kim jong il

North Korea's unprovoked artillery attack this week on the sparsely populated South Korean island of Yeonpyeong put a scare into the international community. What's even more frightening is contemplating the despotic regime's next step.

South Korea has endorsed direct talks between the United States and North Korea, as long as their purpose is to bring the Communist country back into multi-lateral negotiations. International pressure and economic sanctions have been insufficient to influence North Korea on its nuclear program, not...

Nice job, Bill Clinton. A visit from the 42nd president seems to have accomplished what months of diplomacy couldn't, persuading North Korean leader Kim Jong II to release two American journalists who had been looking at 12 years in a labor camp after they were caught straying into the Hermit...