SEOUL: North Korea is preparing to launch a satellite, a Seoul newspaper said Tuesday, as outside observers warn that the nuclear-armed regime´s space programme is a fig leaf for weapons tests.Pyongyang is under multiple UN sanctions over its nuclear and missile tests and is prohibited from ...

New Delhi, India - Hong Yong-il is the North Korean embassy’s new first secretary to India and has been in the country for just a month. He lives on the first floor of a two-storey house in a tree-lined lane in Delhi’s busy Lajpat Nagar.The apartment is huge but nondescript, sparsely ...

NEW DELHI - Hong Yong il is the first secretary of the Embassy of North Korea in India.He lives on the first floor of a two-storey house in a tree-lined lane in Delhi’s busy Lajpat Nagar.The apartment is huge but nondescript, sparsely furnished; a modest affair as compared with many other ...