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The North Korean leader Kim Jong-un left with his private jet from Pyongyang and is on his way to Singapore. The South Korean news agency Yonhap reported this.

A South Korean official has attempted to apply for asylum in the United States in an unconventional way. The man rammed the gate of the American embassy in Seoul with his car, message news agency Yonhap.

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad says he plans to visit North Korean leader Kim Jong-un. That is what North Korean state media report. It may be the first meeting between Kim and another head of state in Pyongyang.

Justice in South Korea has issued an arrest warrant against the wife of top manager Cho Yang-ho of Korean Air. According to the judiciary, the 69-year-old Lee Myung-hee has misbehaved miserably several times over the past seven years against personnel and thus misused her position.

The South Korean president Moon Jae-in does not exclude that he will have more frequent meetings with the North Korean leader Kim Jong-un. Moon, according to news agency Yonhap, instructed his employees to prepare for such meetings.

The North Korean leader Kim Jong-un is determined to continue the meeting with US President Donald Trump on 12 June. He made this clear to the South Korean president Moon Jae-in, with whom he had an unexpected meeting on Saturday, reports the North Korean state press agency KCNA.

South Korean President Moon Jae-in has had an unexpected meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un on Saturday. The topic of conversation was the possible meeting between Kim and US President Donald Trump next month.

North Korea is still ready to meet with the USA to discuss the issues where possible. That's what the Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs Kim Kye Gwan said on Friday after US President Donald Trump canceled the summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un a day earlier.

The North Koreans have blown up tunnels that have been used for nuclear tests. Several buildings at the nuclear test site Punggye-ri have also been destroyed, reports South Korean media.

Due to a fire in a cargo ship about 1500 cars went up in flames in the South Korean port city of Incheon. The fire brigade needed three days to extinguish the fire, the South Korean news agency Yonhap reported.

South Korean President Moon Jae-in and US President Donald Trump meet Tuesday at the Washington White House. The main topic for discussion will be the upcoming summit between Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un on June 12 in Singapore. Moon and Trump want to do everything possible to let that meeting continue and make it a success.

South Korean President Moon Jae-in and US President Donald Trump conducted telephone discussions on Sunday to ensure that the forthcoming summit between North Korea and the US continues. North Korea threatened to withdraw from, among other things, dissatisfaction with US military exercises with South Korea.

Two North Koreans have fled to South Korea by boat. The two were found by the South Korean army on the Yellow Sea, reports the Seoul-based news agency Yonhap on the basis of government sources.

South Korea wants to act more actively between North Korea and the United States. This should ensure that the planned summit meeting between the leaders of the two countries can be 'successful and based on mutual respect', the Korea Times newspaper quoted from a government statement.

North Korea threatens to cancel the summit between leader Kim Jong-un and US President Donald Trump on June 12th. Pyongyang is angry about the military exercises that the Americans hold up to May 25 with South Korea. The South Korean news agency Yonhap has announced this. The reconciliation talks scheduled for Wednesday between senior officials from North and South will not take place.

North Korea has invited eight South Korean journalists to attend the decommissioning of a nuclear test site. According to South Korean state press agency Yonhap, they are transferred by train to Punggye-ri, where several nuclear tests have been carried out.

The police in the Korean capital Seoul has picked up a female nude model because she secretly took a picture of a male colleague and spread it through a feminist forum.

Hundreds of Korean Air Lines Co. employees have demonstrated in Seoul against the family that is actually at the head of the airline. Daughters of the CEO were repeatedly discredited for misconduct, such as turning a plane over because of a conflict about the way nuts were served.

The South Korean army is now completely removing the propaganda speakers on the border with North Korea. The work will start on Tuesday, message from the state press agency Yonhap.

A South Korean complains the former German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder. The man holds the German responsible for the breakdown of his marriage, reports state press agency Yonhap on the basis of sources at the court.

If it is up to South Korean President Moon Jae-in, American President Donald Trump will receive the Nobel Peace Prize.

North Korea will set the clock with neighboring South Korea. That is what media report in North Korea. The new time, thirty minutes earlier, has to start on 5 May. North Korean leader Kim Jong-un would have found it painful to see two different times at the summit with South Korean President Moon Jae.

The North Korean leader Kim Jung-un wants to invite experts and journalists from the United States and South Korea to join in the closure of the site where nuclear tests have been conducted for years. That is what a government spokesman in Seoul said on Sunday.

The leaders of South and North Korea, President Moon Jae-in and Kim Jong-un, stressed at the end of their summit that they want peace and no nuclear weapons on the peninsula.

The leaders of South and North Korea will also have dinner on Friday and then find a menu with a wink to the past. Moon Jae-in and Kim Jong-un meet in the border town of Panmunjom.

South Korea temporarily stops the loudspeaker propaganda at the border with North Korea. The move should serve to 'reduce military tensions between the South and the North and create a climate for peaceful talks.'

North Korea stops its nuclear tests and missile tests. That is what the North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has announced in North Korean state media.

North and South Korea have a direct hotline between the leaders of the countries. The line was opened a week before North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and South Korean President Moon Jae meet in the Panmunjom border town.

South Korean President Moon Jae-in is optimistic about North Korea's willingness to phase out its nuclear program.

South and North Korea want to put an end to the military conflict between the two countries during their joint summit this month. The two nations are officially still at war, but there has been a truce since 1953. The countries would have consultations prior to the summit, according to South Korean media.