South Korean President Moon Jae-in is willing to meet his North Korean counterpart Kim Jong-un. He made it clear that he rejects the nuclear missile program of the regime in Pyongyang and considers it unspeakable.
For the first time in many years North Korea seems seriously prepared to improve the relationship with Seoul. Where promises were often broken at the last moment in the past, the dictator Kim Jong-un's regime is now strikingly cooperative. What's behind that?
North and South Korea have a military hotline available as of Wednesday. The north has completed technical maintenance which has restored the connection between the Koreas. The South Korean government announced the renewed installation of the connection on Tuesday.
A North Korean who recently defected to South Korea has opened a book about how the regime in Pyongyang is trying to get money. The man was part of 'Bureau 39', which was set up to get foreign money from the leader Kim Jong-un.
The joint exercises of South Korea and the United States should have an apotheosis that coincides with the Olympics, but Donald Trump has agreed to drop that plan.
Last year, North Korea accidentally hit its own city after a failed missile test. That reports online news magazine The Diplomat. On satellite images one could see how a Hwasong rocket hits a building in Tokchon, a city with 200,000 inhabitants. No deaths would have occurred.
US President Donald Trump said Tuesday that talks between North and South Korea offer different possibilities. He also wrote on Twitter that the sanctions against Pyongyang are starting to take effect because of the nuclear and missile tests.
South Korea has brought in a cargo ship because oil products will be smuggled to North Korea. This has revealed the customs of the country Sunday. It is the second time in a few days that Seoul mentions the delivery of a ship that would transport goods to North Korea that are on the United Nations sanctions list.
Sergey Lavrov, Russian Foreign Minister, has called on the United States and North Korea to start diplomatic talks on Monday. Lavrov has offered that Russia supports the negotiations.
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The UN Security Council unanimously agreed on Friday with new sanctions against North Korea. The reason is the rocket test that North Korea carried out at the end of November.
The United Nations Security Council will vote on Friday for new sanctions against North Korea. The United States has filed a resolution that paves the way for stricter measures against the Pyongyang regime.
An international research group dealing with North Korea has raised the alarm about the lame and downright dangerous state of the nuclear facilities in the country. According to '38 North 'it is a miracle that no disastrous nuclear disaster has taken place yet.
It was considered completely impossible, but perhaps America and its allies have succeeded in recruiting high-ranking officials in North Korea as spies. In any case, the death-nervous dictator Kim Jong-un has swiftly implemented a new radical cleansing among his intimates.
The Australian police arrested a 59-year-old man who attempted to sell rocket parts from North Korea.
The supreme boss of the United Nations has called for more ways to communicate with North Korea. Secretary General António Guterres warned the UN Security Council that the combination of 'misplaced hubris', 'dangerous rhetoric' and the 'lack of communication channels' increases the likelihood of conflict.
Russia does not intend to strangle North Korea with new sanctions economically. This said Foreign Minister Igor Morgoelov on the approach of Stalinist-ruled North Korea. This refuses to limit its nuclear projects despite sanctions from, for example, the United Nations.
Russian President Putin has warned the United States on Thursday not to carry out a rocket attack on North Korea. That would have catastrophic consequences, stressed the Russian leader.
UN envoy Jeffrey Feltman has the feeling that he 'opens the door ajar'; has left for North Korea to find a solution in a diplomatic way. That said the UN envoy after informing the UN Security Council about his trip to the country.
The regime in Pyongyang does benefit from the strong increase in bitcoin. The communist country itself has begun generating the digital currency. That's what Lee Dong-geun, director of a South Korean government agency for internet security, said on Tuesday.
A survivor of the nuclear attack on Hiroshima has called on the United States and North Korea to prevent a nuclear strike. The 85-year-old Setsuko Thurlow was supported by the head of the International Campaign for the Abolition of Nuclear Weapons (ICAN), which won the Nobel Peace Prize this year.
Japan wants to buy rockets that can reach North Korea. Such decisions are sensitive because the country has renounced the right to wage war in the constitution.
The joint air force exercises of South Korea and the United States have raised the anger of the regime in Pyongyang. War on the Korean Peninsula is, according to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of North Korea 'a fait accompli.'
In November, the Japanese coastguard found no fewer than 28 North Korean fishing boats that floated off the coast or landed on the beaches. Some were abandoned, others were found dead.
UN envoy Jeffrey Feltman spoke to Pak Myong-guk last Wednesday in Pyongyang with the North Korean foreign secretary. The state media in the Stalinist-governed country reported that they were talking about mutual cooperation and common interests.
Kim Jong-un is prepared to join the negotiating table with America, now that he has completed his nuclear ambitions. This is what the Russian diplomat Vitaliy Pashin claims, who visited North Korea with a delegation the past few days.
The missile tests of North Korea not only cause international tensions, but may also cause calamity in the country itself. Defectors (who have fled the country) claim that the high radiation to which the population is exposed has led to a deadly ghost disease.
North Korea's intercontinental missiles can not only reach the US, but also Europe, according to NATO.
The Hwasong-15 that North Korea tested this week is a new type of intercontinental ballistic missile that can bridge a distance of more than 13,000 kilometers. That's what a spokesman for the South Korean Defense Ministry says on Friday.
Russia has asked North Korea to stop nuclear testing and, in turn, called on the United States and South Korea not to hold any (joint) military exercises in December.
