SEOUL : South Korean President Park Geun-Hye on Monday warned against engaging North Korea in a token dialogue that would only allow Pyongyang more time to develop its nuclear weapons programme.The warning came in a 20-minute telephone call between Park and US President Barack Obama the day after ...

Chris Evans -  Anna Broinowski, an Australian documentary-maker, was given unprecedented access to some of North Korea's top secrets but, for once, it wasn't to do with politics or nuclear weapons. Instead, she went to uncover the fascinating, if somewhat unusual, world of North Korean cinema, ...

BEIJING - A North Korean envoy told China's president on Friday that his reclusive country was willing to take "positive actions" to ensure peace and stability on the Korean peninsula, as China steps up diplomatic efforts to bring Pyongyang back to talks.But Choe Ryong-hae, a special envoy of North ...

BEIJING: A top North Korean general and confidant of leader Kim Jong-Un met a senior Chinese official in Beijing Wednesday, with relations between the allies strained ahead of a China-US summit.Choe Ryong-Hae, director of the Korean People's Army politburo, is a "special envoy" of the North's young ...

SEOUL : South Korea and a US strike force led by the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Nimitz kicked off Monday a joint naval drill slammed by North Korea as a "wanton" provocation and rehearsal for war.The two-day exercise began with the departure of the 97,000-tonne Nimitz, one of the world's ...

At least 16 people were killed on Sunday in a blast which ripped through a passenger coach in a remote area of North Waziristan bordering Afghanistan.Nature of the blast could not be ascertained immediately.However, reports said the explosion took place near a passenger coach in Miranshah town, ...

  seoul   North Koreasaid Thursday it had sentenced a Korean-American tour operator to 15 years' hard labour for "hostile acts", stoking tensions with theUnited Stateswhich had pleaded for his release. Kim Jong-Un's isolated regime is likely to use the detainee as a bargaining chip, ...

    PYONGYANG Metro North Koreais to build a replica of Big Ben in a new theme park opening in its capitalPyongyang. The ‘miniature world’ park will also boast a replica of theEiffelTower. According to reports, the secretive state is opening up its economy with luxury goods ...

IRVINGWorld number one Park In-Bee drained a birdie putt at the final hole Sunday to win the inaugural North Texas LPGA Shootout, holding off Spain's Carlota Ciganda by one stroke.Park claimed the sixth LPGA title of her career and her third this year, a run of success that saw her rise to number ...

CONN HALLINANIn the current crisis on the Korean Peninsula the Obama administration is virtually repeating the 2004 Bush playbook, one that derailed a successful diplomatic agreement forged by the Clinton administration to prevent North Korea from acquiring nuclear weapons? While the acute tensions ...

seoul -  South Korea on Thursday gave North Korea 24 hours to agree to formal talks to restart operations at their joint Kaesong industrial zone, warning of “significant measures” if Pyongyang declines.It was a rare ultimatum from the South, which is more used to being on the ...

Peshawar - A roadside bomb targeting an army convoy killed four soldiers and wounded another four in North Waziristan Agency on Sunday.The blast occurred when a vehicle of the military convoy of security personnel rolled over an improvised explosive device near Khawaja Khar checkpost. The convoy ...

A convoy of security forces was ambushed with an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) in Miraali area of North Waziristan Sunday, killing four security personnel and injuring four others.Military officials said the roadside bomb exploded on Bannu-Miranshah road in North Waziristan tribal agency, ...

SEOUL AFP North Korea barred a delivery of supplies to South Koreans in the closed Kaesong industrial zone Wednesday, as the South's president said it was time to stop rewarding Pyongyang's provocations.A delegation of 10 businessmen representing the 123 South Korean firms in Kaesong had applied to ...

CALIFORNIA:-BBCTHE Pulitzer Prize for fiction has been won by author Adam Johnson for his novel based in North Korea, The Orphan Master’s Son. Last year, judges failed to select a winner of the award for fiction for the first time in 35 years. Johnson, who teaches creative writing at Stanford ...

Miranshah - A bomb attack killed seven soldiers and wounded 12 others Tuesday in North Waziristan Agency.The bomb struck on a road under construction, five kilometres north of Miranshah, the main town of North Waziristan, known as a strong bastion of Taliban and Al-Qaeda linked militants.“An ...

TOKYO (AFP) - US Secretary of State John Kerry pushed a message of dialogue with North Korea at the end of an Asia tour on Monday, as Pyongyang kept the world guessing over an expected missile launch.The North has a habit of linking high-profile military tests with key dates, and expectations had ...

TOKYO (AFP) - US Secretary of State John Kerry on Sunday called on Pyongyang to go back to the negotiating table as he told Japan the United States would protect it from North Korea’s threats.Following a meeting with Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida in Tokyo, where Patriot missiles ...

MIRANSHAH  - At least five militants have been killed by a US drone strike on Sunday in North Waziristan.The attack took place in Datta Khel town, 35 kilometres west of Miranshah, the main town in North Waziristan which borders Afghanistan.Six US drones flew over the area when one of them ...

SEOUL (AFP) - North Korea said Tuesday the Korean peninsula was headed for “thermo-nuclear” war and advised foreigners to consider leaving South Korea, as the UN chief warned of a potentially “uncontrollable” situation.Tuesday’s advisory - greeted largely with ...

Pepe EscobarBased on the ear-splitting levels of hysteria deployed by American networks, mighty superpower Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) is about to bomb the poor, undefended United States of America into the Stone Age.  Oops, sorry, that was the mighty superpower itself ...

SEOUL (AFP) - North Korea said Monday it was withdrawing all workers and suspending operations at a lucrative joint industrial zone with South Korea, blaming foreign “warmongers” at a time of acute tensions.The announcement came amid reports of heightened activity at the North’s ...

PESHAWAR  - Electioneering is picking up momentum in Nowshera as the Pakistan People’s Party Parliamentarians (PPP-P), Awami National Party (ANP) and Pakistan Tahrik-e-Insaf (PTI) have fielded senior politicians from Khattak tribe to win elections from the NA-5 Nowshera-I ...

SEOUL (AFP) - North Korea on Friday warned foreign embassies in Pyongyang that it was unable to guarantee their safety after April 10 and they should consider evacuating their missions amid soaring nuclear tensions.European countries with embassies in Pyongyang, such as Britain and Russia, reported ...

A few days after it warned the US of launching attacks against Hawaii and Guam, North Korea ratcheted up tensions on Thursday by issuing a direct warning of an attack on the US that it said could possibly include the use of nuclear weapons.What particularly suggests that this threat is not an empty ...

SEOUL (AFP/Reuters) - The North Korean army said Thursday it had final approval to launch ‘merciless’ military strikes on the United States, involving the possible use of ‘cutting-edge’ nuclear weapons.In a statement published by the official KCNA news agency, the General ...

Marie RoudaniFor millions of Syrians displaced by fighting, every day is a struggle to survive, and for those in Kherbet al-Khaldiye, that means eating and drinking whatever they can forage.“We eat herbs and collect stagnant rainwater to drink and wash in,” says 24-year-old Hisham, his ...

Mark Thompson The mutual bluster and braggadocio persisted over the weekend on the Korean peninsula, as North Korean leader Kim Jong-un continued to drive his state down an atomic dead-end. He brayed anew at the state of war between his impoverished nation and the alliance of South Korea and the ...

SEOUL (AFP/Reuters) - North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un oversaw a live-fire artillery drill aimed at simulating an “actual war”, state media said Tuesday, a day after South Korea swore in its first female president.“An endless barrage of shells were fired by artillery pieces on ...

SPECIAL CORRESPONDENTWASHINGTON - The United States, China and Russia led a chorus of global condemnation Tuesday after North Korea defied months of stark international warnings and carried out a third nuclear test.President Barack Obama condemned North Korea’s nuclear test Tuesday as a ...