A North Korean envoy on the second day of his fence-mending visit to ally China heeded Beijing’s wishes by offering to renew nuclear disarmament talks, Chinese state media reported. The accounts depicted Thursday’s meeting between North Korean Vice Marshal Choe Ryong Hae and Chinese ...

Sophie Schmidt, the teenage daughter of Google chief Eric Schmidt, has shed some light on her father’s secretive trip to North Korea, writing a firsthand account of the visit to a “very, very strange” country. In a blog posting over the weekend entitled “It ...

A recent report by Republican staff members in the U.S. Senate warns that China, because of its deepening economic ties with North Korea as well as its ancient claims on Korean land, could attempt to “manage, and conceivably block,” the eventual unification of the ...

Most images of North Korea appearing in the media express just a few aspects of that country — namely, repression, militarism, poverty, backwardness, gloom. Often, the form of photographs of that communist dictatorship conveys those ideas, too — whether by being blurry, taken from ...