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The leaders of South Korea and the United States told North Korea to drop its atomic ambitions and stop threatening the region while media reports on Wednesday said Pyongyang was moving ahead with plans to launch a long-range missile.

Tens of thousands of North Koreans rallied in Pyongyang on Monday to condemn the U.N. rebuke of the country's latest nuclear test amid concern the communist regime could conduct another one.

The North Korean government says it intends to weaponize its remaining stockpile of plutonium and to pursue uranium enrichment despite the latest U.N. sanctions resolution.

The U.N. Security Council on Friday unanimously approved expanded sanctions and a trade and arms embargo against North Korea over its May 25 nuclear test.

The two Koreas held rare talks lasting 50 minutes Thursday on the fate of a troubled industrial park, set up jointly as a symbol ...

The permanent members of the Security Council have approved a draft resolution that expands export limits and financial restrictions, diplomats said.

A Russian Foreign Ministry source said there were signs Tuesday that North Korea was preparing to launch new missiles, Interfax news agency reported.

The United States is looking at restoring North Korea to the list of state sponsors of terrorism, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said.

The test firing could come within weeks, possibly when the South Korean president meets with Obama on June 16.

Reporting from Seoul — North Korea has positioned its most sophisticated long-range ballistic missile on a launch pad for a test firing that could come within weeks, a newspaper here reported Monday.

Defense Secretary Gates began laying the groundwork for building up U.S. and allied military defenses should a diplomatic response to North Korea fail.