South Korea wants to work on planning a summit between President Moon Jae-in and dictator Kim Jong-un. Seoul wants top officials from the neighboring countries to sit around the table later this month to prepare the talks between the leaders, news agency Yonhap.
It seems more and more that the historic meeting between Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un, which is eagerly awaited worldwide, will never come. Pyongyang demands that America first withdraw all its troops from South Korea, which seems to be excluded.
The announcement that Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un will meet each other was received jubilantly on Friday, but the question is whether the top between the two leaders will continue. Trump seemed to be the great triumphant, after Kim, to the astonishment of many, said he wanted to put an end to his nuclear program. The American president smells his chance to achieve a great political success. After all, his predecessors did not manage to tame Pyongyang.
US President Donald Trump said Saturday that North Korea has promised to stop testing missiles until their scheduled encounters are over.
Now that Kim Jong-un has announced that he will stop his nuclear program and that Donald Trump has accepted the North Korean dictator's call for consultations, he is pleased and reticent in Asia.
The US President Donald Trump only wants to round the table with the North Korean leader Kim Jong-un when he sees that Pyongyang takes the rapprochement seriously and is prepared to meet him. The White House has announced this on Friday.
The North Korean Foreign Minister, Ri Yong-ho, will be visiting Sweden very soon.
The broad smile of Kim Jong-un, during the visit of a South Korean government delegation this week, thus betrayed a lot. The relaxed, almost cozy way in which he sat with the 'enemies' at the lavishly filled dinner table was a sign of his radical turnaround to give up his nuclear program.
The proposed meeting between US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un is historical in advance. It has not happened before that the leaders of both countries looked each other in the eye.
Kim Jong-un has appointed his sister Kim Yo-jong to negotiate with the US about his country's nuclear weapons program. It is the second time in a short time that the dictator from Pyongyang gets his younger sister out of the chestnuts.
North Korea is responsible for the killing of Kim Jong-nam, the half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jung-un. That is the judgment of the US Department of State. According to the US, the North Korean regime has committed the murder and used the highly toxic nerve gas VX.
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For the first time Kim Jong-un met with officials from the 'hostile' South Korea. The dictator sat at the table with representatives from Seoul on Monday, to carefully pave the way for further talks in which America should also join.
A group of special envoys from South Korea arrived on Monday in neighboring North Korea. That reported state media in both countries. The visit of the diplomats is meant to improve the ties between the archenemies.
A group of special envoys travels to North Korea on behalf of South Korea with the aim of making progress in improving the relations between the two countries that have been in a state of war since the 1930s.
The late North Korean dictator Kim Jong-il seriously took into account that his dynasty would fall and that with his son Kim Jong-un, the current Great Leader, he would have to flee haphazardly from the Stalinist state.
The United States should weaken their conditions for bilateral consultations with North Korea. That said the South Korean president Moon Jae-in, who called Pyongyang to show willingness to reduce the nuclear program.
North and South Korea will be discussing the participation of the North in the Paralympic Games next week. Representatives from the neighboring countries are sitting around the table in the border area, the South Korean news agency Yonhap reports.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and US President Donald Trump want to keep pressure on North Korea on its core program. The two agreed that Wednesday night in a telephone conversation that lasted an hour, reports the newspaper The Japan Times.
The North Korean leader Kim Jong-un expressed his satisfaction with the treatment his delegation received during the Winter Games. He called it according to the state press agency KCNA important, 'a warm climate of reconciliation and dialogue.' \u0026 # X27; to develop.
The sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un closed a three-day visit to South Korea. Kim Yo-jong and the other members of the North Korean delegation boarded the plane at Incheon airport, news agency Yonhap.
The North Koreans can not transfer their contribution to the budget of the United Nations. The international sanctions against an important North Korean state bank make that impossible, says the North Korean UN mission.
The North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has asked the South Korean president Moon Jae-in to visit Pyongyang soon. The invitation was handed out orally by Kim \u0026 # x27; s younger sister Kim Yo-jong, who arrived here Friday at the Olympic Winter Games in Pyeongchang.
South Korean President Moon Jae-in will not only meet the North Korean delegation at the opening of the Olympic Games on Friday evening. His government has informed news agency Yonhap that Saturday he will also have lunch with the North Koreans, among whom Kim Yo-jong, sister of the North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un. She is the first in the family or dynasty who has ruled North Korea since 1949, who visits South Korea after the Korean War (1950-1953).
The younger sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un is present at the opening of the Olympic Games in South Korea. Kim Yo-jong is thus the first from the ruling dynasty that sets foot on South Korean soil. That is what the South Korean Reunification Ministry has announced.
North Korea earned nearly 200 million dollars (160 million euros) last year in exporting banned goods. This is shown by a report from the United Nations that was handed to the Security Council.
In a rare statement, North Korea has called all Koreans to force a breakthrough to unite the two Koreas without the help of other countries. In the statement Pyongyang says that all Koreans should promote 'contacts, travel and cooperation between North and South Korea'.
Only one day before the Olympic Winter Games begin in South Korea, North Korea holds a military parade in its own country.
South Korean demonstrators have made clear their dissatisfaction with North Korean participation in the Winter Olympics. During a demonstration, according to state press agency Yonhap, they set the northern flag and a photo of dictator Kim Jong-un on fire.
Chinese President Xi Jinping has called on his US counterpart Donald Trump to use the current relaxation in relations with North Korea to restart talks with Pyongyang. He did that in a telephone conversation with Trump.
