International Business News - IL http://www.ibtimes.com All articles are copyrighted by IBTimes.com 400 100 http://www.ibtimes.com/ http://www.ibtimes.com/images/top_logo_ibt2_3.gif North Korea said on Friday it will reopen a military hotline with the South, a move suggesting the secretive state may be tempering recent harsh rhetoric ahead of a widely condemned missile launch expected early next month. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/211021-.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20090320/north-korea-kim-jong-il-south-korea-hotline-re-open.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20090320/north-korea-kim-jong-il-south-korea-hotline-re-open.htm Fri, 20 Mar 2009 10:52:59 EDT Japan said on Friday it could shoot down any threatening object falling toward its territory, after North Korea said a planned rocket launch would send it across Japanese territory. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/210703-.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20090313/north-korea-kim-jong-il-south-korea-japan-threat.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20090313/north-korea-kim-jong-il-south-korea-japan-threat.htm Fri, 13 Mar 2009 10:19:46 EDT North Korea has given global agencies notice of its plans to launch a satellite from April 4-8, an official said on Thursday in a move Washington has called "provocative" and views as a disguised long-range missile test. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/210646-.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20090312/north-korea-kim-jong-il-south-korea-notice-rocket-launch.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20090312/north-korea-kim-jong-il-south-korea-notice-rocket-launch.htm Thu, 12 Mar 2009 10:32:40 EDT North Korea's Foreign Ministry on Wednesday accused the United States of preparing for a war against the communist state in Pyongyang's first verbal criticism of the Obama Administration. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/210582-.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20090311/north-korea-kim-jong-il-south-korea-attack-plot.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20090311/north-korea-kim-jong-il-south-korea-attack-plot.htm Wed, 11 Mar 2009 10:23:50 EDT North Korea on Monday said it had put its armed forces on full combat readiness in response to the start of annual military exercises by U.S. and South Korean troops, raising tension on the divided peninsula. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/210453-.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20090309/north-korea-kim-jong-il-combat-readiness.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20090309/north-korea-kim-jong-il-combat-readiness.htm Mon, 09 Mar 2009 10:18:18 EDT South Korea told the North on Friday to immediately withdraw a threat it made against the South's commercial airliners, which has forced them to stop flying near the airspace of the reclusive communist state. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/210375-.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20090306/north-korea-kim-jong-il-south-korea-threat-airliners.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20090306/north-korea-kim-jong-il-south-korea-threat-airliners.htm Fri, 06 Mar 2009 10:29:10 EST A North Korean missile launch may not come for some time although the communist state has been preparing its longest-range rocket for a test flight, South Korea's unification minister said on Wednesday. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/210232-.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20090304/north-korea-kim-jong-il-missile-launch.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20090304/north-korea-kim-jong-il-missile-launch.htm Wed, 04 Mar 2009 10:51:42 EST North Korean generals met the U.S.-led U.N. military command in South Korea for the first time in about seven years on Monday after Pyongyang warned at the weekend "arrogant" acts by U.S. troops could spark a war. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/210099-.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20090302/north-korea-kim-jong-il-meetingn.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20090302/north-korea-kim-jong-il-meetingn.htm Mon, 02 Mar 2009 04:54:31 EST North Korean leader Kim Jong-il has been touring the province where the country has been preparing for a rocket launch, the North's media said on Wednesday, in what a South Korean daily said could be a precursor of a launch. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/209906-.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20090225/north-korea-kim-jong-il-rocket-launch.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20090225/north-korea-kim-jong-il-rocket-launch.htm Wed, 25 Feb 2009 10:48:39 EST