The South Korean government has threatened to shoot down a North Korean rocket due for launch in April. The rocket mission has sparked international controversy, the US labeling it a test for a long-range missile that could carry nuclear warheads. “We are studying measures such as tracking and shooting down [parts] of a North Korean missile in case it strays out of its normal trajectory”... 

US President Barack Obama looks toward North Korea from the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) on the border between North and South Korea, March 25, 2012. US President Barack Obama has pledged to break North Korea’s “pattern of provocative behavior,” urging Pyongyang to refrain from carrying out a planned satellite launch. During a Sunday news conference in the South Korean capital of Seoul, Obama... 

A missile-firing drill at an undisclosed location in North Korea Right ahead of the Nuclear Security Summit in Seoul, North Korea announced that it will consider a statement about its nuclear program a direct “declaration of war”. This comes as the USA has condemned the country’s planned rocket launch in April. The US administration announced on Thursday that President Barack Obama considers... 

North Korea's cooling tower seconds before its public demolition at Yongbyon nuclear complex. North Korea says it is ready to halt missiles tests, disable its nuclear reactors and allow IAEA observers into the country in exchange for a food aid package from the US. US state department spokesman Victoria Nuland confirmed on Wednesday that North Korea had agreed to meet demands to disable its nuclear... 

Last week the North vowed "merciless retaliatory strikes" if any shells landed in waters claimed by Pyongyang during a live-fire artillery exercise near the disputed Yellow Sea border North Korea has threatened to stage a ‘sacred war’ over US-South Korean annual joint military exercises next week, denouncing the drill as a ‘silent declaration of war’. The North’s... 

On Wednesday, December 28, North Korea holds the funeral service for its leader Kim Jong-il, who died on December 17. The first stage of the funeral will be held in Kymsusan memorial complex in Pyongyang – the official residence of Kim Jong-Il’s father, Kim Il Sung. According to North Korean media, Kim Jong-Il died from a heart attack as he was traveling by train across the country. His... 

A huge portrait of late North Korean leader Kim Jong-il carried during his funeral procession in a snowy Pyongyang. North Korea has started two days of funeral services for its late leader Kim Jong-il as tens of thousands of mourners gather on the capital’s streets to bid farewell to the country’s deceased leader. Footage broadcast Wednesday on North Korea’s state television showed... 

Weeping for a communist dictator under threat of arrest and execution. This is something the establishment media has completely failed to explain properly. All the video footage of weeping North Koreans stricken with grief over the death of the “dear leader” Kim Jong-Il is by no means spontaneous or natural. It’s all part of the fun of living in a Stalinist dictatorship. If citizens do not show... 

Dictator’s death could have been result of internal power struggle with country’s military. A prominent North Korean defector and a South Korean politician are contradicting reports that North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Il died of a heart attack, pointing to rumors that he was assassinated as result of an internal power struggle between the ruling Communist Workers’ Party and the country’s military. “A... 

North Korea, Pyongyang : North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il returns a salute to Korean People's Army soldiers marching in Kim Il Sung Square in Pyongyang to mark the 60th anniversary of the Workers' Party of Korea, 10 October 2005. North Korea’s veteran leader Kim Jong-il has died at the age of 69. A tearful announcer at North Korea’s state television, dressed in black, said on Monday... 

Republicans press Pentagon for long-range interceptors. New intelligence indicates that North Korea is moving ahead with building its first road-mobile intercontinental ballistic missile, an easily hidden weapon capable of hitting the United States, according to Obama administration officials. The intelligence was revealed in a classified Capitol Hill briefing last month. Its existence was made public... 

A mock North Korean missile at the War Memorial of Korea in Seoul Two members of the ‘axis of evil’ conspiring to make nuclear weapons? Such a nightmare scenario would be dreadful indeed. But with unnamed sources claiming North Korea is helping Iran go nuclear, something about the plot seems dreamt up. George W. Bush’s long-awaited chance to utter an “I told you so” may have arrived, as reports... 

Kim Hee-jin, director of Amnesty International’s Seoul office, speaks about the human rights group’s annual report in a media briefing at the Korea Press Center in central Seoul. North Korea may have abducted 180,000 people over the last 60 years, according to a new report by a US-based human rights group. The Committee for Human Rights in North Korea says both the scale and reach of Pyongyang’s... 

North Korea threatened Sunday to enlarge its nuclear arsenal and “mercilessly” attack South Korea and the United States, as the allies prepared for joint military drills which the North considers a rehearsal for invasion. North Korea routinely issues threats over the annual joint military drills, but its latest warning could rekindle tensions that rose sharply after two recent deadly incidents... 

North Korea is reportedly importing animal feed grain from China to distribute on the market for human consumption as the regime struggles with food shortages. According to Radio Free Asia, Pyongyang gave the animal feed to its military as well as to merchants, bringing down the surging cost of rice. A source in North Korea said the feed is commonly darker in color than normal rice and is often mixed...