The scandal shaking up South Korea's main spy agency is not cloak-and-dagger stuff, but the kind of low-grade trickery anyone with an Internet connection could pull off. And the target was not Seoul's opaque rival to the north, but the country's own people.Full story
A former Pentagon chief says he worries that North Korea's young leader and his generals don't realize there's been a "dramatic change" in public opinion in South Korea in how to respond to belligerent actions by the North. Full story
SEOUL (Reuters) - When romantic actress Lee Si-young swapped her glamorous roles in South Korean dramas for boxing gloves in a bid to win an Olympic medal, her victories triggered a storm of protest that has marred her unexpected success in the ring. Full story
Top talkers: The Washington Post’s David Ignatius joins the Morning Joe panel to discuss how serious the U.S. should take North Korea’s threats. Ignatius calls the threats “a direct military challenge to the United States.”
North Koreans marked the start of a three-day national holiday celebrating the birthday of North Korea’s first leader, Kim-Il Sung. The latest display of patriotic fervor comes as analysts wonder whether the North’s leader will seize the moment to make good on his threats of a nuclear launch. NBC’s
Secretary of State John Kerry opened the door to direct disarmament talks with North Korea, but there is still no sign Kim Jong Un is prepared to stop testing nuclear weapons. NBC’s Andrea Mitchell reports.
Joe Cirincione, President of Ploughshare Fund and nuclear weapons expert, gives his analysis on North Korea’s threats. He weighs in on the likelihood of Kim Jung Un launching a missile and diplomacy between the United States and China.
International Security Analyst Jim Walsh joins MSNBC's Alex Witt to talk about China's role in the continuing crisis with North Korea.
FILE - In this April 23, 2007 file photo released by Korean Central News Agency via Korea News Service in Tokyo, Gen. Kim Kyok Sik, right, stands with then-North Korean leader Kim Jong Il during the leader's inspection of Korean People's Army Unit 1637 at an undisclosed location in North Korea. Nort
Then Vice-chairman of the Central Military Commission of the Workers' Party of Korea Kim Jong-un , president of the Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly of North Korea Kim Yong-nam and other high level officials of the party and the military of North Korea stand to pay their respects to forme
An effigy of North Korea's leader Kim Jong-Un, left, and his father, former leader Kim Jong-Il, before being burned, during a rally against North Korea, in Seoul on April 15.
A Chinese visitor poses for a picture next to a portrait of then North Korean leader Kim Jong-il at an auditorium in Rason city, northeast of Pyongyang in this August 29, 2011 file photo. REUTERS/Carlos Barria/Files
