Fresh floods in China’s northeastern Liaoning province have forced more than 120,000 people to evacuate their homes and thousands to relocate in North Korea. China’s Civil Affairs Ministry said late Saturday that 127,000 people had been evacuated in Liaoning province in just three days due to the rains, AFP said. Heavy summer downpours have dangerously [...]

Chinese officials say the crash of a North Korean military aircraft in northeastern China was due to technical malfunctions that caused the plane to lose direction. The pilot lost direction due to unspecified mechanical failures straying into Chinese territory, China’s official Xinhua news agency reported. North Korea has apologized to china for the incident and [...]

South Korea and the United States are to launch a fresh large-scale joint military exercise this week amid growing tension with North Korea. Washington and Seoul said that they will stage the ten-day war games, called “Ulchi Freedom Guardian”, to deter threats from Pyongyang. The drills will involve 30 thousand American troops on the ground [...]

South Korea’s military says North Korea has fired artillery shells into the waters off its west coast amid rising tensions between the two neighbors. A spokesman for Seoul’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said the shells landed in sea on the North’s side of the border. “Our navy was placed on high alert, closely watching the [...]

A South Korean fishing vessel with seven crew members on board has been seized by North Korean in the Sea of Japan amid growing tensions between the two neighbors. According to a statement released by South Korean Coast Guard on Sunday, the vessel was carrying four South Korean crewmen and three Chinese sailors near the [...]

Amid the growing tensions between South Korea and its northern neighbor, Seoul has launched its largest-ever anti-submarine drills in its history. The South kicked off the five-day naval drills near the disputed sea border with North Korea on Thursday. The maneuvers will involve 4,500 troops from the country’s army, navy and air force, some 20 [...]

South Korea and the United States have ended their massive joint military exercise in the Sea of Japan amid growing tension in the troubled region. Seoul and Washington say, by holding the four-day war games, they wanted to send a message of ‘deterrence’ to North Korea. “We practiced well together and the (South’s) military has [...]

North Korea warned Saturday that joint US and South Korean military drill set to begin this weekend will draw a nuclear response from Pyongyang. The two countries announced earlier in the week that they would stage the drills to send a clear message to North Korea to stop its “aggressive” behavior. In Hanoi, a North [...]

Iranian Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani says Iran and North Korea are both revolutionary and independent nations trying to resist the world’s “greedy” powers. Meeting with his North Korean counterpart on the sidelines of an Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) conference in Geneva on Wednesday, Larijani hailed staunch bilateral ties between the two nations and thanked the North [...]

North Korea welcomes UN Security Council’s call for direct talks to ease tensions in the Korean Peninsula over the sinking of the South’s warship. Tensions between the two countries further increased after the sinking of a South Korean warship, Cheonan, back in March that killed 46 sailors. Seoul says North Korea has targeted the warship. [...]

North Korea proposes military talks with the US to ease tension over sinking of a South Korean warship that Washington and Seoul blame on Pyongyang. “This proposal is a manifestation of the unshakable will of the army and people of (North Korea) to probe the truth behind the ‘Cheonan’ case in an objective, scientific and [...]

Two days after North Korea announced it had conducted a nuclear fusion test, South Korea said that it detected abnormally high radiation in the air near the two countries’ border. According to the Korea Institute of Nuclear Safety, located in Geojin, Gangwon Province, a gaseous radioactive matter known as xenon, a by-product of nuclear fusion, [...]

North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il says his country remains committed to denuclearization in a bid to defuse tensions on the Korean peninsula. In remarks carried by Pyongyang’s official media on Saturday, Kim said the North is willing to create the right conditions for resuming six-party disarmament talks. Kim’s comments came a day after he returned [...]

Iranian university students and academics have staged a demonstration in front of the UN building in Tehran to protest US nuclear threats against Iran. The large crowd of students gathered in front of the United Nations building on Wednesday morning to show their objection to US President Barack Obama’s recent threatening comments about a nuclear [...]

Iran and North Korea have signed a two-year pact for the expansion of cultural and scientific exchanges in their bilateral relations in the educational sphere. Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister Mohammad Ali Fathollahi attended the signing ceremony in the North Korean capital of Pyongyang, the North’s state-run television KRT reported Friday. An Iranian delegation headed by [...]

President of North Korea’s Presidium of the Supreme People’s Assembly (SPA) Kim Yong-Nam will pay a visit to Iran in summer, an Iranian official says. “The visit by North Korea’s high-ranking official to Iran is expected to take place in two or three months,” IRNA quoted Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister for Asia and Oceania Ali [...]

Iran’s defense minister says a review of US nuclear policy which allows the use of nuclear weapons against Iran has revealed a weakness in Washington. The new US Nuclear Posture Review (NPR) purportedly restricts the use of its nuclear arms against most states, except Iran and North Korea. Unlike North Korea, Iran is a signatory [...]

US Defense Secretary Robert Gates says Washington is keeping “all options” on the table for dealing with Iran and North Korea. “If there is a message for Iran and North Korea here, it is that if you’re going to play by the rules, if you’re going to join the international community, then we will undertake [...]

North Korea may have intentionally floated a mine to damage a South Korean naval ship that exploded and sank this week, says the South’s defense minister. While the cause of the explosion is still unknown, Defense Minister Kim Tae-young told lawmakers in Seoul on Monday that rival North Korea may have floated a mine toward [...]

A South Korean navy ship has sunk off the coast of North Korea, prompting Seoul to launch a rescue operation. According to a South Korean military official, the ship, called the Cheonan was on a routine patrolling mission with 104 crew members on board when it started sinking in the Yellow Sea near the South [...]