The Korean Peninsula has been divided for fifty years by political conflict, with the tensions occasionally resulting in military action. In 2000, North Korea and South Korea met for a legendary summit. The meeting of the leaders was followed by...

The Korean Peninsula is a peninsula in East Asia. It extends southwards for about 684 miles (1,100 km) from the continental Asia into the Pacific Ocean and is surrounded by the Sea of Japan (East Sea) on the east, the East China Sea to the south, and...

The Bush Administration's early review of US-North Korean policy not only stalled US-North Korea reconciliation, it also deeply undermined South Korean President Kim Dae Jung's "Sunshine Policy" of engagement. In seeming retaliation for Bush's publicly announced suspicions of Kim Jong Il last March, North...

PANMUNJOM, North Korea - The North Korean colonel talking with American journalists during a recent government-sponsored tour grabbed one of the reporters by the waist and squeezed forcefully with both hands. "It hurts, right?" Colonel Kang Ho Sop, 57, said with a grimace....