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Renewed nuke sale fear after recent NKorea test
North Korea's nuclear test last month wasn't just a show of defiance and national pride; it also serves as advertising. The target audience, analysts ...
NKorea accuses US, SKorea of cyberattacks
North Korea on Friday blamed South Korea and the United States for cyberattacks that temporarily shut down websites this week at a time of elevated ...
Koreas' rhetoric no match for surreal calm at DMZ
Busloads of tourists still show up to gawk at the world's most heavily fortified border, even as governments on both sides threaten to reduce each ...
NKorea criticizes SKorea prez's 'swish of skirt'
North Korea's first public, senior-level mention of South Korea's first female president ended up being a sexist jab. The body that controls North ...
Erratic North Korea poses serious threat
An erratic North Korea, with its nuclear weapons and increasingly belligerent tone, poses a serious threat to the United States and East Asia nations, ...
US worried by NK threats, imposes new sanctions
The Obama administration expressed heightened concern Monday over threats of war from nuclear-armed North Korea and issued new sanctions against the ...
SKorea, US begin drills as NKorea threatens war
North Korean state media said Monday that Pyongyang had carried through with a threat to cancel the 60-year-old armistice that ended the Korean War, ...
SKoreans learn to live with NKorean war threats
Nearly two decades ago, South Koreans cleared store shelves after a North Korean threat to turn Seoul into a "sea of fire" raised war panic.
Amnesty: NKorea control expands beyond the gulag
When Amnesty International officials scrutinized new satellite imagery of a notorious North Korean prison camp, what caught their attention was not ...
UN sanctions may play into North Korean propaganda
Seven years of U.N. sanctions against North Korea have done nothing to derail Pyongyang's drive for a nuclear weapon capable of hitting the United ...
Fiery seas, sacred war: NKorea's blustery history
South Korea will burn like a "sea of fire." Seoul's "rat-like" president will be struck with a "bolt of lightning." The country's media companies will ...
North Korea hit by new UN sanctions after test
The U.N. Security Council responded swiftly to North Korea's latest nuclear test by punishing the reclusive regime Thursday with tough, new sanctions ...
White House: US can defend against NKorea attack
The U.S. is fully capable of defending itself against a North Korean ballistic missile attack, the White House said Thursday, after Pyongyang ...
A look at what NKorea vow to scrap armistice means
The armistice that ended the Korean War in 1953 is, at best, a fragile thing: The countries overseeing it have formally accused each other of more ...
NKorea vows to cancel '53 Korean War cease-fire
North Korea's military is vowing to cancel the 1953 cease-fire that ended the Korean War, straining already frayed ties between Washington and ...
US, China propose tough UN sanctions for NKorea
A U.S.-China draft resolution aimed at reining in North Korea's nuclear and ballistic missile program would impose some of the strongest sanctions ...
US lawmakers push for tougher NKorea sanctions
Likening North Korea to a mafia state for its illicit activities, Republican lawmakers Tuesday called for tough U.S. action to cut the authoritarian ...
NKorea: Cold War history with US justifies nukes
The Cold War still rages in North Korea, and enemy No. 1 is the United States, which Pyongyang blames for making its much-condemned drive to develop ...
Leaving NKorea, Rodman calls Kims 'great leaders'
Ending his unexpected round of basketball diplomacy in North Korea on Friday, ex-NBA star Dennis Rodman called leader Kim Jong Un an "awesome guy" and ...
Rodman tells Kim Jong Un he has 'friend for life'
Ex-NBA star Dennis Rodman hung out with North Korea's Kim Jong Un during his improbable journey to Pyongyang, watching the Harlem Globetrotters with ...
Tweets, pics give real-time peek into North Korea
"Hello world from comms center in (hash)Pyongyang." That Twitter missive, sent Monday from Koryolink's main service center in downtown Pyongyang using ...
Dennis Rodman worms his way into North Korea
Former NBA star Dennis Rodman brought his basketball skills and flamboyant style — tattoos, nose studs and all — to the country with possibly the ...
SKorea's 1st female leader yet to hire many women
The country with the developed world's biggest gender income gap now has its first female president, but Park Geun-hye already has South Koreans ...
First female SKorean president faces NKorea crisis
Park Geun-hye took office as South Korea's first female president Monday, returning to the presidential mansion she had known as the daughter of a ...