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Acrobats on cables flying across a giant stadium. Hundreds of performers executing synchronized martial arts punches and kicks. A giant globe signifying unity as a grand finale.
Call it skateboard diplomacy.
President Bush held off on visiting Seoul earlier this year when protesters held nightly candlelight vigils and clashed with riot police in anger over government plans to resume imports of American beef.
The U.N.'s International Atomic Energy Agency should play a leading role in verifying North Korea's declaration of its nuclear programs, according to a draft of a statement to be issued Thursday by Asia-Pacific nations.
It took years of talks, coddling and concessions to prod North Korea to step back from its decades-long effort to make atomic weapons, leading to Friday's dramatic destruction of its nuclear reactor cooling tower.
North Korea is expected this week to turn over its long-delayed accounting of its nuclear weapons activities, part of a chain of events leading to a unique photo opportunity: the destruction of the cooling tower at Pyongyang's main reactor.
Striking truck drivers in South Korea threatened Saturday to block the country's largest port to protest surging fuel prices, deepening the woes of the government, already reeling from public outrage over the resumption of U.S. beef imports.
South Korea's president will apologize to the nation Thursday over his handling of a deal to resume U.S. beef imports, his office said, as he struggles to restore public confidence in his fledgling administration.
What began with high school students worried about the safety of U.S. beef has swelled into a major challenge to the government of new South Korean President Lee Myung-bak — culminating in protests of 80,000 people Tuesday who failed to be placated by his entire Cabinet offering to resign.
Russian, U.S. and South Korean activists are appealing to the South Korean government and oil companies to withdraw from a project prospecting for oil near the isolated Kamchatka Peninsula in Russia's Far East.
A leading anti-Semitism watchdog group called Friday for a South Korean cosmetics company to halt an ad campaign with Nazi references.
South Korea's new government will not last if it continues to allow its U.S.-led policy to ruin reconciliation efforts on the Korean peninsula, North Korea said Monday.
South Korea's new conservative government is already making good on its promise to take a tougher line on North Korea by calling on Pyongyang to improve its widely criticized human rights policies.
Less than a week after a soaring symphony raised hopes of detente on the Korean peninsula, North Korea leveled its latest tirade Monday against the U.S. military presence in South Korea to dash expectations of quick progress in its nuclear standoff.
For just a moment, all it took was a simple folk tune to unite the two Koreas.
The U.S. presidential election is billed as one of the most exciting in years, and the fascination has even penetrated one of the world's most isolated nations: North Korea.
Electrical engineering student Ri Myong Sop was strolling with a friend in the North Korean capital. A group of journalists approached him to ask what he thought about the visit of the New York Philharmonic.
North Korean and American musicians shared the stage Wednesday as the New York Philharmonic concluded a historic visit to Pyongyang that could herald warmer ties between the two nations.
Swirling dancers and musicians beating traditional drums welcomed the New York Philharmonic to North Korea Monday for a historic cultural exchange between countries that have been technically at war for more than a half-century.
The New York Philharmonic arrived in North Korea Monday, becoming the most prominent American cultural institution to visit the isolated, nuclear-armed country.
The oldest U.S. orchestra is using the power of music to pierce North Korea's isolation, playing a historic concert in the communist nation as the two countries struggle to resolve a protracted standoff over Pyongyang's nuclear weapons program.
The main U.S. envoy to North Korea denied that nuclear talks were at a stalemate Wednesday, a day after he met with the North's top negotiator for the first time in two months.
As the echo of hymns fades at St. Andrews Church, the call to prayer begins at the mosque next door on another Sunday in Karachi, where both steeples and minarets reach for the heavens.
South Korea's next president said Thursday he hopes to entice North Korea to give up its nuclear weapons program by boosting its economy, but declined to address how he would pressure Pyongyang if it does not respond.
When vast crowds paid their last respects to Benazir Bhutto before her burial, angry mourners from her native Sindh province chanted separatist slogans: "We don't want to be part of Pakistan!"
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