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Secretary of State Mike Pompeo could soon make another visit to Pyongyang to further negotiations for the possible denuclearization of North Korea, South Korea’s JoongAng Ilbo reported Tuesday.

Monuments were opened in both South Korea and Taiwan on Tuesday as a tribute to the “comfort women” forced to work in Japanese military brothels during World War II.

Three South Korean companies illicitly purchased and imported North Korean coal disguised as Russian product in a flagrant violation of U.N. sanctions, the Korea Customs Service announced on Friday.

South Korea’s presidential Blue House is finally responding to the petition filed in June after several hundred refugees from Yemen arrived on tiny Jeju Island. The government promised to tighten up asylum screening in response to public complaints.

North Korea’s state-run Rodong Sinmun attempted to rally citizens of the communist state for “all-out battle” against the “unprecedented natural disaster” of a heat wave threatening the nation’s crops.

Commander of the United Nations Command Army Gen. Vincent K. Brooks sent Korean War troop remains home to the United States on Wednesday after a dignified transfer ceremony at Osan Air Base in South Korea that lasted more than two hours.

North Korea’s state newspaper Rodong Sinmun published a column Wednesday urging North Koreans not to be enticed by other cultures or ways of life, insisting instead that the brutally repressive communism of the Kim family regime is the “best in the world.”

The government of leftist South Korean President Moon Jae-in announced this weekend that it would cut the number of ground troops in the nation’s armed forces by 118,000, significantly reduce the number of high-ranking military officials, and scrub a plan to prepare for an invasion of Pyongyang.

South Korea lodged a formal complaint with the Chinese embassy on Friday after a Chinese military aircraft entered South Korea’s Air Defense Zone, the third such incident this year.

South Korea’s defense ministry announced plans on Tuesday to reduce its military presence on the Demilitarized Zone with North Korea, Yonhap News Agency reported.

South Korean lawmaker Roh Hoe-chan, 61, evidently leaped to his death from an apartment building in Seoul on Sunday night or Monday morning. A suicide note was found in his jacket 17 stories up in which Roh apologized for his misdeeds and asked voters not to punish the Justice Party he belonged to.

China has defied international sanctions by opening a North Korean travel agency in the Taiwanese capital of Taipei last Friday with the aim of strongly promoting tourism to the rogue communist state.

North Korea’s state newspaper, the Rodong Sinmun, warned readers Monday the country may soon face a significant economic downturn that will require “belts tightened” to secure the future, the South Korean news service Yonhap reported.

When last we checked in on Jeju Island, the little South Korean resort that unexpected found itself dealing with hundreds of refugees from the brutal civil war in Yemen, the refugees were cautiously optimistic about the help they were receiving from private citizens and the South Korean government. Three weeks later their situation has reportedly taken a turn for the worse, with homeless refugees camping on the streets of Jeju.

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has not yet received any response to three major proposals he made to North Korea during his visit to Pyongyang this month, a South Korean lawmaker claimed Thursday.

Voice of America (VOA) revealed in a report Thursday that two ships, one from Sierra Leone and another from Panama, were involved with the illegal shipment of North Korean coal to South Korea and have recently re-entered the South’s ports multiple times in violation of international law.

North Korea’s state newspaper Rodong Sinmun published a screed Friday condemning the “vain ambition and prejudice” of the leftist government of South Korea, just as President Moon Jae-in announces a trip to Pyongyang.

North Korea’s state-run Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) claimed on Wednesday that South Koreans are clamoring for the government to shut down dissident conservative voices, particularly the vocal conservative newspaper Chosun Ilbo.

Russia illegally sent North Korean coal to South Korea on two occasions in violation of United Nations sanctions, a report obtained by Voice of America Tuesday alleged.

North Korean officials on Thursday reportedly requested a meeting headed by a U.S. general to discuss the repatriation of American troop remains from the Korean War a day after failing to appear at scheduled talks between the two sides in the Korean border village of Panmunjom.

Two Russian military aircraft believed to be Tu-95 bombers violated South Korea’s air defense zone on Friday, entering and leaving the area four times while South Korean ground controllers and intercept fighters warned them away.

North Korean government representatives failed to appear to a scheduled meeting with American military negotiators on repatriating the remains of U.S. Korean War veterans at the demilitarised zone (DMZ) Thursday, according to a report from the Washington Post.

South Korean President Moon Jae-in said on Thursday that North Korea’s criticism of the United States is merely a negotiating tactic, and plans to denuclearize the Korean peninsula remain “on track” for a successful outcome.

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo responded on Sunday to an extensive diatribe published against him in North Korea’s official state media, asserting that his demand for complete, verifiable, and irreversible denuclearization (CVID) was not “gangster-like,” but reflective of the world’s hopes for the nation.

Al-Arabiya ran an article on Tuesday in which Yemeni refugees staying on South Korea’s Jeju Island spoke about their “asylum struggles,” particularly their efforts to move from the island to the South Korean mainland.

PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) – Dozens of South Korean basketball players arrived in North Korea’s capital on Tuesday for a series of games the two Koreas hope will foster a spirit of detente generated by the recent North-South summit meetings.

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will make his third visit to North Korea next week to continue ongoing negotiations over the regime’s plans to denuclearize, according to a report from the Financial Times.

A pro-unification South Korean group called the Korean Council for Reconciliation and Cooperation (KCRC) announced on Thursday that it will send a delegation to North Korea on July 16 to work on recovering the remains of Koreans forced to work for Imperial Japan as slaves during the World War II era.

Human rights groups are protesting that the South Korean government is stifling their criticism of North Korea, and even interfering with their operations, to prevent them from alienating the regime in Pyongyang as delicate negotiations continue.

The South Korean resort island of Jeju provides a fascinating case study in refugee politics as the small island wrestles with an unexpected surge of refugees from Yemen’s civil war.

Both North and South Korea agreed on Tuesday to improve and construct railway lines linking the two countries together, the South’s unification ministry has announced.

North Korean propaganda sites and publications in South Korea have begun agitating against the complete, verifiable, and irreversible denuclearization (CVID) of the communist Kim Jong-un regime. South Korean newspaper Chosun Ilbo reported Tuesday that one such outlet called any North Korean supporting denuclearization a “traitor.”

President Trump expressed optimism on diplomacy with North Korea at a rally in South Carolina for Gov. Henry McMaster Monday evening.

The Chinese state newspaper Global Times made the argument Monday that Western-style multi-party democracy has no place in Asia, citing numerous examples of Asian heads of state arrested for corruption. The newspaper does not mention the tens of thousands arrested on corruption charges under Communist Party leader Xi Jinping in China.

The U.S. military announced it moved 100 caskets to the demilitarized zone between North and South Korea on Saturday in anticipation of North Korea’s release of the remains of U.S. service members who went missing during the Korean War in the 1950s.

Reports in South Korean media, citing a Korean lawmaker speaking on national radio, reported Thursday that U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo could be visiting North Korea again as soon as this weekend.