Full Coverage: North Korea

21.04.2008 North Korea may face an impending humanitarian food crisis due to the devastating effects of heavy August flooding on the national harvest, says an international food agency.
From: World Food Programme

05.10.2007 The presidents of North and South Korea have signed a historic and permanent peace accord, and the North announced that its main nuclear facility will be dismantled.

13.09.2007 The demilitarized zone between North and South Korea has been a sanctuary for the peninsula's wildlife for over 50 years. As tensions ease, conservationists are hoping the land will be transformed into a "peace park" rather than a commercial zone.

25.07.2007 After shutting down its nuclear facilities, arms control advocates are commending North Korea for progress toward becoming a nuclear-free state while urging the Bush administration to persevere through the tough negotiations ahead.

07.06.2007 A new series of missiles were tested Thursday morning by North Korea, and with FebruaryÂ’s nuclear agreement held up by a freeze on North Korean assets, experts are calling for a new urgency to move the accord forward.

17.05.2007 Trains from South and North Korea crossed the heavily fortified border between the divided countries yesterday for the first time in more than 50 years, in a symbol of reconciliation.

14.02.2007 Tuesday's agreement by North Korea to take the first concrete steps toward nuclear disarmament in exchange for aid and normalized relations marks a long-awaited diplomatic breakthrough for U.S. President George W. Bush and a clear victory for "realists" in his administration, says analyst Jim Lobe.

18.10.2006 Diplomacy and trade, not military threats or sanctions, provide the best hope for peace on the Korean peninsula, says the East Asian representative of a U.S. faith-based group, tracing the North Korea nuclear crisis back to the Bush administration's post-9/11 refusal to negotiate.

12.10.2006 UNITED NATIONS, Oct 12 (OneWorld) - North Korea's nuclear weapon test has spawned widespread denunciation but the fallout also includes divergent positions on how to respond.

03.10.2006 A viable diplomatic strategy is urgently needed now that North Korea plans to test a nuclear weapon, said an arms control group Tuesday, noting that the Bush administration's focus on form over substance has allowed Pyongyang to produce enough material for perhaps as many as ten nuclear weapons.

15.09.2006 SAN FRANCISCO, Sep 15 (OneWorld) - Dozens of South Koreans took to the streets of Washington, DC Thursday in support of small farmers forced to relocate to make way for a massive new U.S. military base in their country. President George W. Bush was meeting with his South Korean counterpart just steps away in the White House at the time.

18.08.2006 SAN FRANCISCO, Aug 17 (OneWorld) - Twenty-one former generals and high ranking national security officials have called on United States President George W. Bush to reverse course and embrace a new area of negotiation with Iran, Iraq, and North Korea. In a letter released Thursday, the group told reporters Bush's 'hard line' policies have undermined national security and made America less safe.

03.08.2006 While North Korea has sounded riotous challenges, the United States has remained surprisingly quiet in its response. Analyst John Feffer explains why.

21.07.2006 Disarmament activists want to put the nuclear genie back in the bottle. Many world leaders seem to want to pursue their own weapons programs while halting others'. Sarah Barr takes a look at the nuclear landscape confronting all of us today.

20.07.2006 Typhoon rains, landslides and flash floods have left more than 9,000 families homeless in North Korea.

13.07.2006 Are North Korea's recent missile tests really an escalation of the nation's threat to global security, or just a call for attention? Wade Huntley looks at the facts behind Kim Jong-il's nuclear weapons program.

02.02.2006 The end game is approaching for North KoreaÂ’s eccentric head, reports Nury Vittachi, China-based journalist and author.

10.11.2005 China and North Korea are failing to protect North Korean women trafficked to China, according to a new report that says the women are detained, repatriated and used as forced labour.

21.09.2005 The North Korean Government has asked all international aid agency staff to leave the country by 31 December.

31.05.2005 WASHINGTON, D.C., May 31 (OneWorld) - Month-long U.N. talks on halting the spread of nuclear weapons have ended with no agreement on how to update and strengthen the 35-year-old Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT).