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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...
Wonil Kim displays old photos of his South Korean mother, Kim Soo-im, at his office in Riverside, Calif. SEOUL, South Korea — She was "The Korean Seductress Who Betrayed America," a Seoul socialite said to have charmed secret information out of one lover, an American colonel, and passed it to another, a top communist in North Korea. In late June 1950...
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...
U.S. The chief American negotiator for North Korea extended his talks in Pyongyang, the capital, on Thursday in an effort to salvage a crumbling nuclear disarmament deal, while the South Korean media reported that the North had been upgrading its ballistic missile test site. The unconfirmed reports on the missile base, Musudan, which is on North Koreas northeast coast...
WASHINGTON The Bush administration is dispatching its chief North Korea negotiator, Christopher Hill, to Pyongyang this week in a last-ditch effort to rescue what the White House had hoped would be a singular foreign policy achievement: an accord leading to the countrys nuclear disarmament. The rapid decision to send Mr. Hill to the North Korean capital...
The North Korean leader Kim Jong-il is probably in hospital but is unlikely to be completely unable to make decisions, Taro Aso, the Japanese Prime Minister, said yesterday, citing intelligence sources in various countries. United States and South Korean intelligence officials said last month that Mr Kim may have suffered a stroke in August...
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...
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...
SEOUL, South Korea North Korea said Tuesday that it had stopped disabling its main nuclear complex and threatened to restore facilities there that the North had used to produce plutonium for nuclear weapons unless the United States removed it from a terrorist list. For months, United States experts and North Korean engineers have been disabling key facilities at the complex at Yongbyon...
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...
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.
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...
WASHINGTON An American envoy returned to the South Korean capital on Friday after three days of inconclusive talks with North Korea, while Bush administration officials said the Norths government was continuing to take steps toward restarting its nuclear weapons program. Christopher R. Hill, an American envoy, in Seoul on Friday. A version of this article appeared in print on October 4...
