Four North Koreans leave Japan for South Korea
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Four North Koreans who arrived by boat at a Japanese port two weeks ago left Japan on Saturday for South Korea, their desired destination, police said.
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Officials investigating the fate of Japanese citizens kidnapped by North Korea return with documentation.
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Bad weather forced Japan on Friday to  postpone the launch of a fourth spy satellite that will expand  its ability to monitor potential threats including North Korea,  whose missile arsenal can reach all of Japan.
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The U.N. nuclear watchdog chief leaves  for North Korea on Sunday to broker a return of inspectors to  the secretive Stalinist state under a precarious six-party pact  to dismantle its atomic bomb program.
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bones handed over then were not, as Pyongyang claimed, those of the abducted Japanese citizens. &quot;It (North Korea) no longer feels that any DPRK-Japan inter-governmental contact is meaningful,&quot; he added.
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US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will leave here February 23 for South Korea, China and Japan as part of diplomatic efforts to scrap North Korea's nuclear arms program, her spokesman said Friday.
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KABUL, Afghanistan - Nineteen South Koreans flew out of Afghanistan yesterday after spending nearly six weeks in Taliban captivity, as Afghanistan's main opposition political party criticized the agreement that led to their release.
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A man accused of deserting the US army for North Korea nearly four decades ago has turned himself over to the US military, in a step toward his possible resettlement in Japan.
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Twenty-nine North Koreans sought asylum Wednesday at a Japanese school in Beijing, hoping to ultimately reach South Korea, the Kyodo news agency reported.
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BEIJING - Japanese Embassy officials in Beijing described Thursday 29 people believed to be defectors from North Korea as being relaxed a day after they entered the Japanese school in the Chinese capital to seek asylum.
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The U.N. nuclear watchdog chief left for  North Korea on Sunday to broker a return of inspectors to the  secretive Stalinist state under a precarious six-party pact to  dismantle its atomic bomb program.
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Get INQ7 breaking news on your Smart mobile phone in the Philippines. Send INQ7 BREAKING to 386. SEOUL, Korea (North) -- A group of 29 people claming to be North Koreans entered a school for South Koreans
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A group of seven asylum seekers, believed to be North Korean, reach Japan's embassy in Beijing.
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The U.N. nuclear watchdog chief leaves for North Korea on Sunday to broker a return of inspectors to the secretive Stalinist state under a precarious six-party pact to dismantle its atomic bomb program.
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Fourty-four suspected North Koreans have entered the Canadian Embassy in Beijing in an apparent bid to win political asylum. A Canadian embassy spokesman says the men, women and children scaled the wall around the embassy compound Wednesday.
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KUALA LUMPUR: Japan are faced with the task of having to travel to North Korea after being handed a tricky draw in the final round of Asian qualifiers for the 2006 World Cup finals here Thursday.
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All 44 North Koreans who forced their way into Canada's embassy in Beijing two months ago have left for an undisclosed third country, officials said after weeks of diplomacy.