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by Jung Hawon Agence France Presse SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — A blacklisted North Korean general arrived in the South on Sunday for the Winter Olympics closing ceremony, which will also be attended by US President Donald Trump’s daughter Ivanka. The visit by Kim Yong Chol, who led an eight-member high-level delegation that crossed the Demilitarized Zone in the morning, is the final piece of the Games-led diplomacy that has dominated headlines from Pyeongchang. The […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — US President Donald Trump has rolled out fresh sanctions against North Korea-linked shipping assets, hailing the package as the “heaviest sanctions ever” levied on the Pyongyang regime. Trump used a speech to conservatives just outside Washington to step up his campaign of “maximum pressure” designed to force North Korea to roll back its weapons programs. “We imposed today the heaviest sanctions ever imposed on a country before,” Trump claimed at […]
UNITED NATIONS, United States (AFP) — North Korea on Thursday accused UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres of being a “kind of henchman who is representing the United States” after the UN chief said sanctions were essential to pressure Pyongyang. North Korea’s mission to the United Nations released a statement complaining of “reckless remarks” by Guterres during the Munich Security Conference last week. At the conference, Guterres praised the Security Council for succeeding in putting “through sanctions […]
SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — A top North Korean general will be at the closing ceremony of the South’s Winter Olympics this weekend, Seoul said Thursday — an event that US President Donald Trump’s daughter Ivanka will also attend. Kim Yong Chol, who oversees inter-Korean relations for the ruling Workers’ Party, will lead an eight-member delegation that will visit the South from Friday to Sunday, the unification ministry said in a statement. It will go […]
by Olivia Hampton Agence France-Presse WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Mike Pence and North Korean officials had planned to meet secretly during the 2018 Winter Olympic Games, but Pyongyang scrapped the talks after the US vice-president denounced abuses from the “murderous regime,” US officials said Tuesday. Pence did not interact with the North Koreans even though he was seated in the same box as them at the opening ceremony of the Games earlier this month […]
GANGNEUNG, South Korea (AFP) — North Korean skaters Ryom Tae-Ok and Kim Ju-Sik produced the performance of their lives to qualify for the pairs final at the Olympic Games on Wednesday. The Pyeongyang-born duo smashed their personal best score to reach the free skate showdown on Saturday. Supported by the 200-plus strong band of North Korean cheerleaders, Ryom and Kim seduced the crowd with an excellent execution of their short program to the Beatles classic A Day […]
SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — North Korea’s leader Kim Jong Un praised South Korea as very impressive, state media reported Tuesday, after his sister and other top regime officials returned from their landmark visit to the Winter Olympics. The state-run KCNA news agency published a short report on Kim meeting the delegation on its return to Pyongyang. “After receiving the (Olympic) delegation’s report, Kim Jong Un expressed satisfaction over it and said that very impressive […]
UNITED NATIONS, United States (AFP) — The United Nations is in talks with North Korea over its unpaid dues, which Pyongyang said it could not settle because of banking sanctions, a spokesman said Monday. North Korean Ambassador Ja Song Nam met Friday with the UN head of management to discuss the money owed to the world body. North Korea maintains that it is unable to transfer nearly $121,500 owed to the United Nations after its Foreign Trade […]
SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — US Defense Secretary Jim Mattis cast doubt Sunday on whether North Korea’s charm offensive at the Winter Olympics would lead to a lasting rapprochement between Pyongyang and Seoul. “Clearly it is too early to say… if that is going to have any traction once the Olympics are over,” Mattis said. “In the midst of all of this, he (North Korean leader Kim Jong Un) ran a military parade that highlighted […]
SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has invited the South’s President Moon Jae-in for a summit in Pyongyang, Seoul said Saturday. The invitation, delivered by Kim’s visiting sister Kim Yo Jong, said Kim was willing to meet the South’s leader “at the earliest date possible”, said a spokesman for the presidential Blue House. An inter-Korean summit would be the third of its kind, after Kim’s father and predecessor Kim Jong Il met […]
SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — South Korean President Moon Jae-in and the North’s ceremonial head of state Kim Yong Nam met and shook hands Friday ahead of the Winter Olympics opening ceremony. Kim Yong Nam, who is officially leading Pyongyang’s diplomatic delegation to the Games, met Moon at a leaders’ reception ahead of the opening ceremony in Pyeongchang. Moon and his wife received their guests one by one and the two men smiled as […]
by Hwang Sunghee Agence France-Presse PYEONGCHANG, South Korea (AFP) — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s sister joined athletes and officials from around the world at the South’s Winter Olympics Friday, the first member of Pyongyang’s ruling dynasty to set foot in its rival since the Korean War. Kim Yo Jong was part of a diplomatic delegation led by the ceremonial head of state Kim Yong Nam — the highest-level North Korean official ever to […]
