North Korea News

Stephen Bosworth, who will be the first official from US President Barack Obama's administration to hold direct talks with the communist state, said on Monday the decision to start his mission in Seoul was "not an accident". He was speaking...

Artists from many countries, whose work is displayed in the eclectic exhibition, have descended on Brisbane for the Sixth Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art. It was planned that six of the North Korean artists would also travel to Australia...

The Unites States, Japan and South Korea are working on a road map for ending North Korea's nuclear arms plans that will be on the agenda of a U.S. envoy who visits Pyongyang this week, Japan's Asahi newspaper reported. Stephen...

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...

Tuesday said the country had 'successfully completed reprocessing 8,000 spent fuel rods by the end of August'. "Noticeable successes have been made in turning the extracted plutonium weapon-grade for the purpose of bolstering up the nuclear deterrent," it added.

He paid a week-long visit to South Korea last month to discuss the nuclear issue.

From the Journal of Current Chinese Affairs , a special issue on China’s Politics under Hu Jintao ...From the Asian Review of Books , a review of Military Culture in Imperial China by Nicola di Cosmo; and a review of...