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South Korea says North Korea has fired a short-range projectile into its own eastern waters — for the fifth time in three days.Pyongyang regularly conducts short-range missile tests. Analysts say these recent launches appear to be weapons tests or an attempt to get U.S. and South Korean attention amid tentative signs of diplomacy after soaring tensions that followed U.N. sanctions aimed at a nuclear test Pyongyang conducted in February.Seoul's Defense Ministry says the latest projectile had similar ballistic trajectory as launches Saturday and Sunday. Seoul is analyzing whether the projectiles were missiles or a new type of artillery.North Korea said Monday its rocket tests are part of drills to bolster deterrence against what it calls U.S. and South Korean threats to attack the North....
A U.N. expert panel's report says North Korea is still trying to import and export nuclear and ballistic missile-related material but financial and trade sanctions a...
An adviser to Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has ended a visit to North Korea but would not give details of his talks with leaders in Pyongyang.Isao Iijima's thr...
Defectors describe horrific conditions inside impoverished country
Republican Sen. John McCain claims the embattled regime of Bashar al-Assad may have turned the tide in the bloody civil war which so far has claimed nearly 100,000 l...
An American citizen sentenced to 15 years of hard labor for what Pyongyang has described as hostile acts against the state started life Wednesday at a "special priso...
North Korea says an American citizen sentenced to 15 years hard labor has started life at a "special prison."No other details were immediately available Wednesday ab...
An adviser to Japan's Cabinet has arrived in North Korea amid a slight easing of tension on the Korean Peninsula after weeks of threats from the North aimed at Washi...
A Western tour company in China says it has obtained permission from North Korea for Westerners to make day trips into the country from the Chinese border.Gareth Joh...
The top U.S. envoy on North Korea is calling a Chinese bank's decision to close the accounts of Pyongyang's main foreign exchange bank a "very hopeful sign" in effor...
Fox News has learned that Iran will chair the UN Conference on Disarmament at the end of the month. Past conferences have negotiated such major multilateral arms con...
Iran will preside over the UN-sponsored Conference on Disarmament, tapped to chair the panel later this month despite longstanding accusations the Islamic Republic h...
In case you didn't think the UN could get even more bizarre (and dangerous), try this one. Iran will soon become the President of the Conference on Disarmament. The ...
South Korea says North Korea has fired a short-range projectile into its own eastern waters -- for the fifth time in three days.Pyongyang regularly conducts short-ra...
It's bad for Kenneth Bae, the Washington man arrested in North Korea last year and sentenced to 15 years in prison, but it could be worse, according to people famili...
A Chinese state media report and a boat owner say unidentified North Koreans have taken one of his fishing boats and its crew and are demanding a ransom.Yu Xuejun sa...
North Korea fired a projectile into waters off its eastern coast Sunday, a day after launching three short-range missiles in the same area, officials said.North Kore...
South Korea says North Korea has fired a projectile into waters off its eastern coast a day after launching three short-range missiles in the same area.The South's D...
North Korea fired three short-range guided missiles into its eastern waters on Saturday, a South Korean official said. It routinely tests such missiles, but the late...
South Korea says North Korea has fired three short-range guided missiles into its eastern waters. Pyongyang routinely test-launches such missiles.Defense Ministry sp...