North Korea

SEOUL, South Korea - North Korea says it has sentenced an American man to eight years' hard labor for entering the country illegally and unspecified hostile acts.

SEOUL, South Korea - Two North Koreans who fled poor conditions at a Russian logging camp and later worked odd jobs sought asylum Tuesday at the South Korean consulate in an eastern Russian city, according to a human rights activist and news reports.

LAHORE, Pakistan - A Pakistani court on Wednesday suspended an earlier order lifting restrictions on the movement of nuclear scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan, who is alleged to have spread nuclear technology to Iran, North Korea and Libya.