The sooner the U.S. accepts that a North Korean ICBM capability is a reality, the sooner it can focus on how to deal with the North Korean problem more comprehensively, moving beyond mere security.
The coordinated efforts by the U.S. and China offers the best bet to secure peace and stability on the Korean Peninsula and allow the two Koreas to coexist.
Close coordination among Japan, South Korea and the U.S. is essential to rolling back the North Korean threat.
North Korea held a memorial service on Saturday on the fifth anniversary of the death of its second leader, Kim Jong Il, with a senior official calling for the same type of allegiance to the current regime under his son. Leader Kim Jong Un and ...
During a 2009 visit to Pyongyang to seek the release of two detained American journalists, former U.S. President Bill Clinton raised the issue of abducted Japanese nationals with then-leader Kim Jong Il, a hacked document released by the secret-spilling site WikiLeaks has shown. The memo, ...
North Korea is getting to the point where it'll have nuclear-tipped ballistic missiles ready to fly.
As North Korea grappled with a massive famine in the 1990s, scientists were working at an elite institute to find ways to boost then leader Kim Jong Il's longevity — and his libido — a defector said Friday. In the early 1990s scientists were sent ...
His father was afraid to fly, but North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has taken to the skies, building a series of small runways long enough to land light, private aircraft next to some of his palaces, satellite imagery shows. Construction on Kim's personal landing ...
FP-Jiji The widow of late South Korean President Kim Dae-jung returned home Saturday from a rare trip to North Korea but her hoped-for meeting with leader Kim Jong Un failed to materialize. Lee Hee-ho's four-day visit was ostensibly humanitarian but there had been much speculation about ...
North Korea marked the birthday Wednesday of its founder, Kim Il Sung, worshiped at home as a virtual deity for laying the foundation for a five-decade-old dictatorship capable of threatening superpowers such as the U.S. For Kim Young-hwan, a one-time pro-unification activist from South Korea ...
North Korea celebrated the birthday of late ruler Kim Jong Il Monday with a massive fireworks display, senior military promotions and a rally by senior officials to pledge loyalty to current leader Kim Jong Un. To mark the Feb. 16 date, Jong Un promoted dozens ...
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un shares a family trait with his father and grandfather: a penchant for purges to hold onto absolute power. Since the reclusive nuclear nation's founding in 1948, the Kims have eliminated people perceived as a threat to their cult of ...
