Archive for January, 2011

North Korean leader Kim Jong-il's eldest son says the North should abandon the "Songun" or military first doctrine and pursue reforms and open up. Kim Jong-nam (39), who

(Inter-Korean) South Korea rejects North's call for earlier military talks South Korea on Monday rejected a push by the North to bring forward military talks by 10 days,

(WMD / Inter-Korean) S. Korea to press N. Korea to honor 1992 denuclearization pact: official SEOUL, Jan. 31 (Yonhap) -- South Korea plans to press North Korea to abide

North Korea has announced that it supports the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula and the implementation of the 2005 joint statement adopted during the six-party denuclearization talks. A spokesman

A report verifying North Korea’s recently-disclosed uranium enrichment program has been submitted to a U.N. Security Council committee overseeing sanctions on Pyongyang, sources said. A source within the Security

North Korean leader Kim Jong-il's son and heir Jong-un is already being treated with the same level of protocol as his father. A senior South Korean government official last

Kim Jong Il has called for the expansion of a domestic computer network, according to domestic media reports. His comments were made earlier this month, when he visited

A special rapporteur for the United Nations on human rights in North Korea urged Pyongyang on Friday to resolve the long-standing abduction issue and deal with wider matters

Observers here played down the possibility that the social media-driven winds of change currently sweeping the Arab world will affect North Korea, Monday. They noted that access to information