Archive for June, 2011

South Korea will keep up its efforts to convince North Korea to engage in bilateral discussions on its nuclear weapons program in spite of Pyongyang's earlier rejection of

The international community should come together to pressure North Korea into giving up its nuclear weapons programs that pose a major threat to global safety and security, a

A DIRECT flight between Shanghai and Pyongyang is scheduled to start today. The service is expected to attract local tourists previously put off by long transit times on the

The South Korean Unification Ministry refused to receive a letter from a North Korean propaganda agency addressed to the South Korean presidential office, a ministry official said Thursday. “The

Korean food is all the rage in Asia but one Korean restaurant in Burma’s old capital has raised a few eyebrows amongst those in the know. While nobody has

A German reporter has said North Korea’s existence could be an advantage for PyeongChang’s bid for the 2018 Winter Olympic Games. “The conflict with North Korea might even turn

What do you get a dictator for his birthday? When Kim Jong-il turned 46, he was given a hybrid red begonia created just for him. The name of

The Associated Press announced this week that it had reached an agreement with the Korean Central News Agency to set up a bureau in Pyongyang. This would make it the

Korea's past presidential elections showed that winners of the race were candidates who adroitly caught the spirit of the times, often called zeitgeist. In 1992, Kim Young-sam won the