N.Korea Says Kim Portrait Reports a 'U.S. Plot'
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Reports that portraits of North Korean  leader Kim Jong-il had been removed were a U.S. plot to  overthrow the government and a "groundless fabrication," Xinhua  news agency quoted a North Korean official Friday as saying.
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North Korean officials have angrily denied reports that portraits of the country&#39;s leader are being taken down. There has been speculation about major changes at the top of North Korean politics.
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North Korea has accused the United States of attempting to scupper a recent deal to lift financial sanctions on the communist state within a month, a report said.
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A senior U.S. official said on Thursday  that satellite photographs of a suspected nuclear industrial  site in Iran demonstrated its intention to develop atomic  weapons, an allegation Tehran dismissed as "a new lie."
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North Korea, facing a looming deadline in a nuclear disarmament deal, blamed the United States on Monday for hurting the prospects for peace on the Korean peninsula with plans to attack the reclusive state.
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A large cloud that appeared over North Korea in satellite images several days ago was not the result of a nuclear explosion, according to a US official.
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North Korea accused the United States of trying to influence voters in next month&#39;s presidential election by scaring them with reports of North Korean submarine incursions into South Korean waters.
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SEOUL, Sep 14, 2004 (Kyodo via COMTEX) -- The South Korean and US governments plan to study new satellite pictures to investigate the cause of last week&#39;s suspicious explosion in North Korea that caused a peculiar-shaped cloud, Yonhap News Agency reported
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North Korea is suspected of test-firing a number of short-range missiles off its west coast.
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North Korea on Monday reportedly told a visiting British diplomat in Pyongyang that a billowing cloud of smoke caused by an explosion last week was the planned demolition of a mountain for a hydroelectric project, according to news reports.
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North Korea said on Friday it had already given an account of its nuclear arms program as required under an international disarmament deal, while separately threatening to boost its "war deterrent".
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A senior North Korean official dismissed  reports that the secretive country was preparing a missile  launch, calling them speculation, Japan's Kyodo news agency  reported on Saturday.
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Stalinist North Korea has set up a new war plan focusing on defense from US attacks and highlighting underground protection facilities, Seoul news reports say.
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PYONGYANG, November 17 (Itar-Tass) -- Kim Jong Ilâs portraits were removed from some state offices frequented by foreigners at the initiative of the leadership of the country, an informed source in the Russian embassy in Pyongyang told Tass.
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North Korea issued a New Year's message on Saturday telling its impoverished people that U.S. actions on the Korea peninsula could lead to war.
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The United States has received indications North Korea might be trying to test a nuclear weapon, a senior Bush administration said Sunday.
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A top North Korean official has told U.S. legislators that the communist state possessed nuclear weapons, Radio Free Asia reported on Friday.