Archive for August, 2010

A North Korean arms chief and Pyongyang's former ambassador to the United Nation's nuclear agency have emerged as key figures in an intensifying international effort to curb North

South Korea offered on Tuesday 10 billion won ($8.4 million) in emergency aid to North Korea to help with recovery from floods that ravaged the destitute state, a

With good reason, Josh Marshall of Talking Points Memo asks if this brief message, posted on Twitter on Friday by State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley — after former President Jimmy

North Korea accused The South Monday of blocking its people from accessing online social-networking sites launched by the secretive communist country. Pyongyang opened a Twitter account on August 12

Joseph Bermudez, military analyst forJane’s Intelligence Review and author of  The Armed Forces of North Korea, has published the eighth issue of his very fascinating KPA Journal. Click here to

Kim Jong Il's apparent trip to China last week has excited more speculation over succession planning for the ailing North Korean dictator. That trip was widely interpreted as

VICE PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN, who traveled to Iraq this week to mark the formal end of United States combat operations there, has claimed that peace and stability there could

In American foreign policy, it’s not difficult to make mistakes — especially when it comes to military intervention. Many Americans agree our involvement in World War II was

South Korea welcomed expanded U.S. financial sanctions against North Korea on Tuesday, but made its first large-scale offer of aid to its destitute neighbor since the sinking of