Siegfried Hecker talks to CNN about his recent trip to North Korea where he was shown the construction site for a new nuclear facility.
A U.S. State Department team arrived in South Korea on Monday in response to a U.S. scientist's report that North Korea has a new uranium enrichment facility.
The latest satellite imagery taken of North Korea indicates the secretive country might be further pursuing its nuclear program.
CNN Chief International Correspondent Christiane Amanpour has broadcast from some of the world's most challenging locations. Here, we bring together links to her documentaries and exclusive web-only footage.
Behind-the-scenes look at Christiane Amanpour's rare tour inside North Korea's secretive Yongbyon nuclear facility.
Secretary of State Clinton says the U.N. is discussing whether or not to "add to the consequences" of North Korea's actions.
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton had strong words Wednesday for North Korea's nuclear activities and saber-rattling, saying the secretive communist nation "has ignored the international community" and "continues to act in a provocative and belligerent manner toward its neighbors."
South Korean and U.S. forces have been placed on a higher surveillance alert level, after North Korea threatened military action following its nuclear test earlier this week, the joint forces announced on Thursday.
North Korea's announcement last week that it has begun reprocessing nuclear fuel rods at the Yongbyon nuclear facility about 60 miles (nearly 100 kilometers) north of the capitol, Pyongyang, raises questions about the secretive nation's agenda.
There's an old saying that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result.
North Korea has stepped up disablement of its nuclear reactor and allowed surveillance at its nuclear facility to resume, the U.S. State Department said Friday.
North Korea moved closer Thursday to relaunching its nuclear arms
program, announcing that it wants to reactivate the facility that
produced its atomic bomb and banning U.N. inspectors from the site
North Korea will resume the process of dismantling its nuclear reactor on Tuesday, the International Atomic Energy Agency announced.
The United States removes North Korea from the list of state sponsors of terror. CNN's Zain Verjee reports
North Korea declared Monday that it will resume shutting down its nuclear program and allow U.N. experts to monitor the process
North Korea said Sunday it will immediately resume work to disable its nuclear plants after the United States removed it from a list of states that sponsor terrorism.
North Korea makes another move toward possibly restarting its nuclear program. Christiane Amanpour explains.
North Korea warned South Korea against provoking war on Thursday as it reportedly deployed an arsenal of missiles near their sea border and told U.N. inspectors it plans to restart its nuclear facility
Diplomats say that North Korea has made all of its Yongbyon nuclear facilities off limits to international inspectors
Why Pyongyang is threatening to ditch its deal to disarm and restart its nuclear reactor
North Korea has made another move toward possibly restarting its suspended nuclear program, the U.N. nuclear agency reports.
North Korea has asked U.N. nuclear agency inspectors "to remove seals and surveillance equipment to enable them to carry out tests" at the Yongbyon reprocessing plant, the agency's director-general said.
North Korea is restoring a reactor at the key Yongbyon nuclear complex and no longer wants to be removed from a U.S. list of countries that sponsor terrorism, the South Korean news agency reported Thursday.
CNN's Christiane Amanpour reports on the conflict between the U.S. and N. Korea on nuclear facilities.
North Korea has started reassembling its main nuclear complex in retaliation for U.S. refusal to remove the Stalinist state from a list of states that sponsor terrorism, it was reported Wednesday.
North Korea has begun to reassemble its main nuclear facility, citing a delayed removal from a U.S. list of terror sponsors, Japanese media and Fox News reported
North Korea's rejection this week of the Six Party nuclear disarmament terms didn't shock the diplomats who helped make them. But it did inspire a few choice words: Here we go again
North Korea said Tuesday it has stopped disabling its nuclear plants and will consider restoring them because the United States has not removed it from a list of states that sponsor terrorism.
The latest phase of six-nation talks on North Korea's nuclear program ended Saturday with agreement on a timetable for North Korea to disable its nuclear facilities, according to South Korea's news agency, Yonhap.
Negotiations on North Korea's nuclear program will resume this week for the first time in nine months, South Korea's nuclear envoy said Tuesday
When U.S. officials spoke in the past of the need for North Korea to declare the extent of its nuclear program, everyone from President Bush down said it must be "complete" and "verifiable."
It may not end the nuclear threat, but the U.S. gave away very little to secure the disabling of Pyongyang's plutonium plant
North Korea blew up part of its Yongbyon nuclear plant Friday, in full view of CNN and a handful of international broadcasters invited to witness this dramatic and symbolic event.
North Korea on Friday destroyed a water cooling tower at a facility where officials acknowledge they extracted plutonium to build nuclear weapons, CNN's Chief International Correspondent Christiane Amanpour reported from the scene.
North Korea destroyed the most visible symbol of its nuclear weapons program, according to a news report
President Bush said Thursday the U.S. plans to drop North Korea from its list of states that sponsor terrorism after that nation made a long-awaited declaration of its nuclear program.
North Korea is to blow up a key part of its controversial Yongbyon nuclear reactor on Friday.
The head of the UN nuclear watchdog berated U.S. officials Friday for failing to share earlier that they had evidence that allegedly shows North Korea helped Syria develop a nuclear reactor.
CNN's Christiane Amanpour explains the questions swirling around an alleged Syrian nuclear base build with N.Korean help.
Washington's disclosure that North Korea helped Syria build a nuclear reactor is an attempt to pressure Kim Jong-Il
The North Koreans haven't seen this many Americans since the Korean War, but they are pulling out all the stops.
CNN's Christiane Amanpour visits the Yongbyon nuclear reactor as it is being dismantled in North Korea.
The New York Philharmonic's historic visit to isolated North Korea may signal a new era -- but only in the arts, not politics
South Korean President-elect Lee Myung-bak said on Monday he is willing to meet with North Korean leader Kim Jong Il to help in the denuclearization process as the reclusive Communist nation dismantles its nuclear program.
In a last-minute nudge to North Korea, the U.S. State Department said Sunday it was "unfortunate" that Pyongyang had not supplied a complete declaration of its nuclear programs before a Monday deadline but signaled it would continue disarmament talks with its allies.
While the U.S. and others focus on North Korea's nuclear weapons, Japan is worried that the issue of North Korea's abduction of its citizens is falling by the wayside
North Korea is rushing toward an end-of-year deadline to disable a key nuclear facility that produced materials to make nuclear bombs, the United States said Wednesday.
Bombed reactor?
updated: Fri Nov 23 2007 01:47:00
CNN's Barbara Starr looks at just-released photos appearing to show the site of a suspected nuke reactor Israel attacked
A U.S. team, including technical experts, will head to North Korea next week after the communist country agreed to begin disabling its nuclear weapons facilities, Assistant Secretary of State Christopher Hill said Wednesday.
With his term ending, President Roh Moo Hyun wants a dÉtente with Pyongyang to cap his political career. Not everyone is convinced
In a rare public exchange highlighting the delicacy of political diplomacy, President Bush told South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun a formal end to the Korean War begins when North Korea halts its secretive nuclear weapons program.
After agreeing to dismantle its nukes, Pyongyang now says the U.S. must take it off a list of state sponsors of terror
United Nations inspectors have confirmed that North Korea has closed all of its nuclear facilities at its Yongbyon nuclear complex, the head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency told reporters Wednesday.
The U.S. and North Korea are talking again, but will Pyongyang keep its promise to abandon nuclear weapons?
Analysis: North Korea watchers are divided by the Dear Leader's promise to shut down a controversial nuclear reactor. Is Kim playing straight or still playing games?
U.S. envoy Christopher Hill said North Korea could shut down its main nuclear facility within three weeks as inspectors arrive to monitor the dismantling of the Stalinist country's controversial weapons program.
The United States will assess on Saturday whether North Korea has taken action to shut down its Yongbyon nuclear reactor, now that the communist nation has gained access to unfrozen funds, said U.S. State Department spokesman Sean McCormack.
A venture set up more than a decade ago to build two light water nuclear power plants in North Korea has been formally terminated by the four countries behind it.
South Korea has agreed to hold another day of negotiations with the North after failing to convince Pyongyang to rejoin stalled six-country talks on its nuclear ambitions.
On the first day of talks between South and North Korea in nearly a year, the delegation from the South offered the North a "significant proposal" to rejoin the six-party talks on Pyongyang's nuclear ambitions.
A top American nuclear expert has told a U.S. Senate committee that North Koreans showed him a piece of radioactive metal in a glass jar when he visited that country, but said he could not say if it really was bomb-grade plutonium metal as they claimed.
A private American delegation that visited North Korea in recent days was shown the nuclear spent fuel storage pond at Yongbyon and found it empty, reinforcing North Korea's claims to have taken the spent fuel and reprocessed it into bomb-grade plutonium.
A top Chinese official has said she had "useful" meetings with administration officials on the prospect of re-starting six-party talks on North Korea.
South Korean officials are due to get a first hand report on North Korea's main nuclear facility from an unofficial U.S. delegation that visited the Yongbyon complex.
North Korea says it showed its "nuclear deterrent" to an unofficial U.S. delegation that visited that country's Yongbyon nuclear complex.
A U.S. delegation returning from North Korea says it has toured the key Yongbyon nuclear complex.
Japan, the United States and South Korea will demand that North Korea completely dismantle its nuclear facilities at the next round of six-nation talks, a Japanese newspaper says.
For the first time since North Korea expelled U.N. monitors in late 2002, the country might welcome a U.S. delegation next week to visit its Yongbyon nuclear facility, which the United States suspects is being used for nuclear weapons production.
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