Dagestan is one of several republics in Russia's North Caucasus area.

VOA: special.2010.04.03

Monday's nuclear test was North Korea's second, and according to seismic readings, may have been more powerful than the first.

VOA: standard.2009.05.26

Moon Tae-young, a ministry spokesman, says North Korea's actions on this occasion can be seen as having violated customary international law.

VOA: standard.2009.09.11

Ri Gun is North Korea's second most senior envoy in multinational talks aimed at ending Pyongyang's nuclear weapons programs.

VOA: standard.2009.10.23

(...) Kim says North Korea's timing on the warning is part of the North's unique zig-zag strategy.

VOA: standard.2009.10.15

Unification Ministry deputy spokeswoman Lee Jong-joo says North Korea has not yet insisted that Yu will be treated according to North Korea's domestic laws.

VOA: standard.2009.06.05

The United States says North Korea's missile test Monday has not altered its determination to bring Pyongyang back to talks on its nuclear weapons.

VOA: standard.2009.10.13

Myers says North Korea's attitude was probably shaped by the Obama administration's signals that it was willing to engage North Korea on a bilateral basis.

VOA: standard.2009.05.26

Another disturbing statistic, nearly 50 percent of adult drug users in Afghanistan's north and south gave opium to their children, an indication,Costa says, that a generation of Afghan children are at risk.

VOA: standard.2010.06.23

She says South Korea is insisting his case be handled according to previous North-South agreements not North Korean law Yu's case is drawing inevitable comparisons to North Korea's detention of two American female journalists who were captured in March.

VOA: standard.2009.06.05

This week in our series, Kay Gallant and Harry Monroe talk about General Lee's campaign north to Gettysburg,Pennsylvania.

VOA: special.2009.11.05

It is The Windy City. Chicago sits next to Lake Michigan, one of North America's Great Lakes.

VOA: special.2010.01.10

Senator Davis said that what was needed was a change in the North's policy toward the South.

VOA: special.2009.03.26

One theory is that the military could object if the ruling party looks for friendship with South Korea to help save North Korea's economy.

VOA: special.2010.10.02