Date: Fri, 5. June 2009 03:27:08

AP - North Korea stayed silent Friday about the fate of two U.S. journalists who were supposed to go on trial a day earlier on charges they entered the country illegally and engaged in hostile acts — allegations that could draw a 10-year sentence in a labor camp.

Date: Fri, 5. June 2009 03:27:08

AP - North Korea stayed silent Friday about the fate of two U.S. journalists who were supposed to go on trial a day earlier on charges they entered the country illegally and engaged in hostile acts — allegations that could draw a 10-year sentence in a labor camp.

Date: Fri, 6. February 2009 12:13:29

AP - President Barack Obama already has senior envoys working on crises in South Asia and the Middle East. The new administration has said little, however, about how it will handle a standoff with an increasingly hostile, nuclear-armed North Korea.

Date: Fri, 6. February 2009 12:13:29

AP - President Barack Obama already has senior envoys working on crises in South Asia and the Middle East. The new administration has said little, however, about how it will handle a standoff with an increasingly hostile, nuclear-armed North Korea.

Date: Fri, 10. October 2008 04:18:30

The Bush administration is nearing a decision to remove North Korea from a terrorism blacklist in a bid to salvage faltering nuclear disarmament talks, The Associated Press has learned.

Date: Fri, 11. December 2009 02:34:41

AP - North Korea said Friday that it understands the need to resume the stalled international talks on ending its nuclear programs, and that it agrees to work with the United States to narrow unspecified remaining differences.

Date: Fri, 5. February 2010 03:49:08

Reuters - A senior Chinese Communist Party official will visit Pyongyang next week in what appears to be a move to press North Korea to return to stalled nuclear disarmament talks, a South Korean news agency said on Friday.

Date: Fri, 5. February 2010 14:42:59

Reuters - A senior Chinese Communist Party official will visit North Korea as early as Saturday, in what appears to be a move to press Pyongyang to return to nuclear disarmament talks, a South Korean news agency said on Friday.

Date: Fri, 28. August 2009 00:49:13

AP - After being portrayed for years as a reclusive villain with nuclear ambitions, it's North Korea that wants to talk. And it's the Obama administration — champion of engaging adversaries — that does not.

Date: Fri, 28. August 2009 00:49:13

AP - After being portrayed for years as a reclusive villain with nuclear ambitions, it's North Korea that wants to talk. And it's the Obama administration — champion of engaging adversaries — that does not.