Kim Jong-il, the North Korean leader, is seen with military officials in undated photos released by the state-news media this month. SEOUL, South Korea North Koreas state-run media outlets have released a flurry of reports of public appearances by the Norths reclusive leader, Kim Jong-il...
Kim Jong-il, the North Korean leader, is seen with military officials in undated photos released by the state-news media this month. SEOUL, South Korea North Koreas state-run media outlets have released a flurry of reports of public appearances by the Norths reclusive leader, Kim Jong-il...
If you were keeping a scorecard of the nuclear brinkmanship between North Korea and the United States, today it would show game, set and match for Pyongyang over the world's only remaining superpower. The totalitarian state secured a major strategic victory at the weekend over the US, which finally removed North Korea from its terrorism blacklist...
SEOUL, South Korea North Korea said Friday that it no longer wished to be removed from the United States terrorism blacklist, signaling that it is hardening its stance amid reports that its leader, Kim Jong-il, may be seriously ill.
SEOUL, South Korea In its first major act of defiance since Senator Barack Obamas election, North Korea said Wednesday that it would bar international nuclear inspectors from taking soil and nuclear waste samples, which are considered crucial to determining the extent of its weapons program. Work at the industrial complex at Kaesong, North Korea, as seen from South Korea...
Choe Sang-hun reported from Seoul, South Korea, and Helene Cooper from Washington. North Korea Is Off Terror List After Deal With U.S. SEOUL, South Korea North Korea welcomed its removal from Washingtons list of terrorism sponsors and confirmed on Sunday that it would resume disabling its main nuclear weapons complex and allow international monitors back to the site.
North Koreas leader, Kim Jong-il, flanked by his confidants Kim Yong-nam, left, and Jo Myong-rok in a 2005 photo taken by a North Korean news agency. SEOUL, South Korea American and South Korean intelligence reports that the North Korean leader, Kim Jong-il, suffered a stroke raise questions that the Norths neighbors have long feared asking. If Mr. Kim dies or is incapacitated...
For 10 days, the North Korean propaganda loudspeakers filled the air with dirges and Soviet-style funeral marches, so heavy in mood that one resident said it felt like a dark cloud. Now reports are saying that Kim Il-sungs son, Kim Jong-il, the current leader, has had a stroke. Rumors about his condition run rampant. But North Korea, which may be the worlds most secretive nation...
PARIS North Korea asked the International Atomic Energy Agency to remove seals and surveillance cameras at the Norths nuclear reprocessing facility, the agencys director said Monday, in a setback for both the Bush administration and an international nuclear disarmament agreement. The move, following reports that the North Korean leader Kim Jong-il may be seriously ill...
The United States has shrugged off criticism from North Korea and maintained that it should adopt measures to verify its nuclear program before being delisted from Washington's terrorism blacklist."What we require right now is that verification package from North Korea before we can go forward with the delisting...
SEOUL, South Korea More than a month after his absence from an important anniversary parade fueled theories that he had suffered a stroke, North Koreas leader, Kim Jong-il, was reported by state media on Saturday to have inspected a military unit. Kim Jong-il, North Koreas leader, visited a military unit in a photo released Saturday by the state news agency. Later Saturday...
SEOUL, South Korea North Korea has begun reassembling its main nuclear complex, its only known source of bomb-making plutonium, the South Korean government said Wednesday, but the United States cast doubt on the seriousness of the Norths efforts. The North announced last week that it had stopped disabling its nuclear facilities at the complex, known as Yongbyon...
SEOUL, South Korea In its first major act of defiance since Senator Barack Obamas election, North Korea said Wednesday that it would bar international nuclear inspectors from taking soil and nuclear waste samples, which are considered crucial to determining the extent of its weapons program.
Filed at 11:15 a.m. ET SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- North Korea's ailing leader remained out of sight Monday, missing another key chance -- Korea's Thanksgiving holiday -- to make a public appearance that could have put to rest mounting speculation about his health. Kim Jong Il suffered a stroke Aug.
Before hauling disabled parts of its nuclear reactor out of warehouses this week, North Korea told the United States that it planned to reassemble the plant, South Koreas foreign minister said Thursday. The notification dimmed hopes that the resumption of North Korean activities at Yongbyon, about 60 miles north of Pyongyang...
Longtime North Korea watchers say recent public moves by the country fit a familiar and consistent pattern, and that they may even signal an upturn in relations with the United States.
