Many of you will find fault with reading about the NK-SK situation through CNN and its obvious slants, but for the purposes of simplicity, read on if you're interested. Just take everything with a grain of salt. I find that many of these articles lay out the facts of the current events better than their competitors.
http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/05/25/us.korea.crisis/index.html
http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/asiapcf/06/03/china.northkorea.diplomacy/index.html
http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/asiapcf/05/27/north.south.korea.explainer.background/index.html