A North Korean top diplomat has left for Finland for interviews with American former diplomats and South Koreans. The North Korean Choe Kang-il, according to the South Korean news agency Yonhap, was spotted in Beijing, where he boarded a plane to the northern European country.
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.
The North Korean leader Kim Jong-un is willing to sit down with the US and talk about reducing nuclear weapons. Kim has said this to ambassadors of South Korean President Moon Jae-in. The envoys returned to Seoul on Tuesday after a two-day visit to North Korea, reported news agency Yonhap.
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.
North Korea is willing to talk with the US. That's what the delegation told at the Winter Games to South Korean President Moon Jae-in, according to South Korean news agency Yonhap.
North Korea sends a heavy delegation to the closing ceremony of the Winter Games in South Korean Pyeongchang. The delegation is led by a senior official who is jointly responsible for sinking a South Korean naval vessel in 2010, killing 46 people on board.
The White House has confirmed that Ivanka Trump attends the closing ceremony of the Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang. Her father, the American president Donald Trump, asked her personally, let Washington know Wednesday. The purpose of her journey is twofold. She is going to pay tribute to American athletes and to emphasize the good relations between the US and South Korea.
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 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.
At least twenty people were injured by an earthquake Sunday in the city of Pohang in south-eastern South Korea. The South Korean news agency Yonhap reported that the quake had a force of 4.6.
The president of South Korea, Moon Jae-in has met with Kim Yo-jong, the sister of the North Korean leader Kim Jong-un. The two met for the first time during the opening ceremony of the Winter Games, where they had shaken hands a day earlier.
The smartphones that sponsor Samsung hands out to the athletes during the Winter Games in Pyeongchang cause a remarkable problem. Because of UN sanctions, the athletes from North Korea and Iran do not get one. Iran is now in anger and has called the ambassador of South Korea in Tehran on the carpet.
The Japanese stock market rose somewhat on Wednesday after the heavy exchange losses in the past two trading days.
A model has received € 84,000 in compensation from airline Asiana Airlines after one of the stewardesses accidentally spilled red-hot noodle soup on its intimate parts during a flight. This happened in 2015 and resulted in permanent damage.
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.
North Korea is sending an orchestra to South Korea during the Olympic Winter Games next month. The South Korean government announced after consultation with the North Koreans that 140 musicians from the Samjiyon Orchestra will give a concert in the capital Seoul and in Gangneung where parts of the Games will be held.
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?
South Korea will not try to open a deal with Japan about the so-called comfort women. Seoul endorsed the 2015 agreement on the women who were forced to work in military brothels during the Second World War.
The United States can never again start a war against North Korea, now that the country has the opportunity to reach the entire mainland of the US with nuclear weapons. The North Korean leader Kim Jong-un said on Monday in his New Year's speech on North Korean television.
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.
Due to a fire in an eight-storey building in Jecheon, southeast of the South Korean capital Seoul, at least sixteen people were killed on Thursday. They were locked up in a sauna and fitness complex on the second floor, according to the media. There were also several injured.
A South Korean fishing boat was capsized on Sunday after crashing with a tanker. In the accident, at least thirteen deaths occurred, says the Coast Guard of South Korea.
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Topman Kwon Oh-hyun of Samsung's electronics bag announced his departure. He will step up as soon as his current mandate expires in March next year.
North Korean special units practiced last month on infiltration of targets with paragliders. They did according to sources of the South Korean state press office Yonhap in a training site where the joint command center of the US and South Korea was rebuilt.
Unilever takes over South Korea's Carver Korea for almost 2.3 billion euros. The cosmetics company is bought by investor Bain Capital and business bank Goldman Sachs.
The South Korean government has decided to send aid to North Korea. It is a package worth about 6.7 million euros. The last time Seoul provided North aid was the end of 2015.
The United States is considering taking down all ballistic missile shooting North Korea, even if they do not constitute a threat to America or its allies. That reported CNN Tuesday on the basis of a source within the US government.
