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A mysterious shooting in the DMZ comes just as negotiators hoped to bring North Korea's nuke program to a close
Six-nation talks on North Korea's nuclear program resumed Thursday afternoon in Beijing, ending a nine-month hiatus.
North Korea destroyed the most visible symbol of its nuclear weapons program, according to a news report
North Korea handed over its long-awaited nuclear program declaration to officials from China on Thursday.
Kim Jong Il gets removed from "the ultimate bad guy list." But will he really come clean on the North's nuclear program?
A fresh round of six-nation talks on North Korea's nuclear programs will start soon, although no date has been set, the U.S. envoy said Monday.
I thought I was prepared for North Korea. After all, I'd spent more than half my life studying, traveling to and living in the former Soviet Union as well as other Communist and post-Communist countries.
For most journalists, traveling into North Korea is like the holy grail of assignments.
A catastrophe is poised to strike the most isolated and dangerous country in the world, spurred by the global food crisis and Kim Jong Il's pride
The New York Philharmonic has gone home and Pyongyang is talking tough again. Its goal show the new South Korean government who's boss
A mysterious shooting in the DMZ comes just as negotiators hoped to bring North Korea's nuke program to a close
Six-nation talks on North Korea's nuclear program resumed Thursday afternoon in Beijing, ending a nine-month hiatus.
North Korea destroyed the most visible symbol of its nuclear weapons program, according to a news report
North Korea handed over its long-awaited nuclear program declaration to officials from China on Thursday.
Kim Jong Il gets removed from "the ultimate bad guy list." But will he really come clean on the North's nuclear program?
A fresh round of six-nation talks on North Korea's nuclear programs will start soon, although no date has been set, the U.S. envoy said Monday.
I thought I was prepared for North Korea. After all, I'd spent more than half my life studying, traveling to and living in the former Soviet Union as well as other Communist and post-Communist countries.
For most journalists, traveling into North Korea is like the holy grail of assignments.
A catastrophe is poised to strike the most isolated and dangerous country in the world, spurred by the global food crisis and Kim Jong Il's pride
The New York Philharmonic has gone home and Pyongyang is talking tough again. Its goal show the new South Korean government who's boss
Aid groups suggest Pyongyang executed 15 refugees to deter its citizens from fleeing to China amid food shortages
Beside diplomatic realities, the New York Philharmonic's historic trip to Pyongyang fostered true warmth and emotions
Music was the dominant theme Tuesday evening in North Korea's capital, with politics playing a persistent counterpoint.
The New York Philharmonic's historic visit to isolated North Korea may signal a new era -- but only in the arts, not politics
South Korea's last presidential election, in December, 2002, took place against a backdrop of escalating tension on the Korean peninsula over North Korea's nuclear program and the Bush administration's refusal to negotiate with Pyongyang.
While the U.S. and others focus on North Korea's nuclear weapons, Japan is worried that the issue of North Korea's abduction of its citizens is falling by the wayside
The New York Philharmonic will step up its role in cultural diplomacy next year by becoming the first U.S. orchestra to play in North Korea.
I'm on the highest point of Pyongyang, and I've just done something shamefully cynical.
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.
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.
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
With his term ending, President Roh Moo Hyun wants a dÉtente with Pyongyang to cap his political career. Not everyone is convinced
North and South Korea agreed Saturday to postpone the second-ever summit between leaders on the divided peninsula to early October due to recent floods that devastated the impoverished communist North.
North Korea's neighbors and international aid agencies sought Thursday to help the impoverished country cope with floods that have decimated large swaths of farmland, endangering citizens already struggling with food shortages.
Severe floods have destroyed more than a tenth of North Korea's farmland at the height of the growing season, official media said Wednesday
A unusual openness about the extent of damage wrought by torrential rains has some wondering whether Pyongyang is shedding its secretiveness
Seven years after a historic but virtually fruitless meeting, the rivals schedule a summit. But will it be any more successful?
Faced with the North's human rights abuseslike the abduction of Japanese citizens, many Koreans living in Japan are turning their longtime support away from Pyongyang
The U.S. and North Korea are talking again, but will Pyongyang keep its promise to abandon nuclear weapons?
After six days of marathon talks in Beijing, the impasse on the North Korea nuclear issue is finally broken -- at least for now.
U.S. officials on Tuesday defended the Bush administration's policy shift on North Korea, which coincided with an agreement by Pyongyang to begin to close down its nuclear program.
U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has said that a high-ranking Chinese envoy, who met earlier with North Korean leader Kim Jong Il, did not say that Pyongyang would refrain from conducting further nuclear tests.
U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Saturday that a high-ranking Chinese envoy, who met earlier with North Korean leader Kim Jong Il, did not say that Pyongyang would refrain from conducting further nuclear tests.
North Korean leader Kim Jong Il told a visiting Chinese delegation that the communist nation was not planning a second nuclear weapons test, a South Korean news agency reported Friday.
U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice met with Japanese leaders Wednesday as the world awaited a possible second nuclear test by North Korea.
United Nations Security Council members have reached a tentative agreement on a Japanese-drafted statement that warns North Korea of unspecified consequences if it conducts a nuclear test.
The U.S. envoy to stalled North Korea nuclear talks says the United States will not tolerate a nuclear North Korea and has warned Pyongyang not to test a nuclear weapon.
A day after North Korea said it will conduct a nuclear test, world powers called for restraint.
South Korea Thursday refused to discuss providing more food aid to North Korea in the wake of its recent missile tests, prompting Pyongyang to walk out of the ministerial meeting in the southern port city of Busan, South Korea.
The U.S. envoy to talks aimed at getting North Korea to halt its nuclear program said Thursday there had been no progress made since Pyongyang's round of missile tests last week.
China and Russia will offer their own resolution regarding North Korea's latest missile tests as a counter to a draft Japanese resolution calling for sanctions against Pyongyang for launching several missiles last week, diplomats said Wednesday.
President Bush said North Korea's missile tests this week offer an opportunity to rally global pressure on the nation's leader Kim Jong Il.
South Korea, Japan and Australia have become the first countries to take steps to punish North Korea for its controversial missile tests this week.
U.S. President George W. Bush says this week's missile tests by North Korea offer an opportunity to rally global pressure on leader Kim Jong Il.
North Korea test-fired a long-range missile and five shorter-range rockets early Wednesday, but the closely watched long-range test failed within a minute, U.S. officials said.
U.S. officials said Wednesday they are ready to respond to any North Korean missile test and rejected direct talks with Pyongyang over the issue.
Japan, Australia and the United States have united in saying that any test-launching of an intercontinental missile by North Korea would result in serious and stern consequences.
U.S. officials have sought to reassure North Korea that a financial crackdown on firms suspected of aiding Pyongyang through alleged counterfeiting is not linked to talks over North Korea's nuclear program.
Nearly three years after ordering U.N. nuclear inspectors out of the country, North Korea Monday agreed to give up its entire nuclear program, including weapons, a joint statement from six-party nuclear arms talks in Beijing said.
North Korea has reiterated its demands to maintain a civilian nuclear program, as delegates arrived in China for the latest round of international talks on Pyongyang's nuclear plans.
Six-party talks aimed at dismantling North Korea's nuclear weapons program are unlikely to resume next week.
Six-party talks aimed at dismantling North Korea's nuclear weapons program could resume on September 2.
North Korea's chief nuclear negotiator says Pyongyang may be willing to offer proof that it does not have a uranium-based weapons program, which the United States claims it does.
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.
U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice says Washington and Seoul are very optimistic they can make some headway at six-party talks on North Korea's nuclear program to be held this month.
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.
The head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog says his agency estimates North Korea could have five or six nuclear weapons and any test carried out by Pyongyang could "open a Pandora's box."
The head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog says his agency estimates North Korea could have five or six nuclear weapons and any test carried out by Pyongyang could "open a Pandora's box."
North Korean officials for the first time have acknowledged that avian flu has broken out in the repressive country.
North Korea is claiming to have boosted its nuclear weapons arsenal to counter what it says is the threat of imminent invasion by the United States and South Korea.
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.
After months of mixed signals, North Korean leader Kim Jong Il says his country has nuclear weapons. Here's how the U.S. hopes to persuade him to give them up.
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.
North Korea's neighbors, Japan and South Korea, are urging Pyongyang to reverse its stated decision to pull out of six-nation nuclear disarmament talks and "bolster its nuclear weapons arsenal."
North Korea has warned Japan that it would treat economic sanctions against the nation as a "declaration of war" as a row brews over the remains of abductees.
South Korea is investigating signs North Korean agents might have infiltrated the world's most heavily fortified border on the day America's top diplomat is visiting the nation.
ON HOMELAND SECURITY: "The President hasn't put one nickel ... into the effort to fix some of our tunnels and bridges and most exposed subway systems. That's why they had to close down the subway in New York when the Republican Convention was there."
The U.S. presidential election is apparently a factor in stalling multi-party talks over North Korea's nuclear ambitions.
U.S. and South Korean officials are still trying to verify what triggered a massive mushroom cloud in North Korea amid skepticism over Pyongyang's explanation of the event.
The mission by Australian Foreign Minister Alexander Downer to North Korea has yielded little discernible progress in easing international tensions over Pyongyang's nuclear program.
North Korea has threatened to test a nuclear weapon if Washington does not accept its proposal to suspend its nuclear program, U.S. officials say.
Delegates attending talks on North Korea's nuclear program are meeting for a second day after the United States offered a proposal seeking to end a 20-month deadlock on the peninsula.
Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi will brief U.S. President George W. Bush on the North Korean nuclear issue during the Group of Eight summit this week at the U.S. resort of Sea Island, Georgia.
The two Koreas have opened their highest-level military talks in 50 years.
North Korea says a "hardline" U.S. stance is impeding progress in the six-nation talks on Pyongyang's nuclear program and that it will abandon the program when Washington drops its "hostile policy."
U.S. officials are set to meet diplomats from North Korea as six-nation talks aimed at curbing Pyongyang's nuclear ambitions get underway in Beijing.
Six-nation talks on resolving the North Korea nuclear crisis began Wednesday in Beijing after a flurry of last minute meetings offered some hope on Pyongyang's willingness to scrap its weapons programs.
Six-nation talks on resolving the North Korea nuclear crisis have begun in Beijing with diplomats on all sides expressing hopes of progress to end the 16-month standoff.
North Korea has disputed a recent confession by Pakistan's top nuclear scientist that he sold nuclear technology to Pyongyang, calling it a "sheer lie" created by the United States, Pyongyang's official KCNA news agency reported.
Australia and the United States are putting new pressure on North Korea to scrap its nuclear weapons program, with a round of talks set for Beijing and Pyongyang.
A U.S. delegation returning from North Korea says it has toured the key Yongbyon nuclear complex.
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.
North Korea's offer to halt its nuclear activities has been greeted with cautious optimism, with suggestions the move is a bargaining ploy ahead of a new round of multinational talks on the issue.
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