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Tens of thousands of North Koreans rallied Monday in a display of might and loyalty that underscored the regime's guiding "military first" principal amid tensions with rival South Korea.

SEOUL (AFP)--North Korea Monday held a mass rally in the capital Pyongyang, vowing to launch a new year drive to rebuild its economy, state media said Monday.

NORTH Korean leader Kim Jong-Il has declared his country invulnerable due to its "matchless great" army, following an inspection of an artillery unit, state media says.

Jan. 5 (Bloomberg) -- North Korea appointed Yu Yong Sun, a Buddhist leader, to head its office on South Korean affairs, Seoul-based JoongAng Ilbo newspaper reported , citing an unidentified South Korean official.

Jan. 3 (Bloomberg) -- North Korean leader Kim Jong Il inspected a tank division of the Korean People’s Army, the communist nation’s official Korea Central News Agency said.

SEOUL : North Korea Friday resumed its criticism of the United States, a day after dropping its customary harsh words from a policy-setting New Year message.

China and North Korea will celebrate the 60th anniversary of their diplomatic relations in 2009 in a 'Year of Friendship', reports AP . Yesterday, Chinese President Hu Jintao praised 'deep and traditional friendship' between the two nations and said, "The development of bilateral relations not only conforms to the fundamental interests and common will of the two peoples, but also ...

SEOUL (AFP)--South Korean president Lee Myung-bak on Friday urged North Korea to give up attempts to divide South Koreans and cooperate with the South in opening "a new era of coexistence and co-prosperity."

SEOUL, Jan. 1 (UPI) -- North Korea said Thursday it will denuclearize in the coming year and rebuild its ailing economy.

North Korea ushered in 2009 with an appeal Thursday to unite around leader Kim Jong Il and bolster the country's military while reaffirming its commitment to denuclearization.

VIENNA, Austria — Diplomats say North Korea is again allowing United Nations monitors to inspect its main nuclear facility.

South Korea is considering expanding cross-border projects with North Korea following major progress in an international standoff over the communist country's nuclear program, an official said Monday.

North Korea on Monday restored access for U.N. monitors to its atom bomb complex following a deal with Washington to salvage a denuclearization process endangered by disputes over verification, diplomats said.

South Korea has not seen signs of North Korea restarting work to take apart its nuclear plant as Pyongyang pledged to do at the weekend, a government official said on Monday, but Seoul could send aid once that work begins.

The decision comes in response to the U.S. decision to take the nation off a list of terrorism sponsors. North Korea said Sunday that it was resuming the dismantlement of its nuclear program in response to President Bush's decision to remove it from a list of nations that sponsor terrorism.

South Korea may reward North Korea for reaching a compromise to save a crumbling nuclear disarmament deal by sending a delayed shipment of steel aid to its destitute neighbor, a government official indicated on Monday.

The confirmation comes a day after the United States said it will remove North Korea from its terrorism blacklist.

North Korea on Sunday welcomed the move and said that it would resume disabling its nuclear weapons facilities.

North Korea welcomed its removal from Washington?s terrorism blacklist and confirmed that it would resume disabling its main nuclear weapons complex.

The Bush administration removed North Korea from its terrorism blacklist yesterday, a move that was aimed at salvaging a sputtering nuclear disarmament deal but that sparked internal controversy, infuriated Japan and drew some Republican opposition.