SEOUL (AFP/Reuters) - North Korea warned Tuesday that South Korean-US war games this month would torpedo efforts to rid the peninsula of nuclear weapons, and vowed to strengthen its atomic arsenal if necessary. Despite tensions over the exercise the two Koreas went ahead with talks on ways to ease ...

SEOUL (AFP) - North Korea said Tuesday it has stopped disabling its nuclear plants and will consider restoring them because the United States has failed to remove it from a terrorism blacklist. The White House, however, said Pyongyang would stay on a US terrorism blacklist until all sides agree ...

North Korea said Tuesday it has halted work to disable its plutonium-producing nuclear complex in protest at Washington's failure to remove it from a terrorism blacklist. Authorities are also considering restoring the plants at Yongbyon to their original state, a foreign ministry spokesman told the ...

US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice met her North Korean counterpart for the first time Wednesday as talks by foreign ministers from six nations negotiating North Korea's denuclearisation opened. "This is really the first informal meeting of the six-party talks' foreign ministers. This is ...