Yeonpyeong island is on a maritime demarcation line that Pyongyang has refused to recognise since it was imposed in 1953.
A US aircraft carrier headed toward the Korean peninsula on Wednesday, a day after North Korea launched artillery shells on a South Korean island.
The ANCYL has been stepping up its support for North Korea, Pyongyang’s media said, ahead of President Zuma’s visit to the G20 meeting in South Korea.
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/ 10 October 2010
Secretive North Korea’s leader-in-waiting, the youngest son of ailing ruler Kim Jong-il, took centre stage during a massive military parade on Sunday.
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/ 30 September 2010
A photograph of a plump young man seated near North Korea’s ailing ruler confirmed the rise of Kim Jong-il’s youngest son as the leader-in waiting.
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/ 28 September 2010
North Korea’s ailing leader Kim Jong-il gave his youngest son his first public title on Tuesday, naming him a general.
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/ 27 September 2010
North Korea’s military has nominated the third son of ailing leader Kim Jong-il as a delegate to a rare meeting of the ruling party.
North Korea would answer any attack on it with a nuclear "holy war", the country’s ambassador to Cuba said, according to official Chinese media.
The Korean War, which began 60 years ago on Friday, lasted three years, cost millions of lives and never officially ended.
North Korea vowed on Thursday to attack any South Korean ships that violate their disputed border.
South Korea on Monday announced steps to tighten the vice on the North’s already stumbling economy in punishment for sinking one of its navy ships.
Reclusive North Korean leader Kim Jong-il is reportedly in China seeking aid and protection from his only major ally.
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/ 16 February 2010
North Korea celebrated leader Kim Jong-il’s birthday on Tuesday with synchronised swimmers glorifying the "kind-hearted father".
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/ 24 January 2010
Through astrology, hints and allusions in the state media, North Koreans are being softened up to accept Kim Jong-il’s successor — his third son.
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/ 11 September 2008
South Korean has ordered ministers to be prepared for any changes in North Korea after its leader, Kim Jong-Il, suffered a stroke, officials say.
Reclusive North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il has boasted of being an "internet expert," reports said on Saturday. The communist state keeps itself closed to the outside world to prevent so-called spiritual pollution from subverting its hard-line socialist system.