http://www.mail.com/int/locations/12326-north-korea.html Mail.com - the best personalized free web-based Email en en http://sec-s.uicdn.com/mail.com/2.28/img/mailcom_logo_rss.png http://www.mail.com/int/locations/12326-north-korea.html http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/2107450-nkorean-envoy-delivers-letter-to-chinas-president.html BEIJING (AP) — A top North Korean envoy has delivered a letter from leader Kim Jong Un to Chinese President Xi Jinping and told him Pyongyang would take steps to rejoin stalled nuclear disarmament talks, in an apparent victory for Beijing's efforts to coax its unruly ally into lowering tensions. North Korean Vice Marshal Choe Ryong Hae's three-day visit w... Sat, 25 May 2013 02:16:46 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/2107450-nkorean-envoy-delivers-letter-to-chinas-president.html 2013-05-25T02:16:46Z http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/2101656-north-korea-sends-leaders-special-envoy-to-china.html PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un dispatched a high-profile official and close confidant to China on Wednesday as Beijing faces pressure to rein in its belligerent neighbor. Choe Ryong Hae, a top Workers' Party official and a vice marshal tasked with supervising the North Korean military, departed on a chartered Air Koryo fligh... Wed, 22 May 2013 05:53:45 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/2101656-north-korea-sends-leaders-special-envoy-to-china.html 2013-05-22T05:53:45Z http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/2101772-media-nkorea-military-chief.html PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) — A North Korean state media dispatch shows that leader Kim Jong Un has named a hardline general as his new military chief. The new title for Kim Kyok Sik came in a dispatch Wednesday from the North's Korean Central News Agency detailing a delegation at Pyongyang's airport that was seeing off a special envoy on a trip to China.... Wed, 22 May 2013 03:54:34 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/2101772-media-nkorea-military-chief.html 2013-05-22T03:54:34Z http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/2099236-owner-chinese-boats-captain-beaten-nkoreans.html BEIJING (AP) — Gunmen wearing North Korean military uniforms released a Chinese fishing boat after holding its crew for two weeks, beating up the captain and stealing the vessel's fuel, the boat's owner said. He added that the hijackers did not get the 600,000 yuan ($100,000) ransom they had demanded. The seizure May 5 in what boat owner Yu Xuejun said we... Wed, 22 May 2013 02:47:39 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/2099236-owner-chinese-boats-captain-beaten-nkoreans.html 2013-05-22T02:47:39Z http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/2098164-postponed-us-long-range-missile-test-tuesday.html WASHINGTON (AP) — The Air Force says its test launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile, which Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel had postponed in April because of tensions with North Korea, is now scheduled to happen on Tuesday. The unarmed Minuteman 3 missile is to be launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif., and travel 4,190 miles to the Kwajal... Mon, 20 May 2013 16:37:05 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/2098164-postponed-us-long-range-missile-test-tuesday.html 2013-05-20T16:37:05Z http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/2097446-seoul-day-3-nkorea-tests-short-range-weapon.html SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea continued firing short-range weapons over its own eastern waters Monday after a weekend of what it called "rocket launching tests" intended to bolster deterrence against enemy attack. South Korean officials were investigating exactly what it was that the North was testing. North Korea regularly conducts short-range mi... Mon, 20 May 2013 16:28:41 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/2097446-seoul-day-3-nkorea-tests-short-range-weapon.html 2013-05-20T16:28:41Z http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/2097226-china-asks-nkorea-to-release-fishing-boat-crew.html BEIJING (AP) — China is urging North Korea to release a Chinese fishing boat whose owner says it was seized by gun-toting North Koreans earlier this month and held for ransom, in the latest irritant in relations between the neighboring allies. Boat owner Yu Xuejun, who wasn't aboard, first publicized the seizure on his microblog late Saturday, and on Mond... Mon, 20 May 2013 10:30:27 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/2097226-china-asks-nkorea-to-release-fishing-boat-crew.html 2013-05-20T10:30:27Z http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/2095912-skorea-analyzing-nkoreas-4-projectile-launches.html SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea is analyzing whether projectiles North Korea fired into its eastern waters over the weekend are short-range missiles or a new type of artillery the country may be developing, officials said Monday. North Korea fired what Seoul officials called a short-range projectile Sunday, a day after conducting three similar launc... Mon, 20 May 2013 03:18:56 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/2095912-skorea-analyzing-nkoreas-4-projectile-launches.html 2013-05-20T03:18:56Z http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/2094780-skorea-nkorea-fires-3-short-range-missiles.html SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea fired three short-range guided missiles into its eastern waters on Saturday, a South Korean official said. It routinely tests such missiles, but the latest launches came during a period of tentative diplomacy aimed at easing tensions. The North fired two missiles Saturday morning and another in the afternoon, South Ko... Sat, 18 May 2013 18:38:30 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/2094780-skorea-nkorea-fires-3-short-range-missiles.html 2013-05-18T18:38:30Z http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/2086500-nkorea-american-starts-life-special-prison.html PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) — An American citizen sentenced to 15 years of hard labor for what Pyongyang has described as hostile acts against the state has started life at a "special prison," state media said Wednesday. Kenneth Bae entered the prison Tuesday, the official Korean Central News Agency said in a short dispatch, but no other new details were ... Wed, 15 May 2013 08:50:54 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/2086500-nkorea-american-starts-life-special-prison.html 2013-05-15T08:50:54Z http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/2081290-spies-caught-website-scandal-embarrass-skorea.html SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The scandal shaking up South Korea's main spy agency is not cloak-and-dagger stuff, but the kind of low-grade trickery anyone with an Internet connection could pull off. And the target was not Seoul's opaque rival to the north, but the country's own people. Internet postings ostensibly from ordinary South Koreans, but actually fr... Mon, 13 May 2013 10:29:47 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/2081290-spies-caught-website-scandal-embarrass-skorea.html 2013-05-13T10:29:47Z http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/2076332-nkorea-nuke-arsenal-matter-when.html SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — For 20 years, fears about North Korea's headlong pursuit of nuclear bombs have been deflected by admonishments not to overestimate an impoverished dictatorship prone to bragging and tantrums. Not anymore. After three nuclear tests of apparently increasing power and a long-range rocket launch that puts it a big step closer to havi... Fri, 10 May 2013 15:04:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/2076332-nkorea-nuke-arsenal-matter-when.html 2013-05-10T15:04:00Z http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/2076044-nkorea-calls-us-skorea-summit-prelude-to-war.html SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Ahead of a nuclear-powered U.S. carrier's visit to South Korea, North Korea on Friday called this week's summit between the U.S. and South Korean presidents a prelude to war against Pyongyang. Yet it also said it was waiting "with patience" to see if Seoul changes its policies. The North described South Korean President Park Geun... Fri, 10 May 2013 07:01:16 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/2076044-nkorea-calls-us-skorea-summit-prelude-to-war.html 2013-05-10T07:01:16Z http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/2074422-nkorea-detained-american-smuggled-propaganda.html SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea delivered its most in-depth account yet of the case against a Korean-American sentenced to 15 years' hard labor, accusing him late Thursday of smuggling in inflammatory literature and trying to establish a base for anti-Pyongyang activities at a border city hotel. Still, the long list of allegations included no statem... Thu, 09 May 2013 18:18:27 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/2074422-nkorea-detained-american-smuggled-propaganda.html 2013-05-09T18:18:27Z http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/2070562-skorean-leader-nuclear-armed-north-unacceptable.html WASHINGTON (AP) — South Korea's President Park Geun-hye told Congress on Wednesday that she will never accept a nuclear-armed North Korea and that provocative actions by the reclusive communist country "will be met decisively." But Park also said South Korea was ready to provide humanitarian aid, without linking it to the political situation on the divide... Wed, 08 May 2013 16:00:24 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/2070562-skorean-leader-nuclear-armed-north-unacceptable.html 2013-05-08T16:00:24Z http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/2070862-rodman-to-kim-do-solid-free-american.html SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Former NBA star Dennis Rodman is tapping his friendship with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un to ask for the release of a Korean-American man sentenced to 15 years of hard labor in the North. "I'm calling on the Supreme Leader of North Korea or as I call him 'Kim', to do me a solid and cut Kenneth Bae loose," Rodman said on Twitte... Wed, 08 May 2013 10:54:05 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/2070862-rodman-to-kim-do-solid-free-american.html 2013-05-08T10:54:05Z http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/2067944-nkorea-issues-warning-ahead-us-skorea-summit.html SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea on Tuesday threatened the United States and South Korea over joint naval drills taking place this week in tense Yellow Sea waters ahead of a Washington summit by the allies' leaders. The warning, however, was softer than North Korea's recent highly bellicose rhetoric, and followed the North's removal of two missiles f... Tue, 07 May 2013 17:02:55 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/2067944-nkorea-issues-warning-ahead-us-skorea-summit.html 2013-05-07T17:02:55Z http://www.mail.com/int/news/europe/2068186-un-names-3-members-to-human-rights-probe-nkorea.html GENEVA (AP) — The U.N.'s top human rights body has appointed three experts from Australia, Serbia and Indonesia to carry out an inquiry into North Korea for possible crimes against humanity. The 47-nation U.N. Human Rights Council said Tuesday it has appointed Australian retired judge Michael Donald Kirby and Sonja Biserko, founder and president of the He... Tue, 07 May 2013 11:23:39 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/news/europe/2068186-un-names-3-members-to-human-rights-probe-nkorea.html 2013-05-07T11:23:39Z http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/2066976-chicago-case-alleges-ties-to-north-korea.html CHICAGO (AP) — A Taiwanese businessman long suspected of ties to North Korea and his son have been charged in Chicago with seeking to bypass a U.S. ban on the export of weapons machinery to the hard-line communist nation, federal prosecutors announced Monday. Hsien Tai Tsai, 67, and his 36-year-old son, Yueh-Hsun Tsai, are charged with one count each of c... Mon, 06 May 2013 23:48:18 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/2066976-chicago-case-alleges-ties-to-north-korea.html 2013-05-06T23:48:18Z http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/2060314-south-koreans-leave-factory-north-korea.html PAJU, South Korea (AP) — The last seven South Koreans stationed at a jointly run factory park in North Korea pulled out Friday, silencing the complex for the first time since it was launched nine years ago in a seemingly distant era of reconciliation. The complex in the town of Kaesong, just north of the Koreas' heavily fortified border, was the rivals' o... Fri, 03 May 2013 16:36:01 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/2060314-south-koreans-leave-factory-north-korea.html 2013-05-03T16:36:01Z http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/2058010-us-calls-nkorea-amnesty-sentenced-american.html WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. called Thursday for North Korea to grant amnesty and immediately release a Korean-American sentenced to 15 years' hard labor for "hostile acts" against the state. Kenneth Bae, 44, a Washington state man described by friends as a devout Christian and a tour operator, is at least the sixth American detained in North Korea since 20... Fri, 03 May 2013 03:53:52 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/2058010-us-calls-nkorea-amnesty-sentenced-american.html 2013-05-03T03:53:52Z http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/2057638-north-korea-sentences-american-to-15-years-labor.html SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — An American detained for nearly six months in North Korea has been sentenced to 15 years of labor for crimes against the state, the North's state media said Thursday, a development that further complicates already strained ties between Pyongyang and Washington. The sentencing of Kenneth Bae, described by friends as a devout Chris... Thu, 02 May 2013 07:22:12 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/2057638-north-korea-sentences-american-to-15-years-labor.html 2013-05-02T07:22:12Z http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/2050748-south-koreans-leave-north-korean-factory.html PAJU, South Korea (AP) — Most South Koreans who had remained at an industrial park in North Korea had returned home by early Tuesday morning, officials said, leaving a final seven behind to negotiate unpaid wages for North Korean workers. The Unification Ministry in Seoul said 43 South Koreans began departing from Kaesong late Monday night and arrived in ... Tue, 30 Apr 2013 03:40:39 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/2050748-south-koreans-leave-north-korean-factory.html 2013-04-30T03:40:39Z http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/2048196-nkorea-charges-us-man-plot-to-overthrow-regime.html PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) — North Korea announced Saturday that an American detained for nearly six months is being tried in the Supreme Court on charges of plotting to overthrow the government, a crime that could draw the death penalty if he is convicted. The case involving Kenneth Bae, who has been in North Korean custody since early November, further... Sat, 27 Apr 2013 19:27:46 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/2048196-nkorea-charges-us-man-plot-to-overthrow-regime.html 2013-04-27T19:27:46Z http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/2043544-north-koreas-military-capabilities.html SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea's military, founded 81 years ago Thursday, is older than the country itself. It began as an anti-Japanese militia and is now the heart of the nation's "military first" policy. Late leader Kim Jong Il elevated the military's role during his 17-year rule; South Korea estimates he boosted troop levels to 1.2 million sold... Fri, 26 Apr 2013 03:21:25 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/2043544-north-koreas-military-capabilities.html 2013-04-26T03:21:25Z http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/2041266-skorea-demands-talks-with-nkorea-closed-factory.html SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — After weeks of threatening rhetoric from the North, South Korea on Thursday promised its own unspecified "grave measures" if Pyongyang rejects talks on a jointly run factory park shuttered for nearly a month. The park in the North Korean border town of Kaesong is the most significant casualty so far in the recent deterioration of... Thu, 25 Apr 2013 12:54:43 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/2041266-skorea-demands-talks-with-nkorea-closed-factory.html 2013-04-25T12:54:43Z http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/2038700-nkorea-vows-to-bolster-nuclear-arms-us-report.html SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea is vowing to bolster its nuclear program in response to a U.S. State Department report accusing Pyongyang of human rights abuses. Pyongyang's Foreign Ministry on Tuesday called the annual U.S. report proof of a hostile policy by Washington that's aimed at toppling North Korea's leadership. The State Department last we... Tue, 23 Apr 2013 09:55:36 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/2038700-nkorea-vows-to-bolster-nuclear-arms-us-report.html 2013-04-23T09:55:36Z http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/2036380-china-north-korea-nuclear-test.html BEIJING (AP) — China's top general said a fourth North Korean nuclear weapons test is a possibility that underscores the need for fresh talks between Pyongyang and other regional parties. Chief of the General Staff Gen. Fang Fenghui said Beijing firmly opposes the North's nuclear weapons program and wants to work with others on negotiations to end it. He ... Tue, 23 Apr 2013 00:22:57 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/2036380-china-north-korea-nuclear-test.html 2013-04-23T00:22:57Z http://www.mail.com/int/news/europe/2031632-un-powers-nkorea-iran-serious-nuke-threats.html GENEVA (AP) — Ahead of a round of global nuclear talks, five major powers labeled North Korea and Iran as "serious challenges" to the world's nuclear security Friday, citing their repeated defiance of U.N. sanctions. Senior diplomats with the U.N. Security Council's five permanent members singled out North Korea's nuclear test in February and Iran's "cont... Fri, 19 Apr 2013 19:53:08 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/news/europe/2031632-un-powers-nkorea-iran-serious-nuke-threats.html 2013-04-19T19:53:08Z