SEOUL, March 20 (Yonhap) -- North Korea will call the first meeting of its newly elected assembly on April 9, the state media said Friday, shortly after the country's planned rocket launch.

By Hwang Doo-hyong

(ATTN: UPDATES with Kim-Hu meeting, comment from Chinese foreign ministry)
BEIJING, March 19 (Yonhap) -- Chinese President Hu Jintao met with North Korea's

SEOUL, March 19 (Yonhap) -- North Korea will reject the six-party
denuclearization talks should the Barack Obama administration sanction it over

(ATTN: ADDS more details in paras 11-12)
By Lee Chi-dong
SEOUL, March 19 (Yonhap) -- North Korea and the United States are in secret talks

SEOUL, March 19 (Yonhap) -- The bodies of four South Koreans killed in a weekend
terrorist bomb attack in Yemen were returned here Thursday, as the South Korean

SEOUL, March 19 (Yonhap) -- A Supreme Court justice was referred to a judiciary
ethics committee Thursday following an internal investigation that concluded his

KUALA LUMPUR, March 19 (Bernama) -- An average of one Aids death and three
HIV infections are recorded daily in the country, the Lower House of Parliament

SEOUL, March 19 (Yonhap) -- After its successful exhibit in two German cities, an
exhibition featuring Korea's modern architecture will travel to the Republic of

(ATTN: UPDATES throughout with identification of detainees)
By Lee Chi-dong
SEOUL, March 19 (Yonhap) -- North Korea and the United States are in secret talks