South Korea today accepted North Korea’s proposal for talks on a troubled joint industrial complex, setting up the first official dialogue between the two countries in a year amid tensions over the North’s recent rocket launch.

The US plans to remove North Korea from a terrorism blacklist today after getting assurances the Stalinist nation has agreed to a plan to inspect its nuclear facilities.

A North Korean soldier fatally shot a South Korean tourist today at a mountain resort in the communist nation, prompting the South to suspend the high-profile tourism programme just as its new president sought to rekindle strained ties between the divided countries.

A global crackdown on North Korea's nuclear weapons programme began today, with countries divided over how to enforce UN sanctions in a foreboding sign that imposing the punitive measures may not be easy.

North Korea today abruptly cancelled groundbreaking test runs of trains across its highly-guarded border with South Korea, citing an atmosphere of confrontation and war.