WASHINGTON - Top US delegates are visting North Korea to test simply whether it wants to return to six-party nuclear disarmament talks, without offering any incentives, a senior US official said Monday. Delegates led by special envoy Stephen Boswor
SEOUL, South Korea - President Barack Obama's special envoy conferred with South Korean officials Monday on the eve of a rare trip to North Korea aimed at bringing the communist country back to international nuclear disarmament talks. Stephen Boswor
INCHEON, South Korea - President Barack Obama's special envoy arrived in South Korea on Sunday en route to North Korea for a rare meeting aimed at bringing the communist country back to international nuclear disarmament talks. Stephen Bosworth, the
SEOUL, South Korea - North Korea has ordered its border guards to open fire on anyone who crosses its border without permission, in what could be an attempt to thwart defections by people disgruntled over its recent currency reform, a news report sa
SEOUL - Chinese and North Korean defence chiefs have pledged to strengthen their military alliance -- dating back to the Korean War -- during talks in Pyongyang, state media said Monday. The move came after Chinese Defence Minister Liang Guanglie a
UNITED NATIONS - A key U.N. committee expressed very serious concern Thursday at widespread reports of torture and other grave human rights violations in North Korea and strongly urged the government to put an end to the violations. North Korea's
SEOUL, South Korea - North Korea briefly activated radar for its surface-to-ship missiles Sunday, forcing South Korean naval vessels to move away from a disputed western sea border where the two countries' navies clashed last week, news reports said
SEOUL, South Korea - North Korea warned it will aggressively defend itself in disputed waters where a bloody naval clash with rival South Korea took place last week, though tempered its rhetoric by indicating it wants better relations with Seoul and
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