North Korea hinted Tuesday that long-stalled working-level denuclearization talks with the United States due to be restarted soon could be halted and nuclear and missile tests restarted if the U.S. goes ahead with planned joint military exercises with South Korea. In a statement carried by ...
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. 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 ...
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 ...
North Korea calls Trump invite to meet Kim at DMZ over weekend 'interesting'
In a stunning move employing the Twitter diplomacy that he has become famous for, U.S. President Donald Trump on Saturday invited North Korean leader Kim Jong Un to meet him at the border between the two Koreas over the weekend — a proposal the ...
North Korea said Thursday that South Korea must stop trying to mediate between Pyongyang and Washington, as it stepped up its pressure on the United States to work out new proposals to salvage deadlocked nuclear diplomacy. The North Korean statement was an apparent continuation of ...
Seoul contrasts tensions over Iran with U.S.-North Korean diplomacy
The U.S. and North Korea feel the need to resume diplomacy and are trying to narrow their differences for new summit talks, a top South Korean official said Wednesday as he contrasted their efforts with the tensions surrounding Iran's collapsing nuclear accord. Unification Minister Kim ...
