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STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: America's top diplomat says he wants direct talks with North Korea. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson says this is the goal - North Korea must end up with no nuclear weapons at all. DAVID GREENE, HOST: Tillerson called for direct
North Korea Hails Kim Jong Un as 'Supreme Leader' With a distant siren the only sound, an ocean of people bowed silently Thursday before North Korea's Kim Jong Un. From a balcony, he looked out over hundreds of thousands gathered for a silent memoria
By Kurt Achin Gwangju, South Korea 19 June 2006 North and South Koreans recently marked the anniversary of the start of efforts to bring decades of animosity to an end. Six years ago, leaders of both countries met for the first and only time. The su
By Stephanie Ho Washington 27 April 2007 President Bush and visiting Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe say they see eye-to-eye on North Korea. The two leaders are urging Pyongyang to shut down its nuclear weapons programs or face tougher action. VOA
By Kurt Achin Seoul 23 December 2006 Despite a push for a diplomatic breakthrough at the end of 2006, the effort to keep North Korea out of the nuclear weapons club not only did not succeed - it lost ground. In October, the North defied internationa
North Korea has taken dramatic steps toward fulfilling its threat to resume production of nuclear weapons material. VOA's Kurt Achin reports from Seoul. North Korea's spent nuclear fuel rods kept in cooling pond are seen at nuclear facilities in Yon
South Korea says North Korea is enhancing its military strength by deploying a new missile and increasing its number of light and mobile elite forces. As analysts warn of an imminent missile test by the North, officials in Seoul say Pyongyang's mili
North Korea has experienced chronic food shortages for about two decades, mainly due to the government's political isolation and mismanagement. Belts in the North have tightened even further since South Korea's president stopped sending large amount
US, China Facing Increasingly Belligerent North Korea With North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un threatening a pre-emptive nuclear strike to stop what Pyongyang says are plans for a U.S. and South Korean attack, Washington is again calling on Beijing to he
STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: For a country not currently fighting a full-blown war, North Korea fires an awful lot of missiles. Last night, North Korea's military fired a series of missiles into the sea near Japan. NPR's Elise Hu reports. ELISE HU, BYLINE: J
By Steve Herman Tokyo 14 December 2006 Shinzo Abe (File photo) The Japanese government has told families of Japanese abducted by North Korea that the fate of their relatives will not take a back seat to improving ties with the communist state. VOA's
By Luis Ramirez Beijing 14 March 2007 The chief United Nations weapons inspector, Mohamed ElBaradei, says North Korean officials have told him they are committed to getting rid of their nuclear weapons programs. VOA's Luis Ramirez reports from Beiji
By David Gollust Washington 14 September 2007 Christopher Hill speaks during a press briefing about a bilateral meeting with North Korean envoys in Geneva, Switzerland, 31 Aug. 2007 The chief U.S. envoy to the negotiations on ending North Korea's nuc
By Roger Wilkison Beijing 18 December 2006 North Korea says it will not abandon nuclear weapons until all sanctions US Assistant Secretary of State Christopher Hill, right, and US Ambassador to China Clark Randt at the opening of six-party talks on
By Kurt Achin Seoul 10 March 2008 The United States Ambassador to South Korea says Washington must receive a complete nuclear declaration from Pyongyang before it can remove North Korea from American list of states sponsoring terrorism. As VOA Seoul
North Korea has met for the first time in years with senior officers in the United Nations Command that monitors the heavily armed border dividing the Korean peninsula. The meeting comes days before the scheduled start of US - South Korea military d
By Kurt Achin Seoul 04 March 2008 South Korea President Lee Myung-bak's administration is calling for improvement in North Korea's human rights situation and pledging cooperation with the United Nations on the issue. The move is a departure from prev
High-level American envoys visiting Seoul say they are cooperating with regional allies to dissuade North Korea from the path of nuclear weaponry and back to dialogue aimed at disarmament. The delegation is making stops around Asia for consultations
By Paula Wolfson White House 02 January 2008 The Bush administration's top official on North Korea is returning to the region later this week, just days after Pyongyang missed a deadline to file a complete declaration of its nuclear activities. VOA W
ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: Consumers in North Korea can now buy a local version of Spam, not to mention Oreo-like cookies from Vietnam. And in the capital Pyongyang at least, everyone's looking down at their cell phones. These are things that journalist Je