North Korea has been waging cyber attacks against South Korea's government and corporate computer networks with bolder and smarter methods, the chief of the South's military intelligence command wa

A United Nations health body recently criticized North Korea's immigration policy that banishes HIV carriers from the country as being discriminatory, a media report said.

South Korea said on June 13 its previous offer to invite North Korean leader Kim Jong-il to next year's international security summit in Seoul remains on the table.

South Korean President Lee Myung-bak urged North Korea on June 14 to learn from China and open up to the outside world so as to revive its broken economy, saying receiving simple assistance won't h

A group of nine North Korean family members crossed the tense western sea border into South Korea last week, officials said on June 15, the latest in a string of defections that could further compl

North Korea threatened on June 9 to disclose voice recordings of a secret meeting it had with South Korea in May, during which Seoul allegedly proposed holding a series of inter-Korean summits.

North Korea reiterated on June 9 that there is no room for dialogue with South Korea, the latest sign of a deadlock over the North's two deadly attacks on South Korea last year.

North Korea and China on June 9 held a ceremony to repair a key logistics road along their shared border, the latest sign of boosting economic cooperation between the two neighbors.

North Korea threatened on June 14 to cut off all relations between the two Koreas if South Korea passes a bill designed to help improve North Korea's dismal human rights conditions.

North Korea will hold elections in late July for deputies to local people's assemblies, the country's official news agency said on June 14.