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TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — North Korea poses a “real threat” whose solution will require international co-operation, former US President Barack Obama said Sunday on a visit to Japan. Obama also said the US needed to ensure there was a defense system in place to protect countries in the region from a potential attack from North Korean missiles. “North Korea is a real threat” and has developed a weapons program and delivery system that “poses a […]
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 (AFP) — North Korea’s rubber-stamp parliament will hold an annual session next month, state media said Thursday, with all eyes on whether it will move to bolster a diplomatic thaw with the US and South Korea. A rapid rapprochement that kicked off during last month’s Winter Olympics has seen US President Donald Trump agree to hold a summit with the North’s leader Kim Jong Un. The hermit state’s legislative body meets only […]
SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — North Korea has broken its silence on the diplomatic thaw with Washington and Seoul, saying it is driving the “peace offensive” and rejecting suggestions that sanctions forced it to the negotiating table. The commentary from the state-run KCNA news agency came with a rapid rapprochement on the Korean peninsula underway, after a period of heightened tensions stoked by a missile and nuclear tests. But as diplomats scurry to arrange two […]
SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un sent “heartfelt congratulations” Tuesday to Russian President Vladimir Putin on his election victory and wished him success in building a powerful nation. In contrast to some other international leaders who have been slow to send congratulations, Kim said Putin’s re-election “is an expression of your people’s great support and trust in you”. The North’s leader, in a message quoted by the state KCNA news […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is “taking stock” of US President Donald Trump’s surprise decision to accept his invitation for talks on denuclearizing the Korean peninsula, South Korea’s foreign minister said in an interview that aired Sunday. There has been no public North Korean response to Trump in the nearly two weeks since he stunned the world by agreeing to meet with Kim, a diplomatic gambit with huge stakes […]
by Dave Clark / with Gael Branchereau in Stockholm Agence France-Presse WASHINGTON, United States – Senior officials staged a flurry of calls and top-level meetings on Friday as they scrambled to make a proposed nuclear summit between US President Donald Trump and North Korea’s Kim Jong Un a reality. There was no immediate breakthrough, but North Korea’s foreign minister was to remain in Stockholm into Saturday for further talks with Swedish leaders, as the Scandinavian […]
SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — South Korea and the United States will scale down and shorten annual joint military exercises in light of a diplomatic thaw with Pyongyang, a report said Friday. The Key Resolve and Foal Eagle drills held every spring regularly infuriate the nuclear-armed North, which usually condemns them as preparations for invasion and responds with provocations of its own, ratcheting tensions higher. But the two Koreas and the US are in the […]
by Camille Bas-Wohlert Agence France Presse STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AFP) — North Korea’s top diplomat arrived Thursday in Sweden for talks which could play a role in setting up a proposed summit between Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un. Foreign Minister Ri Yong Ho arrived at Stockholm’s Arlanda airport around 6:15 pm (1715 GMT) before being whisked away in a diplomatic motorcade. The Scandinavian country has longstanding ties with North Korea. Its diplomatic mission in Pyongyang […]
(Eagle News) — Many Filipinos are worried that the current tension between the United States and North Korea will escalate into an armed conflict, the Social Weather Stations said. According to the pollster, based on its December 2017 survey, a whopping 84 percent expressed this concern. Sixteen percent were not worried, 12% were not too worried, and 4% were not worried at all, the SWS said. The survey also found that 88 percent were worried that the Philippines would […]
BEIJING, China (AFP) — North Korea’s foreign minister flew into Beijing on Thursday, en route to Sweden which represents US interests in Pyongyang and could play a role in setting up a proposed summit between Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un. China’s foreign ministry confirmed reports that Ri Yong Ho was transiting through the Chinese capital on his way to the Scandinavian country. Foreign ministry spokesman Lu Kang told a regular press briefing that he […]
by M Jegathesan Agence France Presse SHAH ALAM, Malaysia (AFP) — The Malaysian police’s investigation into the murder of the North Korean leader’s estranged half-brother was “shoddy” and could result in an unfair trial, a court heard Wednesday. Defence lawyers for two young women — Indonesian Siti Aisyah and Vietnamese Doan Thi Huong — charged with the Cold War-style killing of Kim Jong-Nam sought to discredit the manner in which the police conducted their […]
