As well as the obvious classes such as bomb making, Kim Dong Sik’s intensive spy training in North Korea included memorizing hundreds of South Korean pop songs and dance moves. Such strategies for assimilating into South Korean society were considered essential to avoid suspicion, ...

Remains recently found in Chiba Prefecture have been confirmed to be those of a man who disappeared at sea in 2004 and was subsequently listed by a private group as a potential kidnapping victim of North Korea, the police said Saturday. The family of ...

Fresh satellite imagery shows North Korea has embarked on a major new construction program at the facility where it launched a long-range rocket in December, a U.S. research institute said. The construction includes what could be a possible new launchpad for testing mobile ballistic ...

Members of a U.N. commission investigating human rights violations in North Korea met with Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida on Wednesday in the first of a series of meetings that Tokyo hopes will highlight the unresolved cases of Japanese nationals abducted by Pyongyang. During the ...

North Korea tried to export gas masks to Syria but they were seized in Turkey along with arms and ammunition, Japanese media said Tuesday, as the United States threatened action over an alleged chemical weapons attack. A Libyan-registered vessel, identified as Al En Ti ...

As the two Koreas move forward with plans for their first family reunions in three years, Choe Ryong Hae, North Korea’s top military official, said Pyongyang does not want war and values peace above all else. Friday’s agreement to hold the reunion event next ...