Story Archive
2009-04-29
Tensions escalate as North Korea threatens to conduct a new nuclear test.
2009-04-29
Will two U.S. journalists arrested on the Chinese-North Korean border soon face trial?
2009-04-29
A rights group calls on China to crack down on the sale of women who leave isolated, Stalinist North Korea in search of a better life.
2009-04-20
North Korea's leader appears increasingly ill, and time may be running out to find a successor.
2009-04-14
A day after its rocket launch drew a strong U.N. rebuke, North Korea quits disarmament talks and orders U.N. inspectors to leave the country.
2009-04-13
The U.N. Security Council vows to tighten sanctions on North Korea after its latest rocket launch. Will it work?
2009-04-10
North Korea's rocket launch escalates tensions with South Korea, and the Kaesong border industrial zone feels the pinch.
2009-04-09
Was North Korea's missile launch meant to send a message abroad or to address internal issues?
2009-04-06
Kim Jong Il may not have placed a satellite into orbit, but his missile launch has played well domestically, given him the initiative, and exposed divisions at the U.N. Security Council.
2009-04-05
By launching its rocket despite international warnings, North Korea makes sure all eyes are on the Stalinist state.
2009-03-25
North Korea has stopped receiving U.S. food aid, but a U.S. official says it could re-start immediately.
2009-03-20
Tense relations between North and South Korea have forced separated families to travel to a third country to see long-lost relatives.
2009-03-19
Top brass in the U.S. military say they can probably shoot down any North Korean missile. But will they?
2009-03-12
North Korea announces an upcoming missile launch. But will it have the effect the isolated Stalinist country wants?
2009-03-10
Life in hardscrabble North Korea gets harder, as authorities crack down on a key segment of the unofficial economy.
