Little-known side of North Korea on display in Beijing gallery
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Mention of North Korea inevitably summons up images of nuclear weapons, Kim Jong-Il and starving children, but a Briton has put on display a side of the reclusive country rarely seen -- its artwork.
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Reports that some portraits of North Korean leader Kim Jong-il had been taken down in Pyongyang, if confirmed, could be &quot;very significant,&quot; an expert on North Korea said Wednesday.
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BEIJING - North Korea has denied reports that portraits of leader Kim Jong Il have been disappearing from public places in the capital, Pyongyang.
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How the truth of the past emerges in China is a subject of great importance and invisible struggle.
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A huge explosion rocked North Korea near the border with China three days ago, producing a mushroom cloud that sparked speculation Pyongyang might have tested an atomic weapon, Yonhap news agency reports.
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A photo that purports to confirm the existence of a new Chinese missile sub could torpedo Google's aspirations in China.
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A group of foreign diplomats has left Pyongyang on Thursday to visit the scene of a mysterious explosion in North Korea. &quot;They went today.
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Depictions of joyful construction workers, resolute fighting men and a modestly smiling flower seller go under the hammer on Monday when a rare lot of North Korean art is auctioned in Paris.
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The China Instituteâs show offers an abundance of images that confuse, contradict or entirely depart from accepted art historical categories or classical notions of beauty.
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A group of people thought to be North Korean refugees is now in the visa section of the Japanese embassy in Beijing. Japanese diplomats say 29 people entered a Japanese school in the capital Wednesday.
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North Korean leader Kim Jong-il has  visited a military unit, the country's official KCNA news  agency reported on Wednesday, just hours after reports surfaced  that his portrait had been removed from some public places.
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The gulf between the U.S. and North Korean positions complicates the art of the deal in Beijing. But their mere presence suggests neither has a good alternative to compromise
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Reports that portraits of North Korean  leader Kim Jong-il had been removed were a "groundless  fabrication," China's Xinhua news agency quoted a Foreign  Ministry official on Friday as saying in Pyongyang.
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BEIJING -- Twenty-nine people believed to be North Korean entered the Japanese school in Beijing on Wednesday morning to seek asylum in a country other than China, according to Foreign Ministry officials in Tokyo.
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A concert by the New York Philharmonic in North Korea next week that officials say could break cultural boundaries and draw the two countries closer will be broadcast throughout the reclusive Communist state.
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Photographs of William Howard Taftâs mission to the Far East, now on view at the Nippon Club, were found in an unlikely place.
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Scotland has the Loch Ness Monster, the Himalayas has the Abominable Snowman and Pyongyang's propaganda machine has the Korean Wall, a bogus barrier that has been a mainstay of North Korea's media for nearly 20 years.