North Korean state television broadcast images on Tuesday of Kim Jong-un, the country's presumptive new leader, and senior government officials visiting the body of dictator Kim Jong-il, who died Saturday of at heart attack at age 69. Kim Jong-il's death is only the second time in North Korea's 80 year history that leadership has changed. Kim's father, Kim Il-sung died in 1994. Video that emerged on Monday of North Koreans hysterically grieving has been watched all over the world. John Sudworth of the BBC reports on the latest from Seoul, South Korea.

Despite reports over the weekend that Colonel Gaddafi's forces were pulling out of the city of Misrata, the uprising against Gadaffi and fighting there continues, as do his attempts to crush the rebellion. BBC reporter John Sudworth reports from the region.

BBC reporter, John Sudworth, has the latest form a small field hospital set up just outside Tahrir Square in Cairo. He hears from doctors treating the wounded after violence has broken out in the square.

"We believe in democracy," says one protester standing in Tahrir Square. The crowd has hit more than a hundred thousand and has been jubiliant. Voices have come together to talk about change peacefully. The BBC's John Sudworth has been reporting from the Square.

Reclusive North Korean leader Kim Jong-il has promoted his youngest son, Kim Jong-un, to the rank of general, just one day before a rare meeting of North Korea's ruling Workers Party. The move added to speculation that Kim Jong-un will take over for his ailing father in the future. 

North Korea is threatening to pursue new nuclear weapons technology in response to what it sees as U.S. hostility. This comes amid tensions over a sunken South Korean warship and the warning was issued hours after President Barack Obama urged his Chinese counterpart to take a stronger stance on the warship issue. BBC correspondent John Sudworth reports from the South Korean capital, Seoul.

North Korea enters today's match against Brazil shrouded in mystery — nobody knows much about their coach, most of their players, or the way they play. The same could be said for their 1966 counterparts, who shocked the world by defeating Italy 1-0, and became the first Asian nation to go past the first round in the World Cup. Can the country pull another upset?

The BBC's John Sudsworth reports from South Korea on the latest in the growing escalation between North and South Korea. As tensions mount, the South has said they will reinstall loudspeakers to broadcast propaganda, prompting the North to declare they will fire at any loudspeakers. The North also said they will tear up a military pact between the two countries. However, South Korea has made it clear that they do not want to pursue military action.

• North Korea/South Korea: Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called the situation between the North and South "precarious" and has expressed support for measures to punish North Korea for its attack on a South Korean warship. BBC correspondent, John Sudworth reports from Seoul.
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An international investigation has concluded that there's overwhelming evidence that a North Korean torpedo sunk a South Korean warship in March, killing 46 sailors. North Korea denies the charge and is threatening war if new sanctions are imposed. We hear more from the BBC's John Sudworth on the incident and whether we should take alarming threats of "all out war" from the North seriously.

Could you live without the internet for a whole week? No email. No Facebook. No TheTakeaway.org. If that thought fills you with horror then you'll feel for two families in South Korea—the “most wired” nation in the world, with the fastest broadband speeds and the highest percentage of its population online. As part of the BBC’s “Superpower” season, which is looking at how the Internet has changed the world, these two families were asked to cut themselves off from the Internet for a whole week.

They’re starting to call it “the cruise to nowhere.” For more than two weeks, the U.S. government has been closely tracking the progress of a North Korean ship as it makes its way across the South China Sea bound for Myanmar. At first officials thought the mystery ship could be the first test of the UN Security Council's resolution to allow inspection of suspicious ships. But now it seems that the North Koreans may be fishing for something else: a confrontation with the U.S. BBC Correspondent John Sudworth joins The Takeaway from Seoul, South Korea, with more of the story.

The North Koreans have launched what they say is a “communications satellite’ into orbit. America and its allies suspect the state’s “satellite” is in fact a long-range ballistic missile, which North Korea was testing. North Korea and their leader Kim Jong-Il remain defiant in the face of global protest and strong warnings from North Korea's neighbors. After the launch, the U.S. and its allies denounced the move and called an emergency meeting of the U.N. Security Council to . The BBC's John Sudworth and Brian Myers of Dongseo University join The Takeaway to discuss the implications of this launch.


Our partners at the New York Times are reporting that the North Korean Missile Launch Was a Failure, Experts Say.

There is a lot of global attention on North Korea these days what with taking reporters captive and planning a missile launch test this weekend, but the communist nation is squaring off with another nation today. On the soccer field. South Korea and North Korea are playing a World Cup qualifying game in Seoul and it could be quite a strange spectacle. John Sudworth is the BBC’s South Korea correspondent and he joins us from Seoul to talk about the sporting and political implications of this match up.

Reports coming out today that communist authorities in North Korea have detained two American journalists. A South Korean newspaper and a TV station said the two Americans — both women — were arrested on Tuesday near a river on North Korea's border with China. For more we are joined by John Sudworth, BBC Correspondent in Seoul, South Korea.

The first flight in over a week has finally landed in Thailand. BBC correspondent John Sudworth tells The Takeaway about the tumultuous events in Thailand.