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Denuclearization to take center stage as Kim and Moon meet in rare inter-Korean summit
Sixty-five years after the Korean War ended in an armistice, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un will become the first leader from the North to set foot on South Korean soil when he strides across the Demilitarized Zone on Friday for a historic summit ...
Collapsed mountain over North Korea's nuclear test site may cast light on test halt
A study by Chinese geologists shows the mountain above North Korea's main nuclear test site has collapsed under the stress of the explosions, rendering it unsafe for further testing and necessitating monitoring for any leaking radiation. The findings by the scientists at the University of ...
On North Korea's Kim, Trump shifts from 'Little Rocket Man' to 'very honorable' man
Ditching his derisive "Rocket Man" label for North Korea's leader, U.S. President Donald Trump shifted his assessment of Kim Jong Un on Tuesday, calling the dictator — whose country is said to operate a system of gulags — a "very honorable" man. Ahead of talks ...
Trump taps Pacific Command chief Harry Harris to be South Korea envoy ahead of Kim summit
U.S. Pacific Command chief Adm. Harry Harris, nominated to be ambassador to Canberra, will instead fill the long-vacant post of ambassador to South Korea, Australia's top diplomat said Wednesday. Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop said she had been informed of the decision by acting U.S. ...
Japan calls on Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty members to push N. Korea further on nukes
Foreign Minister Taro Kono on Tuesday called on parties to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty to urge North Korea to go beyond a freeze of nuclear testing and seek a "complete, verifiable and irreversible" end to its nuclear program. "North Korea's nuclear and missile programs pose ...
Symbolism will be the main course of a banquet at Friday's inter-Korean summit, Seoul revealed Tuesday, with a menu featuring Pyongyang's signature dish and food from the hometowns of the South's leaders at previous meetings. No detailed schedule has been released yet, but the dinner ...
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and the South's president, Moon Jae-in, have followed paths to power as radically different as their two countries, but they will come together at a summit in the Demilitarized Zone on Friday. Moon's parents were both born in a ...
Ahead of summits, U.S. tones down its war games with South Korea
Spring on the Korean Peninsula is normally the season of D-Day-style beach landings with big guns thumping in the distance and skies crisscrossed by the contrails of fighter aircraft. But as the North and South prepare for their first summit in more than a decade ...
G-7 foreign ministers say North Korean nuclear and missile suspension is not enough
Group of Seven foreign ministers pledged Monday to maintain "maximum pressure" on North Korea to compel it to give up its nuclear and missile programs, determining that Pyongyang's decision to suspend nuclear tests and long-range missile launches is not sufficient to meet the demands ...
Threat of nuclear weapons use growing, top U.N. official Izumi Nakamitsu warns
A top U.N. official on Monday denounced growing rhetoric claiming that nuclear arms are necessary and warned that the risk of such weapons being used was on the rise. "The threat of the use, intentional or otherwise, of nuclear weapons is growing," the U.N.'s top ...
U.S. President Donald Trump took to Twitter on Sunday to serve up the dubious claim that North Korea has "agreed to denuclearization" ahead of his meeting with Kim Jong Un — an assertion at odds with what the White House has previously said and ...
Ahead of Kim-Moon summit, both Koreas halt cross-border propaganda broadcasts
South Korea halted anti-Pyongyang propaganda broadcasts across the rivals' tense border Monday ahead of inter-Korean talks this week that are expected to focus on the North's nuclear program, Seoul officials said. Seoul had blasted anti-Pyongyang messages and K-pop songs from border loudspeakers since the North's ...
