Age, military ties mark Kim Jong Un's inner circle (AP)
North Korea opens door to talks with South Korea (AP)
North Korea challenges Seoul to Q+A over dialogue (Reuters)
Power cuts pitch North Korea capital into darkness: diplomat (Reuters) Reuters - North Korea's capital faces its worst electricity shortages in years just as a new leadership takes power in the impoverished state and pushes ahead with lavish building projects to celebrate the centenary of its founder's birth. US diplomat says US open to North Korea diplomacy (AP)
US expects NKorea to continue proliferation (AP) AP - U.S. intelligence expects North Korea's new young leader Kim Jong Un to continue Pyongyang's policy of attempting to export its weapon systems. NKorea's young leader gets rock star treatment (AP)
SKorean activists send socks to NKorea in balloons (AP)
Irish may try IRA veteran over North Korean scam (AP) AP - An Irish Republican Army veteran long accused of laundering counterfeit U.S. $100 bills on behalf of North Korea could face trial in Ireland, a Dublin judge announced Friday. You can save this news page by submitting it to your favorite sites:
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AP - Wherever North Korea's young new leader goes, they're there: a group of graying military and political officials who shadow Kim Jong Un as he visits army bases, attends concerts and tours schools.
AP - North Korea is open to immediate talks with rival South Korea if Seoul responds to several preconditions for dialogue, a North Korean military official told The Associated Press on Thursday.
Reuters - North Korea's new leadership, highly critical of South Korea since taking power, published an unusual "open questionnaire" to its rival on Thursday, demanding answers to show that Seoul was sincere about resuming inter-Korean dialogue.
AP - In a message aimed at both Koreas, a senior U.S. diplomat said Wednesday that Washington is open to settling the North Korean nuclear standoff through diplomacy, but only if Pyongyang improves ties with archrival South Korea.
AP - North Korea's young new leader gets rock star treatment when he visits his troops — just as his father did. But while the late Kim Jong Il mostly stayed aloof in dark shades, his son holds hands and hugs his soldiers.
AP - South Korean activists have floated giant balloons carrying boxes of socks into North Korea.
