North Korea's parliament will hold its annual meeting on April 9, state media announced Saturday. The Korean Central News Agency gave no more details of the upcoming session. The rubber-stamp Supreme People's Assembly normally meets once a year to endorse bills put forward by the ruling communist party. Leader Kim Jong-Il attended last year's session, which re-elected ...

North Korea has executed a top financial official in a desperate attempt to quell public anger at its bungled currency revaluation, South Korean news reports and analysts said Thursday. Pak Nam-Ki, who was earlier reported sacked as chief of the ruling communist party's planning and finance department, was shot dead last week at a military range in Pyongyang, Yonhap ...

North Korea has executed a top financial official blamed for a bungled currency revaluation that triggered chaos in the communist state, South Korean news reports said Thursday. Pak Nam-Ki, who was earlier reported sacked as chief of the communist party's planning and finance department, was shot dead last week at a military range in Pyongyang, Yonhap news agency said ...

SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea has increased its missile arsenal by 25 percent in the past two years to about 1,000, expanding the threat the state poses to the region, the South's defense chief said Wednesday. Pyongyang's arsenal includes intermediate-range missiles that can hit targets at up to 3,000 km (1,860 miles) away, Yonhap news agency ...