Significant changes in North Korea, say experts
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Significant changes may be taking place in North Korea if reports are confirmed that Kim Jong-Il, the nation's hereditary dictator, is modifying his leadership style, analysts and experts say.
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Experts from America, Russia and China will travel to North Korea later this month to study how the country's nuclear facilities can be shut down, a US official says.
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In the wake of reports that Koh Young-hee, the wife of North Korean leader Kim Jong-il, passed away earlier this month, experts are attempting to weigh the impact her death could have on
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A team of U.S. nuclear experts began a rare visit to North Korea on Tuesday to examine ways of disabling the country's main nuclear complex under an international accord.
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North Korea appears to be reducing the level of official reverence paid to its leader Kim Jong Il, marking the first signs of a shift away from the cult of personality in which Kim rules the nation as a divine figure.
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UN inspectors arrived in North Korea on Tuesday for the first time in nearly five years, signalling a dramatic upturn in the pace of international efforts to halt the communist state&#39;s nuclear programmes.
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A U.N. human rights expert called on North Korea on Friday to give its citizens more freedoms and overhaul its administration of justice, but the North insisted it does not violate human rights and accused the United States and the European Union of perpetrating "slanderous allegations" to isolate it.
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TOKYO -- North Korea is likely improving its missile technology, and recent signs that it may be preparing to test a ballistic missile are troubling, a top US military official said Sunday.
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WASHINGTONâAn explosion last Sunday in South Korea prompted huge warning signals, as all eyes shifted to North Korea glaring skeptically as to whether the blast was a nuclear test of some sort.
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SEOUL North Korea is seriously reconsidering its role in talks on its nuclear programs because of what it sees as a concerted campaign to topple the government in Pyongyang, the North Korean Foreign Ministry said Monday.
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North Korea&#39;s environment faces a stark future unless urgent action is taken, the United Nations said on Friday in a first report on the communist state&#39;s environment compiled with unprecedented help from Pyongyang.
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SEOUL - South Korea tightened security north of the capital Seoul Tuesday after finding signs that North Korean agents may have infiltrated the country.
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North Korea could face famine after floods destroy crops, worsening food shortages, a study says.
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US technical experts Tuesday began a rare visit to North Korea to examine ways to disable the communist state&#39;s nuclear programmes which have produced at least one atomic bomb.
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SEOUL, South Korea -- How long can the North Korean regime survive? A decade ago, it was taken as a matter of faith that it would soon be relegated to the same historical dustbin as the Soviet Union. But Kim Jong Il defied predictions of his political demise, and embarrassed pundits stopped even broaching the topic of the regime's life ...
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US disarmament experts had &quot;very positive&quot; talks on detailing a plan to disable North Korea&#39;s nuclear facilities during their latest trip to the communist state, South Korean officials said Sunday.
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The head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog said on Monday that moving to inspect and close facilities behind North Korea's nuclear weapons program would be complex as the two sides seek to rebuild severed ties.