Seoul: Several North Korean artillery shells landed on a South Korean border island on Tuesday wounding four soldier, damaging homes and injuring two civilians, YTN television reported.

A resident o

Seoul, South Korea: The U S special envoy for North Korea said on Monday that Pyongyang's claim of a secret new uranium enrichment facility is provocative and disappointing but not a crisis or a surpr

The US special envoy for North Korea on Monday said that pyongyang's claim of a secret new uranium enrichment facility is provocative and disappointing but not a crisis or a surprise.

An American nuclear scientist says North Korea has secretly and quickly built a new facility to enrich uranium. The report raises fears that the north is ramping up its nuclear programme.

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

Seoul: North Korea's military opened fire on Friday toward a South Korean border post, and South Korean soldiers returned fire, the Yonhap News Agency reported.

Two shots were fired first from the No

South Korea prepared on Monday to send 5,000 tons of rice to flood victims in North Korea in its first humanitarian rice shipment to its communist neighbour since a conservative, pro-US government too

Sept. 29: The youngest son of ailing leader Kim Jong-Il has taken over powerful posts in North Korea’s ruling party, state media said on Wednesday, confirming his status as heir apparent in the nuclea

The United States has slapped fresh sanctions against defiant North Korea, aimed at choking off the regime's arms trade, freezing assets of individuals, and groups linked to Pyongyang's secretive nucl

North Korea accused The South on Monday of blocking its people from accessing online social-networking sites launched by the secretive communist country.

Pyongyang opened a Twitter account on August