North Korea on Tuesday signalled it could return to nuclear disarmament talks it had declared dead six months ago.
A US official charged with enforcing UN sanctions on North Korea sought South Korea’s continued support during talks on Monday.
Former president Kim Dae-jung, a giant in South Korea’s shift to democracy, died on Tuesday at the age of 85.
South Korea is counting down to its first space launch on Wednesday that will likely open the door to its nascent rocket programme.
North Korea said on Monday it would reopen its border with the South, ending a self-imposed blockade on a vital source of income for its leaders.
About 100 000 performers flipped and twirled in perfect synchronicity as North Korea’s most lavish spectacle opened in Pyongyang.
A five-year-old female parrot named Strawberry has proved smarter than human investors in a stock investment contest, organisers said on Friday.
Some South Korean and United States internet sites were down or slowed to a crawl for a third day on Thursday after attacks by a hacker.
Four US experts monitoring the shutdown of a North Korean nuclear plant were expelled on Friday from the isolated nation, Chinese media reported.
North Korea will soon launch a long-range rocket after completing preparations to put a satellite into space, its official media said on Saturday.
Japan ”would not tolerate” a North Korean Act that raises regional tensions, the government said on Thursday.
North Korea said on Thursday it was ready for war with the South, just hours before US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was set to arrive in Seoul.
South Korea’s Samsung Electronics posted its first quarterly loss to date on Friday, joining a host of technology companies including Microsoft.
North Korea on Tuesday accused the South of driving the divided peninsula back into war.
Hundreds of colourful ribbons bearing messages yearning for peace flutter from a barbed-wire fence at the edge of the heavily fortified buffer zone.
North Korea barred United Nations monitoring throughout its Yongbyon nuclear complex on Thursday.
South Korea has extended a joint crude stockpiling deal with Algerian state-owned energy group Sonatrach, the presidential office said on Friday.
