Kang Sok Ju, a senior official of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), has died of cancer at the age of 76, the official KCNA news agency reported Saturday.
Former Prime Minister Kang Young-hoon, who met with his North Korean counterpart in 1990 in the first talks between the prime ministers of the two Koreas in nearly a half century, died Tuesday. He was 94.
Netizens have taken the title "ugliest monkey in history" from CCTV’s Year of the Monkeymascot, Kang Kang, and branded it on the main attraction at the Taipei Lantern Festivalvenue.
The UN Security Council Friday was briefed on humanitarian access to besieged areas in Syria ahead of much-anticipated political talks on Jan. 25.
When he posted an advertisement to sell his second-hand books online last Saturday, Kang Xia didn't expect it to turn into a shopping bonanza.