N Korea demands return of remains
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Pyongyang says it wants Japan to return the human remains at the centre of a row over a missing woman.
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North Korea proposed Wednesday a full resumption of humanitarian projects at the first high-level talks with South Korea in the wake of Pyongyang's nuclear test, heralding renewed reconciliation between the Koreas after the North pledged to dismantle its atomic program.
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Officials investigating the fate of Japanese citizens kidnapped by North Korea return with documentation.
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BEIJING, Dec. 18 -- Long-stalled negotiations on dismantling North Korea's nuclear weapons program resumed Monday in an atmosphere of pessimism, with Pyongyang insisting it must be regarded as a nuclear power and the United States demanding swift action to make the Korean Peninsula nuclear-free.
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Leaders of Japan and South Korea jointly urged North Korea on Friday to return to talks aimed at ending its nuclear weapons program and agreed imposing economic sanctions now on Pyongyang would thwart such efforts.
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The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency is calling for North Korea to allow international experts into the country to completely verify that a large cloud recently spotted over the country was not caused by a nuclear explosion.
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Australia&#39;s foreign minister is in North Korea, urging the Stalinist state to renounce nuclear weapons.
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Documents and other items submitted to Japan by North Korea concerning the fate of 10 Japanese abductees contained no evidence to support the communist nation&#39;s assertion that eight of the missing are already dead, while the other two never entered the
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Secretary of State Colin Powell pressed North Korea on Sunday to return to nuclear disarmament talks even as he branded the communist country a "terrorist state" that has "no respect for human rights."
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North Korea will find it difficult to return to nuclear talks if the United States keeps insisting that Pyongyang renounce peaceful as well as military atomic activities, the North&#39;s main newspaper said on Tuesday.
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South Korea and China have urged North Korea to return swiftly to six-nation talks after the Stalinist regime sent global tensions spiking by saying it planned to carry out a nuclear test.
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TOKYO Japan warned North Korea on Friday of a &quot;serious response&quot; if it was not more forthcoming on the status of Japanese people it kidnapped in the 1970s and 1980s.
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TOKYO : Japan has accused North Korea of presenting false evidence over the fate of victims it kidnapped more than two decades ago.
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The bodies of women and children are exhumed in north Iraq, as investigators seek evidence against Saddam.
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North Korea's nuclear envoy demanded Saturday that his country be given power-generating reactors as a reward for eventually dismantling its own atomic programs.
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SEOUL -- North Korea publicly admitted today for the first time that it has nuclear weapons, and its foreign ministry said it wouldn't return to six-nation talks aimed at persuading the communist country to abandon its nuclear ambitions
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North Korea on Friday will ask the United Nations to take up its complaint over what it calls a "fascist search" of a pro-North Korean group in Tokyo, a Japanese diplomat said.