By John Solomon
How the government's punishing of the exposure of official wrongdoing can linger for years
The Korean Peninsula is fraught with tension as its new leaders engage in a battle of words and will — with the North on Monday voiding the cease-fire that halted the Korean War in 1953 and the South placing its troops on high alert.
Google chairman Eric Schmidt's glimpse of the Web being used at a top university in Pyongyang makes him part of a tiny elite that has seen the Internet in North Korea.
When he lands in North Korea, even Google's executive chairman will likely have to relinquish his smartphone, leaving him disconnected from the global information network he helped build.
Google's executive chairman is preparing to travel to one of the last frontiers of cyberspace: North Korea.
Google's executive chairman is preparing to travel to one of the last frontiers of cyberspace: North Korea.
North Korea's successful use last week of a long-range rocket to launch a satellite into orbit has catapulted the Asian rogue state back into the international spotlight. It also has brought back the global danger posed by the Democratic People's Republic of Korea into sharp focus.
South Koreans on Wednesday elected their first female president — Park Geun-hye, leader of the conservative New Frontier Party — in a close election with results that are likely to please U.S. officials, analysts said.
U.S. efforts to counter the rise of Chinese military power in the Pacific faced a significant setback this week when Beijing dispatched two surveillance ships to assert sovereignty over a chain of small islands governed by Japan.
Perhaps only in North Korea would the first question about the abrupt departure of a nation’s senior-most military commander be: Who fired him?
Defying international concerns, North Korea fired a long-range rocket early Friday that splintered into pieces over the Yellow Sea about a minute after takeoff in an apparent failure, South Korean and U.S. officials said.
A South Korean intelligence report says North Korea is preparing to test a nuclear weapon, as the isolated communist regime readies the launch of a long-range rocket as early as this week.
If President Obama wants to sell more American-made cars to South Korea, nobody has yet told the average South Korean.
With unpredictable and nuclear-armed North Korea on everyone's mind, South Korea will host a nuclear security summit beginning Monday that will draw the most foreign leaders ever to visit the country.
The U.S. and North Korea reopen nuclear talks Thursday that will provide a glimpse into where Pyongyang's opaque government is heading after Kim Jong-il's death and test its readiness to dismantle nuclear programs for much-needed aid.
U.S. officials treaded carefully Monday in responding to Kim Jong-il's death amid concerns that the North Korean dictator's demise could trigger a succession struggle that would deepen uncertainty over the communist nation's nuclear arsenal.
Ms. Park, who was inaugurated Feb. 25, "will always be open to humanitarian assistance to North Korea, but not if the North Koreans are killing South Korean citizens," Mr. Cha said. "She talked about building trust in the inter-Korean relationship during her campaign, but at the same time she is no pushover."
North Korea tests new leader of South; Park Geun-hye 'no softie' to belligerence →
"She is no softie when it comes to North Korea, and will respond in kind if the North Koreans do something provocative," said Victor Cha, senior adviser and Korea chairman at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
North Korea tests new leader of South; Park Geun-hye 'no softie' to belligerence →
