North Korea will not shut down its nuclear facilities despite agreeing to do so last month until the United States unfreezes all of its funds held at a Macau bank, the communist state's top nuclear n.. [Mar.17,2007 15:27 KST]

During International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) chief Mohamed ElBaradei’s visit North Korea on March 13-14, Pyongyang agreed to dismantle and... [Mar.17,2007 14:42 KST]

The Japanese cabinet on Friday made official a stance essentially denying that the Japanese military forced foreign females to be "comfort women" during World War II. The so-called comfort women, .. [Mar.17,2007 14:25 KST]

"It is bizarre that Prime Minister Abe only speaks of whether or not the ‘comfort women’ were taken forcefully by the Japanese military.... [Mar.17,2007 14:21 KST]

A career as a civil servant in South Korea has often been called an "iron rice bowl" because of its job security, but that may change soon as local governments are moving to weed out incompetent wor.. [Mar.16,2007 21:07 KST]

Little now stands in the way of North Korea moving toward nuclear disarmament as the United States has taken steps to resolve its key grievance: resolution of a financial sanctions dispute, Washingto.. [Mar.16,2007 20:59 KST]

A U.S. Treasury Department official flew to Macau on Thursday for talks with officials in Macau to share information the Bush administration has uncovered from an analysis of a North Korean account .. [Mar.16,2007 19:19 KST]

UlAANBAATAR = I accompanied officials of the Ministry of the Environment and the Citizens Info & Media Center on the 26th of last month on a... [Mar.16,2007 15:45 KST]

The U.S. Treasury Department on Wednesday made public a plan to resolve the financial dispute with North Korea by formally banning U.S. financial institutions from dealing with the Macau-based Banco.. [Mar.15,2007 20:53 KST]

Ethnic Koreans from abroad can now stay in South Korea for up to three years with a single visa Thursday as a new rule has taken effect, the Justice Ministry said. Previously, ethnic Koreans wi.. [Mar.15,2007 20:48 KST]