A United Nations report urges North Korea to make improvements to its human rights record.
In a Mail & Guardian article, “The report noted that almost nine million people in North Korea were suffering from food shortages, with the World Food Programme (WFP) able to reach fewer than two million of the hungry population [...]
[The Korea Herald]– North Korea agreed Tuesday to South Korea’s proposal for talks later this week on preventing floods of cross-border rivers and resuming reunions of separated families, government officials in Seoul said, Yonhap News reported.
The North’s latest reconciliatory gesture comes just one day after it abruptly test-fired five short-range missiles in [...]
[Yonhap News]– North Korea has received some 2.7 trillion won (US$2.29 billion) from South Korea and international partners since 1994 in return for false promises to scrap its nuclear program, according to a lawmaker on Monday.
For the Geneva Framework Agreement reached in 1994, the North received $1.98 billion worth of support [...]
[Xinhua]– Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao met here Monday with Kim Yong Nam, top legislator of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), and both sides stressed the need to further strengthen cooperation between the two countries.
Wen, who arrived here Sunday for a three-day visit, said good-neighborliness and generation-after-generation friendship between [...]
[RIA Novosti]– A project to pump Russian gas to South Korea through a North Korean pipeline has been suspended due to the deterioration in inter-Korean relations, the South Korean Yonhap news agency said on Tuesday.
Choo Kang-soo, head of South Korea’s state-run energy company Kogas, said Seoul would not build the pipeline through [...]
South Korean President Lee Myung-Bak has offered North Korea a “grand bargain” to give up its nuclear program in return for aid and security guarantees, warning Pyongyang the proposal may be its last chance.
The conservative leader, speaking in New York ahead of a United Nations summit, criticized the approach of past six-nation [...]
North Korea announced yesterday that its process of enriching uranium is nearly complete, giving it a new way to make nuclear bombs as the US and regional powers discuss how to bring Pyongyang back to disarmament talks.
The move raises concerns that North Korea may soon produce uranium-based bombs in addition to those made from plutonium.
The [...]
Senior North Korean envoys on Sunday met South Korean President Lee Myung-Bak for the first time since he took office 18 months ago, raising hopes of an end to high tensions on the peninsula.
A presidential official confirmed the meeting at the presidential Blue House in Seoul, which began at 9:00am (0001 GMT) and lasted about [...]
North Korea wants the next Japanese administration after the upcoming general election to drop Tokyo’s ”hostile” policy toward Pyongyang through the lifting of sanctions and other ice-thawing measures, a North Korean official in charge of Japanese affairs said Wednesday.
In an interview with Kyodo News in Pyongyang, Ro Jong Su, a director-level researcher at the Foreign [...]
