SEOUL, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- A South Korean think tank says North Korea may increase military threats to win more concessions from the new U.S. administration but won't succeed.
SEOUL, Dec. 20 (UPI) -- North Korea says it has arrested an agent it claims was sent by South Korea to assassinate the North's reclusive leader, Kim Jong Il.
BEIJING, Dec. 7 (UPI) -- A lead negotiator says he doesn't expect much to come from renewed six-party talks aimed at further dismantling North Korea's nuclear programs.
CHICAGO, Dec. 6 (UPI) -- President-elect Barack Obama's inauguration day wardrobe will be supplied by the Chicago company Hartmarx.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 6 (UPI) -- U.S. President-elect Barack Obama is asking the public to host informal holiday gatherings to brainstorm how to improve the nation's health system.
CHICAGO, Dec. 6 (UPI) -- U.S. President-elect Barack Obama Saturday pledged to create millions of jobs by investing in road, bridge, sewer and other public utility projects.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 6 (UPI) -- U.S. Treasury Department officials have talked with the Obama transition team about tapping $350 billion in unused financial bailout funds, sources say.
HAVANA, Dec. 5 (UPI) -- Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro has offered to meet with President-elect Barack Obama, the communist island's state media reported.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 5 (UPI) -- Caroline Kennedy, the daughter of slain President John F. Kennedy, may succeed Secretary of State-designate Hillary Clinton in the U.S. Senate, sources say.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 4 (UPI) -- A Florida congresswoman, certain she was the victim of a joke, hung up on President-elect Barack Obama -- not once, but twice.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 4 (UPI) -- The U.S. Supreme Court is to consider Friday whether to hear a lawsuit challenging President-elect Barack Obama's U.S. citizenship, court officials said.
TEHRAN, Dec. 4 (UPI) -- U.S. President-elect Barack Obama should adopt a new foreign policy when it comes to the Middle East, Iranian Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani says.
CHICAGO, Dec. 3 (UPI) -- A beard-free Bill Richardson was with Barack Obama when the U.S. president-elect named the New Mexico governor his nominee for commerce secretary Wednesday.
ERBIL, Iraq, Dec. 3 (UPI) -- The prime minister of Kurdistan bid farewell Wednesday to South Korean troops who will wind up their operations in Iraq at the end of December.
LONDON, Dec. 3 (UPI) -- The grandfather of President-elect Barack Obama was imprisoned and tortured by the British during Kenya's struggle for independence, an Obama relative says.
