A North Korean top diplomat arrived in Beijing from Pyongyang on Tuesday morning, Kyodo News confirmed, with state-run media saying he is scheduled to visit Laos. Upon arrival at a VIP section of Beijing's international airport, Ri Su Yong, a vice chairman of the ruling ...
Go big or go home? Top U.S. envoy for North Korea nuclear talks rules out piecemeal approach
The Trump administration's approach to North Korean denuclearization negotiations is becoming increasingly simple to digest: Go big or go home. That was the message U.S. Special Representative for North Korea Stephen Biegun delivered Monday in a speech at the Carnegie International Nuclear Policy Conference. In a ...
Trump's North Korea envoy Stephen Biegun: A capable man in an impossible job?
Days before a second U.S.-North Korea summit, much rests on the shoulders of a former auto executive trying to find common ground between an American president seeking a big foreign policy win and a North Korean leader who seems unlikely to hand him one. Stephen ...
Senior Japanese and U.S. diplomats to discuss North Korea during meeting in Sweden
Senior Japanese and U.S. diplomats will discuss North Korea when they meet in Sweden early this week, the Foreign Ministry said Sunday, as Washington and Pyongyang prepare for a second summit next month. Kenji Kanasugi, director-general of the ministry's Asian and Oceanian Affairs Bureau, hopes ...
A senior North Korean diplomat has arrived in Sweden to take part an unannounced high-level meeting in Stockholm, officials said Friday. Swedish Foreign Ministry spokesman Vilhelm Rundquist said Deputy Foreign Minister Choe Son Hui has landed in Sweden "to take part in talks in a ...
