North Korea

Kidnapped Korean escapes North AN ABDUCTED South Korean has escaped from North Korea after more than 30 years in the communist state and is now under South Korean protection in China, an official yesterday.

North Koreans in starvation threat NORTH Korea faces a looming food crisis as a result of floods last year that devastated its agricultural heartland, exacerbating shortages that already cause millions to go hungry.

North Korean birthday marked NORTH Korean leader Kim Jong Il promoted 35 generals yesterday as the country marked one of its biggest national holidays, the birthday of his late father.

Spectre of famine stalks North Korea again NORTH Korea's rising tensions with South Korea and the United States, along with soaring international grain prices and flood damage from last year, will probably take a heavy toll among its famine-threatened people, relief experts have said.

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