North Korea hinted Tuesday that long-stalled working-level nuclear talks with the United States due to be restarted soon could be halted if the U.S. goes ahead with planned joint military exercises with South Korea. In a statement carried by the North's official Korean Central News ...
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, in his recent meetings with Russian, Chinese and U.S. counterparts, called for security guarantees instead of the lifting of sanctions in return for denuclearization, diplomatic sources said Friday. Kim's renewed focus on security guarantees could be an effort by ...
New North Korea Constitution calls Kim head of state in move seen as step toward U.S. peace treaty
Kim Jong Un has been formally named head of state of North Korea and commander-in-chief of the military in a new constitution that observers said was possibly aimed at preparing for a peace treaty with the United States. North Korea has also long called for ...
U.S. Forces Korea acknowledges North Korean ICBM can hit anywhere in the United States
U.S. Forces Korea has said for the first time that North Korea's powerful Hwasong-15 intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) can hit targets anywhere in the mainland United States, with an estimated range of nearly 13,000 km (8,000 miles). USFK made its first official assessment of the ...
U.S. weighs 18-month sanctions pause for North Korea: report
The U.S. is considering suspending some sanctions on North Korea for 12 to 18 months in exchange for a freeze on the country's nuclear weapons program, the Yonhap news agency reported Thursday. The Trump administration would support lifting United Nations restrictions on North Korean coal ...
The United States hopes to see a "freeze" of North Korea's nuclear weapons program as a starting point — not an endgame — for Pyongyang eventually relinquishing its arsenal, a State Department spokeswoman said Tuesday ahead of a fresh round of talks expected to ...
Former ambassador to Vietnam may be North Korea's new point man in U.S. nuclear talks
North Korea appears to have appointed a longtime veteran of international diplomacy as point man in the new round of denuclearization talks with the United States, a diplomatic source in Seoul has confirmed. At last Sunday's surprise U.S.-North Korea summit at the demilitarized border between ...
The Association of Southeast Asian Nations is considering inviting North Korea's foreign minister as a special guest to an upcoming ASEAN-plus-three meeting of ministers and their counterparts from Japan, China and South Korea, ASEAN sources have said. The idea, floated by South Korea, has been ...
North Korea says Trump administration 'more and more hell-bent' on hostility with sanctions
Three days after the U.S. and North Korean leaders held their historic third meeting, North Korea's U.N. Mission accused the Trump administration Wednesday of talking about dialogue but being "more and more hell-bent" on hostile acts. A press statement from the mission pointed a finger ...
North Korean media reports trumpet Kim's meeting with Trump in Demilitarized Zone
North Korean state media released gushing reports of Kim Jong Un's meeting Sunday in the Demilitarized Zone with U.S. President Donald Trump, as the regime sought to use another history-making meeting with the U.S. leader to validate its policy decisions. The front page of the ...
Seoul hopes Trump-Kim meeting will help revive inter-Korean engagement
South Korea said Monday it hopes the diplomatic momentum created by the latest meeting between President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un would help revive inter-Korean dialogue and engagement that stopped amid a hard impasse in nuclear negotiations between Washington and ...
Family members of abductees hope for progress on issue after sudden Trump-Kim meeting
Relatives of Japanese nationals abducted by North Korea decades ago said Sunday a third meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un had revived their hopes for resolving the issue of their missing family members. Trump and Kim met in ...
