International Business News - North Korea 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 may be preparing for its third nuclear test as the United Nations considers new sanctions on the regime, according to a U.S. government official. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20090611/north-korea-prepare-third-nuclear-test.htm Thu, 11 Jun 2009 22:28:58 EDT The U.S. president promised Wednesday to defend South Korea and Japan from any attack by North Korean amid escalating threat from the reclusive state. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/214292-.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20090527/uassures-protection-skorea-japan.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20090527/uassures-protection-skorea-japan.htm Wed, 27 May 2009 20:07:08 EDT North Korea government announced Wednesday that it regards the 1953 armistice of the Korean War as void, meaning it could no longer guarantee the safety of U.S. and South Korean vessels in the Yellow sea. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20090527/nkorea-threatening-war-raises-tensions.htm Wed, 27 May 2009 16:51:00 EDT North Korea said it successfully conducted a nuclear test on Monday, a move certain to further isolate the prickly state, which argues it has no choice but to build an atomic arsenal to protect itself in a hostile world. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/214114-.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20090525/north-korea-conducts-nuclear-test.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20090525/north-korea-conducts-nuclear-test.htm Mon, 25 May 2009 03:17:25 EDT Two U.S. journalists will be tried by North Korea on June 4 on accusations of illegal entry and "hostile acts". http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20090514/north-korea-sets-juneto-trys-journalists.htm Thu, 14 May 2009 14:43:57 EDT North Korea will stay away from international nuclear disarmament talks, Russia's foreign minister said on Friday after visiting the secretive state and pressing Pyongyang to return to the sputtering discussions. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/212664-.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20090424/north-korea-boycott-nuclear-talks.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20090424/north-korea-boycott-nuclear-talks.htm Fri, 24 Apr 2009 21:26:02 EDT North Korean leader Kim Jong-il put to rest this week any doubt about whom he sees as his second in command when he elevated his brother-in-law Jang Song-taek to a powerful military post, analysts said on Friday. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/211936-north-korean-leader-kim-jong-il.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20090410/north-korean-leader-kim-anoints-noanalysts.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20090410/north-korean-leader-kim-anoints-noanalysts.htm Fri, 10 Apr 2009 09:29:50 EDT North Korea made the final preparations to launch a multistage rocket today, raising international tensions and sending worries through its nearest neighbor, Japan. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/211626-.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20090403/concerns-mount-as-north-korea-preps-rocket-launch.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20090403/concerns-mount-as-north-korea-preps-rocket-launch.htm Fri, 03 Apr 2009 18:30:17 EDT North Korea has begun fuelling a long-range rocket and could launch it by the weekend, CNN said, with the United States and others promising punishment for a move they say violates U.N. resolutions. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/211502-.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20090401/north-korea-starts-fuelling-rocket.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20090401/north-korea-starts-fuelling-rocket.htm Wed, 01 Apr 2009 21:28:04 EDT 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 Korean Premier Kim Yong Il is expected to soon make an official “goodwill visit” to China according to Korea Central News Agency Reports, Bloomberg reported. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20090309/china-north-korea-kim-yong-il-nuclear-weapons.htm Mon, 09 Mar 2009 20:42:10 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 North Korea said on Tuesday it was preparing to launch a satellite on one of its rockets, which analysts have said would actually be the test-firing of a long-range missile designed to strike U.S. territory. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/209862-.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20090224/north-korea-rocket-launch.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20090224/north-korea-rocket-launch.htm Tue, 24 Feb 2009 10:30:47 EST