A North Korean delegation to extend condolences for the late South Korean President Kim Dae-jung arrived in Seoul yesterday amid tight security, becoming the first officials from Pyongyang to visit South Korea during the Lee Myung-bak government. Carrying a funeral wreath bearing North Korean leader Kim Jong-il’s name, the six-member... » read this article

August 7, 2009 I have lived in three countries and have spoken to people from many nationalities. All consider human life to be valuable and all are protective of their own countrypeople. However, I have yet to meet someone of non-U.S. origin who holds the opinion that one life is... » read this article

New York - On July 27, 1953, U.S. imperialism and the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK or north Korea) signed an armistice agreement that halted the Korean War. Fifty-six years later, not only does the U.S. still refuse to sign a peace treaty, but it still occupies south Korea... » read this article

Adapted from an address, Empire, Obama and the Last Taboo, given by John Pilger at Socialism 2009 in San Francisco on 4th July. The monsoon had woven thick skeins of mist over the central highlands of Vietnam. I was a young war correspondent, bivouacked in the village of Tuylon with... » read this article

10 June 2009 The US administration has signalled a more aggressive stance toward North Korea that will only compound an already tense situation in North East Asia. Speaking in France on Saturday, President Obama declared that the US would take “a very hard look” at its approach following North Korea’s... » read this article

27 May 2009 North Korea’s detonation of a small nuclear bomb on Monday provoked immediate condemnation by the UN Security Council and sharply raised tensions in North East Asia. Pyongyang had been warning of further nuclear weapon and ballistic missile tests for weeks, insisting that the UN had to apologise... » read this article

SEOUL, South Korea -- A line of mourners wound its way Sunday from Cheongye Stream in central Seoul to the entrance of Deoksu  Palace and an altar commemorating former South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun, whose suicide a day earlier has stunned the nation. Riot police in the hundreds were out... » read this article

Following North Korea’s nuclear test on Monday, South Korea announced yesterday that  it will join the Proliferation Security Initiative, a United States-led multinational  effort to curb trade in weapons of mass destruction. “To counter grave threats to the global peace and security that weapons of mass  destruction and proliferation of... » read this article

“So let me be clear…”   It was only a short news item, and it probably received much more commentary in the U.S. but on Canwest Global’s evening news (Sunday, April 05, Vancouver, Canada) was an item titled “Breaking the Rules”.  This is quoting Obama’s comment that “North Korea broke... » read this article

Pyongyang, Oct 1 (Prensa Latina) US representative to the Beijing six-party talks, Christopher Hill, arrived in Pyongyang on Wednesday to talk with DPRK authorities about denuclearization of the peninsula. Hill, who is Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs, arrived to Pyongyang by land from Seoul after... » read this article

September 23, 2008 - At a time when speculation and rumors about events in North Korea abound, it should be noted how little of what one reads about that nation is grounded in concrete knowledge and experience. Partly this is due to the North Koreans’ tight hold on the dissemination... » read this article

President Lee Myung-bak of South Korea has called for measures to reduce the financial burden of private tuition. Latest estimates suggest South Korean households spend an average of $600 (£323) a month on private lessons. Figures from 2006 show expenses with extra-curricular tuition approaching $30bn (£16bn), nearly 4% of annual... » read this article

The steadfastness of the leaders and people of north Korea, combined with the message sent to their politicians by the masses in south Korea�through countless demonstrations, meetings, confrontations and through the polls�that they fervently want reunification and peaceful collaboration with their sisters and brothers in the north, were the necessary... » read this article

On March 6 2007, North Korea and the US concluded their first set of  normalisation talks, which are part of the agreement reached in Beijing last  month. Oddly enough the talks also coincide with American efforts to  establish cordial ties with Iran. In her testimony before the Senate Appropriations Committee, Secretary... » read this article

"The North Korean Imbroglio: Who Gains?" Immanuel Wallerstein North Korea has joined the nuclear club, and everyone else claims they are upset. Are they really? There are five actors that really count in this affair: North Korea, the United States, South Korea, China,... » read this article

Since the successful testing of a nuclear weapon by the Democratic People�s Republic of Korea, there has been universal condemnation and a resolution passed by the Security Council of the United Nations which calls for even stronger sanctions and blockades than those already in place. Naturally, with the Western media... » read this article

Months before 9/11 and the �global war on terror� � and two years before the Iraq War � George W. Bush tested out his tough-talkin� diplomacy on communist North Korea. Bush combined harsh rhetoric and intimidating tactics to demonstrate to Pyongyang that there was a swaggering new sheriff in town.... » read this article

The belligerent response in Washington to a possible North Korean missile test has provided another graphic example of the way in which militarism and the manipulation of public fears play a central role in official American politics. Although evidence that North Korea was preparing for a missile test was known... » read this article

U.S has a full responsibility to clean up pollution of its military bases in SouthKorea   South Korea and USA have maintained a friendship for the purpose of the world peace, justices and liberty. However, the friendship between two countries is nowat risk. In order to keep two countries'friendship, we... » read this article

Introduction Below there is a short statement that SPARK (Solidarity for Peace and reunification of Korea) is sending out concerning the current situation in Pyeongtaek, a town south of Seoul where there is a large US base complex. The US wants to expand Camp Humphreys so that it can serve... » read this article