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North Korea will never give up its nuclear weapons
Jacob G Hornberger | With North Korea accusing Secretary of State (and former CIA Director) Mike Pompeo of engaging in a “unilateral and gangster-like demand...
Pompeo sets off for North Korea nuclear talks
AFP | US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo left Washington on Thursday bound for Pyongyang and his latest round of talks with Kim Jong Un...
Symbolic Trump-Kim summit: a step in the right direction?
News Analysis | Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un finally met on Tuesday amid a media frenzy in an unprecedented development between the two hostile nations after nasty...
Warm words from North Korea on Cold War frontier
AFP | On the world's last Cold War frontier, where troops have long faced off at the truce village that divides the two Koreas, propaganda...
N. Korea media herald Kim’s Singapore stroll
AFP | North Korea's state media lauded Singapore Tuesday as they highlighted Kim Jong Un's visit to some of its top tourist attractions. A few hours...
Trump’s brash diplomacy faces summit tests
AFP | President Donald Trump embarks Friday on four days of summitry that could tip the world toward trade war or nuclear peace, and perhaps...
Trump says letter from Kim was ‘warm’
AFP | US President Donald Trump said Thursday that a letter he received last week from Kim Jong Un was "warm," and added that he...
China’s gateway to N. Korea pins hopes on Kim-Trump summit
AFP | After a sanctions-driven hiatus, dozens of North Korean women are again cutting cloth, pedalling sewing machines and manning production lines at a garment...
N. Korea’s Kim turns from threats to hugs in diplomatic drive
AFP | From threats of war to brotherly hugs, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has emerged as a skilled diplomat with the unexpected assistance...
First Trump-Kim meeting scheduled for June 12
AFP | The White House said on Monday that the first meeting between President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un will take...
Placid Singapore braces for Trump-Kim storm
AFP | Singapore hotel rooms are being snapped up, police are preparing to lock down the city and thousands of journalists are set to jet...
The other Kim summit: Trump keeps up Kardashian at White House...
AFP | Days away from a historic summit with North Korea's mercurial leader, US President Donald Trump held a White House meeting Wednesday with another...
Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov in Pyongyang: KCNA
AFP | Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov arrived in Pyongyang Thursday, North Korea's state media said, ahead of a landmark summit between Donald Trump and...
Japan weighs minister-level talks with North Korea: reports
AFP | Japan is weighing high-level, direct talks with North Korea, potentially an August meeting between the two countries' foreign ministers, local media said Wednesday. The...
Trump, Abe say ‘imperative’ to dismantle N. Korean weapons
AFP | President Donald Trump and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe agreed Monday that it is "imperative" to completely dismantle North Korea's nuclear weapons and...
Korean War hero doubtful of Trump-Kim peace prospects
AFP | As a decorated war hero who once took out three machine gun nests with nothing but grenades, Choi Deuk-soo knows first hand what...
Trump and Kim raise summit hopes after days of brinkmanship
AFP | Plans for a landmark summit with North Korea's Kim Jong Un are moving "very nicely", US President Donald Trump said Sunday, as the...
Kim and Moon’s surprise meet up breathes air into dying Singapore...
News Analysis | Without any prior announcement or planning, leaders of both Koreas Kim Jong Un and Moon Jae-in, met in the demilitarized zone to...
South Korea welcomes prospect of ‘reignited’ US-North Korea talks
AFP | South Korea on Saturday welcomed the renewed prospect of a summit between the United States and North Korea after President Trump cancelled talks...
North Korea summit could still happen: Trump
AFP | One day after abruptly pulling the plug on a high-stakes summit with North Korea, US President Donald Trump said Friday the meeting with...
The rising tensions between China, US
AFP | President Donald Trump has often bragged of his friendship with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping, but recent events point to growing stresses between...
Summit off but Trump-Kim-Moon coin still available
AFP | US President Donald Trump may have called off his summit with North Korea's Kim Jong Un but you can still order the commemorative...
North Korea still open to US talks despite Trump summit cancellation
AFP | North Korea said Friday it was still willing to talk to the United States after President Donald Trump abruptly cancelled a summit between the...
The nuclear test site North Korea plans to destroy
AFP | North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's promise to dismantle his country's only known nuclear test site has shone the spotlight on the secretive...
Trump skeptical about his meeting with Kim Jong Un
News Analysis | Last week, the United States and South Korea were flabbergasted over North Korea’s sudden change of attitude over joint military drills between...
Trump-Kim summit in play as Moon visits White House
AFP | Donald Trump holds a high-stakes meeting with South Korea's president at the White House Tuesday, talks that could decide whether the US president's...
North Korea threatens to cancel US summit
AFP | North Korea threatened Wednesday to cancel the forthcoming summit between leader Kim Jong Un and President Donald Trump if Washington seeks to push...
Dismantling of N. Korea nuclear site ‘well under way’: US monitor
AFP | Satellite photos indicate North Korea has begun dismantling its nuclear test site ahead of a historic summit between leader Kim Jong Un and...
N. Korea will never fully give up nuclear weapons: top defector
AFP | North Korea will never completely give up its nuclear weapons, a top defector said ahead of leader Kim Jong Un's landmark summit with...
‘No longer a villain’: South Koreans fascinated by Kim
AFP | South Koreans on Saturday pored over every detail of a historic summit in the Demilitarized Zone, transfixed by an extraordinary charm offensive by...
China’s foreign minister to visit N. Korea this week
AFP | China's foreign minister will visit North Korea this week, his office said Monday, becoming the highest-ranking Chinese official to travel there in years...
North-South Korea: Exemplar for India and Pakistan
News Analysis | Dressed in a black safari suit, The North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un garnered media spotlight as he detached from his fellows and...
Kim set to make history as the leaders of both North...
News Analysis | Kim Jong Un is going to be the first ever North Korean leader to step on the Southern side of the Korean...
Kim’s security: ‘not even an ant can pass through’
AFP | When Pyongyang's leader Kim Jong Un came down the steps towards the inter-Korean border Friday he was escorted by a phalanx of bodyguards...
Generation gap: South Koreans fear, welcome and ignore the North
AFP | Pyongyang went on to detonate its first nuclear device a few years later. "We gave them more than 10 trillion won ($9 billion)," the...
Seven decades of danger and detente between two Koreas
AFP | North and South Korea will hold their third summit Friday, stirring hopes of peace following years of tensions over the North's nuclear and...
