SEOUL, (Yonhap) - North Korea said Saturday its recent decision to void Hyundai Group's exclusive right to theoperation of a tour program at Mount Kumgang complies with domestic and international laws. In a report carried by Pyongyang's official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA), the communist nation's state organization in charge of the issue put the blame on the South Korean government for the...

The North Korea's inaugural golf tournament has drawn 21 amateur golfers from 10 countries with a rare chance to visit the isolated country and play golf within its borders, a U.S. broadcaster said Saturday. The Democratic People's Republic of Korea Amateur Golf Open is scheduled to tee off on April 29 at a 18-hole golf course in Pyongyang, sponsored by British travel agency Lupine Travel, in Py...

North Korea leader Kim Jong-il and his heir apparent son watched a art performance celebrating the birthday of his late father and founder of the communist country, a state-run media organ reported Saturday. "Kim Jong-il enjoyed a performance given by the art squad of the National Security Agency on the occasion of the Day of the Sun," the North's state-run Korean Central News Agency monitored i...

The North Korean military may eliminate the country’s leader Kim Jong-il and his heir Jong-un in case of a mass uprising, a researcher at a South Korean state-funded think tank said Friday. “If a commotion breaks out in North Korea, Kim Jong-il and Jong-un are likely to be the main target of public anger,” Park Hyeong-jung, senior research fellow at the Korea Institute for National Unification, ...

A line of people carrying armfuls of symbolic red flowers was formed in front of a giant statue of North Korean President Kim Il-sung, official media in the isolated country said Thursday, a day before the 99th birthday of the communist state’s late founder. Following the series of performances and events prepared to greet the “Day of the Sun,” referring to the April 15 birth date of the late Ki...

WASHINGTON -- An American citizen being held in North Korea has been accused of getting involved in unauthorized religious activities in the reclusive communist state, informed sources said Wednesday. The Korean-American businessman has been held in North Korea since November for his involvement in missionary work, the sources said, adding the man in his 60s attends a church in Orange County, Ca...

WASHINGTON (Yonhap News) ― North Korea will not abandon its nuclear weapons as it views them not only as a deterrent against regional interference but as a tool to attract international attention and economic aid, the commander of U.S. forces in Korea said Tuesday. “I do not see that he will give up his nuclear capability,” Gen. Walter Sharp told the Senate Armed Services Committee, referring to...

WASHINGTON (AFP) ― The U.S. State Department has confirmed an American is being held in North Korea, though declined to identify the individual as it called for the detainee’s release on humanitarian grounds. Swedish officials, who represent the U.S. in the absence of diplomatic ties between Pyongyang and Washington, “have been able to visit” the detained individual, State Department spokesman M...

South Korea has included a section about North Korea’s young heir apparent in its annually-released guidelines for unification education, noting the need for students to develop critical views about the ongoing three-generation succession in the North, officials said Wednesday. Seoul’s state-run Institute of Political Education for Unification provides teachers with new guidelines in educating e...

Shift in means of transport may signal changes under next North Korean leader Beijing asked North Korea’s next leader Kim Jong-un to fly to China instead of using the train, which his father has resorted to for various reasons including safety, diplomatic sources in Seoul said, signaling changes in the traditional allies’ future relationship. Kim Jong-un is expected to visit China as early as l...

WASHINGTON (Yonhap) -- Myanmar has not yet developed the technology for nuclear weapons, but has a chance of succeeding with help from North Korea, a scholar said Monday. Speaking to a seminar at the School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University, Robert Kelly, a nuclear engineer, said Myanmar has several factories capable of enriching uranium that were built with German tech...