http://www.mail.com/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/locations/12326-north-korea.html http://www.mail.com/news/world/2107450-nkorean-envoy-delivers-letter-to-chinas-president.html BEIJING (AP) — A top North Korean envoy delivered a letter from leader Kim Jong Un to Chinese President Xi Jinping on Friday 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 v... Fri, 24 May 2013 15:53:15 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/2107450-nkorean-envoy-delivers-letter-to-chinas-president.html 2013-05-24T15:53:15Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2107148-chinese-media-north-korea-envoy-offers-talks.html BEIJING (AP) — A North Korean envoy, on the second day of his fence-mending visit to ally China, heeded Beijing's wishes by offering to renew nuclear disarmament talks, Chinese state media said. The accounts depicted Thursday's meeting between North Korean Vice Marshal Choe Ryong Hae and Chinese Communist Party leader Liu Yunshan as paying Beijing the def... Fri, 24 May 2013 02:56:32 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2107148-chinese-media-north-korea-envoy-offers-talks.html 2013-05-24T02:56:32Z http://www.mail.com/news/us/2102938-intercontinental-missile-test-launched-calif.html VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. (AP) — The U.S. Air Force launched an unarmed intercontinental ballistic missile from a California base on Wednesday, a month after the test flight was postponed because of tensions with North Korea. The Minuteman 3 lifted off at 6:27 a.m. PDT Wednesday from Vandenberg Air Force Base. It splashed down less than 30 minutes... Wed, 22 May 2013 16:46:37 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/2102938-intercontinental-missile-test-launched-calif.html 2013-05-22T16:46:37Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2102488-north-korean-leader-sends-special-envoy-to-china.html PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) — After months of ignoring Chinese warnings to give up nuclear weapons, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un sent a high-level confidant to Beijing on Wednesday, in a possible effort to mend strained ties with his country's most important ally and a sign that he may be giving diplomacy a chance. The trip by Vice Marshal Choe Ryong H... Wed, 22 May 2013 16:24:57 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2102488-north-korean-leader-sends-special-envoy-to-china.html 2013-05-22T16:24:57Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2102018-will-senate-bid-lure-rogers-house-seat.html WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican Rep. Mike Rogers has pulled off a rare feat in a bitterly divided Congress — a working, productive relationship with Democrats in overseeing the nation's 16 spy agencies. The question now is whether the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee sticks around the House or fulfills GOP hopes and launches a bid for the U.S. Se... Wed, 22 May 2013 07:16:47 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2102018-will-senate-bid-lure-rogers-house-seat.html 2013-05-22T07:16:47Z http://www.mail.com/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/news/world/2101656-north-korea-sends-leaders-special-envoy-to-china.html 2013-05-22T05:53:45Z http://www.mail.com/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/news/world/2101772-media-nkorea-military-chief.html 2013-05-22T03:54:34Z http://www.mail.com/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/news/world/2099236-owner-chinese-boats-captain-beaten-nkoreans.html 2013-05-22T02:47:39Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2099308-chinas-xi-will-meet-obama-earlier-than-expected.html BEIJING (AP) — China's new leader Xi Jinping will confer with President Barack Obama next month in California, months earlier than expected, as both sides seek to stem a drift in relations, troubled by issues from cyberspying to North Korea. The June 7-8 meeting at a retreat southeast of Los Angeles, announced Monday by the White House, underlines the imp... Tue, 21 May 2013 09:54:15 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2099308-chinas-xi-will-meet-obama-earlier-than-expected.html 2013-05-21T09:54:15Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2098806-govt-presses-ahead-leak-case.html WASHINGTON (AP) — In another case of the Obama administration investigating classified information improperly disclosed to reporters, the government is prosecuting a State Department expert on North Korea in a probe that appears to step into uncharted territory — by declaring that a journalist is committing a crime in disclosing leaked information. During... Mon, 20 May 2013 23:59:10 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2098806-govt-presses-ahead-leak-case.html 2013-05-20T23:59:10Z http://www.mail.com/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/news/world/2098164-postponed-us-long-range-missile-test-tuesday.html 2013-05-20T16:37:05Z http://www.mail.com/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/news/world/2097446-seoul-day-3-nkorea-tests-short-range-weapon.html 2013-05-20T16:28:41Z http://www.mail.com/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/news/world/2097226-china-asks-nkorea-to-release-fishing-boat-crew.html 2013-05-20T10:30:27Z http://www.mail.com/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/news/world/2095912-skorea-analyzing-nkoreas-4-projectile-launches.html 2013-05-20T03:18:56Z http://www.mail.com/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/news/world/2094780-skorea-nkorea-fires-3-short-range-missiles.html 2013-05-18T18:38:30Z http://www.mail.com/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/news/world/2086500-nkorea-american-starts-life-special-prison.html 2013-05-15T08:50:54Z http://www.mail.com/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/news/world/2081290-spies-caught-website-scandal-embarrass-skorea.html 2013-05-13T10:29:47Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2081102-north-korea-replaces-hard-line-defense-minister.html SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea has replaced its hard-line defense minister with a little-known army general, according to a state media report Monday, in what outside analysts call an attempt to install a younger figure meant to solidify leader Kim Jong Un's grip on the powerful military. Jang Jong Nam's appointment is the latest move since Kim suc... Mon, 13 May 2013 09:47:08 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2081102-north-korea-replaces-hard-line-defense-minister.html 2013-05-13T09:47:08Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/2080046-gates-worries-escalation-korean-tension.html WASHINGTON (AP) — A former Pentagon chief says he worries that North Korea's young leader and his generals don't realize there's been a "dramatic change" in public opinion in South Korea in how to respond to belligerent actions by the North. Robert Gates says that after many years of "swallowing provocation," the South Koreas "are not prepared to take tha... Sun, 12 May 2013 13:07:09 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/2080046-gates-worries-escalation-korean-tension.html 2013-05-12T13:07:09Z http://www.mail.com/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/news/world/2076332-nkorea-nuke-arsenal-matter-when.html 2013-05-10T15:04:00Z http://www.mail.com/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/news/world/2076044-nkorea-calls-us-skorea-summit-prelude-to-war.html 2013-05-10T07:01:16Z http://www.mail.com/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/news/world/2074422-nkorea-detained-american-smuggled-propaganda.html 2013-05-09T18:18:27Z http://www.mail.com/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/news/world/2070562-skorean-leader-nuclear-armed-north-unacceptable.html 2013-05-08T16:00:24Z http://www.mail.com/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/news/world/2070862-rodman-to-kim-do-solid-free-american.html 2013-05-08T10:54:05Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2067852-obama-skorea-united-front-pyongyang.html WASHINGTON (AP) — Projecting a united front, President Barack Obama and South Korea's new leader warned North Korea on Tuesday against further nuclear provocations, with Obama declaring that the days when Pyongyang could "create a crisis and elicit concessions" were over. Obama also disputed the notion that his cautious response to reported chemical weapo... Tue, 07 May 2013 22:36:28 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2067852-obama-skorea-united-front-pyongyang.html 2013-05-07T22:36:28Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2069166-obama-hes-spoken-to-kim-jong-un.html WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama says he doesn't know Kim Jong Un (kim jawng oon) personally and has never spoken to him, but says the North Korean leader can still take a different path. Obama says he does know that Kim's actions seem to pursue a dead end. Obama spoke at a news conference Tuesday with South Korean President Park Geun-hye (goon-ha... Tue, 07 May 2013 20:27:19 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2069166-obama-hes-spoken-to-kim-jong-un.html 2013-05-07T20:27:19Z http://www.mail.com/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/news/world/2067944-nkorea-issues-warning-ahead-us-skorea-summit.html 2013-05-07T17:02:55Z http://www.mail.com/business/economy/2068140-bank-china-cuts-north-korea-trade-bank.html BEIJING (AP) — One of China's biggest banks said Tuesday it has halted business with a North Korean bank accused by the U.S. of financing Pyongyang's missile and nuclear programs in the latest sign of Beijing's displeasure with its estranged ally. The state-run Bank of China Ltd. has notified the Foreign Trade Bank of North Korea that its account or accou... Tue, 07 May 2013 13:47:29 GMT http://www.mail.com/business/economy/2068140-bank-china-cuts-north-korea-trade-bank.html 2013-05-07T13:47:29Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/2068190-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 11:23:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/2068190-un-names-3-members-to-human-rights-probe-nkorea.html 2013-05-07T11:23:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2066956-chicago-case-alleges-ties-to-north-korea.html CHICAGO (AP) — A Taiwanese businessman long suspected of ties to North Korea and his Illinois-based 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 ... Tue, 07 May 2013 00:12:48 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2066956-chicago-case-alleges-ties-to-north-korea.html 2013-05-07T00:12:48Z