Two months after the death of Kim Jong Il, North Koreans commemorated what would have been his 70th birthday on Thursday with the flowers that bear his name, along with songs and art praising him as a

South Korean activists on Saturday released huge gas-filled balloons filled with socks over the border into impoverished North Korea despite threats from Pyongyang.

The socks can be worn to help surv

North Korea test-fired three short-range missiles into the sea between Japan and the Korean peninsula this week, a report said on Friday.

The hermit state lobbed the missiles into the Sea of Japan (E

The body of late North Korean 'Dear Leader' Kim Jong-il is to be embalmed and put on display at a palace in the capital Pyongyang, state media said.

North Korean state news agency KCNA said memorial

North Koreans who did not mourn the death of 'Dear Leader' Kim Jong-il can face at least six months in prison, a South Korean media outlet said on Wednesday.

And those who took part in the often hyst

North Korea's military strategy is superior to the defensive posture of its affluent neighbor to the South, an independent think-tank said on Wednesday, giving Pyongyang the edge in the early days of

North Korea called on its people to rally behind new leader Kim Jong-un and protect him as 'human shields' while working to solve the 'burning issue' of food shortages by upholding the policies of his

North Korea said on Saturday its new leader Kim Jong-Un has formally been appointed supreme commander of the 1.2 million-strong military, in another sign he is rapidly tightening his grip on power.

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The defense chiefs of South Korea and the US said the power succession in North Korea following the death of its leader Kim Jong-il has been stable so far.

South Korean Defense Minister Kim Kwan-jin

Business was booming for flower sellers in the Chinese border city of Dandong on Wednesday as mourners gathered at the North Korean consulate to pay their respects to late leader Kim Jong-Il.