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Mr. Little said the U. S. has detected 'no unusual North Korean military movements' since Mr. Kim's death on Saturday.

He said the two, along with China, had agreed: "A North Korean nuclear test constitutes a grave threat that will not be tolerated. "

It is true that I have been meeting the North Korean permanent representatives, trying to do whatever to open dialogue and channels.

Furthermore, the Bank of China said it had not been asked to accept the transfer of North Korean funds.

Watching this show reminded me that the status of South Korean women is very high compared to that of North Korean women.

Outside analysts have little to go on since the North Korean elite have never been seen to face such a test.

In an interview on Monday, Clinton said the US should not over-react to North Korean provocation.

Col. David Lapan, the Pentagon spokesman, said the exercise was meant to be a deterrent to North Korean attacks.

She said she had bought two baskets of the flowers for 1, 500 yuan and sent them to her North Korean counterparts Tuesday.

Last week, South Korean investigators revealed parts of a North Korean torpedo that they said sank the ship.

Fighter jets patrolled the air and destroyers sailed in nearby waters ready to counter another North Korean attack.

'It was one of the worst times of my life, ' says Joseph, a pseudonym used byone North Korean who defected to the south in 2005.

The North Korean commentary warned Sunday if it attacks, "everything will turn into ashes, not just a sea of flames. "

Kyong-hui is still widely seen as the only person Mr Kim, the North Korean dictator, has always been able to trust.

"In order to get off the list, the axis-of-evil list, the North Korean leader's going to have to make some certain decisions, " he said.

But it is music that truly permeates North Korean life, at least the parts of it that have been approved for foreign consumption.

Clinton had an hour and a quarter of talks with the North Korean leader, Kim Jong-il, followed by a two-hour dinner with him.

Seoul blamed the incident on a North Korean torpedo attack, but Pyongyang insists that it had nothing to do with it.

It left the North Korean port of Nampo a week ago and is believed bound for Myanmar, South Korean and U. S. officials said.

One of the Daily NK's founders, Park In Ho, spends much of his time recruiting and training reporters on the North Korean border with China.

He said the company was waiting for a response from the North Korean government.

It had agreed that $25m held at a bank in Macau, Banco Delta Asia, could be transferred to a North Korean account at the Bank of China.

He did not say what this meant, but probably at least some of the North Korean funds will be deemed legitimate and unfrozen .

How do North Korean defectors view the Kim family, particularly as a third generation seems to be preparing to assume power?

North Korean streets currently sport propaganda posters depicting workers punching the air as a rocket rips into the sky behind them.

"It has the ability, I believe, working within the alliance, to beat any North Korean threat, " he said.

A spokesman for the ministry said about 20 shots were fired in what was believed to have been a North Korean military exercise.

The company said the two women were researching a news report on North Korean women being sold by human traffickers.

The two reporters were in the border area with a male cameraman and their guide as part of a reporting assignment on North Korean refugees.

She said the ministry was not aware of any previous surveys of the foreign population in the North Korean capital.

"The continued intransigence and defiance of the North Korean leadership demands a strong response, " he said.

The additional troops quickly divided the North Korean forces, which had been stretched from north to south.

For years it had used the threat of its veto to keep North Korean adventurism off the Security Council's agenda.

The body of his father, North Korean founder Kim Il Sung, is displayed in another part of the palace, where visiting tourists can view it.

North Korean envoy Kim Kye Kwan did not provide details but said there are still differences that both countries are trying to work out.

Yonhap said the North Korean aircraft appeared to be a MiG-21 jet.

China has so far taken a neutral stance on the North Korean attack, prompting criticism both in and out of the country.

A senior North Korean official says his country is beginning to restore a disabled nuclear facility capable of producing weapons material.

Spokesman McCormack said he would "not discount" the reports of the North Korean leader's illness, but would not elaborate.

Republicans berate him for exuding weakness, noting that his big speech on nuclear disarmament was upstaged by a North Korean missile test.

He says Pyongyang has also failed to investigate the past abduction of Japanese nationals by North Korean agents, as it had promised to do.

The North Korean staff is often threatened; South Korean police uncovered a plot to kill Radio Free NK's manager, Kim Seong-min.

She said the North Korean government must realize that the world is united, and there will be no reward for bad behavior.

In fact, going up to a North Korean and trying to talk to them could put them in danger.

Japan is the only country that has made explicit public plans to attempt to shoot down the North Korean rocket.

The seven years following the signature of a "framework agreement" with America in 1994 did not see an end to North Korean illicit activity.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Il did not attend the performance. Other senior North Korean officials were in the audience.

During the talks Mr Putin said the North Korean leader had assured him that his country's missile programme was entirely peaceful.

Some analysts say the North Korean explosion may have been a failed nuclear test, or one that worked only partially.

Pyongyang promptly threatened to attack the South if it were to search North Korean vessels under the program.

South Korean officials are trying to cool down a sizzling media demand for rumors and speculation about the North Korean leader's condition.

During the sea battle, a South Korean patrol boat hit by a North Korean patrol boat sank as it was being towed back.

Citing aerial photos of plumeless smokestacks, economists say roughly three of every four North Korean factories are idle.

The only way for the North Korean Army to move south is by an inevitably bloody frontal attack.

North Korean cargo ship being closely tailed by the United States Navy appears to be changing course, and may be returning to North Korea.

After months of delay, the money has finally made it as far as a Russian bank, apparently only one step away from North Korean hands.

U. S. President George Bush is urging the North Korean government to agree to a strong verification of its nuclear program.

They said he had tried to arrange an interview with North Korean associates by telephone the previous night.

North Korean mass media claim that this is the most democratic form of a direct voting by secret ballot.

North Korean middlemen, whose savings were confiscated during the redenomination of the currency, have been forced out of business.

North Korean media did not appear in a report for this celebrations.

He warned against the possibility of North Korean produced fissile material winding up in the hands of terrorists.

The statement said the Cheonan was 'hit by a torpedo allegedly fired from a North Korean submarine. '

If the women are found guilty, analysts say they face at least five years detention with hard labour in a North Korean prison camp.

There was no emergency: the North Korean tests changed nothing and threatened no one.

It is possible that nervous North Korean officers misinterpreted the drills and believed they were under attack.

A week later, a top North Korean diplomat travelled to New York for talks with Washington's top official on North Korean affairs.

For the moment, at least, they must do without Pyongyang, 90210 and North Korean Idol.

Figuring out a strategy to deal with the North Korean nuclear threat is a challenge, to be sure.

'There are no signs of unusual movements by the North Korean military so far, ' he said.

She matched him with one of her North Korean defectors, and they fell in love and married.

Mr. Kim's travel to China during that visit is a sign that the succession issue is now at the top of the North Korean leader's agenda.

The North Korean leader's proposal echoes the offer he made Wednesday to Russian President Dmitry Medvedev.

He reminded them that nobody knows how the situation with the North Korean leader will progress at this point.

But were a North Korean invasion to occur today, they would likely be overrun or forced to withdraw before being able to counterattack.

Eventually, these activities developed into larger businesses, and today at least three-quarters of North Korean market vendors are women.

Meanwhile, China has evacuated more than a quarter of a million people from its side of the North Korean border following severe flooding.

The coins that I had given him did not even closely match the value of the North Korean bill.

Mr Park of the OPLAN 5027, it so happens, was once involved in an attempt to discredit Kim Dae-jung as a North Korean spy.

The North Korean message indirectly referred to its Nov. 23 attack of Yeonpyeong Island.

His name was the sixth listed in a caption for a group photo of top North Korean officials in late September, it said.

They said they assumed the sounds were to alert North Korean border guards he knew, but they didn't indicate why he would do that.

Finally, there is the question of how a change in the North Korean regime will affect the delicate politics of northeast Asia.

North Korean officials nowadays make little secret of their wish to be recognised as a nuclear-weapons power.

The Army said the victims were slain by Communist led North Korean forces who took them from a prison at Chinnampo.

He said North Korean leader Kim Jong Il just concluded visit to China, China-DPRK traditional friendship has been further sublimation.

"The position of the North Korean delegation is wide apart from the rest of us and we cannot accept it, " he said.

Through the years, North Korean military vessels have accompanied fishing boats around the sea border.

At the time of the attack, the Chenoan was operating near Baengnyeong Island, a heavily garrisoned outpost off the North Korean coast.

Mr. Park denied praising the North Korean government and said his intention was to lampoon the North Korean regime.

Japan has announced it is deploying missile interceptors to destroy any parts of a North Korean rocket that might fall on its territory.

China's close ties with the North Korean regime are rooted in a desire to maintain stability in its neighbour.

There was no immediate North Korean reaction to Google's announcement on Tuesday.

Such a direct statement is rare, because senior South Korean officials usually keep quiet about North Korean security matters in public.

North Korean guards were reported to have detained two American journalists who were filming across the border from Chinese territory.

North Korean state media said the country's nuclear envoy greeted the former US president at Pyongyang airport.

Last December North Korean hackers caught a glimpse of the plan thanks to a slip on the part of a South Korean officer.

Another Seoul newspaper said he resembled his late grandfather, North Korean founder Kim Il Sung.

Pyongyang said the strike was in response to the South's navy firing into North Korean waters.

This time, the North Korean government has threatened "all-out war" if it is punished for the Cheonan sinking.

North Korean soldiers keep watch, as seen through a window in one of the huts on the northern side of Panmunjom this April.

The only North Korean citizens we were officially allowed to film were Dr. Ruit's patients.

Earlier this month, North Korean state media said "the day is near at hand" when the reactor will come into operation.

The Obama administration did not respond at once to yesterday's North Korean statements.

China has neither openly backed assertions that the North sank the ship, nor so much as hinted at disapproval of North Korean behaviour.

And yet remarkably little is known about the inner workings of the North Korean government.

This week, just as promising talks were under way in Beijing between U. S. and North Korean envoys, the news broke that Kim had died.

North Korea's economy is in tatters, and the North Korean government relies on aid from China to help alleviate widespread food shortages.

Jong had spoken and written openly about his irritation at times with the lack of worldliness of his North Korean teammates.

Hill met several North Korean officials, including Foreign Minister Pak Ui Chun and a senior army general in a visit spanning three days.

The North Korean leader's previous attention-grabber was the detonation of a nuclear "device" , possibly a small bomb, in October 2006.

But every North Korean household and business is outfitted with a government-controlled radio hardwired to a central station.

However, media in South Korea said the players got off lightly by North Korean standards.

As a special case, the Japanese government decided to issue visas to North Korean Olympic Committee officials.

Just beyond the din, an empty one-lane bridge extended across the Yalu river, to a darkened North Korean city on the other side.

After spending nearly five months in captivity, we were relieved to be granted amnesty by the North Korean government.

The North Korean attack is seen as the worst against Seoul since the bombing of a Korean Airlines jetliner in the late 1980s.

At least one North Korean newspaper praised the election's outcome, which tilted in favor of opposition parties.

"The North Korean missile and space launch facility near Pongdong-ni is the most advanced North Korean launch facility to date, " he said.

Even if merchandisers can't get a hold of this year's jersey, there is one set of North Korean shirts vendors can count on: throw backs.

Local workers take a break before the departure ceremony of a cruise ship at the port of the North Korean special economic zone of Razon.

"We certainly have not had any formal communications about this from the North Korean government, " Casey said.

He said Kim will also hold talks with North Korean officials on verifying the declaration.

Last October, Chinese premier Wen Jiabao visited Pyongyang, the North Korean capital, to see Mr. Kim.

As his teammates raced over to him to celebrate, the North Korean players trudged solemnly back to the halfway line.

Despite years of food shortages, North Korean leader Kim Jong-il has long showered his aides with luxury items to win their loyalty.

Its latest example was the tale of a Chinese man who drowned this month after rescuing three North Korean girls adrift at sea.

But the United States and other countries stressed the main focus would be on getting the North Korean regime to give up atomic arms.

But Chinese locals say that there are North Korean snipers dug into the hillside opposite with a shoot-to-kill policy towards escapes.

The North Korean State Symphony Orchestra plans to perform in London this summer.

Q: According to Japanese media, China has forbidden "North Korean defectors" to leave China since last April. Could you confirm?

'They're likely to provide more political and economic capital to show legitimacy for the next North Korean government. '

The US insisted on the condition in an effort to ensure that the badly- needed food was not siphoned off for the North Korean military .

The nuclear talks -- held in Beijing this week after a 13-month break due to a North Korean boycott over the U.

The police searched the home of a 55-year old woman alleged to have helped a North Korean agent kidnap two children.

In three cases, the US said the arms included North Korean or Chinese-made weapons.

The North Korean artillery shell knocked Park Myung-hoon unconscious and peppered him with shrapnel when it hit his construction site.

But if no bomb residue leaks, he added, the nature of the fuel that North Korean used for its third blast may remain a mystery.

November's violence was also preceded by the revelation of a North Korean uranium enrichment program.

It's all about the taupe: North Korean leader Kim Jong-il has recently gone from man of mystery to international fashion icon.

The program he supervised, which cared for more than 20 children of North Korean mothers, was shut down, he said.

A ship carrying tens of thousands of tons of grain from the United States has arrived at a North Korean port.

The North Korean government has always been of two minds when it comes to technology.

Kim Jong-il himself most recently declared the North Korean negotiating position: yes to talks, no to any preconditions.

It has slapped on trade sanctions, closed its waters to North Korean ships and resumed a long abandoned propaganda blitz across the border.

According to the reports, Pyongyang announced that old North Korean won notes are to be exchanged for new notes at the rate of 100 to one.

The island of Yeonpyeong, the target of a North Korean artillery barrage this week that killed four people, is in the same area.

The slogan used to be on the North Korean currency. It's written on archways above kindergartens.

United States and South Korean forces have raised their alert level in anticipation of a possible North Korean missile test.

"These cultural exchanges are a way of promoting understanding between countries, " a North Korean official told the FT.

But to think that the North Korean government would attempt to use this as a viable cash source is rather insane.

The border seems to be more heavily guarded on the North Korean side. There are military points every few kilometres in some places.

Our goal is to come up with something realistic at a time when the North Korean leadership is uncertain.

Our North Korean minders' bemusement turned to consternation as the Sex Pistols' lyrics scrolled across the TV screen.

International investigators say a North Korean torpedo sank the ship, although Pyongyang has denied any role in the incident.

In the streets around the city's customs house, North Korean traders stock up on Chinese cigarettes, clothing and electrical goods.

Moscow and Beijing agreed to the U. S. draft after language on inspecting North Korean cargo ships in international waters was diluted.

Long stalled by a squabble over about $25m of North Korean funds frozen in a bank in Macau, that deal is at last moving.

Recent dramatic changes in North Korean leadership appear to be paving the way for an eventual transfer of power, analysts say.

The Council tightened sanctions, including an arms embargo and a provision that encourages high-seas searches of North Korean ships.

North Korean soldiers arrested the two Americans in March, as they were gathering video footage in the area of North Korea's Chinese border.

They reiterated that they would 'react firmly and strongly' to any North Korean provocations.

The North Korean camera crew awoke this guy, who was very cold, and gave him some North Korean coffee and a blanket.

South Korea remains dissatisfied with Pyongyang's explanation of a deadly flood that resulted from a dam opening in North Korean territory.

Orascom, the Egyptian telecommunications giant, is now providing cellular service in many North Korean cities.

However, North Korean defector Hyun In-ae has cautioned against overstating the significance of these changes for women in the North.

Official Chinese statements routinely say that sanctions are not the solution to the North Korean problem.

Finding the jersey is just one of many challenges facing those hoping to sell North Korean merchandise.

North Korean government propaganda has always portrayed the United States as a hostile aggressor.

During the visit the reclusive North Korean dictator pardoned two jailed female American journalists, who had been sentenced to hard labour.

She predicted the council would pass "a very strong resolution" that would "have consequences for the North Korean regime. "

The South offers asylum to any North Korean who reaches its shores and asks for it.

North Korean officials reject the reports as a worthless conspiracy. Nonetheless, Kim Jong Il has not been seen in public since August 14.

Last week, Time readers made their choice for Person of the Year, selecting North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in an online poll.

The North Korean Government quickly seals off the island chain , claiming the mysteries of the asteroid for themselves.

Gomes, who attempted to commit suicide while in North Korean custody, was believed to be a Christian activist.

Such an arrangement would do little to relieve the suffering of the North Korean people or defuse the tension over its nuclear ambitions.

But Ambassador Chris Hill met frequently in private with North Korean officials and made concessions that undercut our allies.

Afterward, the US imperialism interferes the North Korean internal affairs blatantly, starts to invade blatantly faces the war.

For that reason, analysts expect North Korean authorities in coming weeks to stage an event to give Kim more titles.

But the main barrier has always been on the North Korean side, which rarely grants visas to U. S. citizens.

A: For your first question, in the first place, China will not hand over the North Korean to South Korea.

The senior U. S. delegate to the talks Friday ended a two day set of preparatory meetings in Singapore with his North Korean counterpart.

"North Korean ships in Myanmar and Iran will be the first priority to watch, " he said.

High profile US-North Korean talks took place in New York in July.

China has been a host for the six-party talks on the North Korean nuclear issue.

A North Korean, with a bouquet of artificial flowers, joins the ceremony celebrating the departure of the cruise ship.

North Korean diplomats are barred from traveling outside Manhattan -- home to the United Nations headquarters -- due to the absence of U. S.

Many analysts believe it is likely the younger Kim will take over the North Korean leadership from his father, as early as 2012.

But analysts believe that North Korean arms exports have been declining for some time in the face of increased international scrutiny.

South Korean troops have fired at a passenger jet after mistaking it for a North Korean aircraft.

An international team of investigators concluded a North Korean submarine torpedoed the ship.

North Korean state media released a video on Tuesday showing new leader Kim Jong Eun sobbing as he viewed his father's body.

International investigators say a North Korean torpedo sank the ship, but Pyongyang has rejected this.

Some of the uncertainty lies in whether the North Korean military backs or tries to circumvent the younger Mr. Kim.

U. S. officials met twice last week with a ranking North Korean diplomat who was given special permission to visit New York and San Diego.

No more than a few thousand North Korean researchers and high officials have access to the Internet.

Recently, the North Korean media reported Kim Jong-il in a row South Hamgyong inspect factories and enterprises in Hamhung City, the news.

North Korean gymnasts have been banned from competing in international events for two years, including the 2012 London Olympics.

In any case, China treats North Korean defectors with scant sympathy and encourages its citizens to turn them in.

Kim Jong-il looks set to be the last North Korean leader to enjoy a semi- divine status and rule the nation single-handedly.

S. officials that the torpedo and its explosives are similar to a North Korean missile found nearly seven years ago.

However, officials have hinted a separate tour program at the North Korean city of Kaesong may also be suspended.

North Korean defector groups are unhappy that the South Korean officials have been so loose-lipped about what Mrs Deng may have been doing.

The UN quickly re-takes South Korea the next year and kicks North Korean and Chinese Forces back to North Korea.

Although the North Korean guests had doubtless been carefully chosen, the power of the music broke through regardless.

It was the arm of the North Korean government dealing with nuclear issues.

Further measures to be announced on Monday are expected to include banning North Korean ships from South Korean waters.

yes, the suffering of the North Korean people has been and conitnues to be horrendous. But bombing them won't make it better.

The government's North Korean Human Rights Committee denied the existence of any human rights violations in the country.

In fact, the safest place to be in previous North Korean missile tests was wherever they were aiming.

China had already started checking North Korean trucks crossing its border, Nicholas Burns, under-secretary of state, commented.

China, for the price of its patronage and protection, has been sucking up what's left of the shambling North Korean economy.

North Korean suppliers are believed to be working with Iran on designing a missile that could hold a miniaturized nuclear warhead.

I declared that I was a North Korean seeking asylum and was quickly ushered into another room.

Hill dismisses recent North Korean rhetoric against the South as "entirely propagandistic" and directed "entirely at domestic audiences. "

He sat next to his father, President Kim Jong-il, at a games and dance festival in the North Korean capital Pyongyang.

The North Korean strategy, "provoke, negotiate, rinse, repeat" , will, he believes, make fools of its six-party interlocutors again.

While there, the presumption is the North Korean leader got cash and Beijing's acceptance of his succession plans.

The UN sanctions only allow the US to hail a North Korean ship and demand to be allowed to conduct a search, but not forcibly board it.

Youngest son Intelligence analysts say the North Korean leader appears to have selected his youngest son, Kim Jong Un, to take his place.

An unidentified North Korean town is next to a body of water along the highway from Pyongyang to the southern city of Kaesong.

Acquiescence in a North Korean nuclear program would undermine prospects of the proposed negotiations with Iran.

North Korean propaganda badly needs to link many 'modern' and positive things with the heir, but they don't have much to offer.

It may be a North Korean successor to the FROG series of unguided artillery long-range rockets.

Any compromise of his health is viewed as potentially destabilizing to the North Korean system - and even to peace on the Korean peninsula.

In the nine months after his arrest on espionage charges, Guang-il Jung was beaten by North Korean security guards with a thick wooden club.

It may not a good day to be a North Korean missile designer.

Yu says all parties in the six nation talks understood that the North Korean declaration and its verification were intertwined.

This sentence, of course, comes at a time when US-North Korean relations are already tense.

The North Korean capital, hardly known for its exciting nightlife, appears to be the latest city to impose a smoking ban.

Most difficult is the word "juche" which is the North Korean state ideology, often translated as self-sufficiency.

The United States is urging North Korean authorities, through the Swedes, to release the man on humanitarian grounds.

That was quite a feat for what by North Korean standards was a hastily arranged succession.

The North Korean government last week ordered its citizens and troops to be ready for combat, a defectors group said Tuesday.

The breakthrough came at a secretly arranged meeting in Beijing between Mr Hill and his North Korean and Chinese counterparts.

But will the journey be as momentous for the North Korean and American diplomats who will meet on the sidelines of this week's concert?

In a new sign of friction, a North Korean patrol boat is reported to have briefly entered South Korean waters.

An international investigation concluded a North Korean torpedo hit the ship.

Kim the youngest, as North Korean officials agreed, looked the spitting image of his grandfather.

South Korean prosecutors announced the arrest of two North Korean military officers posing as defectors from the communist state.

No fans in sight , though , only dour North Korean team officials lounging on couches ahead of a team training session .

The United States Navy tracked a North Korean freighter suspected of carrying banned cargo for about three weeks in June and July.

North Korean officials visited company headquarters in Pompei, near Naples, and a deal was struck.

Navy tracks a North Korean vessel which may be carrying missile parts or other weaponry.

The meeting is "for electing (the party's) highest leading body, " the North Korean Central News Agency said.

By contrast, North Korean state media issued its first statement about the Yeonpyeong attack less than three hours after it happened.

An international investigation concluded that the South Korean frigate Cheonan was attacked by a North Korean torpedo.

North Korean television repeatedly showed footage of the meeting between Clinton and Kim.

Photographs of what appear to be the crash site show a North Korean star on the wreckage.