North Korea will not change its stance toward the South.
Daniel Tovrov
Dec 30, 2011
The Middle East saber-rattling heightened Friday as Iran's Revolutionary Guards fired salvos at the West and claimed the United States could not frighten them out of blocking the strategic Strait of Hormuz.
Jijo Jacob
Dec 30, 2011
The sale coincides with rising tensions in the Middle East between Sunni Muslim Saudi Arabia and its Shia-dominated enemy Iran, which is believed to be developing nuclear weapons.
Palash Ghosh
Dec 29, 2011
The United States warned the Iranian government that the closure of the Strait of Hormuz will not be tolerated after Iran threatened to do so if sanctions were put in place.
Amir Khan
Dec 28, 2011
Who will be the five people to shape 2012? It could be anyone on list, or it could be none of them. Such is the state of geopolitics at this important moment in history.
Daniel Tovrov
Dec 28, 2011
Kim Jong-il's successor will have his finger on north Korea's nuclear button.
Amrutha Gayathri
Dec 26, 2011
The United States is urging the United Nations Security Council to implement greater sanction on Iran, saying harsher action could slow down the country's nuclear program.
Elisha Maldonado
Dec 22, 2011
Kim Jong-Il died on Dec. 17, 2011, ending his brutal reign over North Korea. Experts have determined that he exhibited the so-called big six personality disorders that include being sadistic, antisocial, paranoid, narcissistic, schizoid, and schizotypal. Now they reveal the impact this will have on his son, Kim Jong-Un.
Michael Billera
Dec 21, 2011
North Korea will shift to collective rule from a strongman dictatorship after last week's death of Kim Jong-il, although his untested young son will be at the head of the ruling coterie, a source with close ties to Pyongyang and Beijing said.
IBT Staff Reporter
Dec 21, 2011
Iran will not be allowed to develop nuclear weapons, U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta told CBS News on Monday, adding that despite efforts to spoil Iran's nuclear program the country has already progressed enough to assemble a bomb within a year or less.
Elisha Maldonado
Dec 21, 2011
North Korea will shift to collective rule from a strongman dictatorship after last week's death of Kim Jong-il, although his untested young son Kim Jong-un will be at the head of the ruling coterie.
Raymond Ronamai
Dec 21, 2011
North Korea's new young leader will have to share power with an uncle and the military after the death of his father Kim Jong-il as the isolated country shifts to collective rule from strongman dictatorship, a source with close ties to Pyongyang and Beijing told Reuters.
Eric Linton
Dec 21, 2011
The International Atomic Energy Agency must redeploy its inspectors in North Korea to help with the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula, Yukiya Amano, director general of the U.N. nuclear agency, was quoted as saying by Kyodo news agency Tuesday.
Eric Linton
Dec 20, 2011
North Korean leader Kim Jong-il, revered at home by a propaganda machine that turned him into a demi-god and vilified in the West as a temperamental tyrant with a nuclear arsenal, has died, North Korean state television reported Monday.
IBT Staff Reporter
Dec 19, 2011
North Korea's longtime leader, Kim Jong Il, died at age 69 from a heart attack according to state-owned TV stations. We collected ten quotes from Kim Jong Il on North Korean, communism, the internet and the United States to commemorate the leader's death and shed light on his policies in North Korea.
Julia Greenberg
Dec 19, 2011
On Monday, two countries mourned for their deceased leaders; and while North Korea's Kim Jong-il and Czech Republic's Václav Havel were very different men, they are akin in their larger-than-life personae.
Daniel Tovrov
Dec 19, 2011
The death of North Korean leader Kim Jong-il from a heart attack over the weekend has prompted an avalanche of reaction from around the globe.
Palash Ghosh
Dec 19, 2011
Kim Jong-il, North Korea's Dear Leader, died on Saturday.
Daniel Tovrov
Dec 19, 2011
Asian equities and U.S. stock index futures fell, with South Korean shares tumbling as much as 5 percent, while the dollar gained on safe-haven appeal after news of the death of North Korea leader Kim Jong-il raised fears of regional instability.
Eric Linton
Dec 19, 2011
North Korean leader Kim Jong-il died of a heart attack while on a train trip, sparking immediate concern over who is in control of the reclusive state and its nuclear programme.
Raymond Ronamai
Dec 19, 2011
North Korean leader Kim Jong-il died of a heart attack on Saturday, according to a report from the state media, raising concerns over who will now control of the most reclusive state in the world, especially its nuclear weapons.
Bhaskar Prasad
Dec 19, 2011
North Korean leader Kim Jong-il died of a heart attack while on a train trip, state media reported Monday morning, sparking immediate concern over who is in control of the reclusive state and its nuclear program.
Eric Linton
Dec 19, 2011