Canadian officials have traveled to North Korea to discuss the case of a Canadian pastor serving a life sentence there, a spokesman for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Tuesday. Hyeon Soo Lim, who served at one of the largest churches in Canada, was sentenced ...
North Korea has a well-thumbed playbook for detained American citizens who are valuable diplomatic bargaining chips for the regime, but the case of Otto Warmbier, flown home in a coma last week, is a glaring exception. The script is simple and familiar: arrest an American, ...
Former U.S. basketball star Dennis Rodman concluded his five-day trip to North Korea on Saturday, saying it was "very good" but not disclosing if he and leader Kim Jong Un had met in person this time. "It's a good trip, a very good trip," Rodman ...
Veteran former U.S. politician and diplomat Bill Richardson offered on Friday to visit North Korea to secure the release of three detained Americans and a Canadian after U.S. university student Otto Warmbier was brought back in a coma. Richardson, a former New Mexico governor and ...
A group of families of Japanese people suspected of having been abducted by North Korean agents said it plans to ask the International Criminal Court to prosecute North Korean leader Kim Jong Un for crimes against humanity. The decision was made ahead of May 29, ...
The arrest of a U.S. citizen by North Korea on Saturday — the second of an American national in two weeks — could be a prelude to more provocations by Pyongyang amid already surging tensions on the Korean Peninsula, an expert on the regime ...
North Korea recently detained a U.S. citizen, officials said Sunday, in the latest case of an American being held in the country. The Swedish Embassy in Pyongyang said it was aware of a Korean-American citizen being detained recently, but could not comment further. The embassy ...
No one is interested in the issue of past abductions of foreigners by North Korean agents, Song Il Ho, North Korean ambassador in charge of diplomatic normalization with Japan, said Monday. Speaking to reporters in Pyongyang, Song said that an agreement reached between Japan and ...
As tensions between Tokyo and Pyongyang mount, prefectures begin cutting funding to North Korean-run schools in Japan under a new ministry directive.
Marking the 20th year since they banded together, the families of those whisked away by North Korean spies decades ago push for action to bring them back this year.
Japanese officials have reportedly been meeting secretly with North Korea’s ruling party in recent months.
North Korea on Tuesday denounced a U.N. report on alleged abductions of foreign nationals by Pyongyang and the many Korean families forcibly separated across the divided peninsula since the 1950s war. So Se Pyong, the North Korean ambassador to the United Nations in Geneva, said ...
