Moscow, Aug 24 : Russian President Dmitry Medvedev may Wednesday meet North Korean leader Kim Jong-il, who is on a visit to Russia.

Media reports said their discussions could focus on a project to build a gas pipeline transporting 10 billion cubic metres annually from Russia to South Korea via North Korea.

The Kremlin earlier said the meeting will be the key event on Kim's visit agenda, but named no specific date, venue or topic for the talks.

Kim, who is travelling in his own armoured train, arrived in Ulan-Ude, capital of the east Siberian republic of Buryatia, Tuesday.(IANS)

North Korea has made announcement about the formulation of a new jab for curing liver cancer.

The injection has been developed by the DPRK Academy of Medical Science.

As per KCNA, the effectiveness of the newly developed Injectio Gallium-66 Microsphere is as high as 90%.

The jab is applicable to cancer of the liver smaller than 5 centimetres.

The scientists attained success in obtaining gallium substance with materials accessible in the country and manufacturing medicament required for the jab.

The report said that the administration phase is twenty days and the maximal cycles are five.

South Korea’s planned naval drill near North Korea’s disputed sea border has been endangered of tough corporal reprisal by the latter’s military.

South Korea has accused North Korea for the death of its forty-six seamen as a result of a South Korean ship sinking and thus naval drills have been arranged for five days in the Yellow Sea by South Korea.

A human rights group has said that thousands of North Koreans are estimated to have starved to death during crippling food shortages in North Korea.

An Amnesty International report released on Thursday in New York said that shortages of food, made worse by government policies, have left some North Koreans eating barely digestible or even poisonous "wild foods" such as grass and tree bark.

The navy in South Korea is conducting a mass anti-submarine drill due to the rising war situations with North Korea over the sinking issue of the South Korean warship.

As per sources, at least 10 warships are involved in this drill and the anti-submarine depth charges and naval weapons are to be tasted.

Earlier, US has also shown its interest to take part in this military drill. The submarine drill is going on at the west coast town of Taean, on the other hand the K1 tanks of South Korea are in the exercises.

North Korea has declared to cut all relationship and ties with South Korea. It has announced that there will be no further friendship between both the countries. As per sources, the South Korean workers are working in a jointly run factory on north of the border has been terminated. This action comes after the North Korea was blamed for the sinking of South Korean warship.

US said that it is interested to go for naval exercises with South Korea after the torpedo attack on the South Korean warship. North Korea was blamed for the sinking.

Pentagon has said the joint military exercises and anti-submarine exercises will start in short period of time. The South Korean President has stopped every kind of trading with North Korea and vowed to punish those who had done this act.

North Korea has cleared that it is fully ready to retaliate for any kind of action or attack against it.

The state department of US has said that there will be definite action against North Korea over the ship sinking issue of South Korean warship in March. North Korea is now facing tremendous international pressure after the investigation team had blamed North Korea for the sinking of that warship in which 46 sailors died.

A torpedo of a submarine that belongs to North Korea had sunk a navy ship of South Korea in March. Now it has been proved with proper evidence. In this incident 46 sailors were missing. But the mystery behind the attack has been unraveled now.

The investigators have found a part of the torpedo on the sea floor. The lettering on that torpedo is just matching with a North Korean design.

The leader of North Korea, Kim Jong-il has informed that the country will stop all the nuclear programs. North Korea has agreed to end all the nuclear programs.

He would also have a talk with the Chinese President on this issue. He has also agreed to work with China on these issues to create some favorable conditions without using nuclear power.

This agreement has done in a Six-Party negotiation where China, Two Korean regions along with US, Russia and Japan have taken part and discussed various issues involved in it.

The Chosun Ilbo reported on Tuesday that North Korean leader Kim Jong Il, reportedly visiting China, was expected to discuss economic aid and other issues.

The leader of the economically struggling Communist country embarked on his China visit Monday and was expected to meet with Chinese President Hu Jintao and other top officials in Beijing, the newspaper reported. It quoted experts as saying Kim may also discuss power succession and North Korea's denuclearization.

Diplomats have said that North Korea needs to rejoin talks on ending its nuclear programs if it wants concessions from the international community.

The Yonhap News Agency reported on Friday that nuclear negotiators from Japan and South Korea urged North Korea to return to the six-nation talks, last held in December 2008.

The negotiations involved North Korea, South Korea, China, Japan, the United States and Russia.

Washington, Jan 12 - US Monday rejected North Korea's proposal to discuss a peace treaty saying Pyongyang should first take steps towards denuclearisation.

White House spokesman Robert Gibbs told reporters Pyongyang has to come back to the six-party talks and take steps towards denuclearisation for peace treaty issue to advance, Xinhua reported.

"If they're willing to live up to those obligations, then we will make progress in those talks," Gibbs said in a media briefing. This is not a step for the US to take, but rather a step for North Korea, he said.

Pyongyang, Jan. 4 : The declaration of a “peace offensive” by North Korea aimed at pacifying relations with the US could lead to the resumption of six-party talks, but Pyongyang hasn’t given any indication as to whether it is willing to give up its nuclear program.

London, Jan. 1 : North Korea has called for an end to hostile relations with the United States, official news agency KCNA reported.

"The fundamental task for ensuring peace and stability on the Korean peninsula and in the rest of Asia is to put an end to the hostile relationship between the DPRK (North Korea) and the USA," it said in a report of a joint newspaper editorial on the country''s foreign policy stance.

Pyongyang, Jan 1 - North Korea Friday called for an end to the hostile relationship between Pyongyang and Washington while reiterating it will pursue for a nuclear-free Korean Peninsula.

"The fundamental task for ensuring peace and stability on the Korean Peninsula and in the rest of Asia is to put an end to the hostile relationship between DPRK (North Korea) and the USA," Pyongyang said in a joint New Year editorial with Korean Central News Agency (KCNA), Xinhua reported.

Islamabad, Dec. 30 : Pakistan has denied reports suggesting that it had transferred nuclear know-how’s to North Korea .

Referring to an article published in The Washington Post on December 28 titled,“Pakistani scientist depicts more advanced nuclear programme in North Korea”, Foreign Office (FO) spokesman, Abdul Basit said the assertions and insinuations made in the story were baseless.

Seoul, Dec 29 - North Korea said Tuesday it had detained a US citizen who illegally crossed the border from China, confirming earlier reports that the activist entered the Stalinist state.

Activists have said that Robert Park, 28, crossed into North Korea Friday, carrying a letter for leader Kim Jong Il asking him to liberate concentration camps and raise awareness of Pyongyang's human rights abuses.

Washington, Dec 28 : Pakistan may helped North Korea find a second way to build nuclear weapons as early as the 1990s, the Washington Post reported Monday citing a previously unpublicised account by the father of Pakistan's atomic bomb.

North Korea constructed a plant to manufacture a gas needed for uranium enrichment and may have been enriching uranium on a small scale by 2002, with "maybe 3,000 or even more" centrifuges, it said citing notorious Pakistani scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan.

Seoul, Dec 11 - Following a meeting with a US special envoy, North Korea indicated Friday that it was ready to resume mothballed international talks to end its nuclear weapons programme.

Quoting an unidentified foreign ministry spokesperson, the state-run Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) said the meeting produced a "a series of common understandings on the need to resume the six-party talks", which also include South Korea, Russia, Japan and China.