North Korean state media has confirmed that its new leader Kim Jong-un is married and named his wife as Ri Sol-ju.
North Korea on Monday proposed dialogue with South Korea, less than two months after launching a deadly bombardment of a border island.
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/ 22 January 2010
It built its economy on ships, steel and semi-conductors, but now South Korea is pushing a new growth engine.
North Korea on Thursday test-fired three short-range missiles, fuelling tension sparked by its nuclear stand-off with the UN.
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/ 16 February 2009
Dozens of women chat cheerfully in their classroom during a recess period. It could be any classroom except for the tight security outside.
North Korea unveiled a new economic blueprint this week that sets the impoverished Stalinist state the target of becoming a high-technology powerhouse within two decades. Military spending remains the biggest budget item and a top priority for North Korea, one of the world’s poorest countries that fields the fifth biggest army.