South Korea’s point man on North Korea urged Pyongyang Friday to accept Seoul’s recent offers for talks amid cautious optimism following a nuclear deal between North Korea and the United States. Last month, South Korea proposed holding two separate meetings with North Korea to discuss reunions of separated family members and joint pest control near ancient tombs in the isolated country. The Nor...

WASHINGTON (AFP) ― Republican lawmakers Wednesday criticized President Barack Obama and warned that North Korea was not to be trusted after it promised to suspend its nuclear program in exchange for U.S. food aid. Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, head of the House Foreign Affairs Committee and a staunch critic of communist countries, said that the North Korea agreement “sounds a lot like the failed agr...

WASHINGTON (Yonhap News) ― A senior North Korean nuclear negotiator could visit the United States for a security forum later this month, diplomatic sources said, as the prospects of resuming six-party nuclear talks rose with the latest disarmament-for-aid deal between the two countries. Washington and Pyongyang simultaneously announced the deal earlier in the day under which Pyongyang promised t...

WASHINGTON (Yonhap News) -- A senior North Korean nuclear negotiator could visit the United States for a security forum later this month, diplomatic sources said, as the prospects of resuming six-party nuclear talks rose with the latest disarmament-for-aid deal between the two countries. Washington and Pyongyang simultaneously announced the deal earlier in the day under which Pyongyang promised ...

North Korea has offered to halt its uranium enrichment program in exchange for possibly larger grain proportions in the previously-floated 240,000 tons of nutritional assistance from the U.S., sources said Wednesday. The U.S. Department of State announced Wednesday the results of the third round of talks between Washington’s top envoy on North Korea Glyn Davies and North Korea’s Vice Foreign Min...

North Korea has offered a temporary way to halt its uranium enrichment program in exchange for more food in addition to the previously proposed nutritional assistance, news reports said Wednesday. The news reports came hours before the U.S. Department of State announced the results of the third round of talks between Washington’s top envy Glyn Davies and North Korea’s Vice Foreign Minister Kim K...

China reiterated on Wednesday its stance on North Korean defectors, refusing to recognize them as refugees. "We oppose that the issue of North Koreans' illegal entry into China is being brought to the international organizations, as those organizations are not the venues to discuss such matters," said Hong Lei, spokesman for the Chinese foreign ministry at a daily press briefing in Beijing, acco...

Officials from the European Union have been advised to avoid using North Korea’s only airline Air Koryo due to safety concerns, according to the British Foreign Office’s website. Normally, Europeans traveling to the reclusive state fly from Beijing to Pyongyang on Air Koryo. The North Korean flag carrier was on the blacklist of airlines named by the European Commission that were banned from ope...

The United States will soon release some details of “modest progress” in its latest high-level talks with North Korea, an informed diplomatic source said Tuesday. “The State Department is expected to announce contents related to consultations with North Korea at around 9 a.m. tomorrow,” the source said, requesting anonymity. The top U.S. envoy on North Korea, Glyn Davies, held two days of talks...

WASHINGTON (AP) ― The U.S. military says an American ship has arrived in North Korea to support the hunt for the remains of soldiers missing-in-action from the Korean War. Chief of the U.S. Pacific Command, Adm. Robert Willard, said Tuesday the ship is offloading equipment at Nampho, a port city west of the capital, Pyongyang. The U.S. and North Korea agreed in October to restart the search for...

The United States said Monday that it has not made any decisions on further talks with North Korea or food aid for the communist nation despite “some moderate, modest progress” at their talks in Beijing last week. “No decisions have been made on the six-party talks side or on the nutritional assistance side,” State Department spokesperson Victoria Nuland said at a press briefing. She pointed ou...