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SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — North Korea on Saturday agreed to hold high-level talks next week with Seoul to discuss logistics for a rare inter-Korean summit, the South’s Unification Ministry said. The two sides will each send a three-member delegation to the border truce village of Panmunjom on Thursday for talks aimed at paving the way for a summit due in late April, it said. Seoul has suggested the talks take place at the Unification […]
SEOUL, South Korea (Reuters) – North Korea has a last chance to engage in dialogue with the outside world, South Korean President Moon Jae-in said on Monday (July 3) during a meeting with former United States president Barack Obama, Moon’s office said. Obama is visiting Seoul this week to speak at a forum hosted by South Korea’s Chosun Ilbo newspaper, where, earlier on Monday, he said North Korea’s pursuit of nuclear weapons had “done nothing […]
BEIJING, China (AFP) — China pleaded again for dialogue on Monday to ease regional tensions after North Korea launched its latest missile test in defiance of United Nations sanctions. The Chinese foreign ministry urged Pyongyang in a statement to refrain from activities that go against UN Security Council resolutions. “We hope that related parties can remain calm and restrained, ease the tension on the peninsula, and bring the peninsula issue into the right track of peaceful […]
JAKARTA, Indonesia — The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and Switzerland on Tuesday, November 28 convened the Inaugural ASEAN-Switzerland Joint Sectoral Cooperation Committee (AS-JSCC) Meeting to mark the launch of their formal partnership. This meeting formalises ASEAN-Switzerland partnership following the conferment of the status of an ASEAN Sectoral Dialogue Partner on Switzerland during the 49th ASEAN Foreign Ministers Meeting on 24 July 2016 in Vientiane. Befitting the significance of the occasion, Switzerland sent a […]
SEOUL, South Korea (Reuters) — Seoul will not shut the door to dialogue with North Korea, South Korean President Park Geun-hye said on Tuesday (March 1), but warned that Pyongyang, facing new U.N. sanctions, would be subject to even greater pressure as long as it stuck to its nuclear programme. The U.N. Security Council is expected to vote soon on a resolution drafted by the United States and backed by China, the North’s main ally, […]
