News Source: Washington Post
| about 1 month ago
Between a hello hug on Sunday at Pyongyang airport and a goodbye on Tuesday, North Korea's leader and China's prime minister raised expectations that the North might return to the nuclear disarmament talks it abandoned last spring. Kim Jong Il told...
News Source: BBC
| about 1 month ago
On the ground, North Korea's leadership cult is even more plain to see. In central Pyongyang we're taken to the giant bronze statue of the his father, the country's founder Kim Il-Sung. Citizens, some in military uniform, come to lay flowers at this...
News Source: The New York Times
| about 1 month ago
South Korea North Korea ’s leader gave an unusually exuberant welcome this week to the premier of China , whose trip was intensely monitored by the rest of the world for progress on efforts to halt North Korea’s nuclear weapons program. But...
News Source: Androscoggin News
| about 1 month ago
According to a South Korean defense ministry report issued yesterday, the North Korean regime is capable of unleashing 13 types of lethal biological agents. In one of the most detailed assessments of the dictatorship’s biological weapons arsenal,...
News Source: The Independent
| about 1 month ago
Kim Jong-il's reported statement to Wen Jiabao that North Korea was willing to return to the six-party talks is a small step, but a welcome one. While Pyongyang is engaged in talks, there is some hope that the outstanding issues of North Korean...
News Source: The independent
| about 1 month ago
Six months after declaring the six-party talks on the future of its nuclear weapons programme "dead", North Korea relented somewhat yesterday, suggesting they could be revived on condition that progress was made first on relations with the United...