamed North Korean foreign ministry spokesman has been quoted as saying.
China's foreign minister has promised Washington that Beijing would push North Korea to return to six-party talks over its nuclear ambitions, a senior U.S. State Department official said.
World leaders expressed concern on Thursday that North Korea will quit six-party nuclear disarmament talks and will "bolster its nuclear weapons arsenal."
A U.S. Congressional team sent to the Korean peninsula says Pyongyang is ready to rejoin six-party talks on its secretive nuclear program.
Australia's newly re-elected government has pledged to boost its anti-terror capabilities, strengthen links with its regional neighbors and continue to reform the country's booming economy.
North Korea has accused the South's navy of staging a serious provocation that could lead to a maritime conflict.
Although the direct impact is limited to males 18 to 25, assertions that the military draft may be reinstated has lent a dynamic to a presidential election already full of tense issues.
Sen. Zell Miller, of Georgia, was the keynote speaker Wednesday night at the Republican National Convention. Miller, a Democrat, has broken with his party and sided with President Bush on such issues his handling of the war against terror. Here is a transcript of his remarks:
The first of some 3,600 U.S. troops to be sent from South Korea to Iraq are on their way.
In an always dangerous battle of nerves, a joint U.S.-South Korean force has helped keep the peace on the dividing line between North and South Korea for decades.
North and South Korea will be allowed to march together at the opening of the 2004 Athens Olympics, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) said Friday.
Six-nation talks on North Korea's nuclear program have ended in Beijing without a breakthrough, but delegates are planning a fourth round of talks.
The U.S. State Department has disputed claims by some American officials that North Korea threatened to test a nuclear weapon if Washington did not accept its proposal for a nuclear freeze.
Japan will offer energy assistance to North Korea if the secretive state freezes its nuclear program, according to Japanese media reports Saturday.
A new round of six-nation talks on North Korea's nuclear program will be held next week in Beijing, China has confirmed.
International ratings agency Moody's Investors Service has lifted South Korea's ratings outlook to stable from negative over what is sees as diminished tensions linked to North Korea's nuclear weapons program.
North and South Korea have agreed to set up a military hotline in a step towards easing tensions along their heavily fortified border.
The two Koreas have opened their highest-level military talks in 50 years.
The United States has notified South Korea and Japan it plans to move about 3,600 troops from South Korea to Iraq, senior Pentagon officials confirmed to CNN.
The United States is planning to redeploy some of its 37,000 troops stationed on the Korean Peninsula to Iraq.
The White House will give the Red Cross $100,000 to help those left homeless in North Korea after last week's train explosion.
An international aid official has described the site of a massive train blast in North Korea as "apocalyptic" and says urgent medical help is needed.
North Korea is one of the world's most authoritarian and secretive nations, with an economy in dire straits after decades of mismanagement.
Next week's six-party talks in Beijing on North Korea's nuclear weapons program are likely to have a "positive outcome", according to South Korea's foreign minister Ban Ki-moon.
North and South Korea have agreed to hold high-level military talks on the North's nuclear weapons program and "ease" military tension.
A top American nuclear expert has told a U.S. Senate committee that North Koreans showed him a piece of radioactive metal in a glass jar when he visited that country, but said he could not say if it really was bomb-grade plutonium metal as they claimed.
U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell says there is "serious discussion" going on to bring about six-party talks with North Korea to discuss its nuclear program.
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