The Kremlin has confirmed that North Korean leader Kim Jong Il has arrived in Russia and will meet with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev during his trip.

TWO American journalists freed by North Korea returned home to the United States yesterday for a jubilant, emotional reunion with family members and friends they hadn’t seen in nearly five months.

North Korea’s Kim Jong Il is on the road to recovery from a stroke and still in control of his isolated country’s communist regime, South Korea has suggested, disputing reports that the leader is gravely ill.

North Korea today boasted that it would win its nuclear stand-off with the United States because of its “ultra hard-line” military stance.

North Korea today tried to defuse its nuclear spat with Washington and offered talks without preconditions.