North Korea warns of retaliation against U.S.-South Korea military drills
North Korea threatened on Wednesday to retaliate if the United States goes ahead with scheduled military drills with South Korea, ramping up pressure on Washington to change course as a year-end North Korean deadline for U.S. flexibility approaches. The statement came even though Washington said ...
Abe sent personal letters on holding a summit to Kim Jong Un: South Korean paper
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe sent personal letters to North Korean leader Kim Jong Un between May and September proposing the two sides hold a summit, a major South Korean daily reported Wednesday. Shotaro Yachi, then head of the secretariat for Japan's National Security Council, traveled ...
North Korea assails U.S., South Korea and U.N. nuclear agency
North Korea on Monday accused the United States of "political and military provocations" and South Korea of "double-dealing behavior." North Korean U.N. Ambassador Kim Song made the accusations in a speech to a General Assembly meeting on the International Atomic Energy Agency, which he accused ...
North Korea says 'window of opportunity' closing for progress in nuclear talks with U.S.
A North Korean diplomat said Friday that the window of opportunity for progress in dialogue with the United States was getting smaller, adding that Pyongyang expects reciprocal steps from Washington by the end of the year. "We've given the United States quite a lot of ...
Pentagon pushes back after North Korea slams scaled-down maneuvers with South
The Pentagon on Thursday pushed back against North Korean criticism of joint U.S. military exercises with South Korea scheduled for next month. "We don't scale or conduct our exercises based off North Korea's anger," Pentagon spokesman Lt. Col. Dave Eastburn told The Japan Times. "Our ...
North Korea says inclusion on U.S. terror report closing door to dialogue
North Korea lashed out at the U.S. on Tuesday after Washington redesignated it a state sponsor of terrorism last week, warning that the United States' "hostile policy" was closing the door to continued dialogue. In a statement carried by the official Korean Central News Agency, ...
At ASEAN-related summit, Abe condemns North Korea's missile launches
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Monday strongly condemned North Korea's missile launches at an ASEAN-related meeting, saying they are in clear violation of U.N. Security Council resolutions. At the summit on the outskirts of Bangkok, Abe also urged the leaders of countries in ASEAN Plus ...
North Korea's Kim eyeing December summit with Trump, Seoul spy agency says
A new round of U.S.-North Korea working-level talks on denuclearization was likely to be held this month or early next month, the South's Yonhap news agency reported Monday, quoting Seoul's spy agency, with leader Kim Jong Un eyeing a December summit with U.S. President ...
North Korea says it test-fired new 'super-large' multiple rocket launcher
North Korea confirmed Friday it had conducted its third test-firing of a new "super-large" multiple rocket launcher the previous day, saying it expands Pyongyang's ability to destroy enemy targets in surprise attacks. Pyongyang's official Korean Central News Agency described the tests a day after the ...
Trump taps envoy to Pyongyang to be second-in-command at State Department
President Donald Trump on Thursday nominated Stephen Biegun, the U.S. special envoy for North Korea, to serve as the State Department's second-in-command. Biegun would replace John Sullivan, who was nominated to serve as the next U.S. ambassador to Russia. Both positions require Senate confirmation. Biegun had ...
North Korea's Kim Jong Un sends South's Moon Jae-in condolences over mother's death
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un sent a message of sympathy to the South's President Moon Jae-in over the death of his mother, officials said Thursday, the pair's first contact in months with inter-Korean ties at a standstill. Kang Han-ok, who was born and grew ...
China urges U.S. and North Korea to make progress in stalled talks by year-end
China on Monday called on the United States and North Korea to move ahead with stalled nuclear talks for regional stability, with Pyongyang having been putting pressure on Washington to change what it regards as one-sided demands by the end of this year. Foreign Ministry ...
