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Shizuo Kambaya/The Associated Press
January 18, 2012
TOKYO - A new book claims that the eldest son of North Korea's late leader Kim Jong Il believes the impoverished regime is in danger of collapse and that his young half-brother, chosen to lead after Kim's death, is merely a figurehead.
December 21, 2011
The people of North Korea are wailing, bemoaning the death of "Dear Leader" Kim Jong Il. Now they’ll be ruled by Dear Leader’s son, "Great Successor" Kim Jong Un.
December 21, 2011
As North Koreans packed a snowy Pyongyang square to mourn the death of Kim Jong-il, fellow North Koreans who have defected gathered near a South Korean border town to release balloons bearing anti-regime leaflets.
December 19, 2011
He may have been a derided pariah to much of the international community, but the late Kim Jong-il was still a head of state, which meant a long line of dignitaries found themselves part of a Kim dynasty photo-op with varying degrees of enthusiasm.
Video: North Koreans mourn Kim Jong-il with massive display of public wailing
December 19, 2011
The carefully nurtured cult of personality surrounding North Korea's tyrannical leadership was on full display in Pyongyang today as thousands turned out to publicly mourn the death of Kim Jong-il at the age of 69.
In Pictures: North Koreans mourn Kim Jong-il
December 19, 2011
The carefully nurtured cult of personality surrounding North Korea's tyrannical leadership was on full display in Pyongyang today as thousands turned out to publicly mourn the death of Kim Jong-il at the age of 69.
Video: Tearful news anchor announces Kim Jong-il's death
December 19, 2011
Kim Jong-il , who ruled North Korea since 1994, was pronounced dead by state media yesterday.
Video: North Korea's leader Kim Jong Il has died
December 18, 2011
SEOUL, South Korea — Kim Jong Il, the mercurial and enigmatic North Korean leader whose iron rule and nuclear ambitions dominated world security fears for more than a decade, has died. He was 69.
In Pictures: A rare glimpse inside North Korea
November 03, 2011
MOUNT KUMGANG, North Korea - Autumn has always been the most cherished season in Korea, a time to harvest and to hike, to store up food and enjoy the last days of warmth before the peninsula's notoriously brutal winters.
Does the political edge always go to Mr. Big & Tall?
October 28, 2011
We want our big politicians, who have to make big decisions, to be the ‘big men,’ according to new research that claims politicians blessed with height and physical prowess have an advantage over their diminutive rivals.
Baird a lone wolf in disarmament boycott
July 11, 2011
A tough-talking John Baird said yesterday that Canada alone is boycotting the UN Conference on Disarmament to protest against North Korea chairing the hearings.
Editorial Cartoon for November 25, 2010
November 25, 2010
Take your son to work day: Dictator edition.
'If South Korea retaliates, it would lead to all-out war'
November 25, 2010
Forget Afghanistan – soon U.S. soldiers may be needed in Seoul.
Q&A with Madeline Albright: Brooching the subject of diplomacy
October 05, 2009
Pins as a fashion statement for women: Boring? Not when Madeleine Albright wears them. For Albright, the former U.S. Secretary of State, brooches are a tool of diplomacy. Using a snappy brooch, she even taught Saddam Hussein something about respect.
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