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Drudge:"CHINA WARNS AMERICA: DON'T GO FIRST" BEIJING (Reuters) - If North Korea launches an attack that threatens the United States then China should stay neutral, but if the United States attacks first and tries to overthrow North Korea's government China will stop them, a Chinese state-run newspaper said on Friday.

The government of North Korea recently invited dozens of foreign journalists into its secretive country to cover the 100th birthday celebration for founder Kim Il Sung on April 15. Among pageants and openings, the event drawing the most attention is the scheduled launch of a three-stage Unha-3 rocket carrying a weather satellite. The launch is already drawing criticism from Western governments: If successful, it could demonstrate North Korea's capacity to produce an intercontinental missile capable of delivering a nuclear warhead. Despite their official invitation, foreign photographers are still restricted -- escorted wherever they go and unable to photograph more than...

Kim Jong-il is dead

Chia Head at a Fish Farming Institute: June 4th Group Photo Taken at the Construction Site of Huichon Hydroelectric Dam: May 29th

Kim Jong-il: The sturgeon general January 01, 2011 Now he’s gone mad for the fish that produces the delicacy, the sturgeon. The Rodong Sinmun, the official newspaper for North Korea’s Workers’ Party, featured a large headline on Dec. 21 that read, “Sturgeons to the sea, Choson to the world,” above an article praising the virtues of the fish. Choson is the North’s Korean name for itself. This was not the first time the newspaper had touted the fish as some kind of national accomplishment. In June 2009, the Rodong Sinmun carried a report saying, “Our satellites fly in the sky...

South Korean, U.S. and Japanese foreign ministry officials talked about the possibility that the North Korean regime has lost control and gone off the rails since the artillery attack on Yeonpyeong Island, it emerged Friday. On Thursday, President Lee Myung-bak said North Koreans are now much aware of the outside world. "I feel reunification is now not far off." A senior government official said, "Having watched the North launch a series of provocations such as the torpedo attack on the Navy corvette Cheonan, its uranium enrichment program and the shelling of Yeonpyeong Island, officials in Seoul, Washington and Tokyo recently...

Here is video showing the elaborate military parades put on by Communist North Korea. Just watch the faces of the people. These poor folks have been completely brainwashed and indoctrinated in the Communist propaganda. It has brought their nation to economic ruin. But with the weapons they have, and with the maniacally despotic leadership of Kim Jong-Il and his son Kim Jong-Eun, they could very easily kill a whole lot of people. As an added bonus, get a load of this captivating North Korean TV Production of the “Dear Leader” touring a new apartment building intended to show off just...

Pyongyang, October 17 (KCNA) -- Kim Jong Il, general secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea and chairman of the DPRK National Defence Commission, provided on-site guidance to the newly built Special Dish House of Okryu Restaurant. The special dish house is another gift presented by Kim Jong Il to the Pyongyangites and all other people with his loving care as he always thinks of how to improve the people's diet. With the appearance of the house which has a total floor space of more than 6 000 square meters and is capable of accommodating thousands of visitors, the area...

(CNN) -- North Korean leader Kim Jong Il is visiting China, the South Korean JoongAng Daily reported Thursday, citing a South Korean government official.

SEOUL — North Korea Saturday threatened to attack loudspeakers set up to broadcast South Korean propaganda and said it could turn Seoul "into a sea of flame" as tensions flared over the sinking of a warship. The North's General Staff of the Korean People's Army made the threat in response to Seoul setting up the speakers at 11 locations along the tense border....

Despite all the recent huffing and puffing from Pyongyang, U.S. officials say they’ve seen little physical evidence that North Korea might actually be preparing to go to war. Just hours after Seoul blamed the North for the March 26 sinking of the South Korean naval vessel Cheonan, North Korean leader Kim Jong-il publicly ordered his armed forces to get ready for military action, according to sources quoted in The Guardian. But two U.S. national security officials, asking for anonymity when discussing sensitive information, tell Declassified they’re not aware of any intelligence reporting on significant military mobilization or redeployments inside North...

It's just a banner now on Reuters home page.

N.Korea's No. 2 Leader Says Nuclear Talks Are Over North Korea's Kim Yong-nam says the six-party nuclear talks are over for good. The reclusive regime's second-highest official told delegates at the Non-Aligned Meeting in the Egyptian resort of Sharm el-Sheikh that there can be no dialogue or negotiations "where the principles of respect for sovereign rights and equality are denied." Kim claimed Pyongyang had no choice but to take "decisive measures" to further strengthen its nuclear deterrence. The six-party nuclear dismantlement talks were suspended late last year and Pyongyang declared this April it was not returning to the talks after...

CRAZED North Korean leader Kim Jong-il gobbles LIVE FISH as he plots his rogue country's bid to become a nuclear power. Pint-sized Kim, 68, washes them down with fine French wines and brandies, even though two million of his subjects have died of starvation. His former chef Kenji Fujimoto said: "He particularly enjoyed raw fish so fresh that he could start eating as its mouth is still gasping and the tail is still thrashing. "I sliced the fish so as not to puncture any of the vital organs, so of course it was still moving. Kim Jong-il was delighted. He...

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea has mounted a rocket on a launchpad on its northeast coast, American officials said, putting Pyongyang well on track for a launch the U.S. and South Korea warned Thursday would be a major provocation with serious consequences. Pyongyang says the rocket will carry a satellite, but regional powers suspect the North will use the launch to test the delivery technology for a long-range missile capable of striking Alaska. They have said the launch — banned by the U.N. Security Council in 2006 — would trigger sanctions. U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton...

North Korea's first pizzeria has opened in the capital Pyongyang, according to a Japan-based newspaper. Chefs were sent to Italy for training by leader Kim Jong-il, who said North Koreans should be able to try the world's best foods, said Choson Sinbo. Most people in the secretive communist state live on an income of about $1,800 (£1,265) a year, but a wealthy elite can afford a more luxurious lifestyle. An estimated two million North Koreans have died in famines since the 1990s. Mr Kim's expensive tastes in food have often been commented on by those who have met him. He...

SEOUL (Reuters) – North Korea said it would allow hundreds of South Koreans stranded at an industrial park in the North to return home on Monday, but Pyongyang showed no signs of lifting a blockade on the joint project. North Korea restricted access to the complex of 101 South Korean firms on Friday, just days after cutting off a military hotline usually used to process daily passage to Kaesong park which is just minutes north of the border. The industrial zone is still functioning, but at a minimum level. North Korea has repeatedly blocked traffic crossing the border into the...

Springfield, Ill. -- Barack Obama used his first joint appearance with his vice presidential nominee, Sen. Joseph Biden, to push a more populist economic message, emphasizing his running mate's blue-collar roots and painting Republican Sen. John McCain as out of touch. (Text of Speech) "This working class kid from Scranton and Wilmington has always been a friend to the underdog," Sen. Obama said of Sen. Biden, of Delaware, to the 35,000 people gathered outside the Old State Capital, the same site where he declared his candidacy 19 months ago. The two men plan to take a tour of economically-stressed...

BEIJING -- North Korea is heading toward its worst food crisis since the 1990s because of flooding, successive crop failures and worldwide inflation for staples such as rice and corn, the United Nations World Food Program said Wednesday. The agency shied away from predicting another famine like the one that killed as many as 2 million people in the 1990s, but said its field staff was observing some of the same warning signs. People are again foraging for wild plants, grass and seaweed to supplement their meager diets. Hospitals are reporting an increase in chronic diarrhea and illness that are...

Salvaging Our North Korea Policy.... By JOHN R. BOLTON There are signs, albeit small ones, that the Bush administration may be reaching the end of its patience with the Six-Party Talks on North Korea's nuclear weapons program. These signs could prove illusory. But as it nears its end, the administration has a serious responsibility: It must not leave its successor with an ongoing, failed policy. At a minimum, President Bush should not bequeath to the next president only the burned-out hulk of the Six-Party Talks, and countless failed and violated North Korean commitments. Since they were conceived in spring 2003,...