North Korea News

Stephen Bosworth was due to arrive in Seoul on Sunday before heading to Pyongyang on Tuesday for a three-day trip during which he will meet North Korea's Vice Foreign Minister Kang Sok-ju. The US has said the purpose of his...

You know I have been very concerned about North Korea and her Shenanigans as she was firing missiles testing nuclear weapons and as a matter of policy, antagonizing the west in order to bring us to the bargaining table and...

According to news from the South Korean media, North Korea, Dec. 1, 2009, has sharply revalued its currency by issuing the first new banknotes for 17 years in an apparent attempt to curb inflation and clamp down on black-market trading....

US envoy Stephen Bosworth will visit Pyongyang next week at the start of an Asia-Russia tour aimed at bringing North Korea back to nuclear disarmament negotiations, officials said Thursday. Mark Toner, a State Department spokesman, said Bosworth will arrive in...

North Korea has confirmed a drastic reform of its currency in what's widely viewed as an attempt to control a growing black market and curbing runaway inflation. Amid recent reports of protest and violence in Pyongyang among members of a...

The markets, which have gradually emerged across North Korea in recent years, have become a profitable business for some traders. But their growth outside of government controls is believed to have unnerved authorities. Faced with mounting food shortages, rigidly-controlled North...

South Korea Tuesday questioned North Korea's calls for a peace treaty with the United States, declaring its real aim is to buy time to make more nuclear weapons. The comments by Foreign Minister Yu Myung-Hwan came six days before a...

South Korea's Unification Ministry dismissed rumours on Tuesday that North Korean leader Kim Jong-il had been attacked and killed, which prompted financial markets to slide briefly in what one analyst said was a reflection of fragile sentiment. "That's the first...

It seems like the conquest for nuclear weapons is at an all time high for countries around the globe. Just as it seems like the United States and rest of the civilized world makes a giant step of progress with...

Kim Jong Il, top leader of the North Korea (DPRK), met Liang Guanglie, Chinese Defense Minister, on Wednesday, Nov. 25, 2009. Kim said the DPRK-China friendship is a treasure inherited from the older generations of the leaders of the two...