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• N. Korea to Shut Border With South

  Nov 12, 08 1:45 PM CST
  North Korea says it will cut access to South Korea on Dec. 1, by closing the border and severing the sole civilian phone link between the two nations, the BBC reports. The North has grown increasingly hostile to the South since it elected President Lee Myung-bak, who promised to “get tough” with Pyongyang. His government co-sponsored a UN resolution criticizing North Korea’s human rights record.
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• Brother-in-Law Pilots N. Korea for Ailing Kim

  Nov 7, 08 2:47 PM CST
  Kim Jong-Il’s brother-in-law is running North Korea as the dictator recovers from a stroke, experts tell the Times of London. South Korean analysts say that while Kim is conscious and probably mobile, he remains weak. But Pyongyang appears to be functioning normally in the hands of Chang Sung Taek, 62, the head of the country’s secret police. More »

• North Korea Threatens to Sever Ties With South

  Oct 16, 08 2:18 AM CDT
  North Korea is threatening to sever ties with South Korea in a war of words that has plunged relations between the partitioned neighbors to a new low, Reuters reports. North Korean officials are upset about hardline policies of South Korea's conservative government.  "If the traitors keep to the road of reckless confrontation with North Korea, defaming its dignity," officials will consider a "total freeze of relations," declared the state's Communist newspaper.
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• US May Yank N. Korea Off Terror List

  Oct 10, 08 5:49 AM CDT
  The US is expected to provisionally remove North Korea from the State Department's list of state sponsors of terrorism, possibly as early as today, reports the Washington Post. It may be the Bush administration's last "carrot" to offer as diplomatic efforts to persuade North Korea to abandon its nuclear weapons program falter. Tensions between the nations mounted yesterday as North Korea barred inspectors from its nuclear facilities.
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• Kim's Death Unlikely to Breed Chaos

  Sep 22, 08 12:49 PM CDT
  With Kim Jong Il conspicuously out of the public eye in recent months, some speculate that his death could shatter the North Korean government and precipitate humanitarian and possibly military crises. But the reality of succession, Philip Bowring writes in the International Herald Tribune, is likely to be far more orderly, and to unfold much more slowly. More »