North Korea News
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Updated 57 minutes ago
Several major U.S. utilities are under “constant” cyberattack and haven’t taken precautions to protect critical systems from Iran, North Korea and other adversaries, according to a congressional survey of more than 100 companies accounting for much of the nation’s power system.
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Updated 2 hours, 23 minutes ago
Liu Yunshan, deputy general secretary of China’s Communist Party, met with North Korean envoy Choe Ryong Hae in Beijing today after recent strains between the allies.
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The almost daily disclosures by the White House about who knew about an IRS investigation before it became public has helped stoke the furor over the agency’s scrutiny of tax-exempt groups and given the president’s harshest critics an opening.
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Updated 1 hour, 58 minutes ago
Is the Chinese government’s uneasy friendship with North Korea costing it the public’s confidence? A curious confluence of recent events involving two fishing vessels suggests that might be the case.
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Billionaire Schindler Holding AG Chairman Alfred Schindler said Hyundai Elevator Co. management reneged on a provisional agreement to sell most of the company, forcing him to file lawsuits to protect his investment.
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Japan may re-open talks with North Korea over the issue of Japanese citizens abducted decades ago, an official said, days after an aide to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe made a surprise visit to Pyongyang.
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It’s hard to feel comfortable with the Barack Obama administration’s aggressive pursuit of national security leaks. Last week, the Justice Department acknowledged seizing phone records from Associated Press reporters in connection with a leak concerning a 2012 counterterrorism operation in Yemen. This week, we learned that Fox News correspondent James Rosen’s e-mail was examined to track down unauthorized disclosures about North Korea. In this case, the Justice Department went so far as to call the reporter a “co- conspirator.”
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North Korea freed a Chinese fishing vessel and its crew after the boat’s owner posted updates on his microblog account saying that he’d been told to pay a 600,000- yuan ($97,800) ransom to win their release.
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President Barack Obama, turning the U.S. strategic focus to Asia, will meet Chinese President Xi Jinping next month in their first face-to-face talks since China’s power transition ended in March.
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North Korea’s test firings of six short-range missiles in three days may not reflect a return to a pattern of provocations by Kim Jong Un’s regime, according to the U.S. military’s top spokesman.
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