International Business News - NKorea 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 has fired a short-range missile into the Yellow Sea, media reports said Tuesday. Japanese public broadcaster NHK quoted officials as saying Tokyo was trying to verify a report from a third country that the communist nation fired a missile. NHK said the firing did not involve a ballistic missile. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081007/nkorea-reportedly-fires-missile-into-yellow-sea.htm Tue, 07 Oct 2008 15:51:55 EDT A North Korean defector gave a piano recital Monday at the State Department, telling assembled diplomats and officials that the ability to freely listen to music from other countries can influence repressed North Koreans' view of the world. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081006/nkorean-defector-gives-piano-recital.htm Mon, 06 Oct 2008 18:08:40 EDT A North Korean defector gave a piano recital Monday at the State Department, telling assembled diplomats and officials that the ability to freely listen to music from other countries can influence repressed North Koreans' view of the world. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081006/nkorean-defector-gives-piano-recital.htm Mon, 06 Oct 2008 17:53:56 EDT North Korea has spent $65 million since 2003 to purchase weapons systems from China, Russia and other countries to bolster its military forces, a South Korean lawmaker said Monday. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081006/lawmaker-nkorea-buying-weapons-from-china-russia.htm Mon, 06 Oct 2008 08:57:06 EDT North Korean leader Kim Jong Il watched a university soccer game, a state-run news agency said from Pyongyang on Saturday, reporting on the leader's first public appearance in nearly two months. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/145466-north-korea-after-kim.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081005/report-north-korean-leader-watches-soccer-game.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081005/report-north-korean-leader-watches-soccer-game.htm Sun, 05 Oct 2008 00:50:35 EDT North Korean leader Kim Jong Il watched a university soccer game, a state-run news agency said from Pyongyang on Saturday, reporting on the leader's first public appearance in nearly two months. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/145340-north-korea-after-kim.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081004/report-nkorean-leader-makes-public-appearance.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081004/report-nkorean-leader-makes-public-appearance.htm Sat, 04 Oct 2008 14:44:45 EDT Israel accused North Korea on Saturday of covertly supplying at least half a dozen Mideast countries with nuclear technology or conventional arms. The allegation was made at an International Atomic Energy Agency meeting in Vienna where world powers urged the North to stop reactivating its nuclear weapons program. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/145166-south-korea-koreas-nuclear.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081004/israel-nkorea-adds-to-mideast-proliferation.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081004/israel-nkorea-adds-to-mideast-proliferation.htm Sat, 04 Oct 2008 14:26:30 EDT The State Department says a U.S. diplomat's trip to North Korea has not stopped the North from moving to restore its disabled nuclear reactor. Christopher Hill, the U.S. envoy at stalled North Korean nuclear talks, had detailed discussions with North Korean officials on how to save the troubled disarmament efforts, said State Department spokesman Robert Wood. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081003/us-nkorea-still-moving-to-restart-reactor.htm Fri, 03 Oct 2008 12:30:28 EDT Peering through the North Korean political mist, lately thickened by Kim Jong Il's reported illness and a resurgent nuclear crisis, analysts have begun looking at the North Korean leader's brother-in-law as part of a possible succession. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080928/north-korean-puzzle-is-a-kim-succession-emerging.htm Sun, 28 Sep 2008 09:31:39 EDT North Korea says it will conduct a census next month that is believed to be the impoverished nation's first in 15 years. The North's official Korean Central News Agency says tens of thousands of census takers will be mobilized for the face-to-face survey scheduled for Oct. 1-15. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080927/north-korea-to-conduct-first-census-in-15-years.htm Sat, 27 Sep 2008 05:33:24 EDT North Koreans got a rare chance to see foreign films--including Britain's Oscar-winning "Atonement" and China's "Assembly"--during the 11th Pyongyang International Film Festival held in the communist capital. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080925/nkoreans-get-rare-chance-to-see-foreign-films.htm Thu, 25 Sep 2008 15:56:40 EDT North Korea moved closer to restarting its nuclear arms program Wednesday, barring U.N. inspectors from its main plutonium reprocessing plant and announcing it will reactivate the facility that provided the material for its atomic test blast. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/137254-north-korea-nuclear.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080924/iaea-nkorea-plans-activate-yongbyon-reactor.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080924/iaea-nkorea-plans-activate-yongbyon-reactor.htm Wed, 24 Sep 2008 21:05:01 EDT Even as North Korea moves to take back hard-won concessions on its nuclear program, the Bush administration is hoping to salvage a crumbling international effort to get the communist state to give up nuclear arms. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080923/us-tries-to-salvage-crumbling-nkorean-nuke-talks.htm Tue, 23 Sep 2008 03:19:01 EDT The Bush administration is trying in its waning months to salvage a crumbling international effort to get North Korea to give up nuclear arms even as the communist state moves to restart its atomic reactor. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080922/us-tries-to-save-crumbling-nkorean-nuke-talks.htm Mon, 22 Sep 2008 19:52:18 EDT North Korea asked the U.N. nuclear watchdog Monday to remove seals and surveillance equipment from the Yongbyon nuclear reactor, the agency chief said, heightening concerns that the communist nation may be preparing to restart its nuclear program. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080922/nkorea-asks-un-atomic-agency-to-pull-reactor-seals.htm Mon, 22 Sep 2008 12:56:07 EDT The United States on Friday urged North Korea not to continue preparations to restart its nuclear reactor, saying the country must decide whether it wants to have a better relationship with the world or "keep themselves isolated." http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/134295-south-korea-koreas-nuclear.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080919/us-urges-nkorea-not-to-restart-nuclear-reactor.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080919/us-urges-nkorea-not-to-restart-nuclear-reactor.htm Fri, 19 Sep 2008 14:58:01 EDT North Korea's pledge to restart its nuclear reactor puts fresh focus on one of the most vexing issues of the Bush presidency. With efforts to rid the communist nation of its nuclear weapons certain to carry over to his successor, it is Democrat Barack Obama who is likely to follow Bush's approach more closely than GOP nominee John McCain. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/134239-mccain-2008.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080919/mccain-could-be-tougher-than-bush-with-nkorea.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080919/mccain-could-be-tougher-than-bush-with-nkorea.htm Fri, 19 Sep 2008 11:10:32 EDT North Korea has carried out an engine ignition test for a long-range missile capable of striking the western United States, a South Korean newspaper reported Tuesday. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080915/report-north-korea-conducted-missile-engine-test.htm Mon, 15 Sep 2008 23:05:15 EDT North Korea's ailing leader remained out of sight Monday, missing another key chance--Korea's Thanksgiving holiday--to make a public appearance that could have put to rest mounting speculation about his health. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/130762-north-korea-kim-jong-il.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080915/no-sign-of-north-korean-leader-during-key-holiday.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080915/no-sign-of-north-korean-leader-during-key-holiday.htm Mon, 15 Sep 2008 11:06:33 EDT North Korea urged its people Monday to make all-out efforts to reap a big harvest this autumn, saying it wants to resolve the country's chronic food shortage on its own. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080915/north-korea-wants-big-harvest-amid-food-shortage.htm Mon, 15 Sep 2008 02:24:02 EDT