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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...

A North Korean central bank official said the communist country has reformed its currency to tackle inflation and normalize the economy. The official's statement, appearing in Choson Sinbo, a pro-Pyongyang newspaper based in Japan, confirmed earlier reports that North Korea,...

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...

North Korea's ruling Worker's Party said Saturday South Korea should be responsible for any steps taken to improve relations between the two countries. Rodong Sinmun, a newspaper published by the Worker's Party, said South Korea has shown little interest in...

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...