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WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — US President Donald Trump on Tuesday said that planning for his next summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is advanced and that “three or four locations” have been short-listed. Trump said at the White House that the meeting would “probably” not be in Singapore, where their historic first talks took place in June. The pair discussed ending the reclusive state’s nuclear weapons program and hostilities between Washington and […]
SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — International inspectors will be allowed into North Korea’s dismantled nuclear testing site, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Monday, after a meeting with Kim Jong Un in which he said “significant progress” was made towards denuclearisation. Pompeo met with the North Korean leader in Pyongyang on Sunday to rekindle stalled denuclearisation talks following a landmark summit between Kim and US President Donald Trump in Singapore. “Chairman Kim said he’s […]
by Sunghee Hwang Agence France Presse SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — Kim Jong Un has agreed to hold a second summit with US President Donald Trump as soon as possible, Seoul said Sunday, after Washington’s top diplomat held “productive” talks on denuclearization with the North Korean leader in Pyongyang. US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo met with Kim on Sunday morning for around two hours of talks followed by a lunch in the North’s capital, […]
by Shaun TANDON Agence France Presse WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will pay a fresh visit to North Korea on Sunday and meet leader Kim Jong Un as the administration’s hopes rise of a denuclearization deal, the State Department said. The rare advance announcement of a meeting with the young strongman came hours after North Korea raised the stakes in negotiations, saying it would not give up its nuclear […]
UNITED NATIONS, United States (AFP) — South Korean President Moon Jae-in on Wednesday urged world governments to encourage North Korea to advance toward denuclearization by “responding positively” to leader Kim Jong Un’s “new choices”. Addressing the UN General Assembly, Moon praised his North Korean counterpart — with whom he has held three summits — saying he had “changed the direction of the political situation” on the Korean peninsula. “North Korea moved out of longstanding isolation […]
UNITED NATIONS, United States (AFP) — Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, a longtime hardliner on North Korea, said Tuesday he was willing to meet Kim Jong Un after the once reclusive leader’s historic summit with US President Donald Trump. Abe, who one year ago warned at the United Nations that the window for diplomacy with North Korea was closing, took a more open but still cautious tone in his latest address to the world body. […]
by Francesco FONTEMAGGI Agence France Presse UNITED NATIONS, United States (AFP) — One year after mobilizing the international community against North Korea, Donald Trump is trying to force another arch enemy to the negotiating table by targeting Iran with a similar campaign of “maximum pressure.” But if North Korea’s leader Kim Jong Un has seen his standing with the US president transformed in the 12 months since Trump’s United Nations debut, the prospects of Hassan […]
SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — South Korean President Moon Jae-in’s approval rating jumped this week as he basked in an intense media focus on his summit with the North’s leader Kim Jong Un in Pyongyang, a survey showed Friday. Seoul’s leader had seen his ratings fall to the lowest of his presidency earlier this month, in the face of a struggling economy with rising unemployment and high house prices. But it leaped 11 points to […]
SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — North Korea will close its Tongchang-ri missile testing site, the South’s President Moon Jae-in said Wednesday after a summit with Kim Jong Un in Pyongyang. “The North agreed to permanently close the Tongchang-ri missile engine test site and missile launch facility in the presence of experts from relevant nations,” Moon told reporters. © Agence France-Presse
SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — Summits between North and South Korea are closely watched for both spectacular symbolism — on grand display at the Panmunjom summit in April — and smaller hints of meaning. Tuesday’s meeting between the South’s President Moon Jae-in and the North’s leader Kim Jong Un — their third so far this year, but Moon’s first trip to Pyongyang as president — was no exception. Here are five things we have learned […]
SEOUL, South Korea (AFP)–North Korean leader Kim Jong Un welcomed Moon Jae-in at Pyongyang airport Tuesday as the South Korean president arrived for the pair’s third summit this year. The two men, accompanied by their wives, embraced after Moon walked down the steps of his aircraft, before talking for a few minutes ahead of a welcome ceremony and a field gun salute, television pictures showed.
SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — Denuclearization will be high on South Korean President Moon Jae-in’s agenda when he meets with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Pyongyang this week, Moon’s office said Monday. Moon will fly to the North Korean capital on Tuesday for his third summit with Kim in the latest stage of a diplomatic thaw on the peninsula, although progress has stalled in denuclearization talks between Pyongyang and Washington. “We will push […]
