The theoretical space program of Iran took another step forward with the launching of a Kovash 2. The missile has a range of 2,000km.

North Korea is using public executions as a way to keep citizens in line according to an U.N. investigation on human rights in the nation. The report came out on Thursday that the use of executions are intimidating the residents of the communist county.

North Korea might be rewarded by South Korea for reaching a compromise to save a crumbling nuclear disarmament deal by receiving a delayed shipment of steel aid from South Korea.

North Korea has restarted disabling its nuclear facilities after the US removed it from the a list of countries that support terrorism.

After missing North Korea's Anniversary Parade on Sep 9, South Korea said that Kim Jong Il suffered a stroke. However, the Korean Central News Agency reported on Saturday that Kim watched a soccer game.

US assistant secretary of state Christopher Hill is in North Korea, hoping to persuade the government not to restart their nuclear program.

The wife of Pakistan’s A. Q. Khan in an interview with SPIEGEL claims that her husband is a scapegoat for passing nuclear secrets to North Korea, Libya and other countries. She said Musharraf and Pakistan’s army both had a hand in it.

She is only five years old and already has become a superstar in South Korea as well on YouTube. Also, she is blind and an orphan child. Thanks to her foster parents, who nurtured her musical talents, she has become an expert piano player.

For many decades, many of the US POWs during the Korean war simply went missing or died of 'mysterious causes.' However, some 50 years after Korean war ended, news is surfacing about the missing POWs.