http://www.mail.com/organizations/1321142-north-korea-government.html Mail.com - the best personalized free web-based Email en en http://sec-s.uicdn.com/mail.com/2.20/img/mailcom_logo_rss.png http://www.mail.com/organizations/1321142-north-korea-government.html http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1763144-nkorea-years-reliable-missiles.html SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — After 14 years of painstaking labor, North Korea finally has a rocket that can put a satellite in orbit. But that doesn't mean the reclusive country is close to having an intercontinental ballistic missile. Experts say Pyongyang is years from even having a shot at developing reliable missiles that could bombard the American mainl... Thu, 13 Dec 2012 18:08:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1763144-nkorea-years-reliable-missiles.html 2012-12-13T18:08:00Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1760798-north-koreas-missile-arsenal.html SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea's missile program is a point of national pride, with state TV regularly broadcasting past liftoffs set to rousing military anthems. But Pyongyang provides precious few details about its program's inner workings, leaving outside analysts to squeeze details from satellite photos and comparisons with other countries' missiles. Here's a look... Wed, 12 Dec 2012 11:15:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1760798-north-koreas-missile-arsenal.html 2012-12-12T11:15:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1760562-nkorea-rocket-gift-to-leaders-warning-to-world.html Why would North Korea launch a rocket into space now? The act invites additional sanctions for a country where the U.N. says millions are going hungry, and the bitter cold had only increased the risk of the launch becoming the latest of several embarrassing failures. Some of Pyongyang's reasons are calendar-related: It's been 100 years since the birth of ... Wed, 12 Dec 2012 09:35:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1760562-nkorea-rocket-gift-to-leaders-warning-to-world.html 2012-12-12T09:35:00Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1757144-nkorea-extends-window-readies-rocket-launch.html SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea is pressing ahead with preparation for a long-range rocket launch after extending its liftoff window by another week until Dec. 29 because of technical problems. It's North Korea's second attempt this year, and the fifth since 1998, to launch a rocket that the United Nations, Washington, Seoul and others call a cover ... Mon, 10 Dec 2012 23:16:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1757144-nkorea-extends-window-readies-rocket-launch.html 2012-12-10T23:16:00Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1755220-nkorea-extending-rocket-launch-period-to-dec-29.html SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea on Monday extended the launch period for a controversial long-range rocket by another week until Dec. 29, citing technical problems. An unidentified spokesman for the North's Korean Committee of Space Technology told state media that scientists found a "technical deficiency in the first-stage control engine module of ... Mon, 10 Dec 2012 12:10:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1755220-nkorea-extending-rocket-launch-period-to-dec-29.html 2012-12-10T12:10:00Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1750138-sign-imminent-rocket-launch-north-korea.html SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea held off launching a long-range rocket Monday, the first day of a 13-day window during a frigid, snowy stretch of winter weather, a day after announcing it may delay the controversial liftoff. Pyongyang had made a surprise announcement earlier this month that it would launch a rocket mounted with a satellite one morni... Mon, 10 Dec 2012 04:48:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1750138-sign-imminent-rocket-launch-north-korea.html 2012-12-10T04:48:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1747362-us-situation-dangerous-ahead-nkorea-launch.html TOKYO (AP) — The commander of American troops in Japan said Thursday that the situation ahead of North Korea's planned launch of a long-range rocket this month is "very dangerous." Lt. Gen. Salvatore Angelella said U.S. troops in Japan are closely monitoring activity in North Korea as it prepares for the launch. He said the United States sees the launch a... Thu, 06 Dec 2012 08:03:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1747362-us-situation-dangerous-ahead-nkorea-launch.html 2012-12-06T08:03:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1739508-skorea-to-reroute-flights-nkorean-rocket-path.html SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea said Monday that it plans to reroute passenger flights over the Yellow Sea to avoid possible collisions with debris from a long-range rocket that North Korea plans to launch this month. The Ministry of Land, Transport and Maritime Affairs said it made the decision after learning that North Korea had informed China and... Mon, 03 Dec 2012 19:56:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1739508-skorea-to-reroute-flights-nkorean-rocket-path.html 2012-12-03T19:56:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1736098-north-korea-gears-up-to-launch-long-range-rocket.html SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea is gearing up to fire a long-range rocket this month in a defiant move expected to raise the stakes of a global standoff over its missile and nuclear programs. The North's announcement Saturday that it would launch the rocket between Dec. 10 and Dec. 22 came as President Barack Obama prepares for his second term and a... Sun, 02 Dec 2012 10:33:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1736098-north-korea-gears-up-to-launch-long-range-rocket.html 2012-12-02T10:33:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1732222-nkorea-preps-rocket-launch-that-would-irk-china.html WASHINGTON (AP) — Satellite photos indicate North Korea has moved two sections of a long-range rocket in preparation for a launch that would alarm both its adversaries and lone ally China. But North Korea has yet to announce its plans, leaving some uncertainty whether and when it will proceed with a launch that would be sure to draw international condemna... Fri, 30 Nov 2012 02:03:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1732222-nkorea-preps-rocket-launch-that-would-irk-china.html 2012-11-30T02:03:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1730638-sources-north-korea-replaces-defense-minister.html SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea has replaced its defense minister with a hardline military commander believed responsible for deadly attacks on South Korea in 2010, diplomats in Pyongyang said Thursday. It is the latest in a series of high-profile appointments leader Kim Jong Un has made since he took power nearly a year ago. Diplomats in Pyongyang ... Thu, 29 Nov 2012 09:25:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1730638-sources-north-korea-replaces-defense-minister.html 2012-11-29T09:25:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1652964-us-skorea-ready-to-respond-to-nkorea-provocation.html WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. defense chief expressed relief Wednesday that North Korea has not followed through on a threat to launch a military strike in response to South Korean activists floating anti-Pyongyang leaflets across the border. Leon Panetta said the U.S. and its ally South Korea would continue to watch for provocations from the North, and woul... Wed, 24 Oct 2012 15:02:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1652964-us-skorea-ready-to-respond-to-nkorea-provocation.html 2012-10-24T15:02:00Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1651506-reading-gone-with-wind-pyongyang.html PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) — The former black marketeer has read it. So has the beautiful young librarian, and the aging philosophy professor who has spent his life teaching the ruling doctrine of this isolated outpost of totalitarian socialism. At times it seems as if everyone in Pyongyang, a city full of monuments to its own mythology, has read the book. ... Wed, 24 Oct 2012 03:45:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1651506-reading-gone-with-wind-pyongyang.html 2012-10-24T03:45:00Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1613352-north-koreas-oz-to-forgotten-cities.html KAESONG, North Korea (AP) — From here, Pyongyang can seem like a dream. At what passes for rush hour on a Wednesday morning, there are few sounds in Kaesong's main traffic circle but the gentle squeak of bicycles and a tinny loudspeaker blaring anthems to Kim Jong Un, the baby-faced ruler who took power after his father's December death ("The footsteps of... Sun, 07 Oct 2012 10:11:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1613352-north-koreas-oz-to-forgotten-cities.html 2012-10-07T10:11:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1612040-nkorean-soldier-defects-to-skorea-border.html SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — A North Korean soldier killed two of his superiors Saturday and defected to South Korea across the countries' heavily armed border in a rare crossing that prompted South Korean troops to immediately beef up their border patrol, officials said. The soldier shot his platoon and squad leaders before crossing the western side of the ... Sat, 06 Oct 2012 13:44:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1612040-nkorean-soldier-defects-to-skorea-border.html 2012-10-06T13:44:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1600660-north-korea-spark-set-nuclear-war.html UNITED NATIONS (AP) — A North Korean minister lashed out at the United States on Monday, warning that its "hostile" policy has left the Korean peninsula a spark away from a nuclear war. Addressing the final session of the U.N. General Assembly's annual high-level meeting, Vice Foreign Minister Pak Kil Yon said the Koreas have become "the world's most dang... Tue, 02 Oct 2012 01:04:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1600660-north-korea-spark-set-nuclear-war.html 2012-10-02T01:04:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1585406-nkorean-parliament-holds-second-session-this-year.html PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) — North Korea's parliament convened Tuesday for the second time in six months, passing a law that adds one year of compulsory education for children in the socialist nation, the first publicly announced policy change under leader Kim Jong Un. The Supreme People's Assembly's second meeting of the year was notable mainly as a dep... Tue, 25 Sep 2012 12:01:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1585406-nkorean-parliament-holds-second-session-this-year.html 2012-09-25T12:01:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1498516-nkorea-parliament-holding-closely-watched-session.html PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) — North Korea's rubber-stamp parliament is convening a new session that is drawing attention because it is the second in less than six months. The 687-member Supreme People's Assembly gathers Tuesday in the North Korean capital. Under late leader Kim Jong Il, parliament convened only once a year in the spring. Tuesday's session... Tue, 25 Sep 2012 01:27:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1498516-nkorea-parliament-holding-closely-watched-session.html 2012-09-25T01:27:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1577498-south-korea-fires-north-korean-fishing-boats.html SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea's navy fired warning shots Friday toward North Korean fishing boats that crossed a disputed maritime boundary, but the shots didn't hit the fishing boats and the vessels retreated, a South Korean official said. Fishing boats routinely jostle for position in the seafood-rich Yellow Sea waters claimed by both countries ... Fri, 21 Sep 2012 07:28:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1577498-south-korea-fires-north-korean-fishing-boats.html 2012-09-21T07:28:00Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1571824-storms-dampen-hopes-bountiful-nkorea-harvest.html WONSAN, North Korea (AP) — First came an extended dry spell in the spring, followed by a summer of flash floods and typhoons. Now, with North Korean farmers preparing to head out into autumn fields to cut and thresh the nation's most important crop, rice, there are renewed concerns that continued harsh weather will mean another shortfall of food in this c... Wed, 19 Sep 2012 05:18:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1571824-storms-dampen-hopes-bountiful-nkorea-harvest.html 2012-09-19T05:18:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1564364-thousands-skorea-attend-funeral-rev-moon.html GAPYEONG, South Korea (AP) — Tens of thousands of mourners sobbed, sang, prayed and vowed to cherish the Rev. Sun Myung Moon's teachings Saturday as they said goodbye to their self-proclaimed messiah and "True Father," whose death earlier this month shed light again on his controversial religious and business empire. Moon, founder of the Unification Churc... Sat, 15 Sep 2012 06:03:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1564364-thousands-skorea-attend-funeral-rev-moon.html 2012-09-15T06:03:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1557042-north-korea-experimenting-with-change.html PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) — Deep in the North Korean countryside, in remote villages that outsiders seldom reach, farmers are now said to be given nearly one-third of their harvests to sell at market prices. Collective farms are reportedly being reorganized into something closer to family farms. State propagandists are expounding the glories of change under the country's n... Wed, 12 Sep 2012 07:49:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1557042-north-korea-experimenting-with-change.html 2012-09-12T07:49:00Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1545966-romantic-comedy-twist-with-nkorean-acrobats.html SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — It's a classic tale of a small-town girl who follows her dreams to the big city. But in this case, the girl is a North Korean coal miner, the big city is Pyongyang and her dream is to become a high-flying trapeze artist. "Comrade Kim Goes Flying," a collaboration between a North Korean director and two European filmmakers, premie... Fri, 07 Sep 2012 15:14:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1545966-romantic-comedy-twist-with-nkorean-acrobats.html 2012-09-07T15:14:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1535744-unification-church-founder-rev-moon-dies-92.html GAPYEONG, South Korea (AP) — The Rev. Sun Myung Moon was a self-proclaimed messiah who built a global business empire. He called both North Korean leaders and American presidents his friends, but spent time in prisons in both countries. His followers around the world cherished him, while his detractors accused him of brainwashing recruits and extracting money from worshipper... Mon, 03 Sep 2012 01:50:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1535744-unification-church-founder-rev-moon-dies-92.html 2012-09-03T01:50:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1475644-north-koreas-leader-diplomatic-debut.html SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Kim Jong Un the marshal became Kim Jong Un the statesman as he met with Chinese political dignitaries in meetings that marked his first official foray into foreign affairs since becoming North Korea's leader. Kim told Wang Jiarui, head of the Communist Party's international affairs office, that his government is focused on buildi... Sat, 04 Aug 2012 01:58:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1475644-north-koreas-leader-diplomatic-debut.html 2012-08-04T01:58:00Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/music/1472042-nkoreans-perform-mass-arirang-with-kim-odes.html PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) — An updated version of North Korea's elaborate "Arirang" performance has opened in Pyongyang. Wednesday's performance featured up to 100,000 North Koreans and debuted routines set to odes to new leader Kim Jong Un. It's the first "Arirang" since Kim came to power after his father, Kim Jong Il, died in December. ... Wed, 01 Aug 2012 16:18:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/music/1472042-nkoreans-perform-mass-arirang-with-kim-odes.html 2012-08-01T16:18:00Z http://www.mail.com/sports/other/1464052-north-korean-lifts-3-times-body-weight-gold.html LONDON (AP) — It was a big record for a little guy. North Korea's Om Yun Chol, all of 5 feet and 123 pounds, won a gold medal by confidently lifting an Olympic record 370 pounds in the clean and jerk Sunday at the London Games. That was more than three times his body weight, something only a handful of others have ever done. ... Sun, 29 Jul 2012 18:35:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/sports/other/1464052-north-korean-lifts-3-times-body-weight-gold.html 2012-07-29T18:35:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1458234-koreas-mark-59th-anniversary-war-armistice.html PANMUNJOM, Korea (AP) — Elderly North Korean veterans pledged loyalty to their 20-something leader in Pyongyang during Korean War armistice commemorations Friday that were being closely watched after Kim Jong Un reshuffled the military and revealed he's married. Over the last two weeks, Kim has taken on the title of marshal and replaced his army chief — o... Sat, 28 Jul 2012 02:33:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1458234-koreas-mark-59th-anniversary-war-armistice.html 2012-07-28T02:33:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1455040-north-south-korea-mark-war-armistice.html PANMUNJOM, Korea (AP) — Veterans in medal-laden uniforms streamed into North Korea's capital Friday for ceremonies marking the end of the Korean War, an annual event being closely watched after the secretive country's new leader reshuffled the military. Over the last two weeks, 20-something leader Kim Jong Un has taken on a new military title, "marshal," ... Fri, 27 Jul 2012 04:54:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1455040-north-south-korea-mark-war-armistice.html 2012-07-27T04:54:00Z