North Korea, which loves to throw tantrums when it wants something, is throwing another one. It started shelling a South Korean island today and warned of more to come...if the international community doesn't reward this behavior with subsidies ( Read more... )

We will soon know whether President Bush has learned from the failures of the Clinton administration where North Korea is concerned.
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - North Korea seemed ready Friday to take a first step toward scaling back its nuclear weapons program, perhaps this weekend, as U.N. inspectors prepared to monitor the shutdown of its sole ( Read more... )

Oops, never mind.
BEIJING (AP) - North Korea agreed Tuesday to shut down its main nuclear reactor within 60 days at talks with the U.S. and four regional powers and eventually dismantle its atomic weapons program ( Read more... )

President Bush responded to the petulant tantrums of North Korea by grounding the Asian nation and taking away its iPods and Playstations.
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Bush administration wants North Korea's attention, so like a scolding parent it's trying to make it tougher for that country's eccentric leader to buy iPods, plasma televisions and Segway ( Read more... )

Politicians and diplomats are in high gear, claiming that something is being done about North Korea:
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Bush said Saturday that the U.N. Security Council had sent a "swift and tough" message to North Korea that its claimed detonation of a nuclear bomb was unacceptable to the world.
The only one trembling at the notion of yet ( Read more... )

The relatively small size of North Korea's test detonation (much smaller than the bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, for example) coupled with a lack of increased radiation are leading some experts to conclude that North Korea either did not detonate a nuclear device or the test failed ( Read more... )

North Korea reportedly detonated a nuclear device, proving once and for all that they do, indeed posses nuclear weapons.

This is a direct result of a decade of coddling the North Korean dictatorship by both the international community and the United States.

Ever since the Clinton administration made a foolish decision to reward North Korea for ( Read more... )

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After years of diplomatic temper-tantrums North Korea has finally agreed to stop building nuclear weapons:
BEIJING (AP) - North Korea agreed Monday to stop building nuclear weapons and allow international inspections in exchange for energy aid, economic cooperation and security assurances, a breakthrough that marked a first step toward disarmament ( Read more... )

Continuing its years-long tradition of public displays of immaturity, North Korea stomped away from from the six-nation talks and once again promised to hold its breath until someone, somewhere paid attention to it.
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - North Korea said Thursday that recent remarks by Vice President Dick Cheney about ruler Kim Jong Il, ( Read more... )