Reporting from Seoul — The photograph was considered a journalistic coup, a recent image of the elusive 26-year-old son of North Korean strongman Kim Jong Il, who has reportedly been named the next leader of the secretive state. The Internet...

A few days back the six-nation talks concluded after the first round. Now the South Korean president Roh Moo-hyun has gone to North Korea, gushing and enthusiastic, in contrast to the few dour minutes that North Korean leader Kim Jong-II spared...