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November 17, 2014

North Korea Takes Step Toward Anointing Kim Jong Il's Son as Successor

Kim Jong Un, North Korean leader Kim Jong Il's youngest son, has been promoted to general, the state news agency reported, a step believed to be the begining of a process by which he will take over for his father.

November 17, 2014

Medvedev: Lessons Must be Learned From Spy Scandal

Russia's president suggested Friday changes to the country's spy agency are coming in the wake of this summer's arrest of agents in the United States and a report that a top Russian intelligence officer helped capture them.

November 17, 2014

Report: N. Korea Begins Building Light-Water Reactor

North Korea has begun building an experimental light-water reactor at its Yongbyon nuclear complex, a news report said Saturday, in what could be an attempt to draw attention and press Washington to resume talks on Pyongyang's atomic programs.

November 17, 2014

Security Council Gets North Korea Nuke Report

A report by U.N. experts saying North Korea is exporting banned nuclear and missile technology to Iran, Syria and Myanmar has been sent to the Security Council after China dropped its objections, U.N. diplomats said Wednesday.

November 17, 2014

UN Studying N. Korea Sanctions After Uranium Plant Revelations

U.S. Ambassador Susan Rice says the U.N. Security Council is studying how to respond to revelations about a new uranium enrichment plant in North Korea and the country's shelling of a populated island in neighboring South Korea.

November 17, 2014

U.S. Says North Korea's Nuke Claim Is Provocative, But Not a Surprise

The U.S. special envoy for North Korea said Monday that Pyongyang's claim of a secret new uranium enrichment facility is provocative and disappointing but not a crisis or a surprise.

November 17, 2014

N. Korea's Nuke Claim Provocative, Unsurprising, U.S. Envoy Says

The U.S. special envoy for North Korea said Monday that Pyongyang's claim of a new uranium enrichment facility is provocative and disappointing but not a crisis or a surprise. Washington, he vowed, will keep working closely with its regional partners in response.

November 17, 2014

NKorea Demands SKorea Resume Large-Scale Food Aid

North Korea demanded that South Korea resume large-scale food aid and joint economic projects in return for regular reunions of family members separated by the Korean War more than a half century ago, South Korea's Red Cross said Wednesday.

November 17, 2014

South Korea Calls for Urgency in North Korean Disarmament

South Korea's president is calling for urgency in dismantling North Korea's atomic weapons program, saying the country's nuclear disarmament must be achieved through diplomacy.

November 17, 2014

South Korea Begins New Artillery Drills Amid Tension

South Korea's military has begun new firing drills -- the latest in its series of exercises amid high tension over North Korea's deadly shelling on a South Korean island.