After apparently suffering a stroke last summer, North Korean leader Kim Jong Il seems to want to get President Barack Obama's attention — and fast. ...more

February 14, 2009

The first photos of North Korean leader Kim Jong Il released in two months (bottom) show him in a setting very similar to photographs from August (top). ...more

October 14, 2008

North Korea has quietly built a long-range missile base that is larger and more capable than an older and well-known launchpad for intercontinental ballistic missiles, according to independent analysts relying on new satellite images of the site and other data. ...more

September 11, 2008

President Bush, directly engaging the man he publicly called a "tyrant," wrote a letter to North Korea's leader, Kim Jong-Il, in which he held out the prospect of normalized relations with the United States if North Korea fully discloses its nuclear programs and dismantles its nuclear reactor, administration officials said Thursday. ...more

December 7, 2007

North Korea has agreed to disable all of its nuclear facilities by the end of the year, a move that the Bush administration hailed as a diplomatic victory that could serve as a model for how to deal with Iran, which has defied U.S. efforts to rein in its nuclear ambitions. ...more

October 4, 2007

Leaders of the two Koreas opened formal talks today at the first summit between the divided countries in seven years, after a chilly reception for the South Korean president from North Korean leader Kim Jong Il. ...more

October 3, 2007