Pyongyang

[Column] Killing Gaeseong

The Gaeseong (Kaesong) Industrial Complex, a symbol of reconciliation and economic cooperation between North and South Korea, is in danger of dying away. Pyongyang announced that its closing of the of..

Lee Returns to Business after Foreign Trip

President Lee Myung-bak returned to his office on Wednesday after 12 days abroad and knuckled down to urgent matters like rising tensions with Pyongyang and the ailing economy. Lee met with the foreign and unification ministers...

Dec 13, 2008: December 2008 Soap Box Lecture: Honeymoon in Pyongyang at Bernal Bubbles

"Honeymoon in Pyongyang" In 2008 Noah Lang and his wife had the chance to visit Pyongyang, Democratic People's Republic of Korea on their honeymoon. Hoping for the best, preparing for the worst, they were surprised at every...

Feast on Fido? Dog meat a delicacy in Korea

Dog meat is eaten in Asia. South Korea, mindful of criticism attached to eating dogs in the West, has made the practice more discreet and better regulated,but isolated North Korea attaches no public stigma to consuming the meat.

Feast on Fido? Pyongyang serves dog 'sweet meat'

Dog meat is eaten in Asia. South Korea, mindful of criticism attached to eating dogs in the West, has made the practice more discreet and better regulated,but isolated North Korea attaches no public stigma to consuming the meat.

SKorean staffers to leave NKorea economic office

South Korea said Wednesday it would withdraw the last remaining staffers from its economic cooperation office at a border industrial complex in North Korea this week after Pyongyang demanded the office shut down amid...

Lessons Obama Can Learn from the Wily North Korean

Cooperation within the region could be key to ending North Korea’s nuclear program Avoiding a face off: Barack Obama will need diplomatic skill to settle the unresolved nuclear issue with North Korea's Kim Jong Il WASHINGTON:...

Report: N. Korea's Kim Jong Il tours factory

North Korea's Kim Jong II was reportedly visiting machine and soap factories Tuesday, the latest in a series of alleged sightings of the leader believed to be recovering from a stroke. SEOUL (AP) — North Korea's Kim Jong Il...

Pyongyang puts politics above dollars

The official reason for North Korea severely curbing the activities of Kaesong Industrial Park, a flagship of North-South economic interaction, is the propaganda balloons that activists in the South float across the border....

US: Sampling Part of N. Korea Nuclear Deal

The State Department is reiterating that retrieving samples from North Korean nuclear sites is part of the agreement it reached with Pyongyang last month on verifying that country's nuclear program. VOA's David Gollust reports...