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...

The Seoul government is revving up diplomatic efforts, both officially and unofficially, to persuade China to stop the “inhumane” repatriation of North Korean defectors. On Sunday, Chun Young-woo, senior presidential secretary for foreign affairs and security, paid an unofficial visit to Rep. Park Sun-young of the conservative Liberty Forward Party, who has staged a hunger strike in front of the...

The first talks between North Korea and the United States since the death of Kim Jong-il made a “good start,” but there is still a “long way” to go before the six-party talks on ending the North’s nuclear weapons program can resume, a U.S. nuclear envoy said Saturday. After two days of talks with his North Korean counterpart, Kim Kye-gwan, in Beijing, Glyn Davies flew to Seoul to brief South Kor...

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un visited front-line military units responsible for the shelling of a South Korean island in 2010, the North's state media reported Sunday, ahead of a planned joint military exercise by the South and the U.S. The Korean Central News Agency (KCNA), monitored in Seoul, said Kim inspected units under the North Korean army's 4th Corps in the southwestern region. The rep...

GENEVA (AFP) - The UN refugee agency on Friday urged China not to send back a group of North Koreans who fled to Chinese territory and who risk punishment if returned home. In a statement, the UNHCR said it "is closely following the situation of a group of some 25 North Koreans who were arrested in China in February." UNHCR spokesman Adrian Edwards said, "We have conveyed our concern that these...

BEIJING (AP)― A U.S. envoy says he made “a little bit of progress” in talks with North Korea on restarting nuclear disarmament in return for aid, in the first negotiations with the country since its longtime leader Kim Jong-il died two months ago. U.S. envoy Glyn Davies said Friday that after a day-and-a-half of talks that he had hoped to provide details of his discussions but said no breakthrou...

BEIJING (Yonhap) -- Envoys from North Korea and the United States held "substantive and serious" talks on Thursday over the North's nuclear weapons program, U.S. chief negotiator Glyn Davies said, announcing an agreement to extend the rare bilateral dialogue by one day. The Beijing talks, the first since the December death of the North's former leader Kim Jong-il, are widely seen as a chanc...

Nine North Korean defectors who were detained in China were repatriated to their homeland over the weekend as South Korea ratcheted up pressure on China not to send North Korean defectors to their communist country, informed sources said Thursday. Seoul has repeatedly called on Beijing not to send back North Korean defectors held in China to their communist homeland, and has grown frustrated wit...

North Korea banned its Buddhist officials from meeting with their South Korean counterparts earlier this week in its border city of Gaeseong, officials said Thursday, in a sign of persistent tensions on the Korean Peninsula. South Korean Buddhist monks traveled to Kaesong on Tuesday for previously arranged talks with their North Korean counterparts on a joint project to return artifacts seized b...