Kim Yong Il Meets Japanese Cabinet Official

PYONGYANG, North Korea, May 14 (UPI) -- The Rodong Sinmun, the Worker's Party of Korea newspaper regarded as reflecting the state policy, said in an article monitored in South Korea that the naval exercise in the East Sea are making conditions on ...

When Jang Song-thaek, then first vice director of the Workers Party of Korea, led a North Korean economic inspection team and visited Seoul in October 2002, he couldn't take his eyes off one product. It was the kimchi refrigerator produced at an ...

The dear respected Marshal Kim Jong Un, first secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea, first chairman of the DPRK National Defence Commission and supreme commander of the Korean People's Army, watched the sports games together with Ri Sol Ju. The ...

Japan's Sankei Shimbun daily says there are critical views within North Korea's Workers Party on the suspension of the Gaeseong Industrial Complex. The newspaper quoted a source as saying that leading members of the Workers Party and the North ...

The newspaper of North Korea's ruling Workers' Party says calls to delay the transfer of wartime operational control from the U.S. to South Korea in 2015 are aimed at realizing the ambition to invade the North. The Rodong Sinmun claimed Wednesday ...

Ban called on Russia - a member of the stalled six-party talks on North Korea's nuclear programme - to help bring Pyongyang back to the negotiating table. Tensions have run high in the Korean peninsular this year, with incoming leader Kim Jong-un ...

An aide to Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe met with a senior North Korean party official in Pyongyang, raising the possibility of an easing in regional tensions after months of threats from the totalitarian state. Isao Iijima yesterday met Kim ...

South Korea on Friday withdrew its last remaining workers from a joint industrial zone in North Korea at risk of permanent closure due to soaring military tensions. Today, 14:54 Plane from US airbase crashes in Kyrgyzstan The US Transit Center, ...

Married male employees in South Korea will be granted a one-month paid paternity leave, and pregnant female workers will be allowed to work two hours less every day for four months during their pregnancy. The new employee benefit for prenatal care ...