North Korea’s state newspaper Rodong Sinmun, on Wednesday, said joint military exercises between the United States and South Korea occurring while the U.S.and North Korea plan a summit are an “intolerable mockery” of the upcoming historic dialogue.
A prominent human rights activist, formerly a supporter of North Korea, spoke to reporters about the country Thursday at a symposium in South Korea, telling them that, based on his studies, he believes it is “impossible to find the whereabouts of all nuclear weapons in North Korea.”
South Korean Unification Minister Cho Myoung-gyon warned in remarks Wednesday that, despite continued planning for a summit between U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un, “quite significant” disagreements remain between the two sides.
According to South Korean President Moon Jae-in, North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un remains fully committed to denuclearization, provided the United States supplies the necessary security guarantees. North Korean media, on the other hand, arrogantly declared on Monday that denuclearization will happen on Pyongyang’s “timetable,” no matter what “others may say and wherever wind may blow from.”
An official in South Korea’s presidential palace, the Blue House, told the South Korean news service Yonhap that leftist President Moon Jae-in could participate in the possible summit between North Korean communist dictator Kim Jong-un and U.S. President Donald Trump.
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and South Korean President Moon Jae-in met for the second time in a month on Saturday, holding a surprise summit at a border truce village to discuss Kim’s potential meeting with President Donald Trump, Moon’s office said.
President Donald Trump officially nominated Navy Adm. Harry B. Harris, Jr., to be ambassador to South Korea, rescinding his previous nomination to lead the embassy in Canberra, Australia, on Wednesday, a move signaling Trump will continue adopting a strong stance against China’s militarization of the region.
According to a Wall Street Journal report on Friday, North Korea significantly escalated the pace of its cyberattacks against South Korea in April, even as dictator Kim Jong-un held a historic summit with South Korean President Moon Jae-in and planned for a summit meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump.
Former North Korean diplomat Thae Yong-ho told the South Korean newspaper Chosun Ilbo in an interview published Friday that Kim regime leaders view Christianity as a true challenge to them because “they know that Christianity would hamper the Kim family’s dynastic succession to power.”
Lyrics from an old Jimmy Buffett song suggest “changes in latitudes, changes in attitudes, nothing remains quite the same…”
South Korean President Moon Jae-in encouraged U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un on Friday to speak directly and resolve the diplomatic standoff that culminated with President Trump’s canceling his June 12 summit with Kim.
Contents: North Korea suffers diplomatic defeat as Trump cancels summit; China prepares to station thousands of troops in South China Sea
South Korean President Moon Jae-in said on Thursday that he is “baffled and very regretful that the North Korea – U.S. summit planned for June 12 is not happening.”
On Tuesday, South Korean President Moon Jae-in told reporters in Washington that “the future of the Korean peninsula hinged on” President Donald Trump agreeing to meet with North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un.
The government of South Korea said on Thursday it is trying to work out President Donald Trump’s intentions after he announced he would not attend a planned meeting with North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un in Singapore.
A senior North Korean official referred to Vice President Mike Pence as “stupid and ignorant” Thursday morning and U.S. policy “unlawful and outrageous” shortly before President Donald Trump announced that he would no longer meet with communist dictator Kim Jong-un on June 12.
President Donald Trump promised Tuesday to “guarantee” the safety of North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un in the event that talks between the two heads of state are fruitful, suggesting that a Kim open to negotiating with America “will be safe, he will be happy, his country will be rich, his country will be hard-working and prosperous.”
North Korea reportedly charged international reporters $10,000 each for flight visas to cover the shutdown of the Punggye-ri Nuclear Test Site, scheduled to occur sometime between May 23 and 25
South Korean President Moon Jae-in discussed North Korea’s recent behavior with President Donald Trump in a 20-minute phone conversation on Sunday. According to South Korea’s presidential Blue House, the two leaders reaffirmed their commitment to work together for a successful summit between the U.S. and North Korea in June.
United Nations Migration Agency Director-General William Lacy Swing has issued a barely concealed attack on the U.S. President, claimed mass migration is in the “national interest”, and that concerns about migrants are based on “false stereotypes and unfounded fear”.
The Pentagon denied rumors this week that the United States is planning to scale back scheduled joint military exercises with South Korea ahead of the June 12 meeting between American President Donald Trump and North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un.
South Korean President Moon Jae-in is scheduled to visit Washington on Tuesday for a meeting with President Donald Trump to discuss North Korea policy.
The story of South Korean blogger Kim Dong-won, better known by his online alias “Druking,” is developing into a major scandal for President Moon Jae-in’s party even as President Donald Trump’s historic summit with North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un approaches.
The latest signal that North Korea’s “diplomatic thaw” could be freezing over again came on Friday, when the Communist state “declined to accept” a list of South Korean journalists who wanted to observe the much-ballyhooed shutdown of the Punggye-ri nuclear test site next week.
State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert told reporters Thursday that the Trump administration has no plans to use taxpayers’ dollars to rehabilitate the communist North Korean economy, a concern arising from Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s comments that the United States is willing to help that economy grow.
At a press conference on Wednesday, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Lu Kang appeared to chide North Korea for threatening to pull out of the planned summit meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un.
North Korea’s state newspaper Rodong Sinmun condemned the United States on Wednesday for using media to promote freedom of expression and thought, defending the communist regime of Cuba for using a United Nations platform to demand the end of radio and television broadcasts the regime cannot control.
The South Korean newspaper Chosun Ilbo translated a column in a Japan-based North Korean propaganda outlet Wednesday demanding the return of a group of defectors it claims were “abducted” by South Korea in 2016.
As Trump works to disarm the North Korean nuclear threat, scheduled to meet in Singapore on June 12 with North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un, he may find his biggest challenge lies south of the DMZ border: with President Moon Jae-in.
A senior North Korean official published a statement in the nation’s government news service on Wednesday expressing “repugnance” at National Security Advisor John Bolton and rejecting the possibility of a Libya-style denuclearization program.
The U.S. intends to maintain military pressure on North Korea to ensure America engages the Kim Jong-un regime from a “position of strength” to achieve significant steps towards the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula, a top Pentagon official indicated on Tuesday.
On Tuesday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Your World,” Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) argued it would be a good move for the US to delay its joint military exercises with South Korea until after talks with North Korea are
North Korean state media reported on Wednesday local time that the nation’s senior diplomats would cancel scheduled high-level talks with South Korean counterparts, reportedly over military drills Seoul had planned to execute with the United States.
Both North Korea and South Korea will engage in bilateral talks this Wednesday with the aim of achieving “lasting peace,” South Korea’s foreign ministry has announced.
Former North Korean diplomat Thae Yong-ho, who defected and now operates out of South Korea, warned in a press conference Monday that the “final destination” of the Kim regime is to possess nuclear weapons and that, in his estimation, Kim Jong-un “will never give them up.”
A study by two British economists this week estimated that the reconstruction of North Korea to bring it into alignment with South Korea in the case of reunification would cost at least $2 trillion, money that South Korea would largely be responsible for.
WASHINGTON, DC – Secretary of State Mike Pompeo reportedly told North Korean officials on Monday that the United States will help the communist country with its economy if it is willing to dismantle its illegal nuclear weapons program.
Meeting in Japan for a summit between their three nations, South Korean President Moon Jae-in and Chinese Premier Li Keqiang agreed on Wednesday to pressure the United States into providing North Korea economic rewards for abiding by international law, if the Kim regime chooses to do so.
In a totally unexpected development, the defection of a high-level North Korean official has caught both North Korea and the U.S. by surprise days before the yet-to-be-scheduled meeting between President Donald Trump and dictator Kim Jong Un.
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo traveled to North Korea on Tuesday and is expected to return from the trip with three U.S. prisoners of North Korea ahead of the U.S.-North Korea summit, Yonhap News reported late Tuesday.