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BEIJING (AP) — China's leadership is hitting a rough patch with ally North Korea under its new leader Kim Jong Un, as Beijing finds itself wrong-footed in episodes including Pyongyang's rocket launch and the murky detention of Chinese fishing boats.
May 25, 2012 at 09:01 | Source: YAHOO!
SEOUL, May 24 (UPI) -- South Korean officials said Thursday North Korea would face "grave consequences" if it attempted a third nuclear test. "If North Korea goes ahead with a nuclear test, it will be a clear breach of the April 19 presidential ...
May 24, 2012 at 16:40 | Source: United Press International
Chinese state media say authorities have begun a crackdown against illegal immigration in a northeast border region with a large population of defectors from North Korea. The China Daily said Friday the five-month campaign began last week in the ...
May 24, 2012 at 23:57 | Source: Voice of America
SEOUL—North Korea is suffering a prolonged and widespread drought, state media says, raising fears it will worsen already dire food shortages in the impoverished communist country. If the unusually dry weather persists to the end of the month, it will be ...
May 27, 2012 at 09:13 | Source: Global Nation
PYONGYANG, North Korea, May 27 (UPI) -- The North Korean government is turning its attention to a drought that is jeopardizing the rice crop, state media reports monitored in South Korea said. North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency ...
May 27, 2012 at 14:50 | Source: United Press International
New satellite images show that North Korea is building a rocket launch pad and assembly center with similarities to a facility in Iran, according to an analysis by the defense publication IHS Jane's. New construction at Tonghae, a facility on ...
May 23, 2012 at 21:21 | Source: CNN
North Korea is warning that it will continue to develop its nuclear program, but says it has not envisioned “a military measure like a nuclear test.” The North Korean Central news Agency quoted a Foreign Ministry spokesman on Tuesday as ...
May 22, 2012 at 16:07 | Source: Voice of America
SEOUL - In the early 1980s, when the present author was a student at the Soviet University, my teacher often described North Korea as a "country where meetings never end". Having grown up in Stalin's Russia, he knew a thing or two about meetings and ...
May 24, 2012 at 07:58 | Source: Asia Times
SEOUL, South Korea - North Korea on Tuesday vowed to push ahead with its nuclear program because of what it called U.S. hostility, as an outside analysis of satellite images suggested it has ramped up work at its nuclear test site over the last month.
May 23, 2012 at 05:07 | Source: Philadelphia Daily News
As maritime tensions with neighbors including Japan, Vietnam and the Philippines continue to simmer, China has a fresh grievance with a somewhat unexpected antagonist: North Korea. On May 8, the isolated authoritarian regime detained 28 Chinese ...
May 24, 2012 at 09:31 | Source: Time