http://www.mail.com/int/locations/23890-pyongyang.html Mail.com - the best personalized free web-based Email en en http://sec-s.uicdn.com/mail.com/2.29/img/mailcom_logo_rss.png http://www.mail.com/int/locations/23890-pyongyang.html http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/2154820-north-korea-changes-tack-tells-us-lets-talk.html PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) — After months of threatening to wage a nuclear war, North Korea did an about-face Sunday and issued a surprise proposal to the United States, its No. 1 enemy: Let's talk. But the invitation from North Korea's National Defense Commission, the powerful governing body led by leader Kim Jong Un, comes with caveats: No precondition... Mon, 17 Jun 2013 19:02:02 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/2154820-north-korea-changes-tack-tells-us-lets-talk.html 2013-06-17T19:02:02Z http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/2146176-koreas-incentives-to-talk-failed-try.html SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea dismantled the meeting table, pulled down the placards and rolled up the red carpet. Its intended guest, North Korea, has stopped answering the phone. The cancellation of the rivals' much-anticipated meeting, felled at the last minute by a protocol dispute, shows the Koreas' deep mutual mistrust. Still, they may have ... Thu, 13 Jun 2013 00:48:06 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/2146176-koreas-incentives-to-talk-failed-try.html 2013-06-13T00:48:06Z http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/2145958-crackdown-filling-nkorean-prisons-with-defectors.html SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea's prison population has swelled with those caught fleeing the country under a crackdown on defections by young leader Kim Jong Un, according to defectors living in South Korea and researchers who study Pyongyang's notorious network of labor camps and detention centers. Soon after he succeeded his father as North Korea... Wed, 12 Jun 2013 11:08:48 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/2145958-crackdown-filling-nkorean-prisons-with-defectors.html 2013-06-12T11:08:48Z http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/2143578-skorea-talks-with-north-scrapped-negotiators.html SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The Koreas' first high-level talks in years were scrapped a day before they were to begin Wednesday because the sides didn't agree on the delegation leaders, South Korea said. The cancellation deflated tentative hopes that the rivals would improve ties following years of rising hostility. North Korea said it wasn't sending its of... Wed, 12 Jun 2013 02:26:58 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/2143578-skorea-talks-with-north-scrapped-negotiators.html 2013-06-12T02:26:58Z http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/2141234-korea-talks-raise-hopes-history-scuttle-them.html SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The two Koreas will hold their highest-level talks in years Wednesday in an effort to restore scrapped joint economic projects and ease animosity marked by recent threats of nuclear war. That in itself is progress, though there are hints that disputes in their bloody history could thwart efforts to better ties. Still, just settin... Tue, 11 Jun 2013 04:08:50 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/2141234-korea-talks-raise-hopes-history-scuttle-them.html 2013-06-11T04:08:50Z http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/2136020-2-koreas-to-hold-senior-level-meeting-seoul.html SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North and South Korea agreed Monday to hold senior-level talks this week in Seoul, a breakthrough of sorts to ease tensions after Pyongyang's recent threats of nuclear war and Seoul's vows of counterstrikes. The two-day meeting starting Wednesday will focus on stalled cooperation projects, including the resumption of operations a... Mon, 10 Jun 2013 04:02:30 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/2136020-2-koreas-to-hold-senior-level-meeting-seoul.html 2013-06-10T04:02:30Z http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/2132934-nkorea-proposes-working-level-talks-with-skorea.html SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea on Friday proposed holding low-level government talks with South Korea this weekend as the rivals look to mend ties that have plunged during recent years amid hardline stances by both countries. Pyongyang, which wants to meet Sunday in its border city of Kaesong, also said it would reopen a Red Cross communication lin... Fri, 07 Jun 2013 06:44:54 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/2132934-nkorea-proposes-working-level-talks-with-skorea.html 2013-06-07T06:44:54Z http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/2133120-china-frustration-with-nkorea-offers-hope-us.html WASHINGTON (AP) — China's growing frustration with longtime ally North Korea offers the United States a glimmer of hope about a once unthinkable prospect: holding discussions between Washington and Beijing about what to do if the government in Pyongyang collapses. There is no sign that the North Korean regime is in danger or that U.S. President Barack Oba... Thu, 06 Jun 2013 11:03:17 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/2133120-china-frustration-with-nkorea-offers-hope-us.html 2013-06-06T11:03:17Z http://www.mail.com/int/business/economy/2120982-nkorean-farmers-planting-rice-with-profits-mind.html HAMHUNG, North Korea (AP) — North Korean farmers knee deep in muddy paddies across the country have a new incentive during this year's crucial rice planting season: possible bonuses that are part of an economic shift echoing ally China's steps three decades ago toward embracing capitalism. Details about the changes are emerging nearly two months after the... Sat, 01 Jun 2013 02:13:57 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/business/economy/2120982-nkorean-farmers-planting-rice-with-profits-mind.html 2013-06-01T02:13:57Z http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/2115906-nkorea-sanctions-squeeze-cash-aid-groups.html PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) — New international sanctions aimed at thwarting North Korea's nuclear weapons program are having unintended consequences: halting money transfers by foreign humanitarian groups working to help those most in need and forcing some agencies to carry suitcases of cash in from outside. At the same time, some restrictions are meant ... Thu, 30 May 2013 04:41:11 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/2115906-nkorea-sanctions-squeeze-cash-aid-groups.html 2013-05-30T04:41:11Z 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/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/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/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/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