N Korea fund transfer 'under way'
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The transfer of North Korean funds - a stumbling block in nuclear negotiations - has begun, an official says.
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NAIROBI, Kenya -- Urgent investment is needed in North Korea to deal with severe environmental problems that have depleted the country's forests, contaminated water supplies, and polluted the air, the head of the UN Environment Program said yesterday.
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North Korea heads into talks with the region's main powers this week with signs the impoverished state may be ready to agree to an initial deal over demands it stop building a nuclear arsenal in exchange for aid.
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Kim Jong-il's eldest son is reported to have returned to N Korea in a move that could affect the succession issue.
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Aug. 27, 2004 - NAIROBI, Kenya Urgent investment is needed in North Korea to deal with severe environmental problems that have depleted the country&#39;s forests, contaminated water supplies and polluted the
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The United States suspects that  about $3 million in U.N. Development Program funds may have  been diverted by North Korea to buy property in Britain, Canada  and France, allegations denied by the agency.
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The U.S. and its allies urged North Korea to act on its pledge to start dismantling its nuclear program after frozen money that had been Pyongyang's main condition to disarm was on its way Friday to the communist nation's accounts.
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Washington expects North Korea will meet a commitment to shut down its nuclear facilities this month after it has received funds still frozen in a Macau bank, U.S. envoy Christopher Hill said on Friday.
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North Korea appears to have received funds it demanded be returned before closing a nuclear reactor and now needs to move quickly to shut down its source of bomb-grade plutonium, a top U.S. nuclear envoy said on Monday.
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Washington expects North Korea will meet  a commitment to shut down its nuclear facilities this month  after it has received funds still frozen in a Macau bank, U.S.  envoy Christopher Hill said on Friday.
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The Russian central bank has not transferred about $23 million in previously frozen North Korean funds to a Russian commercial bank, yet another delay holding up a nuclear deal with Pyongyang.
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A Monaco-based fund which holds a stake in SK Corp threatened yesterday to take legal action against a corruption-tainted chief executive at the company, South Korea&#39;s largest oil refiner.
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Potential purchasers of Northern Rock will have until February 4 to make a bid to the government
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PYONGYANG, North Korea -- Western diplomats trying to verify what triggered a massive mushroom cloud in North Korea have had a state-approved trip to the site delayed for &quot;logistical reasons.
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South Korea's defense minister said on Saturday he expects North Korea to begin to close its nuclear reactor, the source of its weapons-grade plutonium, once $25 million in frozen funds in a Macau bank are freed up.
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North Korea's foreign ministry confirms it has received $25m, as UN nuclear inspectors head to Pyongyang.
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Most of the North Korean funds frozen in a Macau bank have been transferred, South Korean and Japanese news agencies said on Thursday, raising the prospect of an end to the deadlock stalling Pyongyang's nuclear disarmament.