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Recent New Mexico & South Korean visits by high-level DPRK delegations, renewed anticipation about North Korean nuclear proliferation reduction & bilateral American talks

Classical music takes a stab at diplomacy as the New York Philharmonic plans a tour of North Korea, hoping to improve relations between two hostile nations.

By the mid-1990's North Korea was on the brink of collapse, unable to feed his starving population Kim Jong-il announced a new 'army first' policy prioritising supplies.

North Korea has agreed to disable all its nuclear facilities by the end of 2007.

Shenzhen by Guy Delisle captures the wonder and mishaps of living as a foreigner in a changing China.

The long-closed country of North Korea recently approved its orchestra's tour to England, due in part to a soccer match that took place 41 years ago.

North Korea was a country in disarray during the 1990s, shorn of Soviet support the Pyongyang regime struggled to feed its population.

North Korea's ballistic missile tests on July 5 have pushed Japan to impose further trade restrictions against Kim Jong Il's bully-boy regime.

North Korea is allowing access to the Internet through mobile phones, but the service is very limited.

Police state and axis of evil member, the DPRK, has once again used the American Memorial Day holiday to defy the world and successfully test a small nuclear device.

As tensions remain high on the Korean peninsula, another year of poor harvests means many North Koreans will endure shortages this winter, raising the spectre of famine.

At the end of the Cold War North Korea's future looked bleak. The secretive regime, though nominally self-sufficient, was in reality heavily reliant on the Soviet Union.

The US & Chinese Presidents' chat included Climate Control, North Korea & Iran; however, an ever present underlying theme was the Sino - American symbiotic relationship.

Visiting North Korea is a surreal experience, and while every move a tourist makes will be supervised by a guide the trip will be unlike anything else in Asia.

South Korea's most famous dissident & first liberal president since Gen. Park Chung-hee took power in a 1962 Coup d' etat, quietly passed away from pneumonia in Seoul.

In a Jimmy Carter-like move, ex-President Bill Clinton takes charge in North Korea.

A successor to Kim Jong-il is something that North Korean officials have long avoided, yet, it appears that leaders in Pyongyang are finally ready to tackle the issue.

Former U.S. President Bill Clinton has met with North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il during an unannounced visit resulting in the pardon of two U.S. reporters.

Between 1977 and 1983 North Korea abducted Japanese citizens from Japan and Europe and doubts over the whereabouts of the victims still plague relations between them.

While US foreign policy is highly focused on the Middle East, what can be expected from president-elect Barack Obama's future foreign policy toward the rest of the world?

History's largest attendances at the Maracana (Rio de Janeiro), the Rungnado May Day stadium (Pyongyang, North Korea) and Telstra Stadium (Sydney, Australia)

The world's most reclusive country, is once again defying the international community - reaffirming its isolationist policies and amplifying the nuclear threat.