Seoul to bid for 2036 Games without Pyongyang, says mayor
Seoul will remain flexible to the idea of holding a few events in the Demilitarized Zone or Pyongyang if relations improve enough by that time.
North Korea's Kim mobilizes young laborers in new housing plan
The plan begins despite a deepening food crisis in North Korea amid sanctions over its weapons programs and the fallout from COVID-19 lockdowns.
‘Not in this for the money’: Why some families sue North Korea
Their civil litigation — often over physical mistreatment and abductions at the hands of North Korean authorities — is part of a quiet, yearslong search for justice.
Kim Jong Un keeps aiming his missiles at this 'most hated rock'
At about 850 meters in length, the island is small enough to show the U.S. and its allies that Kim can hit what he aims at.
North Korea seeks economic boost amid COVID-19 and sanctions pain
The figures point to an accelerated need for Kim to come up with a new five year economic plan to survive the crisis.
South Korean news source says North Korea has changed its foreign minister
North Korean Foreign Minister Ri Yong Ho has been replaced, Seoul-based NK News reported Saturday. Ri's replacement has not been identified but Pyongyang is set to reveal his successor's name next week, the report said, citing unnamed sources. South Korea's Unification Ministry, which is in charge ...
Japanese and North Korean students build friendships on Pyongyang exchange program
Japanese and North Korean university students have been meeting and building friendships in Pyongyang during a six-day exchange event that started Wednesday. In the event, 10 students from Japan met with 16 students who are learning Japanese at the Pyongyang University of Foreign Studies, most ...
Japanese high court upholds denial of tuition waivers for students of pro-Pyongyang school
A high court upheld a lower court's ruling Tuesday in favor of the government's decision to exclude a pro-Pyongyang school in Tokyo from a tuition waiver program that covers most of the nation's high schools. The Tokyo High Court said the school is suspected of ...
Japanese and North Korean university students resume exchanges in Pyongyang
Japanese and North Korean university students discussed thorny issues such as Pyongyang's past abductions of Japanese nationals in the North's capital last week, resuming an annual exchange program that had been canceled the previous year amid easing tensions on the Korean Peninsula. In the program, ...
FIG president Morinari Watanabe to visit North Korea in July: sources
International Gymnastics Federation (FIG) president Morinari Watanabe is scheduled to visit Pyongyang in mid-July at the invitation of North Korea's gymnastics association, sources said Monday. They said Watanabe, former secretary general of the Japan Gymnastics Association, will likely discuss with his North Korean interlocutors about ...
Crisis-plagued private Pyongyang university seeks revival after Trump-Kim summit
When the only private university in North Korea held a commencement in March, the school's American president wasn't there, blocked by Washington's ban on travel to the country. Now, with the United States and North Korea reshaping relations between the two old adversaries, Pyongyang University ...
