Simon Denyer

TOKYO — North Korea appears to be taking steps toward a new test of a powerful submarine-launched missile, U.S. weapons experts said, as it steadily dials up the pressure on President-elect Joe Biden. Last week, a beaming Kim Jong Un presided over…

TOKYO — The prospect of a military confrontation between the United States and Iran has dominated global media coverage since the U.S. airstrike that killed Iran's most powerful military commander. Not so in North Korea, where the elimination of Maj.…

SEOUL — North Korea has a message for President Trump and the United States: The clock is ticking, and a bomb is about to explode. There are seven weeks until North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is scheduled to deliver a keynote New Year’s Day speech.…

It’s not clear how the United States could make a credible promise to guarantee the security of Kim Jong Un’s regime. SEOUL — North Korea will give up its nuclear weapons, but only if it receives serious security guarantees, Russian President…

HANOI — Within hours of an abruptly canceled lunch and a failed summit, desperate efforts were launched to rebuild a dialogue between the United States and North Korea. But as the dust settled, it was increasingly clear that a huge gap remains…

China’s organ-transplant system was once a cause of international scorn and outrage, as doctors harvested organs from prisoners condemned to death by criminal courts and transplanted them into patients who often paid dearly for the privilege. After…

BEIJING — A North Korean delegation will attend a large multilateral economic summit in Beijing next week, China’s Foreign Ministry announced Tuesday, underlining its reluctance to join American efforts to completely isolate the regime in…

BEIJING — China kicked off trials for a group of lawyers and human rights activists Tuesday, accusing them of being part of a broad Western campaign to overthrow the one-party state by fomenting a “color revolution.” Accusations of foreign-backed…

NEW DELHI — The economic relationship between the world’s two largest democracies, the United States and India, is supposed to be the bedrock for what President Obama calls “one of the defining partnerships of the 21st century,” but cracks are…

TRIPOLI, Libya — At a huge weapons depot in the Libyan capital, flatbed trucks line up to be piled high with land mines, rockets and shells before being driven off into the western mountains. About a month after rebels captured Tripoli and forced…

TRIPOLI — As a senior official in Libya’s National Oil Corp., she wrote 50 letters denouncing massive corruption within her own organization, including three to longtime leader Moammar Gaddafi’s powerful son Saif al-Islam. For her troubles, Najwa Al…

TRIPOLI — Libyan fighters came under heavy fire from rockets, machine guns and snipers Friday as they tried to push into two key strongholds of former leader Moammar Gaddafi in a concerted attempt to crush resistance by his loyalists. They reported…

TRIPOLI, Libya — French President Nicolas Sarkozy and British Prime Minister David Cameron were given a heroes’ welcome Thursday as they visited Libya to celebrate the fall of Moammar Gaddafi and pledge continued support for the nation as it rebuilds…

TRIPOLI, Libya — Libya’s interim leader preached forgiveness, reconciliation and unity to his nation on Monday, in his first address in Martyrs’ Square, the symbolic heart of Tripoli, since the fall of Moammar Gaddafi. “Libya is big enough for…

TRIPOLI, Libya — One of fugitive leader Moammar Gaddafi’s sons escaped from Libya into Niger on Sunday, Libyan rebel leaders said, sparking anger among fighters stalled at three of Gaddafi’s last bastions of support. Saadi Gaddafi, a commander of…

TRIPOLI, Libya — The chief of Libya’s rebel movement flew into the capital Saturday to an enthusiastic if chaotic red-carpet reception, in what officials billed as a historic moment in their efforts to consolidate control of the country. But rebel…

AL-AJELAT, Libya — Documents showing the shipment of thousands of gas masks and chemical-weapons protection suits to Moammar Gaddafi’s remaining strongholds in the last weeks of his regime raised fresh concerns Wednesday about whether the deposed…

AJAYLAT, Libya — Sitting on a carpet under the shade of a tree, the men say they know where Moammar Gaddafi is today — and where he will always be. “He is in our hearts,” they say, almost in unison, tapping their chests with their right hands. Two…

TRIPOLI, Libya — A chaotic and apparently ill-coordinated effort by rebels to track down Moammar Gaddafi is being led by competing factions of military commanders and bounty hunters, as well as Libyan commandos commissioned by civilian…

WESHTATA, Libya — Libyan rebel forces massed for an attack on one of ousted leader Moammar Gaddafi’s last bastions Sunday night, as their effort to negotiate the peaceful surrender of the desert town of Bani Walid broke down. “From my side,…