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• South Korea keeping an eye on the North

  May 7, 2013 3:11 AM

  South Korea's defense ministry today would not confirm North Korean missile movement, but said it was monitoring the north. Yesterday North Korea took two missiles off launch ready status. Last month Secretary of State John Kerry warned it would be a "huge mistake" to launch the medium range missiles.... more »

• Obama: North Korea should end belligerence now

  April 11, 2013 4:23 PM

  WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama says now is the time for North Korea to end its belligerence. He says the United States will take, in his words, "all necessary steps" to protect its people. But Obama also says that no one wants to see a conflict on the Korean... more »

• Pentagon: NKorea could launch nuclear missile

  April 11, 2013 3:08 PM

  WASHINGTON (AP) - A new Pentagon report says North Korea probably has nuclear weapons that can be launched by ballistic missile, although it says the weapons are not very reliable. The assessment by the Defense Intelligence Agency was revealed Thursday by Colorado republican Rep. Doug Lamborn, at a House Armed... more »

• Lawmaker wonders about NKorea leader's 'stability'

  March 17, 2013 12:06 PM

  WASHINGTON (AP) - The chairman of the House Intelligence Committee says the U.S. just doesn't know about "the stability" of North Korea's young leader, who has threatened pre-emptive nuclear attacks on Washington. Republican Rep. Mike Rogers of Michigan says Kim Jong Un is trying to "prove himself" to his military... more »

• SKorea presses NKorea to refrain from provocations

  May 21, 2012 1:18 AM

  SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - South Korea's top nuclear negotiator says a different path will open for North Korea if it refrains from provocations. Lim Sung-nam spoke before meeting with U.S. and Japanese envoys Monday to discuss North Korea. The meeting comes weeks after its failed long-range rocket launch and... more »

• US: NKorea's rocket launch plan highly provocative

  March 16, 2012 5:45 AM

  SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - The U.S. State Department says North Korea's planned rocket launch is "highly provocative" and would directly violate the North's international obligations. North Korea in a surprise announcement Friday said it plans to launch a satellite into space on the back of a long-range rocket in... more »

• South Korea welcomes North Korea's nuclear agreement with US

  February 29, 2012 1:53 PM

  SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - South Korea is welcoming North Korea's agreement with the United States to suspend uranium enrichment and put a moratorium on nuclear and long-range missile tests. Foreign Ministry spokesman Cho Byung-jae said in a statement late Thursday that North Korea has agreed to actions that Washington... more »

• North Korea's Kim issues threat before South Korea-US drills

  February 26, 2012 1:11 AM

  SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - North Korea says its new leader, Kim Jong Un, has ordered troops to launch a powerful retaliatory strike against South Korea if provoked. The official Korean Central News Agency reported Sunday that Kim issued the order during a visit to front-line military units, including one... more »

• North Korean leader Kim Jong Il, 69, has died

  December 18, 2011 10:11 PM

  SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - Kim Jong Il, North Korea's mercurial and enigmatic leader, has died. He was 69. Kim's death was announced Monday by the state television from the North Korean capital, Pyongyang. Kim is believed to have suffered a stroke in 2008 but appeared relatively vigorous in photos... more »

• Springs vets worried about Korean conflicts 57 years after war

  July 24, 2010 7:51 PM

  Another year goes by for Korean War vets in Colorado Springs, 60 of them have passed since the war began. "I was only 17," says Robert Roper, remembering when he got involved in the conflict as a young Marine. Even this long after the war, some of those... more »

• Security issues overshadow Clinton's Asia trip

  May 20, 2010 8:39 AM

  Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is embarking on a three-nation tour of Asia, and a crisis with North Korea, possible new sanctions on Iran and the debate over U.S. military bases in Japan are likely to upset her agenda. There have been striking new developments on those three... more »

• North Korea threatens nuclear attack over US drills

  February 25, 2010 9:43 AM

  North Korea has reacted to U.S.-South Korean military maneuvers scheduled next month with a threat and a warning. Pyongyang says it could launch a "powerful" attack if the drills proceed, warning that it could even resort to nuclear means. The threat, routinely issued before the regularly scheduled military exercises,... more »

• President Obama heads home from Asia trip

  November 19, 2009 9:06 AM

  President Barack Obama is on his way back to Washington after an Asian tour that included efforts to prod China on human rights and North Korea to return to nuclear talks. Obama today said the United States has begun talking with allies about fresh punishment against Iran for defying efforts... more »