North Korea says a fierce snowstorm paused and the sky began glowing red above sacred Mount Paektu just minutes before leader Kim Jong Il’s death.

State media say the ice on volcanic Lake Chon at the

North Korea has invited Japanese woman magician Tenko Hikita to attend the planned December 28 funeral for its leader Kim Jong Il who died last weekend, her manager claimed today.

Hikita, who has pe

North Korea on Monday hailed Kim Jong-Il's young son as a 'great successor' at the helm of the isolated country after the leader who built an atomic arsenal and presided over a devastating famine died

North Korea announced the death of supreme leader Kim Jong Il and urged its people to rally behind his young son and heir-apparent on Monday, while the world watched warily for signs of instability in

North Korea has expressed readiness to impose a moratorium on tests of weapons of mass-destruction and resume the stalled six-party talks on its nuclear programme, at a summit with Russia held at a se

North Korea's reclusive leader Kim Jong Il on Monday trekked through Siberia aboard his special armoured train to the city of Ulan-Ude for talks with President Dmitry Medvedev later this week.

It was

Seoul: Jo Myong Rok, one of the most influential military figures of the North Korean communist regime and a close confidante of military ruler Kim Jong Il, has died. He was 82.

Vice Marshal Jo died