SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea has said it plans to reopen its nuclear facilities — a move that would likely serve to further unnerve the country’s foes in the region and Washington.

By Geoffrey Cain
PRI’s The World

Apr 2, 2013

SEOUL, South Korea — North Koreans call it “pigeon torture.” After the authorities accused Jung Gwang Il of espionage, they locked him in a tiny underground cell at the Yodok concentration camp in central North Korea. It’s officially known as “kwanliso,” or “penal labor camp,” No. 15.

By Geoffrey Cain
PRI’s The World

Mar 29, 2013

SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea has severed its last remaining military hotline to South Korea, citing the escalating tensions on the peninsula as its reason and causing yet more international worry over the possibility of a violent confrontation between the two states.

By Geoffrey Cain
PRI’s The World

Mar 27, 2013

SEOUL, South Korea — From both sides of the Korean Peninsula, South Korea’s first female president, Park Geun-hye, has gotten a baptism by fire since she took office on Feb. 25.

By Geoffrey Cain
PRI’s The World

Mar 16, 2013

SEOUL, South Korea — Last week, the administration of the South Korean president, Park Geun-hye, fired a spokesman after a Korean American intern called the police on him.

By Geoffrey Cain
PRI’s The World

Mar 15, 2013

SEOUL, South Korea — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un oversaw a live artillery drill at the same spot from which the North launched its deadly 2010 attack on a South Korean island, fueling tensions on the Korean Peninsula, The Washington Times reported Thursday, citing state media.

By Geoffrey Cain
PRI’s The World

Mar 14, 2013

SEOUL, South Korea — If North Korea decides to back up its words with action, what could it really do? Most experts agree a full-blown war or a nuclear attack on the peninsula is off the cards. But the two Koreas have dialed up the rhetoric over the past week, raising fears that Pyongyang could launch a quick but containable provocation against the South in the coming months.

By Geoffrey Cain
PRI’s The World

Mar 13, 2013

PAJU, South Korea — Lee Eunsook’s artwork glows in the quiet border village of Imjingak as the sun sets over the DMZ, the demilitarized zone separating North and South Korea. A line of neon-threaded pillars in front of the village’s barbed-wire fence, her installation lists the names of a handful of families separated during the Korean War of 1950 to 1953.

By Geoffrey Cain
PRI’s The World

Mar 12, 2013

SEOUL, South Korea — It’s been a mixed week for North Korea. The country reportedly moved mid-range Musudan missiles away from a launch site at the east coast, a possible sign that leaders won’t test a rocket as feared. But the Supreme Court also sentenced Korean-American Kenneth Bae, who NK News says was an undercover missionary, to 15 years of hard labor.

By Geoffrey Cain
PRI’s The World

Mar 7, 2013

SEOUL — Now that Dennis Rodman is home, how many Washington policymakers are bitter that they didn’t get to be the first American to meet Kim Jong-un?

By Geoffrey Cain
PRI’s The World

Mar 7, 2013