a Korean from North Korea
the problems relating to the unification of North and South Korea
Five North Koreans Seek Asylum
a unified Korea advocated by North Korea, called the {Federal Republic of Korea}
At the summit between Japan and North Korea, North Korea's leader Kim Jong Il admitted that North Korean covert operations boats entered Japanese waters in the past.
North Korea may not accept any place other than China for the reunion.
The North Korean nuclear issues catch the world's attention.
North Korea repeated its previous explanation that eight of the 10 died and that the other two never entered North Korea.
a unified Korea advocated by North Korea, called the {Democratic Federal Republic of Korea}
In January, North Korea allowed nuclear specialists from the United States to visit and showed them material that North Korea said was plutonium.
The match was supposed to be held in North Korea.
Prime Minister Koizumi Junichiro visited North Korea to hold the first ever summit talks with North Korea's leader Kim Jong Il on Sept. 17.
This was North Korea's punishment for trouble caused by its supporters during its home games against Bahrain and Iran in March.
On Aug. 30, Prime Minister Koizumi Junichiro announced that he would visit Pyongyang, North Korea to meet with North Korea's leader Kim Jong Il on Sept. 17.
On July 5, North Korea fired seven missiles.
However, the North Korean delegation said that the issue was essentially settled with the apology of North Korea's leader, Kim Jong Il, to Prime Minister Koizumi.
Soga, a former abductee to North Korea, still has her American husband, Charles Robert Jenkins, and two daughters in North Korea.
According to a report on North Korean refugees issued in the United States, thousands of North Koreans were found in China and were sent back to North Korea last year.
China has a comradely relationship with North Korea.
At a press conference on Feb. 28, they talked about their hard lives in North Korea and appealed for cooperation to democratize that country.
They demanded that North Korea address the concerns of the international community.
Prime Minister Koizumi Junichiro said, "This incident is disadvantageous for North Korea in every respect. North Korea shouldn't violate the 2002 Pyongyang Declaration."