• China North Korea and the Tale of Two Fishing Boats

  Is the Chinese government's uneasy friendship with North Korea costing it the public's confidence? A curious confluence of recent events involving two fishing vessels suggests that might be the case. The crisis began in the waters of Scarborough Shoal, a set of fish-laden reefs and small rocky islands west of ...

• European banks stop sending money to North Korea aid groups

  BEIJING (Reuters) - European aid groups said their banks in Europe had stopped sending money to North Korea in the wake of U.S. sanctions on Pyongyang's main foreign exchange bank, leaving them scrambling for a solution short of hand-carrying cash into the impoverished ...

• North Korea Still Shooting Things Into the Sea

  North Korea fired a projectile into waters off its eastern coast Sunday, a day after launching three short- range missiles in the same area, officials said. North Korea routinely test-launches short-range missiles. But the latest launches came during a period of tentative diplomacy aimed at easing recent tension, including near-daily threats by North Korea to attack South Korea and the ...

• North Korea sanctions threaten humanitarian aid report

  London: Aid agencies helping millions of people in North Korea could be forced to pull out after a Chinese bank cut ties with main foreign exchange bank, a humanitarian group said on Wednesday.The freeze - imposed amid growing concern over North Korea's nuclear ambitions - has made it impossible for aid agencies to transfer money to fund projects, many of them aimed at helping chronically ...

• North Korea frees Chinese fishing boa...

  North Korea has freed Chinese fishing boat and its crew, the ship owner Yu Xuejun confirmed on May 21. 16 Chinese fishermen were missing after apparently been kidnapped by armed men from the North Korea two weeks ago. China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs is demanding that Pyongyang secure the release of the men. "China calls on the DPRK to deal with this in a proper manner, and to ...

• Special envoy from DPRK arrives

  DPRK 's Vice-Marshal Choe Ryong-hae, a senior Workers' Party official and the military's top political officer, in Beijing on Wednesday. Ding Lin / ...

• Japan mulls resuming talks with N. Korea official

  TOKYO (AFP) - Japan is considering direct talks with North Korea, the government said Wednesday, adding momentum to the cause after a top level aide to the prime minister made a surprise trip to Pyongyang.Bilateral talks are on the table as Tokyo seeks to salve the running sore of abductions of its nationals by North Korean spies in the 1970s and 1980s, an issue that inflames public opinion at ...

• Top North Korean Envoy Holds Talks in China

  An envoy of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un met Chinese officials on Wednesday in the first such talks since Kim succeeded his late father, Kim Jong Il, Chinese state media said. Choe Ryong Hae, a military leader with close ties to the Kim family, met Wang Jiarui, head of the Chinese Communist Party's international department. Diplomatic meetings between China and North Korea are ...

• US Air Force test-launches Minuteman 3 missile in California delayed by North Korea tensions

  An image provided by Vandenberg Air Force Base shows an unarmed Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile being launched during an operational test Wednesday May 22, 2013, from Launch Facility-4 on Vandenberg AFB, Calif. The U.S. Air Force launched this unarmed intercontinental ballistic missile from a California base, a month after the test flight was postponed because of tensions with ...

• North Korean special envoy meets with Chinese party official

  Kim Jong Un sent one of his closest advisers to Beijing Wednesday as a "special envoy" amid signs of a fraying alliance, officials say. Choe Ryong Hae, vice marshal of the Korean People's Army, met with Wang Jiarui, a senior official of the Chinese Communist Party, The Washington Post reported, ...

• North Korean delegation arrives in Beijing

  Kim Jong Un took power, state media reported. China's official Xinhua News Agency reports that North Korean Vice Marshal Choe Ryong Hae arrived in Beijing to meet with Wang Jiarui, a top official in the Communist Part of China. It was the first time a delegation from North Korean visited Beijing since Kim ascended to power in 2012, Xinhua reports. Neither side offered specifics regarding ...

• Kim Jong Un’s special envoy visits China

  TOKYO - A key North Korean military official arrived in Beijing on Wednesday as a "special envoy" of leader Kim Jong Un, state-run media reported. The trip comes amid new signs of strain between the traditional allies. Choe Ryong Hae, who holds several top Workers’ Party positions and serves as vice marshal of the Korean People’s Army, met with Wang Jiarui, a senior ...

• North Korea How the least-wired country became a hacking superpower

  Members of the Korea Internet Security Agency check on cyber attacks at a briefing room of KISA in Seoul on March 20, 2013. (Jung Yeon-Je/AFP/Getty ...

• Hawkish general makes comeback as North Koreas military chief

  North Korea has reappointed a hardline and loyal general as military chief in a move experts said was part of young leader Kim Jong-un's attempt to tighten his grip on the armed forces. Kim Kyok-sik, widely believed to have been behind the shelling of a South Korean island in 2010 that killed four people, was named "chief of the KPA (Korean People's Army) General Staff" by ...

• Japan mulling to restart inter-governmental talks with DPRK

  Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga said in Tokyo on Wednesday that Japan is mulling to resume the stalled inter-governmental talks with the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) in an effort to resolve abduction issue.Suga said Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is resolute to resolve the issue and that Japan seeks every possibility to communicate with the DPRK to make the issue ...

• Senior CPC official meets DPRKs envoy

  /enpproperty--> BEIJING - Wang Jiarui, a senior official of the Communist Party of China (CPC), met with the special envoy of Kim Jong-un, top leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) here Wednesday. Wang, who is vice-chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) and head of the International Department of the ...

• North Korean envoy visits Beijing for talks

  A group of North Korean political and military leaders has arrived in Beijing for diplomatic talks. China is under pressure from the US to keep North Korea's nuclear ambitions from getting out of ...

• Stalled abduction talks with N. Korea may resume soon

  Modern history is the story of how liberal democracy, originating in Britain and America, spread around the world. This may sound like an absurd fantasy. In actuality, this Whiggish narrative of progress underpins most newspaper editorials, political commentary and speeches in the West, and ...

• Top DPRK leaders envoy visits China

  A special envoy of Kim Jong Un, top leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), left Pyongyang Wednesday for a visit to China, the official KCNA news agency ...

• N Korea official visits China

  North Korea has sent a top military official to China as a special envoy of leader Kim Jong-Un, at a time of strained relations between Pyongyang and its allies in Beijing, state media reported. Choe Ryong-Hae, the director of the Korean People's Army politburo flew to China on Wednesday, the Korean Central News Agency said, without detailing the agenda or length of his visit. Choe is ...

• NKorea Sends Special Envoy to China

  North Korean leader Kim Jong Un dispatched a high-profile official and close confidant to travel to China on Wednesday as a special envoy while Beijing is under pressure to rein in its belligerent neighbor. Choe Ryong Hae, a top Workers' Party official and a vice marshal tasked with supervising the North Korean army, departed on a chartered Air Koryo flight with a political and military ...

• Top N. Korea military leader visits China—KCNA

  In this July 18, 2012 file photo, North Korea’s Vice-Marshal Choe Ryong Hae, director of the General Political Bureau of the Korean People’s Army, speaks during a meeting at the April 25 House of Culture announcing North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s new title of marshal, in Pyongyang, North Korea. Choe, a ';special envoy'; for North Korean leader Kim Jong Un left ...

• North Korea sends top Kim Jong-un aide to Beijing

  SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea sent one of its top military officials to Beijing on Wednesday as a "special envoy" of its leader Kim Jong-un, state news agency KCNA ...

• DPRK missiles moved away from launch site U.S. officials

  The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) has taken two Musudan missiles off launch-ready status and moved them from their position on the country's east coast, U.S. officials said on Monday, after weeks of concern that Pyongyang had been poised for a test-launch. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry warned DPRK last month that it would be a "huge mistake" to launch the ...

• North Koreas Kim Sends Envoy to China

  The official Korean Central News Agency said Choe Ryong Hae, the director of the General Political Bureau of the North Korean army, left Pyongyang for China Wednesday. The brief report provided no details about the purpose of the trip. Choe is believed to be the highest-level official Pyongyang has sent to Beijing since Mr. Kim took over leadership of the country following the death of his ...

• North Korean captors free Chinese fishing boat crew

  North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, second from left, and his wife, Ri Sol Ju, pay a visit to a children's camp at the foot of Mt. Myohyang in North Pyongan ...

• Pyongyang military envoy in Beijing

  (36 mins ago) North Korea has sent a top military official to China as a special envoy of leader Kim Jong Un, at a time of strained relations between Pyongyang and its allies in Beijing, state media reported. Choe Ryong Hae, the director of the Korean People's Army politburo flew to China today, the Korean Central News Agency said, without detailing the agenda or length of his ...

• North Korea opens border town to Western visitors

  "Warmly welcome Simon Cockerell David." The colorful, electric sign was something of an unusual and unexpected greeting for Briton Simon Cockerell, 35, who this week embarked on a landmark visit to Sinuiju, North Korea's largest border town. Separated by a river from China's Dandong City and easily accessible from Dandong by car or train, Sinuiju has long been a popular ...

• N. Korea releases detained Chinese sailors and boat

  BEIJING: North Korea released 16 Chinese fishermen and their boat yesterday, Chinese state media said, after reports that armed assailants had taken the sailors hostage fuelled strains between the neighbours."All the fishermen with the boat are safe on their way back," China's Xinhua news agency said, citing a Chinese embassy official in Pyongyang it said had heard the news from ...

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