North Korea's state news agency says the country's top court has convicted two U.S. journalists and sentenced them to 12 years in labor prison.

The United Nations Security Council has agreed to take tougher measures against North Korea for conducting its second nuclear test on May 25. The measures include a "call" — rather than a demand — that U.N. members inspect suspect cargo transported on ships to and from North Korea, additional ...

OSAKA (Kyodo) A 44-year-old Chinese woman was given a suspended prison term Friday for entering Japan in the guise of a daughter of a Japanese defector from North Korea and helping a compatriot obtain a passport of the defector's deceased niece. Jin Xiaonu was sentenced to a three-year prison ...

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The U.N. Security Council has approved tough new sanctions against North Korea for its recent nuclear test.

North Korea may be preparing for its third nuclear test, a show of defiance as the United Nations considers new sanctions on the dictatorship for conducting an underground nuclear explosion in May.

Regarding Ralph Cossa's June 4 article, "The path with North Korea": Like U.S. Defense Minister Robert Gates, Cossa wants to turn back the clock. They and the world must face the fact that North Korea is a nuclear power. What they fail to explain in their rants against North Korea is why the ...

Japan should act on the assumption that North Korea will never give up its nuclear weapons, former U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage said Wednesday in Tokyo. At a lecture sponsored by the nonprofit organization U.S.-Japan LINK, Armitage, an expert on Asian issues who advised ...

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Diplomats say seven key nations have agreed on new U.N. sanctions against North Korea for conducting a second nuclear test.

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North Korea said it would use nuclear weapons in a "merciless offensive" if provoked - its latest rhetoric apparently aimed at deterring any international punishment for its recent atomic test blast.

The New York Times editors opine today on "North Korea’s Cruel Verdict", the sentencing in North Korea of two journalists to twelve years of hard labor for spying. The journalists were caught trespassing on North Korean ground and presented varying explanations of their intent. Still: Whatever ...

North Korea convicted two American journalists and sentenced them Monday to 12 years of hard labor for crossing into its territory, intensifying the reclusive nation's confrontation with the United States.

U.S. Weighs Intercepting North Korean Shipments NYT - Intercepting ships = act of war U.S. to Weigh Returning North Korea to Terror List WaPo - NoKo a "state sponsors of terrorism"? What terror group is North Korea sponsering? Two U.S. Journalists Sentenced to 12 Years in ...

The U.S. is considering adding North Korea back to a list of state sponsors of terrorism, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said, after President Obama pledged "a very hard look" at tougher measures because of the North's nuclear stance.

The United States has told South Korea it will impose its own financial sanctions on the North apart from punishments that the U.N. has been mulling for Pyongyang's latest nuclear test, a news report said Friday.

Post North Korea to hold trial for two U.S. journalists

What is North Korea up to? Is it trying to undermine the six-party talks in order to force Washington to deal with Pyongyang directly, as some experts claim? Or, as others maintain with equal certainty, is it sending a signal that it is not interested in talks at all, given current domestic ...