SEOUL, South Korea - Surprise and skepticism met the announcement that North Korea would freeze most nuclear activities in exchange for food aid from the United States. Some key questions and answers ...

North Korea recorded its worst harvest for more than a decade last year, the United Nations said Wednesday, as natural disasters combined with its lack of arable land and inefficient agriculture to ...

South Korea is moving to streamline procedures for bringing in North Korean food products, as part of broader efforts to ease a prolonged gridlock in relations with the North through incremental inter ...

Exacerbating the phenomenon is the fact that North Korea has sold fishing rights to China in a bid to raise hard currency... Exacerbating the phenomenon is the fact that North Korea has sold fishing ...

North Korea s exchanges with China have grown even more important since South Korea s conservative government halted unconditional food and fertilizer shipments in early 2008 and suspended almost all ...