North Korea Business News

The government will submit a bill to the Diet on Friday to enable the Japan Coast Guard to inspect ships suspected of carrying banned cargo to and from North Korea.      The bill, which was approved by Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama's...

The U.S.experts on North Korean affairs are joining in negotiations to prepare for the light water reactors. The Korean Peninsula Energy Development Organization (KEDO) had empowered for a project to construct two light water reactors in North Korea in last...

Sunday, November 15, 2009 at 1:00 a.m. Last Modified: Saturday, November 14, 2009 at 9:42 p.m. You stand atop an elevated tee box on the first and only hole of the world's most dangerous golf course. And you consider your...

Mackenzie, who was instrumental in bringing life and health to many mothers and babies, and training women doctors in obstetrics and gynaecology in postwar Korea, has died at an aged-care facility in Kew...Born in Pusan, Korea, the eldest daughter of...

According to the restructuring plan approved by the Cabinet in June, the SRT would be responsible for investment in the rail system and depots and the government would provide financial support for these activities. In addition, two companies, which would...

The image shows more than a dozen clouds of smoke that appear to be blowing eastward, with some of them forming a wide, hazy layer of smoke over the waters between the Korean peninsula and Japan. There has been no...

Its brazen outline has towered over Pyongyang for more than two decades. Sitting empty and unfinished, the Ryugyong Hotel is regarded as an example of communist folly. It has variously been called ''the hotel of doom'' and ''the worst building...

A task force will be formed this month to review the feasibility of the farm derivative market, the Ministry for Food, Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries said Monday. Discussions are currently at an initial stage, and research is to be conducted...

North Korea is estimated to have mineral deposits worth trillions of dollars but its antiquated mining infrastructure is delaying development, a South Korean government report said. According to the report by the Unification Ministry, which surveyed major mines in the...