North Korea

  • May 7, 2014
  • 7 min read

North Korea's nuclear advance gets harder to curtail

South Korea's foreign minister Yun Byung-se said on May 5 in New York that if Pyongyang carries...

North Korea
  • May 2, 2014
  • 2 min read

Pyongyang reshuffle will raise instability fears

Kim named Hwang Pyong-so as director of the Korean People's Army (KPA)'s General Political...

North Korea
  • Apr 25, 2014
  • 2 min read

North Korean nuclear test is a matter of time

A South Korean defence official said yesterday that North Korea had sealed a tunnel at its...

North Korea
  • Mar 31, 2014
  • 2 min read

North-South Korean mutual 'provocations' may subside

North Korea fired several rounds of shells over the disputed inter-Korean maritime border today,...

North Korea
  • Mar 28, 2014
  • 2 min read

Pyongyang's provocations unite Tokyo and Seoul

The UN Security Council yesterday condemned Pyongyang's launch of two ballistic missiles into the...

East Asia
  • Mar 18, 2014
  • 2 min read

Shielding Pyongyang shows Beijing's priorities

China's spokesman at the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva yesterday rejected an independent UN...

China
  • Mar 4, 2014
  • 13 min read

Prospects for East Asia in the second quarter

China's annual National People's Congress (NPC) meeting begins tomorrow. Recent developments...

East Asia
  • Feb 28, 2014
  • 2 min read

Pyongyang's missiles fall short of 2013 tensions

North Korea yesterday launched four short-range missiles into the sea off its east coast, South...

North Korea