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by Francesco Fontemaggi with Carole Landry Agence France Presse NEW YORK, United States (AFP) — US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and a top North Korean official are set to continue talks in New York on Thursday to try to salvage next month’s nuclear summit, as Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov flew into Pyongyang for discussions with Kim Jong Un. Kim Yong Chol, considered the North Korean leader’s right-hand man, is the most senior official […]
by Alex Vasquez © Agence France-Presse CARACAS, Venezuela (AFP) — Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel rallied to the defense of embattled ally Nicolas Maduro on his first foreign visit Wednesday, calling on Latin American nations to support his Venezuelan counterpart’s cause. The Cuban, who succeeded Raul Castro on April 19, was received with open arms by Maduro’s government — Cuba’s closest political and economic ally — on his arrival at Caracas’ Maiquetia airport. “Very happy to be […]
by Francesco Fontemaggi with Carole Landry © Agence France-Presse NEW YORK, United States (AFP) — Kim Jong Un’s right-hand man began talks with President Donald Trump’s top diplomat on Wednesday amid a scramble to organize next month’s historic nuclear summit between the North Korean and US leaders. Kim Yong Chol, a veteran Pyongyang power player and a member of the young autocrat’s inner circle, flew in on an Air China flight from Beijing, becoming the […]
by Brian Knowlton Agence France Presse WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — US and North Korean officials met Sunday at a border truce village as preparations resumed for a high-stakes, high-drama summit that President Donald Trump said held “brilliant potential” for the North. “I truly believe North Korea has brilliant potential and will be a great economic and financial Nation one day,” Trump said on Twitter. “Kim Jong Un agrees with me on this. It […]
SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — South Korea on Saturday welcomed the renewed prospect of a summit between the United States and North Korea after President Trump cancelled talks with Kim Jong Un only to suggest they might still take place. “We find it fortunate that the embers of the North Korea-US talks are reignited. We are watching developments carefully,” Presidential Blue House spokesman Kim Eui-gyeom said. Trump’s cancellation of the summit blindsided treaty ally South […]
by Jerome Cartillier/ with Park Chan-kyong in Seoul Agence France Presse WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — US President Donald Trump, a day after his cancellation of a high-stakes summit with North Korea, said Friday that the meeting with Kim Jong Un could still go ahead. “We’re going to see what happens,” Trump told reporters at the White House, after welcoming Pyongyang’s latest statement on the talks as “very good news.” “It could even be the […]
SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — Huge explosions reportedly shook North Korea’s only known nuclear test site on Thursday, in a ceremony that Pyongyang said had “completely” destroyed the facility near the Chinese border. The Punggye-ri test site, located beneath a mountain in the far northeast, hosted all six nuclear tests Pyongyang has conducted — most recently last September. Earlier this month the North announced it would blow up the site’s access tunnels in front of […]
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AFP) — Taiwan on Friday scrambled fighter jets to shadow Chinese bombers conducting a drill around the island, just hours after Beijing welcomed Burkina Faso’s move to sever diplomatic ties with Taipei. Taiwan’s defense ministry said it had dispatched fighter jets to monitor two Chinese H-6 bombers that were flying over the Bashi Channel south of Taiwan and the Miyako Strait, near Japan’s Okinawa Island. “We are fully monitoring the situation and taking […]
by Park Chan-kyong with Jerome Cartillier in Washington Agence France Presse SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — North Korea said Friday it is willing to talk to the United States “at any time” after President Donald Trump abruptly cancelled a summit, a decision that once more casts a pall of uncertainty over the the turbulent Korean peninsula. Trump blamed “open hostility” from the North Korean regime for his decision to call off the planned talks […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — US President Donald Trump sent a letter to North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on Thursday announcing their planned June 12 landmark summit in Singapore would not take place. Here is a copy of the text: Dear Mr Chairman: We greatly appreciate your time, patience and effort with respect to our recent negotiations and discussions relative to a summit long sought by both parties, which was scheduled to take place […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — The White House said Thursday that a North Korean failure to keep its word had led US President Donald Trump to call off his summit with Kim Jong Un next month. “There has been a trail of broken promises that gave the United States pause,” said a senior White House official, speaking on condition of anonymity. “President Trump is willing to pursue diplomacy as far as it can be possibly […]
SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — North Korea on Friday said it was still willing to talk to the United States after President Donald Trump cancelled a summit between the two countries, a decision Pyongyang described as “extremely regrettable”. “The abrupt announcement of the cancellation of the meeting is unexpected for us and we cannot but find it extremely regrettable,” Kim Kye Gwan, North Korea’s First Vice Foreign Minister, said in a statement carried by […]
